The role of the media is to promote discourse in the public domain.

• True

• False

Where do the categories of "public" and "private" originate, according to Habermas?

• Ancient Greece

• Ancient Egypt

• Ancient Rome

• Ancient Mesopotamia

The two most important things that have been trading since the Middle Ages are news and commodities.

• True

• False

In the Middle ages, what or who was the only "public person"

• God

• Moses

• The peasants' feudal lord

• The King

Trade and government were polarized before the 18th century.

• True

• False

Whose concept of the "social" does Habermas quote?

• Walter Benjamin

• Hannah Arendt

• Theodor Adorno

• Martin Heidegger

What was the precursor of the bourgeois public sphere?

• The representative public sphere

• The governmental public sphere

• The monumental public sphere

• The literary public sphere

The two key institutions in the public sphere are salons and cafes.

• True

• False

What is Habermas's definition of the public sphere?

• "The sphere of private people come together as a public"

• "The public constituted from private citizens acting publically

• "The sphere of public men acting in private for public benefit"

• "The public formed together from the private sphere"

In the modern period, what did the occupational sphere become?

• An independent, quasi-public realm

• An incoherent private sphere

• An instant success

• An oppressive constraint on social labor