Can someone check my answers? The book is The Trouble With Television by Robert MacNeil

1. MacNeil asks, "When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much if its leisure to one toy, one mass diversion"

What is this persuasive technique called?

A. repetition
B. a generalization ***
C. a rhetorical question
D. a controversial question

2. Part A When MacNeil says that much of television news is "machine gunning with scraps," he means that

A. television news covers too much violent crime. ***
B. television news stories are too short and fast.
C. television news covers war too much.
D. television news lacks high-tech equipment.

3. Part B Which of the following best describes the idea from MacNeil's essay referenced in the previous question?

A. It is an opinion presented through an appeal to emotion
B. It is an opinion presented through an appeal to authority
C. It is a fact presented through an appeal to emotion ***
D. It is a fact presented through an appeal to authority

4. Something that is trivial is

A. insightful
B. important
C. unusual
D. insignificant ***

5. Which of the following sentences uses the word skeptically correctly?

A. The teacher was trusted by her students, as a result they learned their lessons skeptically
B. I was confident I'd gotten every question right and handed in my test skeptically
C. Seeing the milk's sell-by date is two weeks in the future, I proceeded to drink it skeptically
D. After the politician had broken his promises, the general public viewed his pledges skeptically ***

6. Which of the following sentences contain a verb in the subjunctive mood?

A. If it rains, we can move the party inside
B. if you were taller you could try out for the basketball team ***
C. Do you believe the Jacksons are moving to Alaska
D. We were going to cook dinner but decided to eat out instead

7. Which of the following uses the indicative mood?

A. I will feel flush after I get my very first paycheck for this job
B. I insisted that my brother do the dishes because I set the table ***
C. If I were rich, I would get convertibles for us both
D. If I won the lottery, I hope that you'll help me spend the money.

8. Which of the following sentences is written in the subjunctive mood?

A. The teacher grades his students' weekly spelling tests
B. It was the weekend, so she slept in until noon
C. If I were on vacation, I would wear sandals ***
D. She could not concentrate with the loud car outside her house

3 answers

1 - 3 are wrong.

The others are right.

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