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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Chapters 10-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the difference between rhetoric and dialectic in the logical appeal?
(a) There was no difference between them.
(b) The methods used.
(c) The length of the speech.
(d) The timing of the argument.

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

3. What explanation of justice did Aristotle provide?
(a) A well intentioned action.
(b) A mean between two extremes.
(c) A well intentioned set of actions.
(d) A means between three extremes.

4. In the beginning of the book, which one of the following did Aristotle indicate about rhetoric?
(a) It was an art and a science.
(b) It was a science.
(c) It was an art.
(d) It was neither an art nor a science.

5. Why might a speaker use the ethical appeal?
(a) To make their claims more credible.
(b) To make their claims easier to repeat.
(c) To make their claims more complicated.
(d) To make their claims easier to understand.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Aristotle in Book I, Chapter 1, what was not a concern of rhetoric?

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

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

5. Of the two kinds of witnesses, why did Aristotle think the ancient witnesses were useful?

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