Test Bank 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)

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.

, 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

, 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