Pentathlon Nonfiction 2022

Who wrote, "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention"?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Antibiastes

• Patrick Henry

• Daniel Defoe

What was Antibiastes position in "Observations of the Slaves and Indented Servants, inlisted in the Army, and in the Navy of the United States"?

• They all should remain loyal.

• They should be freed.

• They should switch sides.

• They should not fight in the war.

Ethos focuses on what?

• Emotions and feelings

• Logic and reasoning

• Height and weight

• Credibility and ethics

The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect is known as what?

• Juxtaposition

• Allusion

• Conjunction

• Pathos

The Declaration of Independence was trying to prove what?

• The King was looking out for his people.

• The King was abusing his power.

• The people should be free from the King.

• The King was going to do great things in America.

Patrick Henry in his speech makes a mythological allusion to:

• Aeneas

• Achilles

• Jason and the Argonauts

• Hercules

• Odysseus

The Declarations of Independence listed each of the following grievances against King George III EXCEPT:

• burning towns in the colonies

• blockading the colonies' two major harbors

• taxing colonies without their consent

• inciting the Indians to make war on the colonists

• harboring a great number of armed troops among the people

In writing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson incorporated the philosophical ideas of:

• John Locke

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• both a and b

• a, b, and c

Thomas Paine's phrase, "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" are meant to specifically describe people who:

• only join a fight if their side is winning

• won't fight in the cold climate of north Virginia

• are not adequately trained for battler

• never back up their words with action

• change their opinions constantly

During the Revolutionary War, black slaes in Virginia were offered freedom by:

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Earl of Dunmore

• John Adams

• Marquis de Lafayette