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Quiz: Noam Chomsky

  1. When was Noam Chomsky born?

    • 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
    • 1908, Paris, France.
    • 1905, Paris, France.
    • 1908, Akron, Ohio, United States.
    Answer

    1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. — Born: 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States..

  2. What is Noam Chomsky known for?

    • Universal grammar, the poverty of the stimulus argument, and the manufacturing consent critique of media.
    • The Second Sex, the ethics of ambiguity, and the analysis of woman as the Other.
    • Falsifiability as the mark of science, and The Open Society and Its Enemies of 1945.
    • Power knowledge, the panopticon, Madness and Civilization, and the History of Sexuality.
    Answer

    Universal grammar, the poverty of the stimulus argument, and the manufacturing consent critique of media. — Known for: Universal grammar, the poverty of the stimulus argument, and the manufacturing consent critique of media..

  3. Which school of thought was Noam Chomsky part of?

    • Generative linguistics; analytic philosophy of language.
    • Phenomenology turned to ontology; existentialism's source.
    • Analytic philosophy; logical atomism.
    • Analytic philosophy, in two acts.
    Answer

    Generative linguistics; analytic philosophy of language. — School: Generative linguistics; analytic philosophy of language..

  4. True or false: American linguist and thinker whose Syntactic Structures of 1957 argued that the human mind is born with a universal grammar.

    • True
    • False
    Answer

    True — From the entry's summary.