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100

a(b+c) = ab + ac

What is the Distributive Property?

100

The four principal parts of the Latin verb meaning:

to lead, lead away

What is deduco, deducere, deduxi, deductus, 3, tr.

100
The number of protons in an atom.

What is the atomic number?

100
In the A Statement, "All S is P," the subject-term is distributed or undistributed.

What is distributed?

100

A character in the Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Who is (multiply answers acceptable)?

100

The 16th President of the United States.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

The "3" in "x3"

What is an exponent?

200

Verbs have these 5 things.

What are voice, mood, tense, number, and person?

200

A force of attraction between atoms or a group of atoms due to the sharing or transferring of electrons.

What is a chemical bond?

200

This type of sentence has statements that are distributed in both the subject-term and the predicate-term.

What is an "E" Statement?

200

This is used to get the reader's attention at the beginning of a persuasive paper.

What is an exordium?

200

This is the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300

Solve for x:

3x + 16 = 24 - 5x

x = 1

300

When the subject is the person or thing that does the action.

What is active voice?

300

The energy stored in chemical bonds.

What is chemical energy?
300

In a syllogism, this premise is the premise that contains the major term.

What is the major premise?

300

This is the "statement of facts" or the content which leads to the Issue in question.

What is narratio?

300

The primary decade (or dates) of WWII.

What are is 1940-1950? or What is 1939 - 1945?

The Instrument of Surrender was actually signed off the coast of Tokyo, Japan. On the morning of Sept. 2, 1945, Japanese representatives signed the surrender document during a ceremony on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri. This day marked the end of World War II.

400

start with a bakers dozen

square the number

add 27

take the square root

14

400

The English meaning of the verb contineo, continere, continui, contentus, 2, tr.

What is restrain or hold in?

400

The distance an object travels plus the direction from the starting point.

What is displacement?

400

Syllogisms that violate Rule V are said to commit this fallacy.

What is the Fallacy of Exclusive Premises?

400

This is a scheme in which strongly contrasting (or opposite) ideas are expressed in parallel form.

What is Antithesis?

400

This is the beginning of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, starting with "we hold these truths."

[see pg 173 American Documents textbook]

500

start with a fortnight

times 2

divided by 4

cube that number

343

500

These tenses in the INDICATIVE are called primary tenses.

What are present, future, and future perfect?

500

This is what prevents objects from moving.

What is static friction?

500

The Seven Rules for validity.  Write 3

What are

1. There must be 3 and only 3 terms  2. The middle term must not occur in the conclusions.  3. If a term is distributed in the conclusion, then it must be distributed in the premises.  4. The middle term must be distributed at least once.   5. No conclusion can follow from two negative premises.   6. If the two premises are affirmative, the conclusion must also be affirmative.   7. If either premise is negative, the conclusion must also be negative.

500

This is the repetition of adjacent or closely connected consonant sounds, often at the beginning of words.

What is Alliteration?

500

The presidents of the United States (recited, not written)

[say or sing presidents song]

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