Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Second Short Quiz

Question 1

Did our focus book “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning by the American Right: Journey to the Heart of Our Political Divide” comprise the report of a Retired U/Cal-Berkeley Sociology Professor?

Answer 1

Yes.

Question 2

Did our author focus on only approx. 60 residents of Southwest Louisiana in general, and 6 of those residents in particular?

Answer 2

Yes.

Question 3

Would any of the nation’s premier polling organizations consider a sample size of only 60 valid for describing “The Heart of Our Political Divide”?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Even if a sample size of 60 had not been woefully inadequate, would any of the nation’s premier polling organizations have considered our author’s sample of 60 residents of Southwest Louisiana a scientifically-valid random sample of residents of the Heart of America’s “Political Divide”?

Answer 4

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Question 5

In other words, aren’t many, if not most, of our author’s 60 sample in fact Cajuns whose French ancestors were evicted by the British from Acadia (what is now Eastern Quebec and the Canadian Maritime Provinces) and transported to the French colony of Louisiana – as described in “Evangeline” (“This Is the Forest Primeval; The Murmuring Pines and the Hemlocks;…), the classic epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

Answer 5

Yes.

BTW, Acadia was captured by the British in 1710 -- 93 years before the French sold Louisiana and The Northwest Territories in 1803 as referenced in the next Question.

Question 6

BTW, did the U.S. not buy Louisiana and The Northwest Territories from France until 1803 when the French Revolutionaries were still trying to keep the French economy afloat in the wake of their 10-year (1789-1799) rampage with a “fire sale” of everything of value, including all of the furniture at Versailles which was sold by the Revolutionaries to the Duke of Marlborough as a result of which all of the Versailles furniture can be viewed today by tourists at Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough which (Blenheim Palace) was the birth place of Winston Churchill who, for many years, was only a heartbeat away from being the 10th Duke of Marlborough which, if it had happened as a result of the demise of his beloved cousin, Charles “Sunny” Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, would have produced a radically-different English and World History?

Answer 6

English Composition 101 would cite Question 6 as Exhibit A for an example of a classic “run-on sentence”!!!

Because Question 6 contains at least 12 components, each of which would have to be true for the Answer to Question 6 to be affirmative!!!

Nonetheless, the answer is yes!!!

Question 7

Are Cajuns NOT even representative of American Southerners??? Not only because of their French ancestry and culture, but also because most (if not all) of them are Catholic, whereas the rest of the American South is predominantly Baptist?

Answer 7

Cajuns are NOT representative of American Southerners.

Cajuns, inter alia, are of French ancestry and culture, and most (if not all) of them are Catholic, whereas the rest of the American South is predominantly Baptist.

Question 8

And even if a handful of Louisiana Cajuns were representative of the American South and the handful had been a sufficiently large sample to draw valid conclusions about the American South, what does that “have to do with the price of tea in China”???

Answer 8

What indeed???!!!

Question 9

Because, after all, as pointed out in the Suggested Answers to The First Short Quiz, “A Journey to the Heart of Our Political Divide” (the third element of the title of our focus book) should have focused on Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which were the four “swing states” that shifted across “The Heart” of America’s “Political Divide” to vote for Donald Trump???

Answer 9

Perhaps the third element of the title of our focus book should have been “A Journey to the PERIPHERY of Our Political Divide”!!!

Question 10

What is a docent?

Answer 10

Please read on Q-11.

Question 11

In addition to meaning an expert (often, if not typically, a retired person who is volunteering) who acts as a guide in a museum or art gallery, does docent also mean such a person who is an expert (and typically a volunteer) guide at a zoo???

Answer 11

Yes.

Question 12

Does this help to explain the conundrum described in Q-13 & Q-14???

Answer 12

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Question 13

Don’t virtually all of the glowing comments about our focus book set forth in the 10/17/2017 announcement of our topic for 11/8/2017 (posted on http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org in the “Original Proposal” section for our 11/8/2017 meeting) say that our author not only respected, but liked, the approximately 60 individuals described in her book???

Answer 13

Yes.

Question 14

While, as described in the Suggested Answers to the First Short Quiz, Carlos Lozada (a Washington Post Assistant Editor and its Non-Fiction Book Critic) entitled his review of our focus book for the Washington Post -- “A Berkeley Sociologist Made Some Tea Party Friends -- And Wrote A Condescending Book About Them”???

Answer 14

Yes.

Question 15

Does Law School 101 teach the legal neophytes how to reconcile two seemingly contradictory statements or positions???

Answer 15

Yes.

Question 16

Can the Washington Post assertion that our focus book is condescending be reconciled with other book reviews claiming that our author was respectful of, and actually liked, the 60 Louisiana residents described in her book, by considering zoo docents???

Answer 16

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Question 17

Isn’t it true that zoo docents respect and like the animals in their zoos, while they would condescendingly discuss them in terms of being sub-human???

Answer 17

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