URI Com 383 Quiz 2 Question and
answers verified to pass 2025/2026
Know Bacon's four idols of the mind - correct answer ✔the idea that we carry around ideas in our
heads that get in the way of knowing - major assumptions of the world - deduction must go - father of
the enlightenment
1. Idols of the Tribe (Human Nature)
2. Idols of the Cave (Nurture)
3. Idols of the Marketplace (socialization)
4. Idols of the Theatre (dogma)
Know the importance of Cicero's texts to medieval rhetoric, and which of his texts. - correct answer
✔→ provided the foundation for vast medieval rhetoric
Know the basis of Christian scholar's hostility and suspicion. - correct answer ✔• Pagan, they're godless
headings, and their belief in probability the idea that the truth isn't knowable
• Christians think it is knowable because you can just look at the bible
Know Plato's influence on Augustine's rhetorical theory. - correct answer ✔• Through the phadreus
hand maiden of truth
Know Augustine's position on the source of wisdom. - correct answer ✔• It's divine
• Wisdom comes from the divine (accessible through misselet)
Know Capella's contributions to the medieval curriculum - correct answer ✔• Trivium and quadrivium
• Making rhetoric central as opposed to philosphy
, Know Scholasticism's educational approach and its limitations regarding the opinions of authorities -
correct answer ✔• Closed and authoritative
Know the chief virtue afforded women by letter writing. - correct answer ✔achieve rhetorical equality
Know the import of the Italian Humanists. - correct answer ✔• Retrieving the thought of the Greeks
and Romans (translation, figuring out if something is a myth etc) and making it central to education
• Focus on language and the studies of humanities
• Developing how to read and analyze a classical text
• Beginning of classical study
Know Campbell's unique contribution to rhetorical theory - correct answer ✔• Develops a sequence on
how to persuade people; first modern theory of rhetoric; stole it from Hume; 1776
o Understand
o Imagination
o Passions/ emotions
o The will - to act
Know rhetoric's significance to education during the Renaissance - correct answer ✔• It was the main
Renaissance subject
Know the main focus of Whately's rhetoric. - correct answer ✔• Ecclesiastical rhetoric → for the church
• Interested in the belletristic letters
• Emphasis on style
• Rhetoric and British education
answers verified to pass 2025/2026
Know Bacon's four idols of the mind - correct answer ✔the idea that we carry around ideas in our
heads that get in the way of knowing - major assumptions of the world - deduction must go - father of
the enlightenment
1. Idols of the Tribe (Human Nature)
2. Idols of the Cave (Nurture)
3. Idols of the Marketplace (socialization)
4. Idols of the Theatre (dogma)
Know the importance of Cicero's texts to medieval rhetoric, and which of his texts. - correct answer
✔→ provided the foundation for vast medieval rhetoric
Know the basis of Christian scholar's hostility and suspicion. - correct answer ✔• Pagan, they're godless
headings, and their belief in probability the idea that the truth isn't knowable
• Christians think it is knowable because you can just look at the bible
Know Plato's influence on Augustine's rhetorical theory. - correct answer ✔• Through the phadreus
hand maiden of truth
Know Augustine's position on the source of wisdom. - correct answer ✔• It's divine
• Wisdom comes from the divine (accessible through misselet)
Know Capella's contributions to the medieval curriculum - correct answer ✔• Trivium and quadrivium
• Making rhetoric central as opposed to philosphy
, Know Scholasticism's educational approach and its limitations regarding the opinions of authorities -
correct answer ✔• Closed and authoritative
Know the chief virtue afforded women by letter writing. - correct answer ✔achieve rhetorical equality
Know the import of the Italian Humanists. - correct answer ✔• Retrieving the thought of the Greeks
and Romans (translation, figuring out if something is a myth etc) and making it central to education
• Focus on language and the studies of humanities
• Developing how to read and analyze a classical text
• Beginning of classical study
Know Campbell's unique contribution to rhetorical theory - correct answer ✔• Develops a sequence on
how to persuade people; first modern theory of rhetoric; stole it from Hume; 1776
o Understand
o Imagination
o Passions/ emotions
o The will - to act
Know rhetoric's significance to education during the Renaissance - correct answer ✔• It was the main
Renaissance subject
Know the main focus of Whately's rhetoric. - correct answer ✔• Ecclesiastical rhetoric → for the church
• Interested in the belletristic letters
• Emphasis on style
• Rhetoric and British education
