1. Describe how the economic conditions of our society influence your beliefs about your own life.

2. Using concepts from the unit, analyze the most common way that you waste time, and lay out steps that show how you can combat this tendency.

3. Describe the first four stages in the development of the critical thinker. Define dogmatic absolutism and subjective relativism, and explain how these are traps to the beginning thinker. Finally, present an example from your own experience that relates to one of the stages in the development of the thinker.

4. Identify what you think are the two most important options for devising a game plan to become a critical thinker, and explain how you will try to implement them in your own life.