Week 2 Quiz

Eisenhower delivered his farewell address on 17 January 1961, three days before he left the presidency. Which of the five questions of the rhetorical situation does that fact answer?

Select one.

• Audience: the people the address was spoken to
• Context: the time and situation around the address
• Genre: the kind of text the address is, such as a speech
• Purpose: what the address set out to accomplish

Before looking for its claim, a critical reader runs the five questions on Eisenhower's farewell address. Which answer belongs to the genre question?

Select one.

• The writer is Dwight D. Eisenhower, the departing president
• The purpose is to say farewell and to leave a warning
• It is a televised farewell address
• The audience is the American people

In this course's four annotation marks, what do you draw square brackets around?

Select one.

• The support for the claim
• The claim, the writer's main point
• A turn, where the text changes direction
• Your own question or doubt about a line

Which statement is the claim of the warning passage in Eisenhower's farewell address, rather than its topic, its support, or its concession?

Select one.

• The military establishment and the arms industry that grew up beside it
• A large military and a large arms industry together are new in American experience
• The establishment is necessary
• The government must guard against the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex

An illustrative summary sentence reads: "Eisenhower rightly warns the nation about defense spending." Which word is the opinion-leak?

Select one.

• warns
• nation
• rightly
• spending

A classmate's summary of the farewell address reports the warning about unwarranted influence but leaves out that Eisenhower calls the military establishment necessary. Which summary test does it fail?

Select one.

• Complete: it drops a part of the text a hasty reader drops
• Neutral: it adds a judging word to the report
• Own words: it copies the author's sentences without quotation marks
• None: a summary only needs to report the claim

Which sentence about the farewell address is a response rather than a reaction or a summary?

Select one.

• This speech is boring and old.
• Eisenhower warns that the government must guard against the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex.
• By granting the need first, the address makes its warning hard to dismiss as hostility to the military.
• I really liked this address.

A student says, "A good summary uses the author's best sentences." What is wrong with that belief?

Select one.

• Nothing; copying the strongest sentences keeps the summary accurate
• A string of the author's sentences is quoting, and without quotation marks it is plagiarism
• A summary may only use sentences from the text's conclusion
• A summary must avoid the author's ideas as well as the author's words

In the they say / I say order, you give your response to a text first and then summarize what the text says.

True or false.

• True
• False

A chatbot's summary of the farewell address calls it "prophetic" and puts a sentence in quotation marks that it says Eisenhower spoke. Which steps should you take before using the summary? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• Search the National Archives transcript for the quoted words, and remove the quotation if they are not there
• Keep the quotation, because it is formatted with the speaker's name beside it
• Replace judging words such as "prophetic" with neutral wording
• Check that the summary keeps both the claim and the concession
• Ask the same chatbot whether its own quotation is real and accept its answer