English 12 sem 1 wk 3 Independent Studies

What is the author’s purpose for writingHamlet Prince of Denmark?

• Entertain

• Persuade

• express an opinion

• inform

What is the main question that Hamlet ponders in line one?

• Hamlet wonders whether he should live or die

• Hamlet wonders what it feels like to be alive

• Hamlet wonders what the purpose of life is

• all of the above

How does the human life calculator determine how much a life is worth?

• A life only has value if you have living relatives like a wife or a child.

• The calculator takes different economic factors into account like how much money a person makes, if they have a spouse they add their wages as well

• The calculator takes into account how much the people around love and care for you.

• both a and b

What is the best description of Kenneth Feinberg’s job?

• Mr. Feinberg is a lawyer for people who don’t want to go to court but want a settlement (or money) for the loss of life of a person. He handled many cases involving the loss of human lives.

• Mr. Feinberg is a lawyer that represents major corporations that deal with global warming, and human rights issues

• Mr. Feinberg is an attorney spokesperson who specializes in making videos of the attacks of September 11, the Holocaust, and school shootings

• None of the above

Which of the following statements best summarizes the author’s attitude towards life before he met with the families of 9/11

• He used to accept the word of the law that some lives were more financially valuable than others

• He used to follow the law but disagreed with the idea that all people are equal

• He believed that all lives were equal and should be worth the same amount of money

• All of the above

How did Mr. Feinberg’s compensation of the Virginia Tech shootings match his new ideal that all lives are equal

• He decided to follow the law and pay people according to their jobs

• He decided to follow his legal training because it’s what he knows, so teachers got more money than students

• He decided that he was going to put his moral views before his professional view sand paid everyone the same amount of money

• None of the above

What does Feinberg believe about public compensation?

• He believes that it is wrong to base the value of a person’s life on how much money they made in life since this makes survivors feel more pain and grief

• He believes there is no problem with the way that laws are written in America since it is fair that a person who earned more money receives more money

• He believes that this is a problem that has no real solution because it’s too difficult to determine how much a person’s life is really worth

• Both a and c are correct

What was the reason why Job’s biological mother almost blocked his adoption?

• She found out the adoptive parents were not married

• She found out the adoptive parents were not college graduates

• She found out the adoptive parents wanted a baby girl, not a boy

• All of the Above

Which of the following statements best summarizes Job’s experience in college?

• Steve Jobs attended a really expensive college that his parents could not afford but he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life so he dropped in on a lot of different classes until he found what he loved and graduated

• Steve Jobs dropped out of college because he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life and his parents were spending all of their savings on him! Therefore, he decided to drop in to a few classes before he officially dropped out

• Steve Jobs is one of the smartest people alive today. He created the apple computer and the Pixar movie Toy Story. He graduated from college because that is what his biological mother always wanted

• None of the above

What is the connection between calligraphy class and the Mac computer

• Steve Jobs dropped into calligraphy class and was“fascinated”by how beautiful and subtle the words were and here he learned about typefaces, which he later applied to the Mac

• Steve Jobs used the calligraphy he learned to create posters throughout campus to advertise his business.

• Calligraphy never had a practical application in Steve Job’s life

• all of the above