The questions will focus on crucial information, not overly narrow, specific or obscure details from the article. This quiz is designed to do two things:
• assess your knowledge and analysis of an assigned reading (“The Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel Huntington);
• assist and encourage you to develop your skills in reading and taking useful notes from academic articles.
• What is the author’s main argument or thesis?
• What secondary or supporting arguments does the author develop to support his thesis?
• What evidence does the author provide to support his thesis? Is this evidence convincing?
• What do you think are the main implications of the author’s thesis?
• When was this article written? How do you think the article’s thesis relates to global politics at that time?
• What audience do you think the author is trying to reach with this argument?
• Do you find the author’s argument to be compelling? Why or why not?
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