{"id":298,"date":"2025-10-29T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a500-fall-2024-7-week-semester\/?page_id=298"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:38:36","slug":"module-8-first-exam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-a500-fall-2025-7-week-semester\/module-8-first-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 7 &#8211; First Exam &#8211; POL 100 (A500)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your answers should be written in the provided blue book only.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your answers to the exam questions have to be constructed in essay form. This means no outlines and incomplete sentences. There are 5 questions and you have one hour and fifteen minutes. On average this means 15 minutes per question. Don&#8217;t rush.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your answers have to be based on our readings and class discussions. When reading your responses, I have to have the sense that you are writing based on what we discussed in class, not some general comments about the questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" id=\"block-9c456ce5-64b8-41d9-9c13-62bc86e6606a\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-15c1497d-a270-4fec-803f-b0a3ecd86653\">Question 1 &#8211; (30 points out of 100)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-2ece6f44-1019-4f4f-b127-42caaff40302\">In your own words, describe what Althusser meant by ideological and repressive state apparatuses. Explain what each term means. Give an example for each apparatus\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-7ca3b044-5031-4826-86aa-7dc3c1ebbd28\">Question 2 &#8211; (10 points)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-e8e45066-e7a6-4955-aede-8a9d9dcc5d5a\">What was the <strong>Labor Theory of Value <\/strong>about? 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