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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)
PROSE1 STUVIA
, A Speaker's Guidebook, Text and Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart,
Hannah Rubenstein (Test Bank All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade)
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.
, Name: Class: Date:
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
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)
PROSE1 STUVIA
, A Speaker's Guidebook, Text and Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart,
Hannah Rubenstein (Test Bank All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade)
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.
, Name: Class: Date:
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
