Section 7-9 | Test Review

Question 1

Besides the Narrator, who are the other main characters in “The Egg” that develop over the course of the story?

Accepted Answer

Mother, Father

Question 2

What is the best definition of the word Temperance?

Accepted Answer

Self Restraint

Question 3

What type of literary story is “The Egg” by Sherwood Anderson?

Accepted Answer

Narrative Short Story

Question 4

Rhetoric is defined as the ability to speak and write persuasively.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

“Small chickens, just setting out, look so bright and alert and they are in fact so dreadfully stupid.”

Accepted Answer

Negative Tone

Question 6

"A little fat and from long association with mother and the chickens he had become habitually silent and discouraged”

Accepted Answer

Negative Tone

Question 7

How does the example of King Midas further Chesterton’s argument?

Accepted Answer

serves Cherston’s argument that Success books are nonsensical.

Question 8

“The grotesques were, he declared, valuable. People, he said, liked to look at strange and wonderful things.”

Accepted Answer

Positive Tone

Question 9

What central ideas in “The Egg” relate to the American Dream

Accepted Answer

Success is an endless journey of disappointment, Ambition requires sacrifice that can outweigh the rewards of success, Success can come at the expense of one’s happiness.

Question 10

What Point of View is “ The Egg” by Sherwood Anderson told in?

Accepted Answer

1st Person

Question 11

Define the Greek word “Pathos”.

Accepted Answer

Experience or Suffering

Question 12

Define the Greek word “Logos”

Accepted Answer

Word or Reason

Question 13

What is the best definition of the word Fallacy?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 14

“Yet even in 1994, the overwhelming majority of those surveyed by the National Opinion Research Center agreed with...

Accepted Answer

Logos

Question 15

“The freight crew had switching to do in Pickleville and when the work was done they came to our restaurant.”

Accepted Answer

Neutral Tone

Question 16

“That&#x27;s because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its...

Accepted Answer

Pathos

Question 17

Chesterton often compares Success to…

Accepted Answer

Mystic Worship

Question 18

“I was a tiny thing going along the road into a far beautiful place...where life was a happy eggless affair."

Accepted Answer

Positive Tone

Question 19

What argument does Chesterton make about books that discuss Success?

Accepted Answer

They offer no legitimate or realistic advice on how to succeed

Question 20

Define the Greek word “Ethos”.

Accepted Answer

Character

Question 21

What claim is Quindelin making about Americans in her thesis statement?

Accepted Answer

America is made up of many, very diverse parts that make up our identity

Question 22

What does the narrator seem to accredit all of his family’s failures to?

Accepted Answer

The family’s endless sacrifices, ambition, and involvement with eggs.

Question 23

What type of Rhetorical Appeal is "Logos"

Accepted Answer

An appeal to logic or rationality

Question 24

"With the end of the cold war there was the creeping concern that without a focus for hatred and distrust"...

Accepted Answer

Pathos

Question 25

The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks occured two weeks before Quindelin wrote her article.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

How does Chesterton define Success?

Accepted Answer

As something that merely exists

Question 27

Which of the following best describes how the author uses specific word choices to develop the character Mother?

Accepted Answer

mother is ambitious and will not be happy until her family is successful.

Question 28

Which of the following two central ideas are implied in “The Fallacy of Success” in relation to the American Dream?

Accepted Answer

Temperance, Hard Work, and Moral Values are the key to success, Success books do not help people be successful, but promote greed.

Question 29

What type of Rhetorical Appeal is "Pathos"

Accepted Answer

An appeal to emotion

Question 30

"What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another...

Accepted Answer

Pathos

Question 31

Anna Quindelin uses Ethos to convey her argument in her article.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

What type of Rhetorical Appeal is "Ethos"

Accepted Answer

An appeal to character or credibility

Question 33

Which two methods of rhetorical appeal does Quindelin use in her article?

Accepted Answer

Pathos, Logos

Question 34

Aristotle is credited for the creation of the 3 types of Rhetorical Appeal.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

“It was in the spring of his thirty-fifth year that father married my mother, then a country schoolteacher,...”

Accepted Answer

Neutral Tone

Question 36

"Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry”...

Accepted Answer

Pathos

Section 7-9 | Test Review

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Section 7-9 | Test Review

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