Political Science
Political Science 1001 – Final Examination Review Questions
Fall 2010 you need a scan sheet, A #2 pencil, and a photograph i.d.
1) Who is Oedipus? Jocasta? Laius? Theseus?
Answer: Oedipus is the son of Laius and Jocasta there was prophet that he was going to kill his father and wed his mother. Laius is the king of Thebes and Oedipus’ father who was killed as a fulfillment on an oracle. Theseus is the king of Athens who takes Oedipus in and protects him after he has suffered greatly. 2) In the play Oedipus Rex, what is the relationship between truth, freedom, identity, and responsibility?
Answer: Fate is inescapable. Oedipus learning the truth is him learning his identity and with freedom comes responsibility. 3) What is pollution? OR, why must Oedipus assume responsibility for things he did not know?
Answer: Pollution is that for which Oedipus is responsible for. There are consequences for his actions and he must accept them. 4) What does it mean to say that freedom is recognition of necessity?
Answer: It means we are never absolutely free. There is always a restraint. 5) In the final analysis, what advice about freedom, fate and the gods is Sophocles giving in Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Strive for excellence in a world of constraints, rebel and accept the Gods, bravely accept the consequences of one’s actions, and do all of this in reverence and humility. 6) What does it mean to defend freedom on the basis of natural rights?
Answer: Natural rights are rights that no person can give us. We have them because we are human. To say this is defending it. – Normative way of thinking 7) What does it mean to defend freedom on the basis of utility?
Answer: Freedom as a utility are rights that defend the right on grounds of the city rather than of the Gods. 8) According to Adrienne Rich, what does a woman need to know to be free?
Answer: She needs to know her own history, analysis of her own condition, her politicized female
Fall 2010 you need a scan sheet, A #2 pencil, and a photograph i.d.
1) Who is Oedipus? Jocasta? Laius? Theseus?
Answer: Oedipus is the son of Laius and Jocasta there was prophet that he was going to kill his father and wed his mother. Laius is the king of Thebes and Oedipus’ father who was killed as a fulfillment on an oracle. Theseus is the king of Athens who takes Oedipus in and protects him after he has suffered greatly. 2) In the play Oedipus Rex, what is the relationship between truth, freedom, identity, and responsibility?
Answer: Fate is inescapable. Oedipus learning the truth is him learning his identity and with freedom comes responsibility. 3) What is pollution? OR, why must Oedipus assume responsibility for things he did not know?
Answer: Pollution is that for which Oedipus is responsible for. There are consequences for his actions and he must accept them. 4) What does it mean to say that freedom is recognition of necessity?
Answer: It means we are never absolutely free. There is always a restraint. 5) In the final analysis, what advice about freedom, fate and the gods is Sophocles giving in Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Strive for excellence in a world of constraints, rebel and accept the Gods, bravely accept the consequences of one’s actions, and do all of this in reverence and humility. 6) What does it mean to defend freedom on the basis of natural rights?
Answer: Natural rights are rights that no person can give us. We have them because we are human. To say this is defending it. – Normative way of thinking 7) What does it mean to defend freedom on the basis of utility?
Answer: Freedom as a utility are rights that defend the right on grounds of the city rather than of the Gods. 8) According to Adrienne Rich, what does a woman need to know to be free?
Answer: She needs to know her own history, analysis of her own condition, her politicized female