Pretest Answers

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." At a time when guns are still heard in some areas of the world, we have laid in place such building blocks of mankind’s survival as the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963, the banning of atomic weapons in space of 1967, and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty of 1968. These are vital foundations, vital foundations of peace, and we must build on them. Which best describes the type of appeal Inouye is making?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." I believe the real reason we are here is that there is a word called "commitment,” because we are committed to the future of our country and all our people, and because for that future, hope and faith are more needed now than pride in our party’s past. Which best describes the appeal Inouye makes in this excerpt?

In which excerpt from "Keynote Address" does Inouye create an appeal to authority?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." These [monetary investments in education] are the foundations from which towers of human achievement can soar. Which rhetorical device does Inouye use in this excerpt?

Which excerpt from "Keynote Address" is an appeal to timeliness?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Why, when our maturing society welcomes and appreciates art as never before, are poets and painters so preponderantly hostile? Which rhetorical device does Inouye use in this sentence?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Let us plant trees and grow new opportunity. Which best describes how Inouye uses rhetoric in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Now let us not deceive ourselves about the consequences of such abdication [of the responsibilities of citizenship]. It is anarchy. It is a state in which each individual demands instant compliance with his own desires. And from there, it is but a short step to the assumption by each individual of the right to decide which of his neighbors shall live and which shall not. Which best describes the appeal Inouye makes in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Keynote Address." Unlike those of my ancestry, the Negro’s unemployment rate is triple the national average. The mortality rate of his children is twice that of white children. He often pays more for his miserable tenement than comparable space will cost in the white suburbs. He is likely to pay more for his groceries, more for his furniture, more for his liquor, and more for his credit. And my fellow Americans, today many thousands of black Americans return from Vietnam with medals of valor. Some of them have been crippled in the service of their country. But too often they return to economic and social circumstances that are barely, if at all, improved over those they left. Is it any wonder that the Negro questions whether his place in our country’s history books will be any less forgotten than were the contributions of his ancestors? Is it any wonder that the Negroes find it hard to wait another 100 years before they are accepted as full citizens in our free society? Which technique does Inouye use to strengthen an appeal?