Chapter 1 practice

Question 1

Gorgias was a Sophist who taught the importance of delivery in persuading an audience: T/F

Answer 1

True!

Question 2

What is the first component part of creating a speech according to Cicero?

Answer 2

invention

Question 3

Which of the following refers to the logical dimension of a persuasive appeal?

Answer 3

logos

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the five principle duties of a speaker according to Quintilian?

Answer 4

All three are correct (protect the innocent, inspire the public, teach an audience)

Question 5

The ability to speak well and persuade audiences is called:

Answer 5

rhetoric

Question 6

Which of the following refers to an audience’s disposition toward the topic?

Answer 6

pathos

Question 7

Aristotle believed in three types of knowledge: ethos, pathos, and logos: T/F

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Who created the first school of rhetoric in Athens?

Answer 8

Isocrates

Question 9

Who taught his students that knowing both sides of an argument was the only way to know which side they should believe?

Answer 9

Protagoras

Question 10

Quintilian, much like the Sophists, felt that one of the principle duties of a speaker was to persuade people to agree with you: T/F

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Feedback is always intentional: T/F

Answer 11

False

Question 12

According to Cicero, what part of the speech refers to organizing your case and evidence?

Answer 12

Arrangement

Question 13

Plato was the student of whom?

Answer 13

Socrates

Question 14

According to Aristotle, which level of knowledge refers to universal knowledge, or an understanding of common characteristics of like materials?

Answer 14

episteme

Question 15

What is Aristotle’s first level of knowledge?

Answer 15

techne: Aristotle’s first type of knowledge; experiential knowledge; knowledge of particular events in the world around us/from one’s own encounters; the least reliable form of knowledge but Aristotle’s preferred form

Question 16

What is Aristotle’s third level of knowledge?

Answer 16

intermediate knowledge: Aristotle’s third type of knowledge; knowing what does not reflect an excess or a defect but instead what is intuitively correct to the person; connected to ethics; too much or too little of anything is bad

Question 17

Which of the Sophists believed that the speaker fills the audience with knowledge and moves them to action?

Answer 17

Gorgias

Question 18

Intermediate knowledge referred to knowledge of the innate correctness of a position or fact, much like intuition: T/F

Answer 18

True

Question 19

Socrates agreed with Gorgias in emphasizing the importance of using delivery to persuade an audience: T/F

Answer 19

False

Question 20

What are the five principle duties of a speaker according to Quintilian?

Answer 20

Defend truth.
Protect the innocent.
Prevent criminal behavior. 
Inspire the military. 
Inspire the public.

Question 21

The three virtues of style laid out by Aristotle include ethos, pathos, and logos: T/F

Answer 21

False