Rhetorical Appeals in the Cherokee Phoenix - Quiz Quiz

Question 1

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

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A: logic and reason.

Question 2

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?

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A: ethos

Question 3

How does the author best develop pathos in this excerpt?

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A: by explaining the possible outcomes if the Cherokee were to live with other Indigenous people; B: by concluding with a statement warning that repentance for past actions toward the Cherokee would be too late

Question 4

Which rhetorical situation best reflects the appeal known as pathos?

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C: A community leader speaks at an Earth Day event, telling a story about a group of high school students who cleaned up their neighborhood streets in their spare time.

Question 5

Which rhetorical situation best reflects the appeal known as pathos?

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D: A community leader speaks at an Earth Day event, telling a story about a group of high school students who cleaned up their neighborhood streets in their spare time.

Question 6

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

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D: emotion.

Question 7

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?

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D: pathos

Question 8

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?

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A: by quoting an expert opinion about the nation’s ability to become prosperous no matter where they move; C: by appealing to a sense of reason by asking a rhetorical question

Question 9

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?

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B: logos

Question 10

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

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D: emotion.

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