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HUM 3306: History of Ideas--The Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Anxiety
Spring 2011
PRACTICE EXAM: REQUIRED & ASSESSED, BUT GRADE DOES NOT COUNT
This is a practice exam to help you get a sense of the types
of questions to be asked on the real exams. You get to it, as you
will the real exams, by clicking on the “Assessment” icon on
the far left Blackboard menu or the icon at the bottom of the opening
“Home” page to this course.
Although you can see the icons, you cannot enter the exam until the
designated dates.
It will be available for taking between Thursday Jan. 20 9:00pm &
Sunday Jan. 23 11:59pm.
Note that Blackboard is down for maintenance from midnight Friday night to
Saturday morning.
You must answer the
questions within an allotted 1-hour time period. Once you
start, the clock begins to tick and cannot be turned off. However, if
you start at, say, 11:30pm Sunday night you will be given an hour, until
12:30am.
It will cover everything in
the first two weeks (e-texts, Prof. lectures, and Locke assigned reading).
You are not expected to memorize dates or bullet-list type information in
the Wikis. But some of the questions will test your understanding of
the basic historical contexts (the course is called “History of
Ideas”!).
There will be six multiple choice and true/false questions, for a total
(non-counting) score of 100%.
Once the window for taking the exam closes (i.e. late Sunday night), you
should be able to go back to the exam, by clicking the assessment icon
again, and see your score as well as, at the end of each question, an
explanation in some cases of correct/incorrect answers.
Should there be some major glitch with the Blackboard testing system:
please do not email me (Prof. Harvey) or Prof. Rowan individually.
Use the “General Topic” posting area (right below the area
where you filled-in your mini-autobio.) in the Discussion area of the Blackboard
menu. That way, all students will see that the glitch has been noted.
All best on this, and more especially the “real” exams
down-the-road, as well as whatever other tests you are taking this term,
yours, Prof. Harvey
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