Due, as an attachment, via the “Assignments” tool on Canvas, by 11:55pm
Wednesday, January 29 (in PDF or any format easily converted to PDF,
e.g. MSWord, OpenOffice, LATE X, RTF, plain text).
Answer any one of the questions listed below in 2–3 pages (double
spaced).
The questions are keyed to different sections of the reading, with the idea that
each question is raised most centrally in a certain section. However, you can and
should use material from anywhere in the text where it’s relevant to the
answer.
Because this is an exam rather than a paper, I will give priority to accuracy
over originality in grading. However, all the questions do require some thought;
they can’t simply be read out of the texts. Moreover, in many (if not all) cases the
“correct” answer is unavoidably a matter of interpretation: in such cases it would
be safest to reproduce what I said in class, but it will also be acceptable if you’re
clearly following some other reasonable interpretation. And, of course, as
usual, your answer must be “original” in the sense that it is your own
work. (If you use any outside source — which I don’t recommend — you
must cite it.) To cite Schelling, please just give the page number in our
text.