Quiz 6 Tone, Purpose, and Course

QUIZ 6 Passage two
DETERMINE THE TONE, PURPOSE, OR Up to now, confessions that have been

COURSE obtained from defendants in a hypnotic state
have not been admitted into evidence by courts
in the United States. Experts in the field of
Passage one hypnosis have found that such confessions are
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1966) is a not completely reliable. Subjects in a hypnotic
well-known example of the “non-fiction novel,” state may confess to crimes they did not commit
a popular type of writing based upon factual for one of two reasons. Either they fantasizes
events in which the author attempts to describe that they committed the crimes, or they believe
the underlying forces, thoughts, and emotions that other want them to confess.
that lead to actual events. In Capote’s book, the A landmark case concerning a confession
author describes the sadistic murder of a family obtained under hypnosis went all the way to the
on a Kansas farm, often showing the point of U.S. Supreme Court. In the case of Layra v.
view of the killers. To research the book, Capote Denno, a suspect was hypnotized by a
interviewed the murderers, and he maintains that psychiatrist for the district attorney; in a
this book presents a faithful reconstruction of posthypnotic state the suspect signed three
the incident. separate confessions to a murder. The Supreme
1. The purpose of this passage is to Court ruled that the confessions were invalid
a. discuss an example of a particular because the confessions had been the only
literary genre evidence against him.
b. tell the story of In Cold Blood 4. Which of the following best describes the
c. explain Truman Capote’s reasons for author’s purposes in this passage?
writing In Cold Blood a. To explain the details of a specific court
d. describe how Truman Capote researched case
his nonfiction novel b. To demonstrate why confessions made
under hypnosis are not reliable
2. Which of the following best describes the c. To clarify the role of the Supreme Court
tone of the passage? in invalidating confessions from
a. Cold hypnotized subjects
b. Sadistic d. To explain the legal status of
c. Emotional hypnotically confessions
d. Descriptive
5. The tone of the passage could best be
3. This passage would probably be assigned described as
reading in which of the following courses? a. outraged
a. Criminal Law b. judicial
b. American History c. hypnotic
c. Modern American Novels d. informative
d. Literary Research
6. this passage would probably be assigned
reading in a course on
a. American Law
b. psychiatric healing c. Placid
c. parapsychology d. Exaggerated
d. philosophy
9. This passage would probably be assigned
Passage 3
reading in which of the following courses?
The rate at which the deforestation of the a. Geology
world is proceeding is alarming. In 1950 b. Geography
approximately 25 percent of the earth’s land c. Geometry
surfaces had been covered with forests, and less d. Marine Biology
than twenty-five years later the amount of forest
land was reduced to 20 percent. This decrease
from 25 percent to 20 percent from 1950 to 1973
represents an astounding to 20 million square
kilometers of forests. Predictions are that an
additional 20 million square kilometers of forest
land will be lost by 2020.
The majority of deforestation is occurring

in tropical forests in developing countries,
fueled by the developing countries’ need for
increased agricultural land and the desire on the
part of the developed countries to import wood
and wood products. More than 90 percent of the
plywood used in the United States, for example,
is imported from developing countries with
tropical rain forests. By the mid-1980s, solutions
to this expanding problem were being sought, in
the form of attempts to establish an international
regulatory organization to oversee the use of
tropical forests.
7. The author’s main purpose in this passage is

to
a. cite statistics about an improvement on
the earth’s land surface
b. explain where deforestation is occurring
c. make the reader aware of a worsening
world problem
d. blame developing countries for
deforestation
8. Which of the following best describes the

tone of the passage?
a. Concerned
b. Disinterested

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QUIZ 6 Passage two

DETERMINE THE TONE, PURPOSE, OR Up to now, confessions that have been

The majority of deforestation is occurring

7. The author’s main purpose in this passage is

8. Which of the following best describes the

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