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Questions

1. What sentence best summarizes why Blades and Linzer think people in Muslim countries hate Americans?

A. Because there exists a psychological tendency to hold negative views of the United States and of American society in general in majority-Muslim nations.

B. Because when there is intense competition between Islamist and secular-nationalist political factions in a country, both sides in the political debate tend to emphasize anti-American sentiments.

C. Because Muslims tend to disapprove of what Americans do in international affairs.

D. Because Muslims tend to dislike fundamental aspects of American culture and government

2. Which of the following statements does NOT accurately describe a difference between Blades and Linzer's article and Friedman's column?

A. Blades and Linzer work was based on multiple trips to Muslim countries to meet with key decision-makers, while Friedman has never travelled to the Muslim world

B. Blaydes and Linzer test their hypotheses using multiple methods, while Friedman only makes claims without formulating a testable hypothesis.

C. Blaydes and Linzer discuss previous work on anti-American sentiment, while Friedman never mentions any other scholarship on the topic

D. Blades and Linzer's work was reviewed by other scholars before publication, while Friedman's work was only reviewed and critigued after publication.

3. What type of causal explanations in the social sciences are used quite frequently in quantitative studies of politics like Sides and Gross?

A. Reciprocal

B. Necessary but not sufficient

C. Necessary and sufficient

D. Probabilistic

4. According to Frankfurt, if you were bull-shitting when you answered the question preceding this one (above), which statement must be true?

A. If you were bull-shitting when you answered the preceding question, you knew the answer was not "D"

B. If you were bull-shitting when you answered the preceding question, you knew the correct answer was "B" but chose a different answer.

C. If you were bull-shitting when you answered the preceding question, you did not actually know the correct answer to the question but answered the question anyway.

5. What sentence best describes what messages Frankfurt considers to be bullshit (BS)?

A. Frankfurt considers a message to be BS if the speaker pretends to be complimentary.

B. Frankfurt considers a message to be BS if speakers do not know whether their words are truthful or inaccurate.

C. Frankfurt considers a message to be BS if speakers know that their descriptions exaggerate reality.

D. Frankfurt considers a message to be BS if speakers know that what they say is untrue.