COMM 2500 MID-TERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026
c - Answers Which example would be an example of interpersonal communication?
a. a planning meeting of the inauguration planning committee
b. streaming video of the inauguration on YouTube
c. a conversation about the inauguration at the dinner table
c - Answers Which would be an example of group/ organizational comm?
a. President Biden's inaugural address
b. live television news coverage of the inauguration events
c. coordination between House and Senate planning committees
d. post-event discussion between the current and past presidents
c - Answers Which would be an example of public communication?
a. liveblogging the inauguration on social media
b. conversation at an inauguration luncheon
c. President Biden's inaugural address
d. a logistics planning meeting for the inaugural parade
b - Answers Which would be an example of mass (mediated) comm?
a. sharing reactions to Lady Gaga's performance of the national anthem with your roommate
b. tweeting during the inaugural
c. Senator McConnell's presentation of US flag to Vice President Harris
d. organizing security plans by DC and Capitol Police
b - Answers Biden calls on Americans to set aside partisan differences, disagree without fighting, and
unite for the nation.
a. meets an instrumental need
b. meets a relational need
c. meets an identity need
a - Answers Ceremony performs the constitutional requirement of transitioning presidential power.
a. meets an instrumental need
b. meets a relational need
c. meets an identity need
c - Answers Biden articulates "American values": democracy, strength through unity, justice.
a. meets an instrumental need
b. meets a relational need
c. meets an identity need
c - Answers Information, ideas, etc. that are encoded for the receiver:
a. channel
b. medium
c. message
d. noise
a - Answers The means by which the source's encoded content gets to the receiver:
a. channel
b. noise
c. medium
d. message
b - Answers A technology that is used for transmitting a source's content to a receiver:
a. message
b. medium
c. noise
d. channel
c - Answers A receiver's process of translating signs into information, ideas, etc.:
a. encoding
b. transmission
c. decoding
d. using a medium
c - Answers Anything that disrupts the successful sharing of meaning between source and receiver:
a. interference
b. static
, c. noise
d. interruption
b - Answers Transmission model.
Which kind of communication act does this model explain best?
a. Dr. Klien running a Kahoot! Challenge
b. Dr. Klien presenting a lecture
c. Dr. Klien meeting with me in Zoom office hours
c - Answers A message encoded by the original receiver, sent to the original source:
a. response
b. nonverbal codes
c. feedback
d. reflex
d - Answers All of the physical, psychological and situational variables that surround a communication
act:
a. subtext
b. circumstances
c. matrix
d. context
c - Answers Interactional Model.
Which kind of communication act does this model explain best?
a. Dr. Klien meeting with me in Zoom office hours
b. Dr. Klien presenting a lecture
c. Dr. Klien running a Kahoot! Challenge
b - Answers In the transaction model, participants take turns sending and receiving messages:
a. true
b. false
a - Answers The various verbal and nonverbal actions communicators interpret to understand
meaning:
a. behavioral cues
b. public cues
c. private cues
c - Answers Aspects of surrounding environmental context that communicators interpret to
understand meaning:
a. private cues
b. behavioral cues
c. public cues
b - Answers The personal background, thoughts and feelings communicators interpret to understand
meaning:
a. public cues
b. private cues
c. behavioral cues
c - Answers When communicators engage in "transaction," they are doing this:
a. delivering a meaning
b. trying to discover meaning
c. co-constructing meaning
b - Answers Transactional model.
Which kind of communication act does this model explain best?
a. Dr. Klien running a Kahoot! Challenge
b. Dr. Klien meeting with me in Zoom office hours
c. Dr. Klien presenting a lecture
c - Answers What is the lesson of Magritte's "the Treachery of Images" (1929)?
a. Nothing is real
b. Things are what they appear to be
c. Representations of reality are not reality
b - Answers In the semantic triangle model, the object that is being represented.
a. sign
b. referent
c - Answers Which example would be an example of interpersonal communication?
a. a planning meeting of the inauguration planning committee
b. streaming video of the inauguration on YouTube
c. a conversation about the inauguration at the dinner table
c - Answers Which would be an example of group/ organizational comm?
a. President Biden's inaugural address
b. live television news coverage of the inauguration events
c. coordination between House and Senate planning committees
d. post-event discussion between the current and past presidents
c - Answers Which would be an example of public communication?
a. liveblogging the inauguration on social media
b. conversation at an inauguration luncheon
c. President Biden's inaugural address
d. a logistics planning meeting for the inaugural parade
b - Answers Which would be an example of mass (mediated) comm?
a. sharing reactions to Lady Gaga's performance of the national anthem with your roommate
b. tweeting during the inaugural
c. Senator McConnell's presentation of US flag to Vice President Harris
d. organizing security plans by DC and Capitol Police
b - Answers Biden calls on Americans to set aside partisan differences, disagree without fighting, and
unite for the nation.
a. meets an instrumental need
b. meets a relational need
c. meets an identity need
a - Answers Ceremony performs the constitutional requirement of transitioning presidential power.
a. meets an instrumental need
b. meets a relational need
c. meets an identity need
c - Answers Biden articulates "American values": democracy, strength through unity, justice.
a. meets an instrumental need
b. meets a relational need
c. meets an identity need
c - Answers Information, ideas, etc. that are encoded for the receiver:
a. channel
b. medium
c. message
d. noise
a - Answers The means by which the source's encoded content gets to the receiver:
a. channel
b. noise
c. medium
d. message
b - Answers A technology that is used for transmitting a source's content to a receiver:
a. message
b. medium
c. noise
d. channel
c - Answers A receiver's process of translating signs into information, ideas, etc.:
a. encoding
b. transmission
c. decoding
d. using a medium
c - Answers Anything that disrupts the successful sharing of meaning between source and receiver:
a. interference
b. static
, c. noise
d. interruption
b - Answers Transmission model.
Which kind of communication act does this model explain best?
a. Dr. Klien running a Kahoot! Challenge
b. Dr. Klien presenting a lecture
c. Dr. Klien meeting with me in Zoom office hours
c - Answers A message encoded by the original receiver, sent to the original source:
a. response
b. nonverbal codes
c. feedback
d. reflex
d - Answers All of the physical, psychological and situational variables that surround a communication
act:
a. subtext
b. circumstances
c. matrix
d. context
c - Answers Interactional Model.
Which kind of communication act does this model explain best?
a. Dr. Klien meeting with me in Zoom office hours
b. Dr. Klien presenting a lecture
c. Dr. Klien running a Kahoot! Challenge
b - Answers In the transaction model, participants take turns sending and receiving messages:
a. true
b. false
a - Answers The various verbal and nonverbal actions communicators interpret to understand
meaning:
a. behavioral cues
b. public cues
c. private cues
c - Answers Aspects of surrounding environmental context that communicators interpret to
understand meaning:
a. private cues
b. behavioral cues
c. public cues
b - Answers The personal background, thoughts and feelings communicators interpret to understand
meaning:
a. public cues
b. private cues
c. behavioral cues
c - Answers When communicators engage in "transaction," they are doing this:
a. delivering a meaning
b. trying to discover meaning
c. co-constructing meaning
b - Answers Transactional model.
Which kind of communication act does this model explain best?
a. Dr. Klien running a Kahoot! Challenge
b. Dr. Klien meeting with me in Zoom office hours
c. Dr. Klien presenting a lecture
c - Answers What is the lesson of Magritte's "the Treachery of Images" (1929)?
a. Nothing is real
b. Things are what they appear to be
c. Representations of reality are not reality
b - Answers In the semantic triangle model, the object that is being represented.
a. sign
b. referent
