Chapter 29

Quiz for Chapter Twenty-Nine Analyzing Voices: Christianity and Public Life

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Question 1

In his speech before the National Association of American Evangelicals in 1983, Ronald Reagan said, “I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities—the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God.” These words stand as an example of President Reagan’s efforts toward which of the following goals?



Question 2

In the passage titled, “Network Television as a Moral Danger,” Donald E. Wildmon, a Christian minister, wrote that, after watching television one night, “I became angry. I had been disturbed by the deteriorating of morals I had witnessed in the media and society during the previous twenty-five years. . . . Realizing that these changes were being brought into the sanctity of my home, I decided I could and would no longer remain silent.” This statement is an example of which of the following trends?



Question 3

In his speech to the entering class of Yale undergraduates in 1981, A. Bartlett Giamatti said, “Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. In our tradition the State is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other spheres of our lives and existence, outside the home, where the State should not be a dominant presence.” With these remarks, Giamatti was rejecting which element of the New Right’s political agenda?



Question 4

Anthony Kennedy was the last justice to be appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan. Which of the following individuals would most likely have agreed with the decision Kennedy wrote for the majority in the Lawrence v. Texas case of 2003?