2.08 Quiz: Rhetoric Develops Purpose and Viewpoint (NO CHEATING)

What effect does imagery have on the meaning of "Here Is New York" by E.B. White?

And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference...

• The vivid imagery describes the vitality of the city and the passion that unifies those who make New York their home.

• The description of the city's poorest neighborhoods expresses the writer's viewpoint that New York is a difficult place to move to.

• The description of the city's poorest neighborhoods expresses the writer's viewpoint that New York is a difficult place to move to.

• The imagery promotes division and explains why the author has divided New Yorkers into three specific categories.

Why does the author use compare and contrast in "Here Is New York"?

• to emphasize that New York is meant only for a specific type of person
  

• to create a platform where the writer can argue the pros and cons of commuting to the city
  

• to illustrate how New York is changing and to express how it should continue to change in the future

• to draw attention to the different types of New Yorkers and how they define the city

Which quotations from "Here Is New York" develop the author's viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?
Select each correct answer.

• "Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch."

• "...he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains."
  

• "Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness,..."
  

• "There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable."

  
  

Why did Anna Quindlen write "A Quilt of a Country"?

• to explain how Americans feel when terrorists attack

• to show that despite its differences, America is still a country that unites in times of strife

• to show why America is a strong country where everyone gets along despite their differences
  

• to explain how America is many countries in one

  
  

How does Anna Quindlen use antithesis to advance her purpose in "A Quilt of a Country"?

• It calls attention to the opposing forces that define America.

• It helps create rhythm, which makes her writing more memorable.
  

• It allows the writer to present vivid details to persuade readers.
  

• It enables the writer to effectively present and respond to opposing viewpoints.

How does the author uses personification in "Here Is New York" to advance his viewpoint?

• It makes the city come alive for the reader and helps readers to see New York as the author does.

• It develops the claim that there are three New Yorks, supporting the writer's main argument.
  

• It creates a positive and upbeat tone; this reflects his viewpoint that New York is the greatest city.

• It makes his writing more memorable; this ensures readers will remember and be persuaded by his views.

Which quotations from "A Quilt of a Country" develop the author's viewpoint that America's diversity is what unifies it?
Select each correct answer.

• "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."
  

• "Many of the oft-told stories of the most pluralistic nation on earth are stories not of tolerance, but of bigotry."
  

• "Tolerance is the word used most often when this kind of coexistence succeeds, but tolerance is a vanilla-pudding word, standing for little more than the allowance of letting others live unremarked and unmolested."
  

• "That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal."

  
  

Which quotation most accurately explains why Anna Quindlen wrote "A Quilt of a Country"?

• "There is that Calvinist undercurrent in the American psyche that loves the difficult, the demanding, that sees mastering the impossible, whether it be prairie or subway, as a test of character,..."

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  "These are the representatives of a mongrel nation that somehow, at times like this, has one spirit."

• "What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right, Pole and Chinese and Puerto Rican and Slovenian?"
  

• "Perhaps they understand it at this moment, when enormous tragedy, as it so often does, demands a time of reflection on enormous blessings."

  
  
  

How does Anna Quindlen use paradox to advance her purpose in "A Quilt of a Country"?

• By calling attention to the contrasting ideas that America was founded upon, the writer reinforces her main idea.

• By creating contrast and bringing opposing ideas together, the writer proves that American ideals are changing.

• The use of paradox makes the writing more interesting and memorable for most readers.

• Paradox enables the writer to respond to opposing viewpoints more effectively.

Which quotations from "Here Is New York" develop the author's viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?
Select each correct answer.

• "The commuter dies with tremendous mileage to his credit, but he is no rover."
  

• "Or they may work in a midtown office and may let a whole year swing round without sighting Governors Island from the sea wall."

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  "About 400,000 men and women come charging on to the Island each week-day morning, out of the mouths of tubes and tunnels."
  

• "Second, there is the New York of the commuter—the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night."