Cultivating Humanity Multiple Choice

. According to Nussbaum, why does education need to be different in today's world?

Students need to learn critical thinking now.

Students need to focus on technical and vocational education.

Many employers now require politically correct awareness.

Many pressing problems now require cross-cultural understanding.

. According to Nussbaum, what is distinctive about higher education in the United States is that many American colleges and universities have the ideal of educating students

For citizenship and life generally.

For a specific career.

For a single subject only.

For absolutely everything they may need to know.

. According to Nussbaum, "living the examined life" means

Learning about other people's culture and traditions.

Learning more about one's own culture and traditions.

Learning to think critically about one's own traditions.

Rejecting one's own culture and traditions.

. The examined life is important because

Reflective people are easier for authority figures to manage.

Thinking is good practice for students.

Traditions are invariably wrong and should be rejected.

Democracy needs citizens who think for themselves.

. According to Nussbaum, the capacity for seeing beyond our local region is important because

Many contemporary problems call on us to understand people who are different.

We naturally lack curiosity about people who are different.

We need other people to understand us, so it's only fair we try to understand them.

It is a practical vocational skill for many careers.

. By "narrative imagination," Nussbaum means the ability to

Imagine an answer when you don't know all the facts.

Imagine yourself in the shoes of someone different from yourself.

Imagine what it would be like to travel to a country you haven't visited.

Imagine what the future will be like.

. To use your narrative imagination, you would

Think about being someone else and try to understand that person's emotions and wishes.

Tell a story that takes place somewhere far away using real information about the place.

Imagine what might happen in the future and make plans for today based on that.

Think critically about your own culture and about an unfamiliar one.

. According to Nussbaum, the ghost of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol is an example of a bad citizen because

He doesn't learn about people from other cultures.

He is mean to his partner Scrooge.

He focuses too much on making money.

He can't imagine what life is like for people of different social classes.

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