The Medical College - Page 27
20.
What statement best fits Claudius
Ptolemy?
A.
He was an ancient astronomer.
B.
He was an ancient astrologer.
C.
He was both an astronomer and
astrologer.
D.
He was a historian.
21.
A key difference between understanding
and
wisdom is:
A.
wisdom is ancient; understanding is
modern.
B.
understanding can be accumulated
across
the generations; wisdom must be
renewed
in each generation.
C.
understanding deals with things,
whereas
wisdom deals with people.
D.
wisdom is subjective; understanding
is
objective.
22.
The author's main point seems to
be:
A.
that the study of ethical truths is needed
in
today's religiously pluralistic
world.
B.
that we should all have the wisdom
to
adopt one religion or another.
C.
that religious beliefs and ethical
reasoning
will always be at odds.
D.
that people need both morality and
ethics
today.
23.
From a historical point of view, this passage
pro-
vides the reader with:
A.
the names of important figures who lived
in
Alexandria.
B.
a running commentary of the 1000
years
during which Alexandria was the
world's
center of learning.
C.
statements made by the great
philosophers
Aristotle and Plato regarding the
teaching
of wisdom to new generations.
D.
documentation regarding the destruction
of
the library of Alexandria by Omar I in
642
A
.D.
24.
One of the great schools in Alexandria was
in
the disciplines of mathematics. It was
founded
by:
A.
Euclid.
C.
Aristotle.
B.
Omar I.
D.
Eratosthenes.
Passage IV (Questions 25–30)
Charles James Correll (February 2,
1890–September
26, 1972), radio comedian and co-creator with
Freeman
Gosden of Amos 'n Andy, was the son of Joseph
Boland
Correll and (though there are some
inconsistencies about
his mother's first name) Julia A. Fiss Correll.
He was
born in Peoria, Illinois, where he grew up in a
stable,
working class family. While still in school, he
worked as
an usher in a local vaudeville house and
developed an
interest in show business. After graduating
from Peoria's
public high school, he began to follow his
father's trade
as a bricklayer. In his spare time, however, he
played
piano in Peoria's silent movie houses and sang,
danced,
and took small parts in local
shows.
In 1918, after being noticed by the director of
a local
show, Correll was offered a job with the Joe
Bren
Company of Chicago. Bren specialized in
producing
minstrel shows as fund-raisers for charitable
groups in
small cities. For the next 6 years Correll
traveled the
country, directing productions for Bren. In
1919, doing
a show in Durham, North Carolina, he first met
Free-
man Gosden, who had just been hired by Bren and
was
to be trained by Correll. The two became
friends, often
sharing an apartment during summers when both
men
were in Chicago, preparing for the next season.
In 1924
both men were brought to Bren's Chicago home
office,
Gosden to manage Bren's new circus division,
Correll
to manage the shows division.
Sharing an apartment, Correll and Gosden began
to
write musical reviews together, and they worked
up a
"song and chatter" act. In March 1925, they
began an 8-
month series of weekly appearances on Chicago's
radio
station WEGH. Soon they were doing occasional
appear-
ances in shows and on radio programs in St.
Louis, in
Columbus, Ohio, and other places in the
Midwest. Dur-
ing the summer of 1925 they both resigned from
the
Bren Company and began concentrating on a
career in
vaudeville. However, the Chicago Tribune's
radio station
offered them $200 a week, and in November 1925,
they
began a series of nightly broadcasts on
WGN.
At the suggestion of the station's management,
Cor-
rell and Gosden used their experiences with
minstrel
shows to work up a "radio comic strip" about
two
African American boys, and on January 12, 1926,
Sam
'n Henry began a series of nightly 10-minute
broad-
casts on WGN. The show was an immediate hit.
In
1928, however, a rival Chicago newspaper lured
Cor-
rell and Cosden away from WGN, though the
Tribune
retained all rights to Sam 'n Henry and
continued
broadcasting the show with two new
men.
At the Chicago Daily News's radio station
WMAQ,
on March 19, 1928, Correll and Gosden began
broad-
casting six nights a week with a 15-minute show
about
two African American men living in Harlem. Amos
'n
Andy focused on the misadventures of Amos
Jones,
played by Freeman Gosden as energetic,
enterprising,
and honest, and Andrew H. Brown, played by
Correll
as indolent but good-hearted. Gradually, the
team
added characters, but until the 1940s all the
writing and
voices were done by Correll and
Gosden.
The show was a huge success, and with the help
of
the Tribune's publicity staff, in 1929 Correll
and Gos-
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