EAPP – QUIZ 2
The following questions are each based on a short passage. Read the passage and then
select the best answer to the questions below the passage. Use the information provided by or
suggested in the passage.
Numbers 1 and 2 refer to the following:
"Knitting is a waste of time. I took a knitting course at the community center and the
instructor was a narrow-minded, picky old maid."
1. What assumption is made by the speaker?
a. A craft can be judged based on the personality of the instructor.
b. The teacher could have tried harder to be flexible.
c. All craft courses are a waste of time.
d. Quilting is an interesting craft which the instructor taught badly.
e. Knitting is an interesting craft which the instructor taught badly.
2. The speaker's reasoning is an example of
a. repetitive use of words.
b. arguing by making threats.
c. reasoning from explicitly stated assumptions.
d. attacking the personal character of an opponent.
e. over-generalizing from one specific case.
Question Number 3 refers to the following :
The governor said, "You must support my bill to provide educational reform in the public schools.
Voting against such a bill can only mean that you don't care about the quality of the education received by
your children."
3. The governor
a. has been elected two terms.
b. is not dealing with the possible cost of the proposal.
c. has very few schools in his state that provide low-quality education.
d. does not often make statements that he cannot support.
e. has many state officials backing his proposal.
Question 4 refers to the following:
Father: "No, we can't go to the ski lodge this
winter." Son: "Why?"
Father: "Well, I have several things to buy with that
money." Son: "How many is several—three, four,
seven?"
4. In this dialogue the son is trying
a. to get his father to go to the ski lodge.
b. to ensure going to the ski next winter.
c. to save his father's money.
d. to be as mean as possible.
e. to make his father be more specific.
Question 5 refers to the following:
A television commercial says, "Buy a Krups—the superior coffee maker."
5. The writer of this commercial
f. tells a possible customer much about the quality of the coffee maker.
g. knows exactly how the listener will interpret "superior".
h. wants the listener to be impressed with the word "superior".
i. has chosen to emphasize specific details rather than vagueness.
