(THIS COULD BE) THE MOST IMPORTANT TRUE/FALSE TEST OF YOUR LIFE

There is a "hidden agenda" for the readings and questions in the course. It is hidden here, in plain sight. Of course, there are none so blind as those who will not see. I have chosen readings designed to make literature a confrontation with your ideas, your values. Here's a quiz that sets a tone for  you. 

Are you someone who asks questions, challenges authority, looks for answers where others just accept what they are told? Good, answer true or false below. Read the little advice below the questions. Write searching papers that are meant to push you outside the box.

1. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed John F. Kennedy with a bullet that struck Kennedy in the back of the head.  True     False
2. I do not know anything about Oswald and Kennedy.    True     False  
3. In America we are all equal.     True     False
4. Therefore, all opinions are equally right.     True     False  
5. Just before we went to war with Iraq they had weapons of mass destruction.  True    False
6. Saddam Hussein conspired with Osama Bin Laden before we went to war in Iraq.  True     False
7. Saddam Hussein was connected to what happened on 9/11.     True     False
8. Condoleezza Rice was a Chevron Oil Company Director working with Dick Cheney just before 2001. In that capacity she visited Afghanistan and the Taliban to negotiate an oil pipeline route just before 9/11.     True     False  
9. I do not know who Condoleezza Rice is.     True     False
10. For me, this is just a required course.    True     False

Are you content to live your days with little or no understanding of how things work? There is wisdom in living in the "now." There is passion and purpose if you live for a particular belief. But if you lack information you lack the tools that could help you shape your own life.

That is why, in a college library where I taught in China, there was a banner in the lobby that said "Knowledge is Power," and the library shelves were kept empty. If you have the capacity--the intelligence, the freedom--to pursue knowledge, you are lucky. If you choose not to use that capacity, that freedom, you consign yourself to a random life.

Read the literature and consider the thematic questions seriously. Make literature a means of furthering your understanding and training your mind.

You still have choices--to educate yourself, to focus your thoughts, train your mind so you can analyze and draw your own conclusions. Or you can take "their" word for it. You may have a happy life. You may become a "victim." Use what you have. It's up to you.

Note and check the following link: http://aztlan.net/oiltanker.htm

Socrates says "The unexamined life is not worth living."

Oh...you mean you want the answers to the ten questions? Good! The quiz worked!