Test Bank For A Speaker's Guidebook, Text and Reference 8th Edition By Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein (All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade) 2025

, Test Bank for A Speaker's Guidebook, Text and Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair,
Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein
Chapter .1
1. Learning .to .speak .effectively .can .enhance .one's .personal .and .professional .goals. .enhance .one's .personal
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

2. Oral .communication .skills .are .ranked .as .the .number .one .job .skill .employers .seek .MOST .in
.college .graduates.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

3. Preparing .speeches .can .help .students .develop .skills .needed .in .other .college .courses.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

4. The .practice .of .giving .speeches .was .originally .known .as .persuasion.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . b

5. The .practice .of .rhetoric, .or .oratory, .emerged .full .force .in .Greece .in .the .fifth-century .B.C.E.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

6. In .the .Roman .republic, .citizens .met .in .public .spaces .called .marketplaces .to .engage .in .oral .discourse.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . b

7. What .the .Greeks .called .the .agora .exists .today .in .the .form .of .town .halls.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

8. The .Internet .is .today's .global .public .forum .or .agora.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

,9. The .Greeks .referred .to .advocating .or .legal .speech .as .epideictic .oratory.

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Chapter .1
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . b

10. Most .modern-day .public .figures .engage .primarily .in .epideictic .oratory.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . b

11. According .to .Roman .scholars .of .rhetoric, .including .Cicero .and .Quintilian, .memory .is .one .of .the .five
.canons .of .rhetoric.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

12. Delivery .refers .to .adapting .speech .information .to .the .audience .in .order .to .make .a .case.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . b

13. The .five .canons .of .rhetoric .are .invention, .adaptation, .arrangement, .timing, .and .delivery.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . b

14. Public .speaking .is .similar .in .many .ways .to .engaging .in .an .important .conversation.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

15. Effective .speaking .and .effective .writing .both .require .a .sense .of .who .the .audience .is.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . a

16. In .general, .speakers .use .more .unfamiliar .words .and .complex .sentences .than .do .writers.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: . b

17. Cultural .intelligence .involves .becoming .more .sympathetic .to .another .culture.
a. True