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QuizMultiple Choice

Contemporary American Indian Voices — Unit test

Question 14 • TX-English III - BISD B

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. On February 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, Bless Me, Ultima. The book was banned from high school classes in Bloomfield, New Mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: “We took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.”Which type of rhetoric used most shows how the powerful use censorship to silence the powerless?

Answer
A
an appeal to emotion
B
an appeal to ethics
C
an appeal to logic
D
an appeal to the author’s character
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