Reference 8th Edition
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TEST BANK
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Dan O'Hair
Rob Stewart
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Hannah Rubenstein
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
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and Students
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Chapter 1
1. Learning to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals.
a. True
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b. False
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2. Oral communication skills are ranked as the number one job skill employers seek MOST in college
graduates.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a
3. Preparing speeches can help students develop skills needed in other college courses.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a
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4. The practice of giving speeches was originally known as persuasion.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b
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5. The practice of rhetoric, or oratory, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth-century B.C.E.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: a
6. In the Roman republic, citizens met in public spaces called marketplaces to engage in oral discourse.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: b
7. What the Greeks called the agora exists today in the form of town halls.
a. True
b. False
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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.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b
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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
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12. Delivery refers to adapting speech information to the audience in order to make a case.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: b
13. The five canons of rhetoric are invention, adaptation, arrangement, timing, and delivery.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: b
14. Public speaking is similar in many ways to engaging in an important conversation.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: a
15. Effective speaking and effective writing both require a sense of who the audience is.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: a
16. In general, speakers use more unfamiliar words and complex sentences than do writers.
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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
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19. Unlike dyadic communication, public speaking usually occurs in formal settings.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a
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20. The process of converting thoughts into words is termed decoding.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b
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21. The receiver decodes, or interprets, the message.
a. True
b. False
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ANSWER: a
22. The audience's response to a message is called feedback.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: a
23. A message can be expressed both verbally and nonverbally.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: a
24. E-mail is one example of a communication channel.
a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: a
25. Another term for noise is interference.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a
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