Instructor’s Manual
to accompany
FROM IDEA TO ESSAY
A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook
Eleventh Edition
Jo Ray McCuen
Glendale Community College
and
Anthony C. Winkler
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Boston New York
Contents
Part One: Comprehension Quizzes on Readings
Chapter Eight: Narration Quizzes 1
Chapter Nine: Description Quizzes 8
Chapter Ten: Example Quizzes 15
Chapter Eleven: Definition Quizzes 22
Chapter Twelve: Comparison/ Contrast Quizzes 29
Chapter Thirteen: Process Quizzes 36
Chapter Fourteen: Classification/ Division Quizzes 43
Chapter Fifteen: Causal Analysis Quizzes 50
Chapter Sixteen: Argumentation Quizzes 57
Part Two: Answers to Comprehension Quizzes on Readings and Exercises
Chapter Four: The Sentence 66
Chapter Five: The Paragraph 68
Chapter Six: Planning and Organizing the Essay 69
Chapter Seven: Drafting, Revising, and Style 72
Chapter Eight: Narration Answers 75
Chapter Nine: Description Answers 86
Chapter Ten: Example Answers 95
Chapter Eleven: Definition Answers 106
Chapter Twelve: Comparison/ Contrast Answers 115
Chapter Thirteen: Process Answers 128
Chapter Fourteen: Classification/ Division Answers 140
Chapter Fifteen: Causal Analysis Answers 150
Chapter Sixteen: Argumentation Answers 163
Chapter Nineteen: Writing the Research paper 176
Chapter Twenty: Grammar Fundamentals 179
Chapter Twenty-One: Correcting Common Errors 185
Preface
This Instructor’s Manual contains answers to all the questions and non-self-graded exercises in From Idea to Essay: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook, Eleventh Edition. Although most of the exercises have one correct answer, a few of the Questions on Meaning and Technique are designed to evoke argument among the students and are therefore subject to several interpretive answers. These we have indicated with the expression, “Allow for open discussion.” In the handbook section, some exercises may have more than one acceptable solution. In such cases, the solutions provided serve as examples of appropriate student responses. References to pages in the main text are reproduced here where necessary.
For each of the professional selections in Chapters 8 through 16, this guide provides a simple, short multiple-choice quiz that may be used by the instructor to determine whether students have actually read the essay. In this edition of the manual, these quizzes are grouped together and featured first for easy access to the instructor. Each is printed on a separate sheet and may be reproduced and magnified with a copier. Answers to the quizzes are given in Part Two of this manual.
Possible uses for the Instructor’s Manual are numerous. The teacher can use the exercises and questions to test the students' mastery of the chapter, referring to the answers to facilitate marking. Or, the teacher may wish to reproduce the answers to selected chapters and distribute these to the students for self-testing.
JO RAY MCCUEN
ANTHONY C. WINKLER
PART ONE: COMPREHENSION QUIZZES ON READINGS
Chapters 8 through 16
CHAPTER EIGHT
Narration
The Code
Richard T. Gill
QUIZ
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What incident first caused the narrator to question his religious faith?
_____ a. the divorce of his parents
_____ b. his unanswered prayer for a new car
_____ c. the death of his brother
_____ d. the amputation of his leg
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Why did the narrator's father become angry with the aunts?
_____ a. because they were cooking too much food
_____ b. because they kept referring to the dead brother as a saint
_____ c. because they were singing too loudly
_____ d. because they were constantly quarreling
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What major figure of World War II did the father most admire?
_____ a. Winston Churchill
_____ b. Franklin D. Roosevelt
_____ c. Charles de Gaulle
_____ d. Joseph Stalin
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Where was the narrator when his father had a second heart attack?
_____ a. at home with the mother and aunts
_____ b. in a college dormitory
_____ c. vacationing in Hawaii
_____ d. on his way to Japan for the army
5. Why did the narrator want to beg his father's forgiveness?
_____ a. because he had not gone to college
_____ b. because he did not give his father the comfort of religion
_____ c. because he had not promised to take care of his mother
_____ d. because the narrator had always hated the father’s mistress
Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
QUIZ
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The Richard Cory of the poem is
_____ a. dull but well-meaning.
_____ b. exceptionally glamorous.
_____ c. mean and power hungry.
_____ d. scholarly.
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The “we” in the poem
_____ a. despise Richard Cory.
_____ b. pity Richard Cory.
_____ c. gang up on Richard Cory.
_____ d. envy Richard Cory.
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One calm summer night, Richard Cory
_____ a. puts a bullet through his head.
_____ b. disappears forever.
_____ c. gives all of his money to the poor.
_____ d. admits that he is miserable and lonely.
A Gift of Laughter
Allan Sherman
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