Question: Throughout history, rhetoric has flourished most under this system of governance:
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Democracy, Communism, Empire, Christendom
Answer: Democracy
Question: The system of governance and social life that replaced the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages:
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Republic, Christendom, Democracy, Socialism
Answer: Christendom
Question: A Renaissance-era teacher or student of classical literature and the arts associated with it, including rhetoric:
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Affectus, Umanista, Vita activa, Mimetica
Answer: Umanista
Question: Who defined rhetoric as “the faculty of observing in any given case the best available means of persuasion”?
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Quintillian, Cicero, Aristotle, Plato
Answer: Aristotle
Question: A person involved in the study and/or teaching of rhetoric:
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Rhetoric, Rhetorsaurus, Rhetorician, Rhetor
Answer: Rhetorician
Question: Like Plato, this person believed that rhetoric could only be a socially useful art if focused on discovering, presenting, and defending universal Truth:
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Augustine, Cicero, Quintillian, Aristotle Correct Answer: Aristotle
Question: This Renaissance-era invention helped to make rhetorical texts more widely accessible:
Answer Options: Stasis system, Printing press, Large ships, Notary
Answer: Printing press
Question: The Greek term for virtue, excellence, and a capacity for success:
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aretē, demos, doxa, epistemē
Answer: aretē
Question: Which characteristic of rhetoric does the following statement most clearly illustrate: “There are many possible ways to view and respond to social problems and controversies, and rhetoric involves the art and study of influencing audiences to understand problems and controversies in particular ways.”
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Rhetoric is responsive, Rhetoric is planned, Rhetoric addresses contingent issues, Rhetoric reveals human motives, Rhetoric is adapted to an audience
Answer: Rhetoric addresses contingent issues
Question: Which of Cicero’s rhetorical canons focuses on the verbal & nonverbal performance of a speech?
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Delivery, Expression, Memory, Arrangement, Invention
Answer: Delivery
Question: Cicero taught that rhetoric has the most potential to do the most good when wisdom is combined with:
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Art, Eloquence, Persuasion, Passion
Answer: Eloquence
Question: A type of rhetorical appeal premised on a rhetor’s establishment of their character and credibility:
Answer Options:
Pathos, Ethos, Logos, Kairos
Answer: Ethos
Question: The recent shift to a more individualistic employment relationship has affected union identity.
Answer: True