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A patient injured in a work-related accident is referred to physical therapy. The patient is worried about the expenses incurred for physical therapy services and asks the PTA how worker’s compensation is regulated. The most appropriate response is:

A physical therapist assistant covering for a colleague on vacation reviews an initial note on a patient rehabilitating from a brachial plexus injury. The note indicates that the patient has a 10-degree restriction in supination. Which of the following would be the most representative of the patient’s current supination range of motion?

A physical therapist assistant conducts a training session for the family of a patient with a spinal cord injury. During the session the therapist instructs the family on topics such as transfers and positioning activities. Which method would be the most effective to determine if the family members are able to perform the selected skills?

Which of the following is a key feature of demagogic speech, as seen in Nazi Germany, that could be used in other contexts?

Which of the following best describes the concept of semiotic meaning?

What is the relationship between democracy and the need for public persuasion?

In Gorgias’ “The Encomium of Helen,” which of the following reasons does he present for Helen’s actions during the Trojan War?

In which of the following places was persuasion a studied and practiced art long before the Greek invention of the word “rhetoric”?

Which of the following definitions of rhetorical theory was put forth by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and endorsed by Belinda Stillion-Southard?

Which genre of rhetoric corresponds to discussions about past events?