Mock Essay Passage 3

In the passage, “There is one essential point wherein a political liar differs from others of the faculty [...] as he finds the persons disposed, with whom he has to deal,” the word “disposed” means...

• Ready and inclined

• Unwilling and stubborn

• Prim and formal

• Old and dated

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.4

In the passage, “In describing the virtues and vices of mankind, it is convenient, upon every article, to have some eminent person in our eye.” the word “eminent” means...

• Honorable

• Distinguished

• Dishonorable

• Polite

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it” is an example of this rhetorical device.

• Hyperbolic language

• Visual juxtaposition

• Allusion

• Anecdote

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

What is the tone of this passage, “There is one essential point wherein a political liar differs from others of the faculty; that he ought to have but a short memory”

• Joking but vague

• Superior but blunt

• Direct but detached

• Pragmatic but cynical

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

“... like a man who has thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed of the company parted: or, like a physician who has found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead,” is an example of which rhetorical device?

• Analogy

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Anecdote

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

In the passage, “Considering the natural disposition in many men to lie, and in multitudes to believe,” the word “disposition” means...

• Profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity

• A person's inherent qualities

• Ingenuity or shrewdness

• The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.4

In the passage, “I think he cannot with any justice be taxed with perjury, when he invokes god and Christ, because he has often fairly given public notice to the world, that he believes in neither” the word “perjury” means…

• The offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.

• An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.

• The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things.

• Callous indifference

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.4

When the author refers to politics as “nice affairs” in line 15 he is using the rhetorical device?

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Euphemism

• Juxtaposition

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

What is the author's primary attitude in the last paragraph? (Lines 54-66)

• Wistfully admiring

• Mockingly contemptuous

• Defensive

• Foreboding

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

If the author were to use this essay, in which he completely discounts the character and personal morals of all “political liars”, as a means of refuting the argument of a politician he would be using the logical fallacy…

• Strawman

• Slippery slope

• Ad hominem

• No true scotsman

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.SL.11-12.3

CCSS.W.11-12.1

CCSS.W.11-12.1B