Enlightenment Ideas in America Answers

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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.

A
by describing one young woman’s unfulfilled potential
B
by emphasizing the injustices endured by women
C
by explaining laws that govern marriages
D
by establishing her authority to question the status quo
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Which statement uses pathos as a rhetorical appeal?

A
Sixty percent of the community center staff are unpaid volunteers.
B
The center is subsidized, and over half of the children attend for free.
C
The children’s innocence touches the volunteers’ hearts.
D
Many staffers are retired teachers with impressive resumes.
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Read the sentence.Kev’s keen insights and ________ comments impressed the judges throughout the debate.

A
inept
B
astute
C
adequate
D
satisfactory
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments.He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men—both natives and foreigners.

A
doubt and confusion
B
injustice and oppression
C
courage and bravery
D
praise and recognition
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Which statement uses logos as a rhetorical appeal?

A
No young child should go to bed feeling hungry.
B
The committee has experience with staffing and operating food banks.
C
Without food banks, families would face the empty shelves of their pantries.
D
If the food bank collects one hundred more cans, it will be fully stocked.
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Read the excerpts from historical documents.From the Declaration of Independence:We . . . solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved . . .From the Declaration of Sentiments:. . . we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.

A
Both offer complaints.
B
Both recall history.
C
Both state demands.
D
Both admit defeat.
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

A
The excerpt relies on pathos by offering high praise to the document’s authors.
B
The excerpt relies on pathos by making strong emotional claims.
C
The excerpt relies on logos by referencing other historical texts.
D
The excerpt relies on logos by explaining the reasoning behind the document.
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

A
compromise and peace
B
discussion and debate
C
time and tradition
D
power and control
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A
state lawmakers
B
a women’s rights convention
C
a community activist group
D
college students
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Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

A
might and power
B
wealth and materialism
C
peace and friendship
D
study and research

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