Penn Foster Nonfiction Exam (Double Checking)?

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1. Tecumseh's "Let the white race perish" speech is
A. a satire on the white race and its traditions.
B. an appeal to the emotions of his listeners.<<<<
C. a plea to the people's reason.
D. a logical list of reasons why the whites should be resisted.

2. In "Life without Principle," Thoreau writes, "If my wants should be much increased, the labor required
to supply them would become a drudgery." What does this statement mean?
A. Work is meaningful only when you think about what you'll be able to do with the money you earn.
B. If you don't want much, you don't have to spend as much time being miserable working to get it.
C. The more you have, the more you want.<<<<
D. Slavery was wrong because it meant that some people worked hard to satisfy other people's wants.

3. At first, Sojourner Truth was happy to have many children because
A. it provided more slaves for her owner.<<<<
B. it took her mind off her problems.
C. they were the only things that gave her joy.
D. they could help her with her daily tasks.

4. For Sojourner Truth, deciding which parts of Scripture came from those who wrote the Bible, and not
from God, depended on
A. her inner witness.<<<<
B. the authority of theologians.
C. her mother's Bible lessons.
D. her feelings about slavery.

5. Thoreau believes that people should work because
A. it will keep them out of trouble.
B. it will give them time to think about important things.
C. God said so in the Bible.
D. they love what they do.<<<<

6. What is Sojourner Truth's attitude toward the Bible?
A. She says it's a tool of whites to explain that slavery is morally acceptable.
B. She depends on professional theologians to make sense of it for her.
C. She believes that every word in the Bible is from God.
D. She accepts as true only what's true in her own experience.<<<<

7. Thoreau writes that people should be "mining themselves for gold." By this he is stating, in another way,
the ideal of Socrates, which was to
A. put first things first.
B. live and let live.
C. know thyself.<<<<
D. deny thyself to learn what is valuable.

8. The statement "There was snow on the ground, . . . and a large old-fashioned sleigh was seen to drive
up to the door of the late Col. Ardinburgh" is an example of
A. interior monologue.
B. exterior narrative.<<<<
C. social commentary.
D. metaphor.

9. What one thing does Thoreau say stifles poetry and philosophy?
A. Goverment
B. Laws
C. Business<<<<
D. Crime

10. When does the Narrative of Sojourner Truth take place?
A. Right after the Emancipation Proclamation
B. During the Civil War
C. Before the Civil War<<<<
D. After the Civil War

11. Thoreau writes, "When our lives cease to be inward and private, conversation degenerates" to become
A. mere gossip.
B. a fantasy about a fiction.
C. seeking an advantage over others.
D. mindless and sterile.<<<<

12. In "Life without Principle," Thoreau writes, "I would have had him deal with his privatest experience,
as the poet does." What does this statement mean?
A. Courtrooms are places where people traditionally lie.
B. People talk only about trivial things.
C. Speeches should employ figurative (poetic) language to get their points across.
D. People should speak from their hearts and say what's on their minds.<<<<

13. Chief Seattle contrasts the religions of the whites and of his people by saying the Native American
religion exists "in the hearts of the people," while the religion of the whites is written on tablets of stone by
A. Moses.
B. seekers after truth.
C. an angry God.<<<<
D. lightning atop a mountain.

14. Regarding the difference between fiction and nonfiction, which statement is most accurate?
A. Literary fiction does little except inform and specify.
B. Writers of nonfiction have no need to express passionate opinion.<<<<
C. Nonfiction writers are more often free to move about in time and space.
D. Nonfiction writers are free to embellish the facts.

15. Thoreau's night in jail for tax delinquency resulted specifically from
A. his revulsion and disgust over the U.S. invasion of Mexico.<<<<
B. a decision to act on his belief that least government was best government.
C. having moved his place of residence from Concord to Walden Pond.
D. the publication of his work Civil Disobedience.