Gene Y.
1. According to Hill and colleagues, why do most professional women not opt to reduce their work hours?
a. Because they do not need to reduce hours to complete.
b. Because the economic costs are too great.
c. The reduction interferes with making progress
d. Because their workplaces do not allow such options
2. Hill and his colleagues mentioned that the participants in their
study were more highly educated and highly paid than most average
employees. To what part of the research method does this information
pose a problem?
a. Variable selection
b. Random assignment
c. Data analysis
d. Generalizability
5. Krikorian's adoption of “the national consciousness of an American” is what Hudson Institute scholar John Fonte calls:
a. re-crossing the Delaware.
b. the perfect privilege.
c. patriotic assimilation.
d. overthreading the loom.
2. According to HRC why aren't "civil unions" enough for same-gender couples?
a. “Civil union" doesn't sound serious
b. Many couples want religious ceremony.
c. Done in private
d. Civil unions provide state-level benefits, not 1000+ benefits that marriage offers.
1. James Kurth explains, Henry Ford was
willing to pay his factory workers twice the going rate in order to:
a. ensure their loyalty.
b. project the idea that the company was an extended family.
c. create a broad middle class that could afford his cars.
d. reduce the competition from other automakers.
willing to pay his factory workers twice the going rate in order to:
a. ensure their loyalty.
b. project the idea that the company was an extended family.
c. create a broad middle class that could afford his cars.
d. reduce the competition from other automakers.
2. Gary S. Becker and Kevin M. Murphy point out that today’s labor
market places the greatest emphasis on:
a. level of education.
b. creating a diverse workforce.
c. worker flexibility.
d. networking and personal connections.
market places the greatest emphasis on:
a. level of education.
b. creating a diverse workforce.
c. worker flexibility.
d. networking and personal connections.
1. Barbara Epstein concludes with a call for
a. redefining feminism as an idea.
b. abandonment of the quest for an egalitarian society and a new
focus on individualism.
c. more women getting involved in academia.
d. a return to a revised version of radical feminism.
2. Kate O'Beirne cites a researcher who noted that all of the "big things in life," including health and long life, depend on
a. financial stability.
b. marriage.
c. self-actualization.
d. equality.
1. The members of the President’s Council on Bioethics note that at first glance, a memory-altering drug would seem ideally suited for the prevention of:
a. post-traumatic stress disorder.
b. combat fatigue.
c. schizophreniform disorder.
d. delusional recall.
2. Michael J. Sandel describes a case in which a man and woman were criticized for their efforts to have a child who was:
a. taller than average.
b. gifted with musical ability.
c. likely to be homosexual.
d. deaf from birth.
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