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1. Instructions: Choose the appropriate genus and difference for the

following definiendum to construct an accurate definition:

Car

Your Answer: vehicle; automobile

2. Instructions: Choose the appropriate genus and difference for the

following definiendum to construct an accurate definition:

Cabbage

Your Answer: Plant; vegetable

3. Determine which of the following rules for definition by genus and

difference is violated by the following passage:

Bald is a tire without tread.

Your Answer: Rule 3: A definition must be neither too broad nor too
narrow.

4. Determine which of the following rules for definition by genus and

difference is violated by the following passage:

Hope is a bone on a string.-Guided by Voices, "The Hard Way"

Your Answer: Rule 4: Ambiguous, obscure, or figurative language must not

be used in a definition.

5. Instructions: Identify the kinds of agreement or disagreement most

probably exhibited by the following pair:
 Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself,
and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the
worse nor the better for being praised.-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be

beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you
discover that there is no reason.-John Cage

Your Answer: Disagreement in belief/disagreement in attitude

6. Instructions: Identify the kinds of agreement or disagreement most

probably exhibited by the following pair:

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use
to oneself.-Oscar Wilde

Many receive advice, few profit by it.-Publilius Syrus

Your Answer: Agreement in belief/agreement in attitude

7. Instructions: Choose the most appropriate language-function category

for the following passage:

I will retire as a tenured professor no later than the spring of 2025.-

Claire Potter, professor of history and American studies at Wesleyan
University, quoted in "The Professors Who Won't Retire," in The New
York Times, August 20, 2010.

Your Answer: Informative

8. Instructions: Choose the most appropriate language-function category

for the following passage:

We are still having frequent aftershocks varying in size between 4.0

and 5.1. Everyone is on edge. Many are sea sick from the contant
[sic] motion.-CNN iReporter, on the aftershocks of the September 7,
2010 earthquake in New Zealand.

Your Answer: Informative

9. Instructions: Choose the language-function category most
probably intended to be served by the following passage:

"We're getting closer to a 21st-century government understanding

21st-century technology to help develop 21st-century rights," Ashraf
said. "I was concerned for a while that the U.S. had turned its back on
human rights. To see Secretary Clinton boldly stand up there and not
be ashamed about human rights ... was very powerful." -Digital
activist, Camran Ashraf, quoted in "Clinton Praised for Internet
Freedom Speech," by Grant Gross, pcworld.com, January 21, 2010.

Your Answer: Expressive

10. Instructions: Choose the language-function category most

probably intended to be served by the following passage:

Yesterday, I did the wrong thing. I didn't intend to hurt people, but I did. And
that makes it the wrong thing to have done.-Laura Schlessinger, on her talk
radio show, "The Dr. Laura Show," August 11, 2010.

Your Answer: Performative

11. Instructions: The author of the following passage intends to assert a

proposition. Choose which of the following most accurately captures
that proposition:

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or

books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.-
Gore Vidal

Your Answer: Today's public figures are less interested in things intellectual
than were previous generations.

12. Instructions: Choose the most appropriate language-function category

for the following passage:

The growing tendency to defer retirement leads to both financial and

intellectual difficulties.-Mark C. Taylor, chairman of the department of
religion at Columbia University and professor emeritus of humanities
at Williams College, quoted in "The Professors Who Won't Retire,"
in The New York Times, August 20, 2010.
 Your Answer: Informative

13. Instructions: The author of the following passage intends to assert a

proposition. Choose which of the following most accurately captures
that proposition:

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.-
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Your Answer: Words are worth more money than are jewels.
Correct Answer: Ideas are more important than material things.

Financial value is not at issue.

See Language Functions

14. Instructions: Choose the most appropriate language-function category

for the following passage:

Since the 1950s, we've been putting plastic into the ocean. Now we're
trying to figure out where it's gone and what it's done and what the
impact is ecologically.-University of Hawaii oceanographer David Karl,
quoted in "Mystery of the Missing Ocean Plastic," discovery.com, by
Emily Sohn, August 19, 2010.

Your Answer: Informative

15. Instructions: Five types of definition have been discussed in this

section: stipulative, lexical, precising, theoretical, and persuasive.
Determine whether or not the following definition of one of the terms
is true or false:

A stipulative definition describes the function of an object.

Your Answer: False

16. Instructions: Five types of definition have been discussed in this

section: stipulative, lexical, precising, theoretical, and persuasive.
Determine whether or not the following definition of one of the terms
 is true or false:

An theoretical definition describes a measurement procedure.

Your Answer: False

17. Instructions: Determine what sort of dispute occurs in the following

exchange:

Person 1: Seabiscuit was the best racehorse, ever.

Person 2: I disagree. My trail horse, Gulliver, is pretty fantastic.

Your Answer: Merely verbal

18. Instructions: Determine what sort of dispute occurs in the following

exchange:

Person 1: The Coen brothers are the most successful filmmakers

today. "Raising Arizona," "Barton Fink," "O, Brother, Where Art Thou,"
and "Fargo," just to name a few, are artistic masterpieces.

Person 2: I disagree. The combined box office receipts of the films

you list does not match that of "Titanic" and "Avatar," films by James
Cameron.

Your Answer: Merely verbal

Correct Answer: Apparently verbal but really genuine

The two are engaged in a dispute over which filmmakers are the
most successful, even if they do not define ‘success’ the same way. The real
dispute is over which to hold in higher esteem, the Coen Brothers or
Cameron.
See Disputes and Amibiguity

19. Instructions: Determine what sort of dispute occurs in the following

exchange:

Person 1: Gladys has to accept the consequences of her unethical

behavior, in this case, cheating on the exam.

Person 2: Kicking her out of school is too extreme.

Your Answer: Apparently verbal but really genuine

20. Instructions: In the following groups of terms, identify the group in
which the terms are arranged in order of increasing intension:

Your Answer: Animal; vertebrate; mammal; feline

21. Instructions: Which of the following defines "writing instrument" by

example?

Your Answer: All of the Above

22. Instructions: Choose the most appropriate synonymous definition for

the following term:

Building

Your Answer: Structure

23. Instructions: Choose the most appropriate synonymous definition for

the following term:

Rush

Your Answer: Hurry

24. Instructions: In the following groups of terms, identify the group in

which the terms are arranged in order of increasing intension:

Your Answer: Vertebrate, mammal, feline, tiger.

See The Structure of Definitions: Extension and Intension

25. Instructions: Which of the following defines "musician" by example?

Your Answer: Beethoven