From idea to essay a rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook Eleventh Edition Jo Ray McCuen
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Quiz1. When the incident took place, the speaker was visiting the city of _____ a. New York. _____ b. Los Angeles. _____ c. Baltimore. _____ d. Washington, D.C. 2. When the speaker smiled, the other little boy _____ a. smiled in return and said, “Hi.” _____ b. kept looking straight ahead and ignored the speaker. _____ c. asked him to play in the park with some local boys. _____ d. poked out his tongue and called him “Nigger.” 3. Which of the following statements is most accurate, according to the speaker in the poem? _____ a. Of all the things that happened between May and December, the speaker remembers only the confrontation with the little boy. _____ b. The speaker considers this vacation the most enlightening he has ever spent. _____ c. Never again will the speaker visit this particular city between May and December. _____ d. The speaker vows to describe the incident to his own children as an object lesson. We Aren’t Born Prejudiced Ian Stevenson QUIZ
_____ a. a true generalization _____ b. a false generalization _____ c. a kind of syllogistic thinking _____ d. a kind of Zen reasoning
_____ a. ignorance is an opinion held because one knows no better. _____ b. prejudice is an opinion not based on the facts. _____ c. ignorance is a state of preparedness. _____ d. ignorance is a lack of knowledge.
_____ a. prejudice that conforms to popular opinion _____ b. prejudice held in spite of popular opinion _____ c. ingrained prejudice _____ d. prejudice that is not believed
_____ a. prejudiced thinking is always confined to one subject. _____ b. prejudiced thinking is rarely confined to one subject. _____ c. prejudice is rare in Wyoming. _____ d. prejudice can be treated by a drug. 5. A common type of prejudice is based on
_____ b. not attending college. _____ c. membership in a certain religion. _____ d. a deep sense of insecurity. Will Someone Please Hiccup My Pat? William Spooner Donald Quiz1. Which of the following does not describe Spooner as a young man? _____ a. defective hearing _____ b. poor physique _____ c. stammer _____ d. weak eyesight 2. A spoonerism is best defined as _____ a. an irony of word association. _____ b. a hilarious joke. _____ c. a linguistic transposition. _____ d. a humorously misspelled word. 3. By profession, Spooner was a(n) _____ a. high school teacher. _____ b. priest. _____ c. butcher. _____ d. army officer. 4. By “an ordinary signifying glass,” Spooner really meant a _____ a. drinking glass. _____ b. mirror. _____ c. windowpane. _____ d. magnifying glass. 5. The author states that Spooner was _____ a. happily married. _____ b. never married. _____ c. unhappily married. _____ d. married three times. Jim Crow Days Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany QUIZ
_____a. help slaves run away from their masters. _____b. make sure that Negroes served in the Union army. _____c. keep Negroes separate from whites. _____d. keep Washington Carver from being elected.
_____a. few white people in those days were free of Negro blood. _____b. the Negroes were smarter than the whites. _____c. whites often earned less money than blacks. _____d. Negroes were more religious than Caucasians.
_____a. they were more expensive than black stores. _____b. he was afraid of being lynched. _____c. all he could buy in white stores were the leftovers. _____d. he felt that black store owners needed the business.
_____a. They were viewed as outcasts for helping the Negro race. _____b. They were seen as heroes by Abraham Lincoln. _____c. They were seen as cruel masters by the Negro students. _____d. They were viewed as religious fanatics.
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