True/False If the statement is mostly true, place a 'T' in the space provided. If the statement is mostly false, place a 'F' in the space provided.

1. __ The European Jeremiad concludes with a promise of social improvement.

2. __ Plato argued that women could serve at the highest levels of public life.

Multiple Choice Select the response that is most correct.

3. Which utopian thinker argued that women should admit their sins to the husbands before going to church?

a. Plato
b. More
c. Bellamy
d. Gibson

a. Boston
b. New York
c. Los Angeles
d. Orlando

These are the major terms and concepts I want you to master for the midterm examination. Please remember that this review is designed to highlight ideas and concepts that will be found on the test. It is not complete and will be revised until the day before the examination. The review does not include every word that will appear on the final exam; it merely serves to guide your study of the texts, notes, web resources, and other materials employed throughout this course.

• Rhetoric (definition)
  
• Artifacts as semiotic phantoms
  
• Public life as a constellation of signs
  
• Gernsback Continuum
  
• Utopias of permanence (three goals)
  
• Utopias of change (two origins: the rhetorics of "progress" and "the individual")
  
• Three classes of community member in the Republic
  
• Relationship of classes of people to qualities of individuals in the Republic
  
• Three "waves" of Book Five (women's role, private relationships, philosopher king)
  
• Four principles of More's Utopia
  
• Role of slaves in Utopia and non-citizens in Republic
  
• American Jeremiad vs. European Jeremiad
  
• Three components of the American Jeremiad
  
• Recent examples of the American Jeremiad
  
• The conservative nature of the Jeremiad
  
• Three paradoxes of Winthrop's sermon
  
• Background of Bellamy's Looking Backward
  
• Nationalism in Looking Backward
  
• Four key themes of Looking Backward
  
• Three critiques of Looking Backward