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Part III: Clone Test (15%)
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and decide the best choice for each numbered blank Mark your choices on the ANSWER SHEET.
Ironically, the intellectual tools currently being used by the political right to such harmful effect originated on the academic left. In the 1960s and 1970s a philosophical movement called postmodernism developed among humanities professors, [26] ____ being deposed by science, which they regarded as right-leaning. Postmodernism [27] _____ ideas from cultural anthropology and relativity theory to argue that truth is [28] ____ and subject to the assumptions and prejudices of the observer. Science is just one of many ways of knowing, they argued, neither more nor less [29] ____ than others, like those of Aborigines, Native Americans or women. [30] ____, they defined science as the way of knowing among Western white men and a tool of cultural [31] ____. This argument [32] ____ with many feminists and civil-rights activists and became widely adopted, leading to the “political correctness” justifiably [33] ____ by Rush Limbaugh and the “Mental Masturbation” lampooned by Woody Allen.
Acceptance of this relativistic worldview [34] ____ democracy and leads not to tolerance but to authoritarianism. John Locke, one of Jefferson's “trinity of three greatest men”, showed [35] ____ almost three centuries ago. Locke watched the arguing factions of Protestantism, each claiming to be the one true religion, and asked: How do we know something to be true? What is the basis of knowledge? In 1689 he [36] ____ what knowledge is and how it is grounded in observations of the physical world in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Any claim that fails this test is “but faith, or opinion, but not knowledge”. It was this idea — that the world is knowable and that objective, empirical knowledge is the most [37] ____ basis for public policy — that stood as Jefferson's foundational argument for democracy.
By falsely [38] ____ knowledge with opinion, postmodernists and anti-science conservatives alike collapse our thinking back to a pre-Enlightenment era, leaving no common basis for public policy. Public discourse is [39] ____ to endless warring opinions, none seen as more valid than another. Policy is determined by the loudest voices, reducing us to a world in which might [40] ____ right — the classic definition of authoritarianism.
26. | A | satisfied with | B | angry with | C | displeased at | D | proud of |
27. | A | discounted | B | doubted | C | adopted | D | shared |
28. | A | objective | B | subjective | C | cultural | D | relative |
29. | A | variable | B | valid | C | valuable | D | various |
30. | A | However | B | Therefore | C | Otherwise | D | Furthermore |
31. | A | assimilation | B | inhibition | C | representation | D | oppression |
32. | A | resonated | B | agreed | C | appealed | D | responded |
33. | A | liked | B | approved | C | verified | D | hated |
34. | A | offsets | B | produces | C | undermines | D | strengthens |
35. | A | when | B | what | C | why | D | which |
36. | A | found | B | defined | C | dictated | D | claimed |
37. | A | practical | B | equal | C | useful | D | equitable |
38. | A | identifying | B | equipping | C | equating | D | confusing |
39. | A | deduced | B | introduced | C | conduced | D | reduced |
40. | A | decides | B | causes | C | makes | D | creates |