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1"Pornography is sexually explicit material intended to produce sexual excitement in the consumer" is a normative definition.
- ATrue
- BFalse
2According to the Miller Test, if something offensive to the average person applying contemporary community standards, for that reason alone, it is obscene and may be prohibited.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3According to the Miller Test, if the average person applying contemporary community standards finds that a work as a whole appeals only to the prurient interest for that reason alone, it is obscene and my be prohibited
- ATrue
- BFalse
4What does "prurient interest" refer to?
- AInterest only in sex
- BInterest in prudence or self-interst
- CInterest only in money
- DAll of the above
5The "laps test" or the "slaps test" in the Miller Test refers to the amount of allowable contact a patron may have with a dancer in a live erotic show
- ATrue
- BFalse
6According to the Miller Test, even obscene material is protected under the first amendment
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Why does it matter if an offensive work has literary, artistic, political, or scientific value?
- AIf it has such value, then it is capable of being true, false, or a mix of truth and falsity
- BIf it has such value, we are better off allowing it rather than suppressing it if we hope to advance in truth
- CBoth of the above
- DNone of the above
8On the MacKinnon/ Dworkin Ordinance, pornography is not merely a speech issue but an issue about actions
- ATrue
- BFalse
9According to the MacKinnon/ Dworkin Ordinance, sexually explicit material that features only men may still be degrading to women
- ATrue
- BFalse
10According to the MacKinnon/ Dworkin Ordinance, even material that is not sexually explicit, such as cosmetics ads that entice women to conform to the ideal male fantasy, are pornographic.
- ATrue
- BFalse
11Before Roe V. Wade, abortions were illegal in the US, even to save the life of the mother.
- ATrue
- BFalse
12Roe V. Wade made abortions legally obtainable at any time for any reason the women chooses
- ATrue
- BFalse
13Viability means
- AThe point at which the fetus has a heartbeat
- BThe point at which the fetus receives its soul
- CThe point at which the fetus can survive outside the mother
- DAll of the above
14When the roe court stated that the world "Person" as used in the constitution does not include the unborn, their statement is
- ADescriptive
- BNormative
15A person is a being thought to have full moral rights
- ATrue
- BFalse
16Judith Jarvis Thomson grants for the sake of argument that the fetus is a person from the moment of conception
- ATrue
- BFalse
17Thomson says that even if a fetus is a person from the moment of conception that the fetus has no right to life
- ATrue
- BFalse
18According to Thomson, if you awoke hooked up to a famous violinist via a procedure that took place without your knowledge and the violinist needed the use of your kidneys for nine months, you would have no obligation to stay hooked up to the violinist, even if unhooking yourself means that the violinist will die.
- ATrue
- BFalse
19According to Thomson, if you are allowed to unhook yourself from the famous violinist, then abortion is permissible at any time for any reason the woman chooses.
- ATrue
- BFalse
20According to Thomson, the right to life is always stronger than the right to do as one chooses with one's own body
- ATrue
- BFalse
21The conclusion of the traditional pro-life argument is that abortion is wrong
- ATrue
- BFalse
22If the traditional pro-life argument is not sound because it has a false premise, we may justifiably conclude that abortion is not wrong
- ATrue
- BFalse
23If the right to life is a negative right, then
- AIt is the right to the bare minimum needed to stay alive
- BIt is the right to be provided with the property needed to preserve your life
- CIt is the right to have Henry Fonda save your life
- DAll of the above
- ENone of the above
24If the right to life is positive, Henry Fonda really does have an obligation to fly in from the west coast to save your if that is the only thing that can save you
- ATrue
- BFalse
25According to Thomson, the right to life is positive
- ATrue
- BFalse
26Thomson uses the people seed case as an analogy to abortion
- ATrue
- BFalse
27According to Thomson, something has a right to use your property if it needs your property to survive
- ATrue
- BFalse
28According to Warren, there is non sense in which a fetus is human
- A True
- BFalse
29According to Warren, one must possess all five characteristics (reasoning, etc.) in order to be a person
- ATrue
- BFalse
30Which of the following would qualify as a nonhuman person, according to Warren's criteria?
- AA human in a persistent vegetative state
- BA fetus
- CA dead human
- DThe God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
31Which of the following is a human but not a person on Warren's view?
- AA fetus
- BAn infant
- CA human in a persistent vegetative state
- DAll of the above
- ENone of the above
32Which of the following best states Warren's position on infanticide?
- AShe believes that infanticide is permissible at any time for any reason the mother chooses
- BShe believes that infanticide is wrong because the fetus is a person from the moment of birth
- CShe believes that infanticide is wrong because the fetus is genetically human
- DNone of the above
33On Warren's view, no machine could ever be a person
- ATrue
- BFalse
34According to Warren, all persons have a right to life
- ATrue
- BFalse
35According to Marquis, the fetus is a person from the moment of conception
- ATrue
- BFalse
36Marquis denies that the fetus is a person
- ATrue
- BFalse
37Why is it wrong to kill normal adult humans, according to Marquis?
- ANormal adult humans are in God's image
- BIt causes them pain
- CIt causes pain to the loved ones who remain
- DAll of the above
- ENone of the above
38According to Marquis, abortion is wrong at any time for any reason
- ATrue
- BFalse
39Killing a normal adult human is wrong because humans are in God's image, according to Marquis
- ATrue
- BFalse
40According to Marquis, because abortion robs a fetus of a future of value, abortion is wrong for the same reason that killing normal adult humans is wrong
- ATrue
- BFalse
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