COMM 3600 FINAL EXAM (TESTS 1 & 2 + NEW MATERIAL) | COMPREHENSIVE PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | STUDY GUIDE 2026
Western Civilization depended on ____ ____ ___ ___ - ANS ✔✔rational discourse about values
____ civilization depended on rational discourse about values - ANS ✔✔western
Perelman brought back Aristotle's idea of - ANS ✔✔the centrality of the audience
who brought back Aristotle's idea of the centrality of the audience? - ANS ✔✔Perelman
Perelman brought back ______'s idea of the centrality of the audience - ANS ✔✔Aristotle
Perelman brought back Aristotle's idea of: the centrality of the audience
If I am the persuader, and you are my audience, which of the three types of audience are you?
A. The particular
B. Universal
C. Self - ANS ✔✔a
How do we overcome ideological domination, according to Habermas?
A. Avoiding it
B. Tweeting it
C. Communicative Action - ANS ✔✔c
Which of these is an example of an ideal speech community?
A. Auburn University Family
,B. You - ANS ✔✔a
What level of university degree did Kenneth Burke earn?
A. Bachelor Degree
B. Masters Degree
C. Ph.D.
D. Burke never earned a college degree - ANS ✔✔d
Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of Burke's Dramatistic Pentad
A. Act
B. Scene
C. Agent
D. Agency
E. Attitude - ANS ✔✔e
For Buke ____ is a better term for rhetoric than persuasion
A. Philosophy
B. Identification
C. Manipulation
D. Propaganda
E. Ideology - ANS ✔✔b
Which two intellectual movements challenge the ideas that rationality and objectivity =
truth/reality
A. Modernism and Feminism
B. Positivism and Feminism
, C. Positivism and Postmodernism
D. Feminism and Postmodernism
E. Dramatism and Feminism - ANS ✔✔d
Foucault was interested in all of the following EXCEPT:
A. The central problem of power
B. The archeology of knowledge
C. The relationship between power and language
D. Deconstruction - ANS ✔✔d
_____ undermines the modernist project of establishing the supremacy of rationality
A. Deconstruction
B. Hegemony
C. Postmodernism
D. Ideology
E. Positivism - ANS ✔✔a
which of the following is NOT one of the distinguishing characteristics of rhetoric as discussed in
Chapter 1 of your textbook? - ANS ✔✔Shaped by human biology
The term _____ has been used historically to dismiss talk as "words devoid of action." - ANS
✔✔Mere rhetoric
McKeon used the term ________ to suggest that rhetoric organizes and gives structure to the
other arts and disciplines. - ANS ✔✔Architectonic
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | STUDY GUIDE 2026
Western Civilization depended on ____ ____ ___ ___ - ANS ✔✔rational discourse about values
____ civilization depended on rational discourse about values - ANS ✔✔western
Perelman brought back Aristotle's idea of - ANS ✔✔the centrality of the audience
who brought back Aristotle's idea of the centrality of the audience? - ANS ✔✔Perelman
Perelman brought back ______'s idea of the centrality of the audience - ANS ✔✔Aristotle
Perelman brought back Aristotle's idea of: the centrality of the audience
If I am the persuader, and you are my audience, which of the three types of audience are you?
A. The particular
B. Universal
C. Self - ANS ✔✔a
How do we overcome ideological domination, according to Habermas?
A. Avoiding it
B. Tweeting it
C. Communicative Action - ANS ✔✔c
Which of these is an example of an ideal speech community?
A. Auburn University Family
,B. You - ANS ✔✔a
What level of university degree did Kenneth Burke earn?
A. Bachelor Degree
B. Masters Degree
C. Ph.D.
D. Burke never earned a college degree - ANS ✔✔d
Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of Burke's Dramatistic Pentad
A. Act
B. Scene
C. Agent
D. Agency
E. Attitude - ANS ✔✔e
For Buke ____ is a better term for rhetoric than persuasion
A. Philosophy
B. Identification
C. Manipulation
D. Propaganda
E. Ideology - ANS ✔✔b
Which two intellectual movements challenge the ideas that rationality and objectivity =
truth/reality
A. Modernism and Feminism
B. Positivism and Feminism
, C. Positivism and Postmodernism
D. Feminism and Postmodernism
E. Dramatism and Feminism - ANS ✔✔d
Foucault was interested in all of the following EXCEPT:
A. The central problem of power
B. The archeology of knowledge
C. The relationship between power and language
D. Deconstruction - ANS ✔✔d
_____ undermines the modernist project of establishing the supremacy of rationality
A. Deconstruction
B. Hegemony
C. Postmodernism
D. Ideology
E. Positivism - ANS ✔✔a
which of the following is NOT one of the distinguishing characteristics of rhetoric as discussed in
Chapter 1 of your textbook? - ANS ✔✔Shaped by human biology
The term _____ has been used historically to dismiss talk as "words devoid of action." - ANS
✔✔Mere rhetoric
McKeon used the term ________ to suggest that rhetoric organizes and gives structure to the
other arts and disciplines. - ANS ✔✔Architectonic
