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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Aristotle say was the chief concern of political rhetoric?
(a) What is feasable.
(b) What is obvious.
(c) What is arguable.
(d) What is useful.

2. What definition did Aristotle provide for rhetoric in Book I, Chapter 2?
(a) The faculty of observe in only certain cases the means of persuasion.
(b) The faculty of observe in any given case the means of persuasion.
(c) The faculty of observe in any given case the means of conversation.
(d) The faculty of observe in only certain cases the means of conversation.

3. In what type of person did Aristotle explain there was an especially strong temptation to commit crimes?
(a) Someone that has already committed a crime and has been caught, but not convicted.
(b) Someone that has already committed a crime, but has not been caught.
(c) Someone that has never committed a crime.
(d) Someone that was unaware of the punishment for committing a crime.

4. How did Aristotle think the speaker should present themselves to the audience?
(a) In a way that inspired trust.
(b) In a way that appeared to be above the audience.
(c) In a way that appeared to be on the same level as the audience.
(d) In a way that inspired knowledge.

5. Which type of disgraces made shame especially significant in Aristotle's opinion?
(a) Collective.
(b) Individual.
(c) Moral.
(d) Financial.

6. Which of the following were examples of the involuntary causes for human action that Aristotle outlined?
(a) Luck, habit, and compulsion.
(b) Luck, nature, and habit.
(c) Luck, nature, and compulsion.
(d) Luck, nature, habit, and compulsion.

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

8. According to Aristotle, how could a person defend their position in the future when they discovered the truth of a question?
(a) More precisely.
(b) More forcefully.
(c) Less forcefully.
(d) Less precisely.

9. According to Aristotle's explanation, how would a speaker approach a subject when using the logical appeal?
(a) Indirectly.
(b) Directly.
(c) Boldly.
(d) Carefully.

10. As explained in Book I, Chapter 3, which type of rhetoric attempted to convince a legislature to take a particular action?
(a) Non-political.
(b) National.
(c) Tactical.
(d) Political.

11. Besides goodness itself, what else did Aristotle indicate a political orator must deal with?
(a) Its origin.
(b) Its destination.
(c) Its degree.
(d) Its substance.

12. Which cause of human action did Aristotle mention as always being unpleasant?
(a) Anger.
(b) Compulsion.
(c) Appetite.
(d) Habit.

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

14. How did Aristotle explain the binding extent of contracts?
(a) Only between two individuals.
(b) They were not binding.
(c) Only between two individuals or the courts and an individual.
(d) Only between the courts and an individual.

15. Which one of the following assessments did Aristotle use to support his analysis in Book I, Chapter 7?
(a) Some things are different than others.
(b) Some things are not better than others.
(c) Some things are similar to others.
(d) Some things are better than others.

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. Which of the following was a reason that Aristotle included as a cause of pity?

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

4. In contrast to syllogism, how did Aristotle explain the difference between the arguments in enthymemes?

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

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