Old Exams: Exam 2

Question 1

In order to learn how to make more effective emotional appeals, Renaissance humanists studied:

Answer 1

Pathologia

Question 2

Who wrote the following:

“Socrates separated the science of wise thinking from that of eloquent speaking, though in reality they are closely linked together.”

Answer 2

Cicero, in De Oratore

Question 3

When a candidate, who is campaigning for political office speaks publicly why voting for her would be good for citizens and voting for her opponent would be bad for them, we describe such speeches as _____ rhetoric

Answer 3

Deliberative

Question 4

Which of Cicero’s Five Classical Canons of Orations deals with the lexical (i.e. word choices we make in order to express our ideas?)

Answer 4

Elocution

Question 5

Which of the following was not one of the early forms of preaching in the Chrisitian Church?

Answer 5

hermeneutic

Question 6

Ramus accused Quintilian of overreaching in his definition of rhetoric by…..

Answer 6

Failing to “fit in the moral philosophy which he now attributes to rhetoric.

Question 7

Four factors influenced the use of classical rhetoric in the early Christian church. Which of the following is not one of those factors?

Answer 7

The importance of carrying on the Greco-Roman rhetorical traditions

Question 8

Which notion reflected the belief that the individuals duties should go first to his country that has given him citizenship and language?

Answer 8

Vita activa

Question 9

Who argued the following:
“It is the duty then of the student and teach of holy scriptures who is the defender of the true faith and the opponent of error both to teach what is right and to correct what is wrong?”

Answer 9

Augustine

Question 10

______ used his wisdom and eloquence to adovocate on behalf of and eventually gave his life for the rule of law in Rome.

Answer 10

Cicero

Question 11

Which of the early Christian scholars made it possible for Christians to appreciate and teach eloquence without associating it with paganism, and in so doing permanently enriched Christian literature and rhetorical criticism in the Western World?

Answer 11

Austine

Question 12

Who split the ancient and venerable Ciceronian pair of wisdom and eloquence when he described rhetoric as providing only linquistic embellishment and elegance of language along with the baits for capturing ears?”

Answer 12

Agricola

Question 13

Which of the following is taught in theological seminaries in order to train Christian teachers and preachers the rules for correctly interpreting scriptures in the Christian Bible?

Answer 13

Hermeneutics

Question 14

For the Italian humanists, what was the source of emotions or passions in the human mind?

Answer 14

affectus

Question 15

Who defined rhetoric or speech as simply the garment to clothe our reason?

Answer 15

Ramus

Question 16

When Ramus argued, “Speech is the garment to clothe our reason” he meant

Answer 16

That sound thinking is more important than eloquent speaking

Question 17

A sermon in which the speaker begins by reading a verse from scripture then provides an interpretation of it and concludes by exhorting the congregation to obey the word of God and live according to the teaching discussed would be considered what form of preaching?

Answer 17

Homily

Question 18

For some Renaissance humanists the _______ was to reject the essence of humanity and at the same time to undermine civilization.”

Answer 18

Vita contemplativa

Question 19

Who among the following is considered by many scholars to have been the greatest teacher of rhetoric in Rome?

Answer 19

Quintilian

Question 20

Who would argue that Christian preachers and teacher did not need to rely on the greco-roman teachings about rhetoric as chrsitians tried to spread their message about jesus?

Answer 20

cyprian

Question 21

who questioned what athens had to do with jerusalem?

Answer 21

terullian

Question 22

Who was chiefly responsible for moving rhetoric “from being a master art, holding sway over other arts and, in some writers, over life itself, to being a marginal study with a limited practical application and a suspect heritage?”

Answer 22

Ramus

Question 23

“We cannot trust his opponent no matter what he says because he has lied in the past.” Is this an example of an enthymeme and if it is what is the minor premise?

Answer 23

Yes this statement is an enthymeme. the minor premise is: he has lied in the past

Question 24

Who defined rhetoric as vir bonus, dicendi peritus?

Answer 24

Quintillian

Question 25

Augustine argued the end of _______

Answer 25

of eloquence is to persuade

Question 26

Who were the big three that ramus wanted to dethroen?

Answer 26

aristotle, cicero, and quintilian

Question 27

During the renaisssance the earlier christian model of solitary contemplation of divine truth codified in monastic rules was rejected as antisocial, as the private use of the public property of _____ and ______.

Answer 27

ratio and oratio

Question 28

in terms of argumentative skill, how is jesus portrayed in the bible?

Answer 28

adept in both argumentative skill as well as dialectic and preaching

Question 29

why did ramus reject quintillians definintion of oratory?

Answer 29

he was opposed to the idea that studying rhetoric could make you a good person

Question 30

christian panegyrical rhetoric praised_____

Answer 30

jesus

Question 31

He was the most wide-ranging but perhaps also the most influential of all humanist scholars.

Answer 31

Valla

Question 32

For Lorenzo Vall moral truth was found in

Answer 32

the standards of common sense of ordinary people

Question 33

For Augustine, the “Christian Teacher’s Dilemma” is that….

Answer 33

rhetoric is both useful and suspect

Question 34

If he had to choose between you eating plain shredded wheat or a sugary cereal, _________ would prefer you eat shredded wheat; however he would promote the consumption of sugar-frosted mini-wheats, because he saw nothing wrong with wholesome sweets to sweet wholesomeness.

Answer 34

Augustine

Question 35

who was responsible for splitting ciceros classical canons of rhetoric in his efforts to demote rhetoric?

Answer 35

ramus

Question 36

which of the following is not one of the similarities between greek philosophical rhetoric and judeo-christian rhetoric?

Answer 36

the source of the ultimate truth

Question 37

what was Lorenzo Valla’s position on the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy?

Answer 37

The soldier of philosophy is under the command of oratory

Question 38

Who said the following: “since therefore there has been placed at our disposal of the power of eloquence which is so efficacious in pleading either for the erroneous cause or the right, why is it not zealously acquired by the good so as to do service for the truth?

Answer 38

Augustine

Question 39

Petrarchs ideal of culivated learning combined:

Answer 39

civic responsibility and literary arts

Question 40

Thomas s Aquinas is credited with “saving rhetoric from being rejected by the early Christian Church in the Western World. T/F?

Answer 40

False

Question 41

The ciceronian concept of a perfectus orator is built on the idea of a speaker flawlessly delivering poltical speeches. T/F??

Answer 41

False

Question 42

There is no evidence of rhetoric in the hebrew bible/ christian old testament. T/F?

Answer 42

False

Question 43

Augustine revived teh concept of ethos in Christian instruction about preaching but he altered its meaning to represent not the character of the spearker created in the sermon but the virtuous life of the Christian as a moral authority. T/F?

Answer 43

True

Question 44

Renaissance humanism focused on the empirical/ scientific search for reality

Answer 44

False

Question 45

Cicero is considered by many scholars to be the greatest Roman orator and the most important latin writes of rhetoric. T/F?

Answer 45

True

Question 46

One reason Quintilian taught rhetoric was the political context during his career allowed for freedom speech, especially deliberative oratory. T/F?

Answer 46

False

Question 47

Precepts of rules for good speech in the bible can be found in books constituting the wisdom literature (eg proverbs) T/F?

Answer 47

True

Question 48

Most christian teacher during the early church share the greek philosophical view of how to discover Truth?

Answer 48

false