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Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Rhetoric Answers

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Which excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad is the best example of Tubman using pathos?

A
“Sometimes she told them about Thomas Garrett, in Wilmington. She said he was their friend even though he did not know them.”
B
“She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance.”
C
“She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.”
D
“She told them the story of William and Ellen Craft and how they escaped from Georgia.”
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Read the excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.She said that he had thick white hair, soft, almost like a baby's, and the kindest eyes she had ever seen. He was a big man and strong, but he had never used his strength to harm anyone, always to help people. He would give all of them a new pair of shoes. Everybody. He always did.

A
an appeal to the audience’s sense of reason and logic
B
an appeal to the audience’s physical and emotional needs
C
an appeal to the audience’s sense of respect for the speaker
D
an appeal to the audience’s knowledge and facts
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In Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, why is Tubman turned away from the first farmhouse?

A
The owner does not believe in helping enslaved people escape.
B
The owner is scared that he and the group will be caught breaking the law.
C
The owner is surprised that Tubman is asking for a place to stay.
D
The owner does not understand Tubman’s code words when she knocks.
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Read the excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.

A
an appeal to the audience’s wants and needs
B
an appeal based on the authority of the speaker
C
an appeal to the audience’s sense of logic
D
an appeal based on the speaker’s credibility
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In Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, which rhetorical appeal is Tubman using when she tells the formerly enslaved people about her own experiences to gain credibility?

A
logos
B
argument
C
ethos
D
pathos
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As described in Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Tubman dedicated her life to

A
helping change the views of enslavers.
B
helping change laws about slavery.
C
helping enslaved people escape.
D
helping her family escape slavery.
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Read the excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.She had never been in Canada. The route beyond Philadelphia was strange to her. But she could not let the runaways who accompanied her know this. As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight, she kept painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free.

A
“but she could not let the runaways who accompanied her know this”
B
“as they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight”
C
“the route beyond Philadelphia was strange to her”
D
“painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free”
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In which excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad is Tubman using ethos?

A
“[S]he kept painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free.”
B
“As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight. . . .”
C
“Once they reached his house in Wilmington, they would be safe.“
D
“But she wanted to remind them of the long hard way they had come. . . .”
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In Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, which rhetorical appeal is Tubman using when she explains to the formerly enslaved people why returning to the plantation is not a reasonable option?

A
logos
B
ethos
C
pathos
D
argument
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Read the excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight, she kept painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free.

A
Logos, because she is using her own experience as a tool.
B
Pathos, because she is using her own credibility as a tool.
C
Logos, because she is appealing to her audience’s sense of logic.
D
Pathos, because she is appealing to her audience’s needs.

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