Truesdell-Unit A-Nonfiction
  • 1. What does the term "objective" mean?
A) A statement that can be verified with facts or truth
B) A statement that consists of largely fiction
C) A statement that consists largely of propaganda
D) A term that ALL opinion writers stick to
  • 2. What does the term "subjective" mean?
A) Astronomy
B) A statement that cannot be completely verified by factual data
C) DNA
D) Mathematics
  • 3. What does the term "propaganda" mean?
A) A disturbing story of ALL untruths
B) ALL of the Democrats
C) information spread to help or harm a certain person or party
D) ALL of the Republicans
  • 4. What does the term "truth" mean?
A) An American history class
B) A term that can be verified with facts or factual data
C) There is no such thing
D) Pluralism
  • 5. What does the term "argumentative" mean?
A) A debate
B) Two parties who often get along
C) None of the above
D) DNA and astronomy
  • 6. What does the term "expository" mean?
A) A term that explains the meaning or sets forth an idea
B) Means of leading someone to class
C) Means of leading someone to make the right decision
D) A term that exposes a candidate's lies
  • 7. What is a "litmus test/touchstone"?
A) This is science Mr. T. Are you nuts?
B) Often a political term that defines truth
C) A political term that signals one's effectiveness for political office
D) That stone that bearded guy Moses threw down from the mountain.
  • 8. What does the term "bandwagon" mean?
A) A idea of persuasion in which others follow a popular idea
B) A band of people who follow truth
C) A wagon that contains four wheels and was widely used in the old West
D) Another term for sheep
  • 9. What does the "1st Amendment to the Constitution" mean?
A) The right to equal protection under the law
B) The right to be free from searches in your house
C) The right to freedom from slavery
D) The right to peaceably assemble and freedom of the press
  • 10. What does the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution" give citizens?
A) The right to have equal protection of the law
B) The right to be free from slavery
C) The right to worship
D) The right to own firearms
  • 11. What does the word "integrity" mean?
A) The state of being partially correct
B) The state of being a liar
C) A type of integer system
D) The state of being honest, fair and sound
  • 12. What does the term "gullible" mean?
A) A type of tactic politicians use
B) Ability to believe without concrete evidence
C) Ability to only hear what you want to hear
D) Ability to only hear the truth
  • 13. What does the term "rhetoric" mean?
A) Only written terms that convince
B) Spoken or written conversation or discourse intended to persuade
C) Only spoken terms that convince
D) A type of rhetory sound
  • 14. What does the term "Speaker of the House" mean?
A) A political term meaning "one who endorses"
B) An important person who speaks the MOST in any house
C) An important man or woman in the House of Representatives that speaks
D) Third in line to the presidency-en elected position
  • 15. What does the term "evaluate" mean
A) To use good judgement and facts at hand to find meaning
B) FWCS's favorite "buzz" word
C) Another name for a test
D) A value of a given sum in an equation
  • 16. What does the term "horsepower" mean?
A) Peak engine performance at a given RPM
B) The car's transmission choice
C) An ability of a car to slow quickly
D) An old farm term that evaluates the horses' strength and vitality
  • 17. What does the term "torque" mean?
A) The power needed to remove stuck pickle lids
B) The ability to feel speed or pressure as you accelerate
C) Exactly the same as horsepower
D) The rotating force of the earth
  • 18. What does the term "octane" mean?
A) The eight components that go into engine performance
B) Lower the octane/higher the performance
C) Hydrocarbons added to fuel mixture to reduce "knocking"
D) Sole reason you pay more at the pump
  • 19. What is a turbocharger?
A) A device used to impress your date
B) A device used to compress nitrogen for racing purposes
C) A device used to compress and force air using a turbine to ultimately boost engine performance
D) A device fitted on to the steering wheel to control torque steer
  • 20. What is "efficiency?"
A) A ratio of laziness to work not done
B) The U.S. Postal Service
C) A ratio of work done to energy saved
D) A way of describing a car "nut"
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