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Online Course Test 1
15. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
We often hear that we can learn much about someone or something just by casual observation.
We are not required to look beneath the surface or to question how something seems. In fact,
we are urged to trust our impressions, often our first impressions, of how a person or a situation seems to be. Yet appearances can be misleading. What “seems” isn’t always what is.
Assignment: Is the way something seems to be not always the same as it actually is
Online Course Test 2
16. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
For a variety of reasons, people often make choices that have negative results. Later, they
regret these choices, finding out too late that bad choices can be costly. On the other hand,
decisions that seem completely reasonable when they are made may also be the cause of
later disappointment and suffering. What looks like a wonderful idea at one time can later
seem like the worst decision that could have been made. Good choices, too, can be costly.
Assignment: Are bad choices and good choices equally likely to have negative consequences
Online Course Test 3
17. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
The people we call heroes do not usually start out as unusual. Often they are ordinary people
subject to ordinary human weaknesses—fear, doubt, and self-interest. In fact, they live ordinary lives until they distinguish themselves by having to deal with an injustice or a difficult situation. Only then, when they must respond in thought and in action to an extraordinary challenge, do people begin to know their strengths and weaknesses.
Assignment: Do people learn who they are only when they are forced into action
Online Course Test 4
18. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
People's lives are the result of the choices they make—or fail to make. The path one takes in
life is not arbitrary. Choices and their consequences determine the course of every person's
life. All people, whatever their circumstances, make the choices on which their lives depend.
Assignment: Are people's lives the result of the choices they make
Online Course Test 5
19. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
Many people believe that “closed doors make us creative.” These people argue that obstacles and restrictions are necessary, for without them we would never be forced to come up with new solutions. But “closed doors,” either in the form of specific obstacles or a lack of opportunities, often prevent people from reaching their full creative potential.
Assignment: Do closed doors make us creative
Online Course Test 6
20. Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
People who like to think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic tend to take it for
granted that human nature is “selfish” and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest
may survive. According to this view, the basic law by which people must live is the law of the
jungle. The “fittest” are those people who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior
cunning, and superior ruthlessness.
Assignment: Do people have to be highly competitive in order to succeed