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Chapter 1
1. Learning to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals.
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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