
Hidden Intellectualism
Quiz by Megan Werland
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- Q1Who is the author of "Hidden Intellectualism?"Gerald Graff30s
- Q2What book was this excerpt published in?They Say, I Say30s
- Q3Schools and colleges overlook the _____ potential of street smarts.intellectualexpositoryearning30s
- Q4Schools and colleges associate the _______ life with subjects and texts that seem more weighty and academic.hoodvalideducated30s
- Q5But, there is no _____ between educational depth and specific texts or subjects, meaning real intellectuals can find any subject engaging or interesting.correlationdifferencetransfer30s
- Q6We want students to obtain intellectual ______."bodies""relationships""texts""identities"30s
- Q7Graff offers his own life as an example. He claims that he only cared to read about _____.being toughhooodsShakespearesports30s
- Q8He believes however, that his love of sports made him _____ _____.the toughest guy in the neighborhooda professor of Englishan intellectuala hood with street smarts30s
- Q9He grew up in _____ where he didn't want to appear too smart.TorontoNew YorkLos AngelesChicago30s
- Q10He was desperate to be approved by the ______ .egg-headsteachershoodsathletes30s
- Q11He felt that to be legitimate in his neighborhood, he needed to be ____.toughsmartrichathletic30s
- Q12He says that the 1950's, like him, were also _____ _____ being smart and tough.obsessed withambivalent aboutaccepting of30s
- Q13Ambivalent means _____.denialdeterminedundecidedconfused30s
- Q14Who did Marilyn Monroe marry after divorcing baseball star, Joe DiMaggio?Clair BurnsArthur MillerJohn KennedyElvis Pressley30s
- Q15This is significant in the 1950's because Arthur Miller was a playwright and ____ ____, which means the tides were turning for the school-smart crowd.a communista member of the actor's guildan individualan intellectual30s