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What are elements generally included in a film review: |
| | A) | Evaluation or rating. |
| | B) | Plot summary |
| | C) | Discussion of the costumes. |
| | D) | Biographical details on the producer. |
| | E) | Justification or evidence for the assessment. |
| | F) | Details about the film locations. |
| | G) | Reference to lead actors in the film. |
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What aspects are included in the justice dimension? Circle all. |
| | A) | Issues around religion and faith. |
| | B) | Issues around the penal system. |
| | C) | Issues of revenge. |
| | D) | Issues around the hero's journey. |
| | E) | Issues of crime and punishment. |
| | F) | Issues around authenticity vs. inauthenticity. |
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What does the frame of reference include? |
| | A) | The assessment or evaluation. |
| | B) | The vantage point or perspective on the story told. |
| | C) | The aspects of class or ethnicity. |
| | D) | The aspects of gender. |
| | E) | The aspects around justice vs. injustice. |
| | F) | The justification for the thesis. |
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When checking the factual claims related to a film or TV show, what do you look for? |
| | A) | What is purported to be actually the case. |
| | B) | What are the unwarranted assumptions. |
| | C) | What are the references to class, culture, or ethnicity. |
| | D) | What are the prescriptive elements of the show. |
| | E) | What are the fallacies in the reasoning of the author or speaker. |
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What marks an assumption as unwarranted? |
| | A) | It is not stated or otherwise made explicit. |
| | B) | It is negative or critical. |
| | C) | It is a contingent proposition. |
| | D) | It is fallacious. |
| | E) | It is without foundation. |
| | F) | It is contradictory. |
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A prescriptive claim is one which: |
| | A) | Says something true or apparently true. |
| | B) | Says something false or of questionable value. |
| | C) | Offers an insight into the status quo. |
| | D) | Offers an opinion about a state of affairs or individual. |
| | E) | Offers a recommendation or suggested course of action. |
| | F) | Offers a repetition of that which is known. |
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We would say a TV show is descriptive when it: |
| | A) | Purports to give us insight into the past. |
| | B) | Purports to give suggestions for a future course of action. |
| | C) | Purports to fairly represent what is actually the case. |
| | D) | Purports to fairly synthesize various opinions about a character. |
| | E) | Purports to adequately generate interest on the part of the audience. |
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The term authenticity when applied to a character refers to: |
| | A) | Personal integrity or virtue. |
| | B) | Personal connectedness to those around him or her. |
| | C) | Personal revelations about oneself. |
| | D) | Impersonal state of affairs within which the character finds himself/herself. |
| | E) | The good or evil in the world with which the character must struggle. |
| | F) | The pressure to conform. |
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When James Cameron made the movie The Terminator, did he claim he was offering a film that was descriptive of the society? |
| | A) | No, he said he was not showing what is in terms of dehumanization, but what might be the case in a parallel universe. |
| | B) | He didn't say anything one way or another. |
| | C) | Yes, he said it represents the dehumanization of the world around us. |
| | D) | Only in part—he said only the part about the police being so inept was descriptive of our world. |
| | E) | No, he said he was being prescriptive in the way he approached the film. |
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Do good reviews ensure a successful film? |
| | A) | Yes, almost always a good review determines the success of a film or TV show. |
| | B) | No, a good review may boost sales but often films that are panned still succeed at the box office or in TV ratings. |
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What fallacy would be committed if someone generalized about a film on the basis of a sample that was just too small? |
| | A) | Biased statistics. |
| | B) | Ad Hominem. |
| | C) | Hasty Accident. |
| | D) | Hasty Generalization. |
| | E) | Composition. |
| | F) | Equivocatoin. |
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How might a reviewer commit the fallacy of biased statistics? |
| | A) | The reviewer cites statistics that are out of date. |
| | B) | The reviewer cites statistics that are gathered under questionable circumstances. |
| | C) | The reviewer cites statistics that favor mass sentiment or patriotism. |
| | D) | The reviewer cites statistics that are based on a sample that is too small. |
| | E) | The reviewer cites statistics that are based on a sample that is not diverse enough. |
| | F) | The reviewer cites statistics that are controversial. |
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The German word "hermeneutics" refers to: |
| | A) | Theories of interpretation. |
| | B) | Theories of religious conflict. |
| | C) | Ideological aspects of a work. |
| | D) | Character analysis. |
| | E) | Fruedian elements or underlying aspects to an artwork or text. |
| | F) | Marxist philosophies in a work. |
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What is not one of the guidelines for assessing a film or TV show: |
| | A) | Check factual claims. |
| | B) | Check for exaggeration. |
| | C) | Check for omissions. |
| | D) | Check assumptions. |
| | E) | Check for religious ideology. |
| | F) | Check for fallacious reasoning. |
| | G) | Check for the strength of the reasoning. |
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