Question: Moving back and forth between shots of a woman tied to railroad tracks and shots of a speeding train elsewhere on the tracks is an example of what editing technique?
Answer Options: Parallel editing Continuity editing Montage Shot/reverse shot Correct Answer: Parallel editing
Question: What is the correct technical name for the music that plays in the background of a scene while the action takes place?
Answer Options: The score The soundtrack The orchestration The sound design Correct Answer: The score
Question: Which of the following tasks is part of the process of film editing but not part of the process of book editing?
Answer Options: Ensuring that the story makes sense. Making sure one section logically follows another. Helping to construct the work itself. Determining that the work holds together as a whole. Correct Answer: Helping to construct the work itself.
Question: What is the job of a film’s editor?
Answer Options: Putting his or her vision into words. Choosing and arranging what will actually be in the scene. Composing various images in the camera. Choosing shots, their order, and their duration on screen. Correct Answer: Choosing shots, their order, and their duration on screen.
Question: Which of the following is typically true of soundtrack albums?
Answer Options: They reproduce the entire score. They are only released for musicals. They are used to promote a film commercially. They only include material written specifically for the film. Correct Answer: They are used to promote a film commercially.
Question: Which of the following editing techniques helps keep screen direction constant?
Answer Options: Matching on action The 180-degree rule The Kuleshov effect The shot/reverse shot pattern Correct Answer: The 180-degree rule
Question: Which of the following is the definition of logic employed by the book With Good Reason: A Guide to Critical Thinking?
Answer Options: A study of persuasion. The study of arguments. The study of how to make critical thinking a part of your life. The study of arguments as tools for arriving at warranted judgments. Correct Answer: The study of arguments as tools for arriving at warranted judgments.
Question: The following is an important part of expressing arguments in standard form.
Answer Options: Expressing multiple claims in a single premise. Being able to paraphrase language to make it clear. Not separating out premises and conclusions. Including sentences that are not claims in the standard form. Correct Answer: Being able to paraphrase language to make it clear.
Question: An argument in logic is _________.
Answer Options: a set of claims, some of which serve as support for another claim. a debate between two people. the conclusion of one’s reasoning. a dispute with no resolution. Correct Answer: a set of claims, some of which serve as support for another claim.
Question: Reasons given to support a conclusion are called _________.
Answer Options: pretenses. prehensile. premises. comments. Correct Answer: premises.
Question: Informal logic is _________.
Answer Options: the study of mathematical properties of languages. the study of arguments as they exist in everyday language. the study of formal validity without a focus on everyday usages of critical thinking. the scientific examination of specific truths. Correct Answer: the study of arguments as they exist in everyday language.
Question: According to the authors, judgments of faith _________.
Answer Options: have no place in logical reasoning. should be warranted. should have no reasons supporting them. always result in religious conflict. Correct Answer: should be warranted.
Question: Which of the following is not one of the reasons given by the authors that language is important?
Answer Options: It can improve our sensory abilities like taste. It is the best means for expressing our thoughts and clarifying ideas. It can make a difference in our lives if we use it to its optimal form. It helps to prove our intellectual superiority. Correct Answer: It helps to prove our intellectual superiority.
Question: According to Chapter 1, philosophy is __________.
Answer Options: equivalent to logic. something that does not analyze emotions. something that not everyone can do. focused on clarifying ideas. Correct Answer: focused on clarifying ideas.
Question: This form of thinking involves releasing oneself from normal rules of the mind and society.
Answer Options: Critical thinking Analytical thinking Strategic thinking Creative thinking Correct Answer: Creative thinking
Question: When people are engaged in analytical thinking, they are __________.
Answer Options: breaking down component parts of larger things or ideas. using their imagination to paint a landscape. writing their boss to ask for time off work. reporting something that they have seen to others. Correct Answer: breaking down component parts of larger things or ideas.
Question: Which of the following is a claim?
Answer Options: Calculate the velocity of the alpha particles. Did you calculate the velocity of the alpha particles? Awesome! Alpha particles are baryons. Correct Answer: Alpha particles are baryons.
Question: Claims have the following attribute.
Answer Options: They do not claim that something is the case. They often make commands. They can be true or false. They are not necessary to form arguments. Correct Answer: They can be true or false.
Question: In argument diagrams, __________.
Answer Options: premises cannot work together to support another claim. conclusions support the premises. single premises can support a conclusion or another premise. premises can only support conclusions. Correct Answer: single premises can support a conclusion or another premise.