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Worksheets"The Pleasure of Books" W.L. Phelps
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What was the purpose of the speech?
To sell books.
To set up a public library.
To enjoy and appreciate reading.
To ban books.
From the background provided, who was the intended audience?
The leaders of Germany in 1933.
Families who would be involved with WWII.
School students in the 1920s.
President Roosevelt in 1933.
From the background information, what war was about to start when the speech was given?
World War I.
World War II.
The Korean War
The Civil War
What form of media was used for this speech?
Televised broadcast.
Newspaper report.
Radio broadcast.
Internet.
According to the background information, when was William born?
1965
1925
1865
1905
(Review) How does the tone of the speech come across to the audience?
Motivational, influential, inspiring, and encouraging
Harsh, demanding, demeaning, and degrading
clever, witty, humorous
What led Phelps to give this speech?
A celebration of the opening of a new library in his town.
The start of the new German government and the promise of a better world.
German Nazis gathering books to supplement the books students had in their school libraries.
German Nazis and German students held an event to burn books that had non-German ideas.
Of the following choices, what rhetorical device did Phelps not use in his speech?
figurative language
Hypophora
compare and contrast
repetition
The following excerpt highlights what type of rhetorical device?
"There are of course no friends like living, breathing, corporeal men and women; my devotion to reading has never made me a recluse. How could it? Books are of the people, by the people, for the people."
Repetition
Specific Detail
Hypophora
Unusual sentence structure
What is Phelps' main argument?
People should have the ability to own and enjoy their own books.
People can buy and sell books whenever they want.
The government should dictate the books people can read.
It's okay to burn and destroy books to preserve history.
