Bank for A Speakers Guidebook, Text, an

Test Bank for A Speaker's Guidebook, Text, an Reference, 8e Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein (All Chapters) Chapter 1

• Learning

to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals.

• True
• False

ANSWER:

a 2.Oral communication skills are ranked as the number one job skill employers seek MOST in college graduates.

• True
• False

ANSWER:

a

• Preparing

speeches can help students develop skills needed in other college courses.

• True
• False

ANSWER:

a

• The

practice of giving speeches was originally known as persuasion.

• True
• False

ANSWER:

b

• The

practice of rhetoric, or oratory, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth-century B.C.E.

• True
• False

ANSWER:

a

• In

the Roman republic, citizens met in public spaces called marketplaces to engage in oral discourse.

• True
• False

ANSWER:

b

• What

the Greeks called the agora exists today in the form of town halls.

• True
• False

ANSWER:

a

• The

Internet is today's global public forum or agora. 1 / 4

• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• The Greeks referred to advocating or legal speech as epideictic oratory.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Most modern-day public figures engage primarily in epideictic oratory.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• According to Roman scholars of rhetoric, including Cicero and Quintilian, memory is one of the five canons

of rhetoric.

• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• Delivery refers to adapting speech information to the audience in order to make a case.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• The five canons of rhetoric are invention, adaptation, arrangement, timing, and delivery.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Public speaking is similar in many ways to engaging in an important conversation.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• Effective speaking and effective writing both require a sense of who the audience is.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• In general, speakers use more unfamiliar words and complex sentences than do writers.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

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• Cultural intelligence involves becoming more sympathetic to another culture.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• Public speaking involves less opportunity for feedback than dyadic communication.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• Unlike dyadic communication, public speaking usually occurs in formal settings.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• The process of converting thoughts into words is termed decoding.
• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• The receiver decodes, or interprets, the message.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• The audience's response to a message is called feedback.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• A message can be expressed both verbally and nonverbally.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• E-mail is one example of a communication channel.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• Another term for noise is interference.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

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• In the context of the communication process, noise refers only to sounds that interrupt our ability to hear the

sender's message.

• True
• False

ANSWER: b

• Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• A political rally is one example of a context.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

• The circumstance that calls for a public response is known as the rhetorical situation.
• True
• False

ANSWER: a

30. Benefits of public speaking include:

• gaining real-life skills.
• advancing written communication skills.
• improving dyadic communication skills.
• enhancing relationships with others.

ANSWER: a

• The Athenians demonstrated their oratorical talent in a public space called a(n):
• public forum.
• deliberative forum.
• city-state.
• agora.

ANSWER: d

32. The Greeks referred to legislative or political speech as:

• epideictic oratory.
• deliberative oratory.
• forensic oratory.
• stylistic oratory.

ANSWER: b

• Which style of oratory is used during special ceremonies, such as celebrations and funerals?
• deliberative
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