RELS411 EXAM 1 - SDSU COMBINED
SET QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Milgram's Experiment - Answer-- Got participants to give progressively worse electric
shocks when they got an answer wrong
- How many people would give the extreme shocks just because a figure of authority
said to?
- 65% of people complied fully
Stanford Prison Experiment - Answer-Guards: Quickly abused authority
Prisoners: Quickly lost it, one person had to be removed, stripped & deloused, given #'s,
chained
Thin vs. Thick - Answer-Thin (Ardent): For an action to be evil, it must be extremely
culpable (deserving blame) wrong, & not necessarily malicious or sadistic
Ex: Nazi germany
Thick(McGuinn & Steiner): An action is evil only if it's both an extreme culpable wrong
&& accompanied by malice, sadistic pleasure etc.
Ex: Charles Mansen
The Iliad & the Odyssey are... - Answer-Stories about a lost age of heroes
Hubris (Greek) - Answer-Excessive ego or pride
Arete (Greek) - Answer-Excellence (can be compromised by hubris)
The Iliad - Answer-Hero: Achilles
Setting: 10th year of the Trojan War (Greeks vs Trojans)
Theme: War
Important Characters: Helen - the "face that launched 1000 ships"
Melelaus, Helen's Greek Husband
Paris, the prince of Troy
Climax: Trojan horse (Odysseus' idea)
Written for: People
Ergon (Greek) - Answer-The virtue of a human or object that relates to its function
ex: A sword has the function of cutting, so sharpness is a virtue of Ergon
The Odyssey - Answer-Hero: Odysseus
, Setting: 10 years after the Trojan War
Theme: A long journey
Written for: People
Hades - Answer-- "The Hidden"
- God/ruler of the underworld
- Son of Kronos & Rhea
- Lawful & neutral
Charon - Answer-Ferryman who rowed people across the River Styx
Cerberus - Answer-3 headed dog who guards the Underworld
Elysian Fields - Answer-- Greek "heaven"
-Drink from River Lethe & forget all the bad
- Live forever
Tartarus - Answer-Greek "hell"
Who does Odysseus see first in the Underworld? - Answer-Elpenor: A crewman who
broke his neck after falling from Circe's roof
- He pleaded with odysseus to return & give him a proper burial
- Failure would condemn both Elpenor & Odysseus
Ethic of Kleos - Answer-Glory in War
The Iliad: Embraces glory of warfare, & endorses achilles' choice of glory over long life
The Odyssey: Achilles' lament is a strong caveat to this ethic of Kleos
Sisuphus - Answer-- Defied Zeus
- Huge ego (his hubris)
- Doomed for eternity to push a boulder up a hill for trying to cheat death
Xenia (Greek) - Answer-Hospitality
Tantalus - Answer-- Steals from the gods
- Kills his own son to cook for dinner & invites the Gods to dinner
- Eternal suffering from hunger & thirst
- He sits in a pool of water overhung by bunches of grapes, whenever he reaches for
grapes they rise out of his grasp
- Whenever he tries to drink, the water goes down
Homeric Good - Answer-- Born Nobel "He is better than others"
- He is good in battle
- Be hospitable, have good friendships
- He has honor, other peoples good opinion
SET QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS
Milgram's Experiment - Answer-- Got participants to give progressively worse electric
shocks when they got an answer wrong
- How many people would give the extreme shocks just because a figure of authority
said to?
- 65% of people complied fully
Stanford Prison Experiment - Answer-Guards: Quickly abused authority
Prisoners: Quickly lost it, one person had to be removed, stripped & deloused, given #'s,
chained
Thin vs. Thick - Answer-Thin (Ardent): For an action to be evil, it must be extremely
culpable (deserving blame) wrong, & not necessarily malicious or sadistic
Ex: Nazi germany
Thick(McGuinn & Steiner): An action is evil only if it's both an extreme culpable wrong
&& accompanied by malice, sadistic pleasure etc.
Ex: Charles Mansen
The Iliad & the Odyssey are... - Answer-Stories about a lost age of heroes
Hubris (Greek) - Answer-Excessive ego or pride
Arete (Greek) - Answer-Excellence (can be compromised by hubris)
The Iliad - Answer-Hero: Achilles
Setting: 10th year of the Trojan War (Greeks vs Trojans)
Theme: War
Important Characters: Helen - the "face that launched 1000 ships"
Melelaus, Helen's Greek Husband
Paris, the prince of Troy
Climax: Trojan horse (Odysseus' idea)
Written for: People
Ergon (Greek) - Answer-The virtue of a human or object that relates to its function
ex: A sword has the function of cutting, so sharpness is a virtue of Ergon
The Odyssey - Answer-Hero: Odysseus
, Setting: 10 years after the Trojan War
Theme: A long journey
Written for: People
Hades - Answer-- "The Hidden"
- God/ruler of the underworld
- Son of Kronos & Rhea
- Lawful & neutral
Charon - Answer-Ferryman who rowed people across the River Styx
Cerberus - Answer-3 headed dog who guards the Underworld
Elysian Fields - Answer-- Greek "heaven"
-Drink from River Lethe & forget all the bad
- Live forever
Tartarus - Answer-Greek "hell"
Who does Odysseus see first in the Underworld? - Answer-Elpenor: A crewman who
broke his neck after falling from Circe's roof
- He pleaded with odysseus to return & give him a proper burial
- Failure would condemn both Elpenor & Odysseus
Ethic of Kleos - Answer-Glory in War
The Iliad: Embraces glory of warfare, & endorses achilles' choice of glory over long life
The Odyssey: Achilles' lament is a strong caveat to this ethic of Kleos
Sisuphus - Answer-- Defied Zeus
- Huge ego (his hubris)
- Doomed for eternity to push a boulder up a hill for trying to cheat death
Xenia (Greek) - Answer-Hospitality
Tantalus - Answer-- Steals from the gods
- Kills his own son to cook for dinner & invites the Gods to dinner
- Eternal suffering from hunger & thirst
- He sits in a pool of water overhung by bunches of grapes, whenever he reaches for
grapes they rise out of his grasp
- Whenever he tries to drink, the water goes down
Homeric Good - Answer-- Born Nobel "He is better than others"
- He is good in battle
- Be hospitable, have good friendships
- He has honor, other peoples good opinion
