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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. In Aristotle's opinion, which things did a criminal consider when choosing their victim?
(a) Vulnerability, value, and convenience.
(b) Value and convenience.
(c) Vulnerability and value.
(d) Vulnerability and convenience.

2. Why might a speaker use the ethical appeal?
(a) To make their claims easier to repeat.
(b) To make their claims more complicated.
(c) To make their claims easier to understand.
(d) To make their claims more credible.

3. What did Aristotle think a political orator should be aware of?
(a) Only their country's imports.
(b) Only their country's exports.
(c) Their country's imports and exports.
(d) Neither their country's imports nor its exports.

4. Which of the following did Aristotle think were more likely to commit crimes?
(a) Weak people.
(b) Malicious people.
(c) Ignorant people.
(d) Clever people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Based on the information in Book I, Chapter1, for which side(s) of a question could rhetoric allow a person to make good cases?

2. How many non-technical means of persuasion did Aristotle discuss in Book I, Chapter 15?

3. What was included in the special laws referenced by Aristotle?

4. Who did Aristotle think must obey the general law?

5. Besides proof with explicit premises, what was included in Aristotle's definition of syllogism?

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