Test Bank for A Speaker’s Guidebook: Text and Reference, 8th Edition by Dan O’Hair, Rob Stewart & Hannah Rubenstein – Complete All Chapters – 2025/2026

Test Bank for A Speaker's Guidebook, Text, an
Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart, Hannah
Rubenstein (All Chapters)
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.




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, a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

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




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,17. Cultural intelligence involves becoming more sympathetic to another culture.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

18. Public speaking involves less opportunity for feedback than dyadic communication.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

19. Unlike dyadic communication, public speaking usually occurs in formal settings.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

20. The process of converting thoughts into words is termed decoding.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b

21. The receiver decodes, or interprets, the message.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

22. The audience's response to a message is called feedback.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

23. A message can be expressed both verbally and nonverbally.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

24. E-mail is one example of a communication channel.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

25. Another term for noise is interference.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a




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, 26. In the context of the communication process, noise refers only to sounds that interrupt our ability to hear the
sender's message.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b

27. Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

28. A political rally is one example of a context.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

29. The circumstance that calls for a public response is known as the rhetorical situation.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a

30. Benefits of public speaking include:
a. gaining real-life skills.
b. advancing written communication skills.
c. improving dyadic communication skills.
d. enhancing relationships with others.
ANSWER: a

31. The Athenians demonstrated their oratorical talent in a public space called a(n):
a. public forum.
b. deliberative forum.
c. city-state.
d. agora.
ANSWER: d

32. The Greeks referred to legislative or political speech as:
a. epideictic oratory.
b. deliberative oratory.
c. forensic oratory.
d. stylistic oratory.
ANSWER: b

33. Which style of oratory is used during special ceremonies, such as celebrations and funerals?
a. deliberative




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