Unit 3: Reasoning & Organization
English Lang · Unit 3 · Paper 1

Reasoning & Organization unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 18 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Introduction and conclusion strategies

2

Deductive reasoning

3

Methods of development

4

Unstated assumption (warrant)

5

Transitions and coherence

6

Inductive reasoning

7

Paragraph unity

8

Causal reasoning

9

False dichotomy

10

Correlation vs causation

11

Slippery slope

12

Syllogism

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Appeal to authority

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Post hoc fallacy

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Ad hominem

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Concession-refutation structure

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Rhetorical Analysis (Question 2, suggested time: 40 minutes). In 1852 Frederick Douglass was invited by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society to deliver a Fourth of July address. Speaking to an audience of sympathetic white Northerners, he said in part: “Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? … This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.” Read the passage carefully. Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Douglass makes to convey his message to this particular audience.