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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Chapters 10-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following could be an example of the emotional appeal?
(a) Making the audience doubt their own point of view.
(b) Making the audience think about a different point of view.
(c) Making the audience tired of listening to the speech.
(d) Making the audience angry to fight a war.

2. As explained by Aristotle in Book I, Chapter 10, what was the concern of the legal rhetorician?
(a) Only disproving wrongdoing.
(b) Either proving or disproving wrongdoing.
(c) Neither proving nor disproving wrongdoing.
(d) Only proving wrongdoing.

3. What were three examples of the voluntary causes for human action listed by Aristotle?
(a) Reasoning, anger, and compulsion.
(b) Reasoning, anger, and appetite.
(c) Anger, compulsion, and appetite.
(d) Reasoning, compulsion, and appetite.

4. In contrast to syllogism, how did Aristotle explain the difference between the arguments in enthymemes?
(a) They were less specific.
(b) They were more formal.
(c) They were less formal.
(d) They were more specific.

5. How did Aristotle define that which is unpleasant?
(a) The opposite to any of the things that have been determined to be pleasant.
(b) The opposite of good.
(c) The opposite to certain things that have been determined to be pleasant.
(d) The opposite of pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following was not listed by Aristotle as a form of happiness?

2. How did Aristotle define "the good"?

3. Concerning the elicitation of the praise or blame of an audience, what was epideictic rhetoric also called by Aristotle?

4. What definition did Aristotle provide for rhetoric in Book I, Chapter 2?

5. Which of the following did Aristotle think were more likely to commit crimes?

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