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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III, Chapters 13-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which tactic was not included as something that an epideictic rhetorician might use?
(a) Amplification.
(b) Comparison.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Competition.

2. Based on the information in Book I, Chapter1, for which side(s) of a question could rhetoric allow a person to make good cases?
(a) The side that the person agreed with.
(b) Both sides.
(c) The side that the person disagreed with.
(d) Neither side.

3. To Aristotle, when did anger take place?
(a) When someone had been wronged or desired revenge.
(b) When someone was afraid or desired revenge.
(c) When someone was afraid, had been wronged, or desired revenge.
(d) When someone was afraid or had been wronged.

4. Which characteristic did Aristotle think separated powerful people and wealthy people in general?
(a) Consistency.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Reliability.
(d) Virtue.

5. Why did Aristotle think the political rhetorician should show that their proposal was in line with the audience's happiness?
(a) To prevent them from forgetting it.
(b) To help them understand it.
(c) To convince them to accept it.
(d) To encourage them to consider it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Aristotle define that which is unpleasant?

2. Considering Aristotle's views in Book I, Chapter 2, how would the emotional appeal move an audience?

3. Why did Aristotle prefer the periodic prose to the free-running prose?

4. How did Aristotle describe the feeling of friendship?

5. Since Aristotle explained the difficulty of using enthymemes in political oratory, what did political rhetoricians mainly use instead?

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