Pretest Answers

Read the excerpt from "Indian Emigration." Now why deprive us of all our comforts, tear us from all we hold dear, and drag us from the soil which gave us birth, rendered doubly precious, as the bones of our fathers have been deposited here from time immemorial, to accomplish that which is now in rapid progression? Which rhetorical appeal is most evident in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "For the Cherokee Phoenix.” But here I pause, in melancholy suspense, in view of the storm that is gathering over our beloved country, the Ottoman-like policy, that threatens to entomb our laws, our most sacred rights and privileges in oblivion, and to put an end to our national existence. In this excerpt, the author creates an appeal to

Read the excerpt from "Indian Emigration.” I have seen published in one of your late papers the treaty between the United States and Cherokees west of the Mississippi. Which rhetorical appeal is the speaker most likely attempting to create by beginning with this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "For the Cherokee Phoenix.” To the Cherokees on the Arkansas, we are attached by ties of blood as well as affection. We feel the tenderest solicitude for their well being. But they are by no means prosperous. They are yet without salutary laws and regulations. Which rhetorical appeal is most evident in this excerpt?

Which rhetorical situation best reflects the appeal known as pathos?

Read the excerpt from "Indian Emigration." It is said, "they (the Cherokees,) have by the exchange freed themselves from the harrassing [sic] and ruinous effects consequent upon a location amidst a white population.” But time will soon prove the contrary; Difficulties of a new and more serious nature await them. Which rhetorical appeal is most evident in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "For the Cherokee Phoenix.” We are told that we must go westward, that there we shall become a great people. But what nation or tribe have rendered themselves prosperous by removing the wilds of the west? How does the author create logos in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address.” Fellow Democrats, we are here tonight because in large part we share our faith in our country and in its processes of orderly, humanistic change. Change and challenge should not deter us now. We have long been a party of change and challenge. The need for new ideas and improved institutions should not deter us now. We have long been a party of new ideas. That today’s crisis is one of the human spirit should not deter us. We have long been a party which gave priority to the needs of human beings. So let us go forward with programs, responsive to the needs of today and responsive to the needs of tomorrow. Fellow Americans, this is our country. Its future is what we, its citizens, will make it. How does the speaker develop kairos in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address.” The success of our economic system has freed [young people of today] in ever-increasing numbers from the tragedies of premature mortality and early labor. It has built the schools in which they are being educated to higher levels than ever in our nation’s history. And this progress has been achieved in a political system that not only admits but safeguards the right of dissent. So it should hardly surprise us when the children of such progress demand to be heard when they become aware of inequities still to be corrected. Neither should we fear their voices. On the contrary, whether we know it or not, the marching feet of youth have led us into a new era of politics, and we can never turn back. How does the speaker best develop logos in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address.” In at least two of our greatest universities, learning has been brought to a halt by student rebellions. Others of the student revolution have publicly burned draft cards and even the American flag. In this excerpt, the author creates an appeal to