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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 1-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the difference between rhetoric and dialectic in the logical appeal?
(a) The methods used.
(b) The timing of the argument.
(c) The length of the speech.
(d) There was no difference between them.

2. In addition to the relationships with other countries, what other part of war and peace did Aristotle explain?
(a) The preparedness of a country's army.
(b) The security of a country's borders.
(c) The expansion of a country's army.
(d) The clarification of a country's borders.

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

4. In comparison to the other appeals, how much did Aristotle think that rhetoric resembled the dialectic in the logical appeal?
(a) Rhetoric resembled dialectic the least in the logical appeal.
(b) Rhetoric resembled dialectic exactly in the logical appeal.
(c) Rhetoric most closely resembled dialectic in the logical appeal.
(d) Rhetoric resembled dialectic the same in the logical appeal.

5. What type of resources available to the government did Aristotle mention in Book I, Chapter 4?
(a) Everything except financial and legal.
(b) Financial and legal.
(c) Financial.
(d) Everything except financial.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Aristotle think "what is good" made one happy?

2. Which type(s) of happiness was Aristotle referring to in Book I, Chapter 5?

3. Which one of the following was mentioned by Aristotle as a way that anger was useful in oratory?

4. How did Aristotle differentiate between crime and punishment?

5. Which one of the following was not included by Aristotle as a cause for the feeling of calmness?

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