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Self Test A on Knowledge & Vocabulary associated with Choice #43  

Respond to each of the 10 multiple choice questions below by typing the number 1 to 5 of the answer you wish to select in the response box. When finished, click "process your responses".

1. Used in the description of the  VALUING HONESTY, LEARNING theme, this word also appears in the descriptions of EVIDENCE BASED, ORDERLY & EXPLICABLE , COMPLEXITY—IN OUR HANDS: DANCING WITH SYSTEMS, and RATIONAL, DISPASSIONATE themes. 

1) reason             2) learning              3) feedback              4) information                  5) understanding 

2.  One whose behavior models the SPREADING DISINFORMATION / TACTICAL DECEPTION  theme  might conceivably engage in all of the following except which?     

1) giving baffling explanations            2) spreading fake news and conspiracy theories            

3) valuing academic learning and teaching  

4) valuing Social Darwinism                           5) displaying machiavellian / "ends justifies the means" tendencies

3.  In common everyday speech spreading disinformation refers to _____________________.    

1) baffling not clarifying               2) telling lies         3) hypocrisy            4) guilt            5) deceit

4.  Members of all of the following groups would most likely prefer the VALUING HONESTY, LEARNING theme over the SPREADING DISINFORMATION / TACTICAL DECEPTION theme except which?

1) ethicists                                2) ambitious scientists                      3) corrupt entrepreneurs    

4)  a journalist following a strict professional code                          5) university professors 

5. The word that can best be defined or described as "associated with lies, falsehoods, untruths" is ____________________. 

1) mendacious                                       2)  guile                               3)  erudite 

4)  veracity                                      5) none of the above 

  

6. The word ______________ can be defined or described as "an act that misrepresents or a practice intended to trick." 

1) duplicity                                       2)   deceit                              3) veracity  

4) mendacious                                5)   erudite

  

7.  All of the following words logically belong together  except which one? 

1)  learned                                      2)  scholarly                                3) erudite  

4)  mentor                                      5) derelict 

  

8. The pair of words that have roughly opposite meanings are _________________. 

1)    guile  & mendacious                    2)  erudite & mentor                                3)  deceit &  guile

4)    veracity & duplicity                      5) mendacious & deceit 

 

9.  All of the following words logically belong together except which one?

1)      erudite                                    2)   strait-laced                         3)  honest 

4)  scrupulous                                      5) duplicity

  

10.  The word that can be best be defined or described as "deceitful, cunning, sly, crafty" is _____________. 

1)    guile                                    2)   mendacious                              3) duplicity   

4)   erudite                                     5) veracity

 

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