Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)

Chapter 5: Education and Society: How, What, and Why Do We Learn?

Quiz

1
Which of these is NOT an example of a metaphor Frederick Douglass uses in the passage from "Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass"?
A)"heart became stone"
B)"bread of knowledge"
C)"gave tongue to interesting thoughts"
D)"trump of freedom"
2
What tone does Richard Rodriguez use in his essay "The Lonely Good Company of Books"?
A)ironic, self-mocking
B)academic
C)angry
D)anxious
3
What analogy does Louis Menand use in the first paragraph of "The Graduates"?
A)He compares the reality of college to a New Year's Eve party.
B)He compares the reality of college to a first sleepover.
C)He compares the reality of college to a play by Shakespeare.
D)He compares the reality of college to going to war.
4
To what does Anna Quindlen compare the nature of adolescence in "Sex Ed"?
A)graffiti
B)some faraway state
C)a bare light bulb
D)the suburbs
5
In her essay "When Bright Girls Decide that Math Is 'a Waste of Time'," Susan Jacoby uses all of the following rhetorical modes EXCEPT
A)argumentation.
B)causal analysis.
C)narration.
D)process analysis.
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