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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following was not included by Aristotle as a cause for the feeling of calmness?
(a) When someone has helped a person.
(b) When someone does not associate with anyone.
(c) When someone has been wronged in an unintentional way.
(d) When someone is not known well by a person.

2. As explained in Book II, Chapter 4, what type of friends were people most likely to choose?
(a) Ones that had a different social or economic status.
(b) Ones that had a similar social or economic status.
(c) Ones that associated with the same people as them.
(d) Ones that associated with people different from them.

3. What did Aristotle think was the intent of all voluntary actions?
(a) Some apparent good, recognition, or pleasure.
(b) Some apparent good or pleasure.
(c) Some apparent recognition or pleasure.
(d) Some apparent good or recognition.

4. Besides proof with explicit premises, what was included in Aristotle's definition of syllogism?
(a) An example.
(b) Multiple examples.
(c) A conclusion.
(d) An introduction.

5. In Aristotle's description of fear, what was the opposite of fear?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Ability.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which cause of human action did Aristotle mention as always being unpleasant?

3. How did Aristotle differentiate between crime and punishment?

4. What explanation of justice did Aristotle provide?

5. Concerning the elicitation of the praise or blame of an audience, what was epideictic rhetoric also called by Aristotle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Aristotle explain the good and the useful in terms of political rhetoric?

2. What knowledge of the forms of government did Aristotle think was necessary for a political rhetorician to have?

3. How was dialectic defined and what was its connection to rhetoric?

4. Why was happiness thought to be a key component in political rhetoric?

5. Why would rhetoric be used to help define individual beliefs?

6. How were friendship and enmity described by Aristotle?

7. In what ways might indignation be considered the opposite of pity, and how did it differ from envy or emulation?

8. What distinction did Aristotle make between war and peace and national defense as subjects of political oratory?

9. How were the three main areas of rhetoric introduced by Aristotle?

10. What was Aristotle's description of the ethical appeal in rhetoric?

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