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

2. What did Aristotle think the extent of virtues was based on?
(a) Certain accomplishments.
(b) Certain circumstances.
(c) Past actions.
(d) Past associations.

3. Based on Aristotle's explanation, why was it not possible to be angry at humanity in general?
(a) Because it was impossible for humanity to have incited fear from a single person.
(b) Because it was impossible for a single person to understand any unfairness by humanity.
(c) Because it was impossible for humanity to have wronged a single person.
(d) Because it was impossible for humanity to be unfair in general.

4. In contrast to syllogism, how did Aristotle explain the difference between the arguments in enthymemes?
(a) They were more specific.
(b) They were less specific.
(c) They were more formal.
(d) They were less formal.

5. 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) Neither side.
(b) The side that the person disagreed with.
(c) Both sides.
(d) The side that the person agreed with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What explanation of justice did Aristotle provide?

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

3. Besides proof with explicit premises, what was included in Aristotle's definition of syllogism?

4. How did Aristotle differentiate between crime and punishment?

5. How did Aristotle define that which is unpleasant?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Besides war and peace and national defense, what other subjects of political oratory did Aristotle include in Book 1, Chapter 4?

3. What was considered pleasant and unpleasant for the forensic speaker?

4. Which causes of human action did Aristotle outline in Book I, Chapter 10, and which ones were voluntary?

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

6. How were friendship and enmity described by Aristotle?

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

8. What benefits might ancient witnesses and recent witnesses have for legal rhetoric?

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

10. What was the logical appeal that Aristotle referred to and when would it be used?

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