Words Do not Pay 2

1. In “Words Do Not Pay,” what does Chief Joseph most clearly indicate that all human beings share?

• a. the same needs
• b. the same creator
• c. the same problems
• d. the same memories

2. Which of these sentences from “Words Do Not Pay” best supports the answer to question (1)?

• a. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves.
• b. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk.
• c. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief.
• d. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases….

3. Which persuasive technique does this sentence from “Words Do Not Pay” most clearly illustrate? - Good words will not give me back my children.

• a. repetition
• b. appeal to reason
• c. appeal to emotion
• d. appeal to authority

4. Which of these sentences from “Words Do Not Pay” most clearly uses the persuasive technique of an appeal to authority?

• a. [Words] do not pay for my country, now overrun by white men.
• b. Good words will not make good the promise of your war chief General Miles.
• c. Give them [white Americans and Native Americans] all the same law.
• d. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief.

5. Which of these quotations from “Words Do Not Pay” most clearly uses the persuasive technique of an appeal to reason?

• a. I do not understand why nothing is done for my people. I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
• b. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises.
• c. Too many misrepresentations have been made, too many misunderstandings have come up between the white men about the Indians.
• d. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law.

6.Which word best describes Chief Joseph’s tone in these sentences from “Words Do Not Pay”? - I do not understand why nothing is done for my people. I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

• a. patient
• b. cheerful
• c. hopeless
• d. exasperated

7. Read the following excerpt from “Words Do Not Pay.” - "Let me be a free man—free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself …." In which of the following does the underlined word or words have a denotation and a connotation closest to the denotation and the connotation of free?

• a. I am available to meet for lunch on Friday.
• b. You can refill your drink at the restaurant for no charge.
• c. A prisoner is allowed to leave jail after serving his sentence.
• d. Many liberated slaves migrated to the North when the Civil War ended.

8. What is one meaning of the prefix mis-?

• a. wrongly
• b. without
• c. together
• d. frequently

9. If a person misquotes Chief Joseph, which of the following is true?

• a. The person uses Chief Joseph’s words without giving him credit.
• b. The person repeats Chief Joseph’s words too many times.
• c. The person states Chief Joseph’s words incorrectly.
• d. The person dislikes saying Chief Joseph’s words.