Question

read the paragraph and answer the question. if you are rich and worth your salt, you will teach your [children] that [if] they have leisure it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of nonremunerative [unpaid] work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration, in historical research--work of the type we most need in this country, out of which reflects most honor upon the nation. --theodore roosevelt, 1899 how is the paragraph organized? spatially chronologically deductively inductively

Answer 1

The correct answer is “deductively”. The paragraph presented above is organized deductively, since deductive reasoning involves generalization at the initial stage and then moves on towards the specific case. The starting generalization in this case is that “leisure is not to be spent in idleness” and then the author makes specific references of what leisure is about. Among the four options, “deductively” is the correct one.