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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. What description of the ethical appeal was given by Aristotle?
(a) Appeal to the speaker's associations.
(b) Appeal to the speaker's intent.
(c) Appeal to the speaker's past.
(d) Appeal to the speaker's character.

2. With the ethical appeal, what would the speaker be attempting to convey to the audience?
(a) Their own experiences or authority.
(b) Their own virtue, experiences, or authority.
(c) Their own virtue or authority.
(d) Their own virtue or experiences.

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

4. Using the same example in the previous question, why did Aristotle think a blossoming flower was a better choice for the metaphor?
(a) It was more beautiful and more inspiring.
(b) It was more familiar and more inspiring.
(c) It was more beautiful and more familiar.
(d) It was more beautiful, inspiring, and familiar.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many general forms of enthymemes were discussed by Aristotle in Book II, Chapter 23?

3. What did Aristotle think was wrong with the metaphor that compared a man with a square?

4. As explained by Aristotle in Book I, Chapter 10, what was the concern of the legal rhetorician?

5. In comparison to the other appeals, how much did Aristotle think that rhetoric resembled the dialectic in the logical appeal?

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