Have an account?
Skip to Content
Build your own quiz
Suggestions for you
18 questions
Show Answers
See Preview
- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the main topic of Gore’s Nobel speech?
Water pollution
Climate change
Political conflict
Renewable energy
- 2. Multiple Choice
According to Gore’s Nobel speech, why is little being done to reduce global
warming?
People know that the problem will resolve itself.
People fail to recognize the danger of the situation.
People assume that the government is tackling the issue.
People think that global warming is good for the earth.
- 3. Multiple Choice
According to Gore, how SHOULD people respond to the environmental crisis that
he describes in his Nobel speech?
suspiciously
privately
slowly
rapidly
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following situations could best be used to illustrate the meaning
of crisis?
a chilly afternoon
a blooming flower
a hibernating bear
a spreading wildfire
- 5. Multiple Choice
If a police officer gives directions with urgency, then which of the
following must be true? Base your answer on the meaning of urgency.
The police officer’s directions should be completely ignored.
The police officer’s directions should be considered a warning.
The police officer’s directions should be followed immediately.
The police officer’s directions should be remembered for later.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is most likely the meaning of illusion in the following sentence?
"A carnival mirror creates the illusion that people are taller than they actually are."
shocking surprise
false appearance
unpleasant truth
undeniable fact
- 7. Multiple Choice
Read the following excerpt from Gore’s Nobel speech.
"Last September 21, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists
reported with unprecedented distress that the North Polar ice cap is “falling off a
cliff.” One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less
than 22 years. Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later
this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years.
Seven years from now."
What is the impact of the one-sentence paragraph?
It shows that people have plenty of time to fix global warming.
It reveals that Gore does not understand the Navy’s new study.
It starkly emphasizes just how quickly the North Polar ice cap is melting.
It suggests that the second study contains questionable research.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Part A Which answer choice describes Gore’s main reason for writing his
Nobel speech?
to convince people to act
to describe scientific facts
to demand a political treaty
to thank the prize committee
- 9. Multiple Choice
Part B Which sentence from the Nobel speech best supports the answer to
Part A?
Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear
his name.
The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself.
We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.
The very web of life on which we depend is being ripped and frayed.
- 10. Multiple Choice
In his Nobel speech, what is Gore’s attitude regarding the progress
made to reduce global warming?
distrustful but forgiving
concerned but positive
pleased but confused
interested but lazy
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which sentence from the speech best illustrates Gore's concerned but positive attitude regarding the progress made to reduce global warming?
We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency—a threat
to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive
potential even as we gather here.
So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution
into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an
open sewer.
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve
that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.
These are the last few years of decision, but they can be the first years of a
bright and hopeful future if we do what we must.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Read the following sentence from Gore’s Nobel speech.
"In every land, the truth—once known—has the power to set us free."
What is most likely the point that Gore is making with this statement?
Freedom is more important than acknowledging truth.
Truth should only be shared with certain individuals.
People who become aware of the truth can change.
Every nation has a different understanding of truth.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Read the following excerpt from Gore’s Nobel speech.
"After performing 10,000 equations by hand, Svante Arrhenius calculated that the
earth’s average temperature would increase by many degrees if we doubled the
amount of CO 2 in the atmosphere."
What persuasive technique is Gore using?
an appeal to truth
an appeal to reason
an appeal to emotion
an appeal to authority
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following phrases from Gore’s Nobel speech convey strong
emotion? Choose three options.
increasing alarm
quantities of coal
two decades
extraordinary threat
climate crisis
- 15. Multiple Choice
How does Gore appeal to reason in his Nobel speech?
He compares his opinion to public opinion.
He presents logical arguments supported by facts.
He supports his ideas with celebrity statements.
He uses words that convey very strong emotions.
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which quotation from the speech best illustrates Gore's appeal to reason?
Major cities in North and
South America, Asia and Australia are nearly out of water due to massive
droughts and melting glaciers.
And still, we have
remained largely oblivious to the impact of our cumulative actions.
Now comes the threat of climate crisis—a threat that is real, rising,
imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour.
Cordell Hull was described by Franklin Roosevelt as the “Father of the
United Nations.”
- 17. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of the Latin prefix uni-?
having or consisting of few
having or consisting of many
having or consisting of nothing
having or consisting of only one
- 18. Multiple Choice
The word cellular means “made of cells.” Use this information as well as
your knowledge of the prefix uni- to select the correct definition of unicellular.
made of no cells
made of one cell
made of few cells
made of many cells
- Answer choicesTagsAnswer choicesTags