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Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad: Rhetoric Answers

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In which excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad is Tubman using logos?

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“He would give all of them a new pair of shoes. Everybody. He always did. Once they reached his house in Wilmington, they would be safe. He would see to it that they were.”
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“She tried to explain to them why none of them could go back to the plantation. If a runaway returned, he would turn traitor, the master and the overseer would force him to turn traitor.”
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“She had never been in Canada but she kept painting wondrous word pictures of what it would be like. She managed to dispel their fear of pursuit, so that they would not become hysterical, panic-stricken.”
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“Sometimes she told them things to make them laugh, sometimes she sang to them, and heard the eleven voices behind her blending softly with hers, and then she knew that for the moment all was well with them.”
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In which excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad is Tubman using pathos?

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“She tried to explain to them why none of them could go back to the plantation. If a runaway returned, he would turn traitor, the master and the overseer would force him to turn traitor.”
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“Then she told them of her own first vain effort at running away, evoking the memory of that miserable life she had led as a child, reliving it for a moment in the telling.”
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“She started talking about William Still and the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee. No one commented. No one asked any questions. She told them the story of William and Ellen Craft and how they escaped from Georgia.”
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“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.”
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In which excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad is Tubman using ethos?

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“[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.“
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“But she wanted to remind them of the long hard way they had come. . . .”
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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.

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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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Read the excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.There was never anything to indicate his whereabouts. But a few days afterward, a goodly number of slaves would be gone from the plantation. Neither the master nor the overseer had heard or seen anything unusual in the quarter. Sometimes one or the other would vaguely remember having heard a whippoorwill call somewhere in the woods, close by, late at night. Though it was the wrong season for whippoorwills.

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to communicate with enslaved people who are going to leave with her
B
to prevent plantation owners from tracking her group of people running away
C
to confuse plantation owners while she helps people escape
D
to mask the sounds of people running through the brush
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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.

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“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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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.

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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, why is Tubman turned away from the first farmhouse?

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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 started talking about William Still and the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee. No one commented. No one asked any questions.

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Ethos, because she is using her own knowledge as a tool.
B
Pathos, because she is appealing to her audience’s needs.
C
Ethos, because she is appealing to their emotional needs.
D
Pathos, because she is using facts to convince her audience.
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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.

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Pathos, because she is establishing her own authority to her audience.
B
Ethos, because she is appealing to the specific needs of her audience.
C
Ethos, because she is establishing her own credibility to her audience.
D
Pathos, because she is appealing to her audience’s desire for liberty.

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