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Test Bank For Pocket Guide To Public Speaking 6th Edition Dan Ohair Hannah Rubenstein Rob Stewart
Test Bank For Pocket Guide To Public Speaking 6th Edition Dan Ohair Hannah Rubenstein Rob Stewart
2. Communication skills are one of the top job skills sought by most employers.
A) True
B) False
4. The practice of oratory, or rhetoric, emerged in Greece around the fifth century B.C.E.
A) True
B) False
5. Athenians routinely spoke publicly about personal quarrels in the agora in order to be
more active citizens.
A) True
B) False
6. Delivery includes the nonverbal behavior you use while making your case.
A) True
B) False
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7. The five canons of rhetoric are invention, adaptation, arrangement, timing, and delivery.
A) True
B) False
8. The contemporary term for any one of a variety of places used for discussing issues of
public interest is a public forum.
A) True
B) False
9. Unlike many forms of communication, public speaking is a skill you are born with.
A) True
B) False
11. The source, or sender, is the person who receives the message.
A) True
B) False
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16. The channel is the content of the communication process.
A) True
B) False
17. Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and
audience.
A) True
B) False
18. Being an audience-centered speaker means keeping the needs and values of your
audience in mind.
A) True
B) False
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23. In this form of communication, the receiver is physically removed from the messenger,
and there is little or no interaction between the speaker and the audience.
A) mass communication
B) small group communication
C) public speaking
D) dyadic communication
24. Which of the following involves delivering a specific message to an in-person audience?
A) mass communication
B) dyadic communication
C) electronic communication
D) public speaking
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29. The audience's response to a message is referred to as
A) shared meaning.
B) feedback.
C) the medium.
D) decoding.
31. Keeping the needs, values, attitudes, and wants of your listeners clearly in focus is being
A) audience-centered.
B) a receiver.
C) contextually aware.
D) a decoder.
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Answer Key
1. A
2. A
3. B
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. A
9. B
10. B
11. B
12. A
13. A
14. B
15. A
16. B
17. A
18. A
19. C
20. C
21. A
22. C
23. A
24. D
25. C
26. A
27. A
28. C
29. B
30. B
31. A
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1. Originally, the practice of giving speeches was known as ________ or oratory.
4. The mutual understanding of a message between the speaker and the audience is called
______ _________.
8. A clearly defined specific ________ ________ or goal helps the speaker maintain a
clear focus.
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Answer Key
1. rhetoric
2. dyadic
3. Decoding
4. shared meaning
5. Feedback
6. Interference
7. context
8. speech purpose
1. Discuss how public speaking skills relate to becoming a more engaged citizen.
3. Explain how the craft of public speaking uses conversational skills you already have.
4. Compare and contrast public speaking and writing: How are they similar, and how is
public speaking its own distinct discipline?
6. List and describe one similarity and one difference between public speaking and small
group communication.
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Answer Key
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