Test Bank for A Speaker's Guidebook, Text and Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein

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Test Bank for A Speaker's Guidebook, Text and Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein-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 Name: Class: Date: Chapter 1 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 Name: Class: Date: Chapter 1 26. In the context of the communication process, noise refers only to sounds that interrupt our ability to hear the sender's message. a. True b. False ANSWER: b 27. Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 28. A political rally is one example of a context. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 29. The circumstance that calls for a public response is known as the rhetorical situation. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 30. Benefits of public speaking include: a. gaining real-life skills. b. advancing written communication skills. c. improving dyadic communication skills. d. enhancing relationships with others. ANSWER: a 31. The Athenians demonstrated their oratorical talent in a public space called a(n): a. public forum. b. deliberative forum. c. city-state. d. agora. ANSWER: d 32. The Greeks referred to legislative or political speech as: a. epideictic oratory. b. deliberative oratory. c. forensic oratory. d. stylistic oratory [Show More]

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