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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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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: $ r d b
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a. True
b. False
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11. According $rdto $rdRoman $rdscholars $rdof $rdrhetoric, $rdincluding $rdCicero $rdand $rdQuintilian, $rdmemory $rdis $rdone $rdof $rdthe
$rdfive $rdcanons $rdof $rdrhetoric.
a. True
b. False
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12. Delivery $rdrefers $rdto $rdadapting $rdspeech $rdinformation $rdto $rdthe $rdaudience $rdin $rdorder $rdto $rdmake $rda $rdcase.
a. True
b. False
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13. The $rdfive $rdcanons $rdof $rdrhetoric $rdare $rdinvention, $rdadaptation, $rdarrangement, $rdtiming, $rdand $rddelivery.
a. True
b. False
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14. Public $rdspeaking $rdis $rdsimilar $rdin $rdmany $rdways $rdto $rdengaging $rdin $rdan $rdimportant $rdconversation.
a. True
b. False
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15. Effective $rdspeaking $rdand $rdeffective $rdwriting $rdboth $rdrequire $rda $rdsense $rdof $rdwho $rdthe $rdaudience $rdis.
a. True
b. False
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16. In $rdgeneral, $rdspeakers $rduse $rdmore $rdunfamiliar $rdwords $rdand $rdcomplex $rdsentences $rdthan $rddo $rdwriters.
a. True
b. False
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a. True
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18. Public $rdspeaking $rdinvolves $rdless $rdopportunity $rdfor $rdfeedback $rdthan $rddyadic $rdcommunication.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: $ r d a
19. Unlike $rddyadic $rdcommunication, $rdpublic $rdspeaking $rdusually $rdoccurs $rdin $rdformal $rdsettings.
a. True
b. False
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20. The $rdprocess $rdof $rdconverting $rdthoughts $rdinto $rdwords $rdis $rdtermed $rddecoding.
a. True
b. False
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21. The $rdreceiver $rddecodes, $rdor $rdinterprets, $rdthe $rdmessage.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: $ r d a
22. The $rdaudience's $rdresponse $rdto $rda $rdmessage $rdis $rdcalled $rdfeedback.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: $ r d a
23. A $rdmessage $rdcan $rdbe $rdexpressed $rdboth $rdverbally $rdand $rdnonverbally.
a. True
b. False
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24. E-mail $rdis $rdone $rdexample $rdof $rda $rdcommunication $rdchannel.
a. True
b. False
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25. Another $rdterm $rdfor $rdnoise $rdis $rdinterference.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: $ r d a