Answer any four of the five questions shown.  All questions count equally.  Turn in your answers to me (in my office or my department mailbox) in typed / printed form by 3:55 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17.

Limit your answers to the word limits shown at the end of each question.  (Note:  325 words is about 1 standard-format page.)  These limits are for your and my protection, so you won't feel driven to write a dissertation and I won't have to read one.  You need not reach the stated number of words in order to provide an excellent answer (or to get an excellent grade).  As a matter of fact, I have built some slack into the word limits, so your reaching the word limit may make me think your answer worse rather than better.

Please follow these standards:

• Format:  Type your exam using a standard font (e.g., Times New Roman or Courier New) on 8.5" x 11" paper, double-spaced, with 1" margins all around.  I prefer, but do not require, 12-point font.  Exams not meeting these standards will be returned ungraded and penalized as late when received in proper form.  If for some reason you cannot meet these standards, please work it out with me before you turn in your exam.
• Writing mechanics:  I expect you to provide me with well-composed, well-written answers.  Remember that I have to read closely and grade about 165 pages of the class's writing, so please use good writing mechanics in order to reduce my burden as much as possible.  The harder I have to work to understand you, the more your grade goes down.  Things that obscure your meanings:  misspellings, missing words, improper use of apostrophes, incomplete sentences, and the like.  (This is not an exhaustive list.)

QUESTIONS

1. Define the first face of power, and present an example from the Gaventa text of a situation in which it was exercised.  (Limit:  325 words)
2. Define the second face of power, and present an example from the Gaventa text of a situation in which it was exercised.  (Limit:  325 words)
3. Define the third face of power, and present an example from the Gaventa text of a situation in which it was exercised.  (Limit:  325 words)
4. Give an example known to you personally of Bachrach & Baratz's "nondecisionmaking".  (Limit:  325 words)
5. Which of the three faces of power does Marcuse's essay contemplate?  Explain why you say this.  (Limit:  325 words)

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