QUESTION 1
A fundamental part of any nation-building project is coming up with a national narrative.
True
False

QUESTION 2
European nation-states often defined themselves as civilized by contrasting their current situation to what?
A. Ancient Greece.
B. Rome.
C. Egypt.
D. The Americas.

QUESTION 3
The problem Latin American nation-building projects kept running into was?
A. There was no place for Africans.
B. They had no link to a "respectable" past civilization.
C. They did not have enough Europeans.
D. Native Americans did not know about nation-states.

QUESTION 4
To who did Rodó dedicate Ariel?
A. The youth of America
B. Native Americans
C. The Pope
D. Simon Bolivar

QUESTION 5
Rodó argues that the real threat of barbarism facing Latin American nations is?
A. Utilitarianism.
B. Socialism.
C. Its indigenous past.
D. Its African population.

QUESTION 6
Utilitarianism was arguably the most dominant moral and political theory in Anglo American society from the early 1800's until around the 1970's.
True
False

QUESTION 7
Who was the founder of Utilitarianism?
A. José Rodó
B. Simon Bolivar
C. Jeremy Bentham
D. José Vasconcelos

QUESTION 8
According to Rodó, utilitarianism promotes or glorifies the sophisticated values of erudite experts and cultural elites.
True
False

QUESTION 9
According to Rodó, utilitarianism became so influential because of the success of natural science and what?
A. The fall of the Rome Empire.
B. The breaking up of the Catholic Church.
C. The diffusion and triumph of democracy.
D. The French Revolution.

QUESTION 10
By praising spiritualism and rejecting the positivist project, Rodó's Ariel is often seen as a break with the Nation-Building period and the start of the Contemporary period.
True
False

QUESTION 1
Citing Guyau and Renan, Prospero advices his students to try to develop so far as possible?
A. Not any single aspect, but the plenitude of their being.
B. The economy, not an abstract plenitude of being.
C. One single aspect, not the plenitude of their being.
D. Not any single aspect, but the plenitude of utilitarian ends.

QUESTION 2
According to Prospero, when is the danger of the limitation of minds most serious and its results most to be feared?
In times when civilization reaches its highest level of culture.
In times when civilization fails to reache its highest level of culture.
In times when civilization reaches its lowest level of culture.
In times when civilization has no culture.

QUESTION 3
The story of the hospitable King and his hall of mystery is supposed to show what?
A. The vulgar laziness of the powerful.
B. The compassion of the powerful, even when it goes unnoticed.
C. The importance of well-employed leisure.
D. The immediate need for a better work ethic.

QUESTION 4
According to Prosperous, an educated sense of what is beautiful is the most efficacious collaborator in forming what?
A. A sanctuary for reason.
B. A delicate sense of justice.
C. A deep appreciation of art.
D. A profane view of morality.

QUESTION 5
Prospero likens the dissemination of ideas to the survival of species by saying that those that are more beautiful will advance over those that are less.
True
False

QUESTION 6
According to Prospero, the dominance of Utilitarianism can be attributed to two causes. One is the revelations of natural science and the other is what?
A. The linking of the beautiful to freedom.
B. The universal diffusion and triumph of Christianity.
C. The linking of Kantian ideas to those of Guyau.
D. The universal diffusion and triumph of democratic ideas.

QUESTION 7
According to Prospero, a famous publicist coined the following phrase which is correct with regard to quality, but not quantity.
A. Act so as to to promote the maximum happiness and minimum pain.
B. From each according to ability, to each according to need.
C. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
D. To govern is to populate.

QUESTION 8
All of the following are criticisms that Prospero raises about "democratic equality" EXCEPT which one?
A. It tends toward mediocrity.
B. It tends toward the vulgar.
C. Tends towards the tyranny of the masses.
D. It tends toward heroism.

QUESTION 9
According to Prospero, what is the key to reconciling democratic equality with spiritual selection?
A. A leveling of the most highly gifted.
B. Popular education of the masses.
C. A promotion of heroism.
D. Elimination of the masses.

QUESTION 10
Prospero does NOT believe that any sort of democracy can be reconciled with the natural superiorities that certain individuals possess.
True
False

QUESTION 1
According to Rodo, Ariel embodies?
A. The mastery of sensuality and stupidity over reason and sentiment.
B. The mastery of reason and of sentiment over the baser impulses of unreason.
C. African culture and traditions.
D. Native American culture and traditions.

QUESTION 2
When Prospero talks about how each generation or era renews an active hope and anxious belief in an ideal he uses Guyau's example of?
A. A statue of Ariel
B. The conquistadors search for El Dorado
C. Sweet and distant mirages
D. A poor mad women

QUESTION 3
Prospero says that the following are gifts of youthful spirit that correspond in the harmonies of history and natural history to movement and to light.
A. Enthusiasm and hope
B. Power and glory
C. Fear and trembling
D. Order and progress

QUESTION 4
Prospero believes that far from supposing the renouncement and condemnation of all being, the following teaches with its discontent the necessity of its renewal.
A. Bitterness of thought
B. Pessimisms which are like inverted optimism
C. The plays of Shakespeare
D. The spirit of doubt

QUESTION 5
Why is Prospero so concerned with the moral development of the minds of the youth?
A. The force of their word and example may come to embody the living energies of the past in the work of the future.
B. Their energy is great, but intellectually it is not up to par with the youth of Greece and Rome.
C. Given all the progress that the founders have made, Prospero is worried that all will be lost with this generation.
D. The youth is too ambitious and sees itself as a creative force, when in fact it undermines tradition and risks sending Latin America into anarchy.

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