Test Bank for A Speaker's Guidebook, Text and Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair,
Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein
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1. Learning to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
2. Oral communication skills are ranked as the number one job skill employers seek MOST in college gr
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aduates.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
3. Preparing speeches can help students develop skills needed in other college courses.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
4. The practice of giving speeches was originally known as persuasion.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
5. The practice of rhetoric, or oratory, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth-century B.C.E.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
6. In the Roman republic, citizens met in public spaces called marketplaces to engage in oral discourse.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
7. What the Greeks called the agora exists today in the form of town halls.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
8. The Internet is today's global public forum or agora.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
9. The Greeks referred to advocating or legal speech as epideictic oratory.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
10. Most modern-day public figures engage primarily in epideictic oratory.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
11. According to Roman scholars of rhetoric, including Cicero and Quintilian, memory is one of the five canons of
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rhetoric.
a. True
b. False
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12. Delivery refers to adapting speech information to the audience in order to make a case.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
13. The five canons of rhetoric are invention, adaptation, arrangement, timing, and delivery.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
14. Public speaking is similar in many ways to engaging in an important conversation.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
15. Effective speaking and effective writing both require a sense of who the audience is.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
16. In general, speakers use more unfamiliar words and complex sentences than do writers.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
17. Cultural intelligence involves becoming more sympathetic to another culture.
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a. True
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b. False
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18. Public speaking involves less opportunity for feedback than dyadic communication.
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a. True
b. False
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19. Unlike dyadic communication, public speaking usually occurs in formal settings.
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a. True
b. False
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20. The process of converting thoughts into words is termed decoding.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
21. The receiver decodes, or interprets, the message.
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a. True
b. False
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22. The audience's response to a message is called feedback.
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a. True
b. False
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23. A message can be expressed both verbally and nonverbally.
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a. True
b. False
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24. E-mail is one example of a communication channel.
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a. True
b. False
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25. Another term for noise is interference.
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26. In the context of the communication process, noise refers only to sounds that interrupt our ability to hear the se
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nder's message.
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ANSWER: b w q
27. Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
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a. True
b. False
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28. A political rally is one example of a context.
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a. True
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29. The circumstance that calls for a public response is known as the rhetorical situation.
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a. True
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30. Benefits of public speaking include:
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31. The Athenians demonstrated their oratorical talent in a public space called a(n):
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c. city-state.
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32. The Greeks referred to legislative or political speech as:
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Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein
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1. Learning to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
2. Oral communication skills are ranked as the number one job skill employers seek MOST in college gr
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aduates.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
3. Preparing speeches can help students develop skills needed in other college courses.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
4. The practice of giving speeches was originally known as persuasion.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
5. The practice of rhetoric, or oratory, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth-century B.C.E.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
6. In the Roman republic, citizens met in public spaces called marketplaces to engage in oral discourse.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
7. What the Greeks called the agora exists today in the form of town halls.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
8. The Internet is today's global public forum or agora.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
9. The Greeks referred to advocating or legal speech as epideictic oratory.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
10. Most modern-day public figures engage primarily in epideictic oratory.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
11. According to Roman scholars of rhetoric, including Cicero and Quintilian, memory is one of the five canons of
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rhetoric.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
12. Delivery refers to adapting speech information to the audience in order to make a case.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
13. The five canons of rhetoric are invention, adaptation, arrangement, timing, and delivery.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
14. Public speaking is similar in many ways to engaging in an important conversation.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
15. Effective speaking and effective writing both require a sense of who the audience is.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
16. In general, speakers use more unfamiliar words and complex sentences than do writers.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
17. Cultural intelligence involves becoming more sympathetic to another culture.
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a. True
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b. False
ANSWER: a w q
18. Public speaking involves less opportunity for feedback than dyadic communication.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
19. Unlike dyadic communication, public speaking usually occurs in formal settings.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
20. The process of converting thoughts into words is termed decoding.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b w q
21. The receiver decodes, or interprets, the message.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
22. The audience's response to a message is called feedback.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
23. A message can be expressed both verbally and nonverbally.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
24. E-mail is one example of a communication channel.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
25. Another term for noise is interference.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
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26. In the context of the communication process, noise refers only to sounds that interrupt our ability to hear the se
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nder's message.
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27. Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a w q
28. A political rally is one example of a context.
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a. True
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ANSWER: a w q
29. The circumstance that calls for a public response is known as the rhetorical situation.
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a. True
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30. Benefits of public speaking include:
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a. gaining real-life skills. wq wq
b. advancing written communication skills. wq wq wq
c. improving dyadic communication skills. wq wq wq
d. enhancing relationships with others. wq wq wq
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31. The Athenians demonstrated their oratorical talent in a public space called a(n):
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c. city-state.
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32. The Greeks referred to legislative or political speech as:
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