MASTERY TEST IN COMM 01

General Instructions:
1. Write your answers in your Steno notebook. You cannot join the exam without any steno
notebook.
2. Use black ball pen only.
3. No looking at other classmates’ notebooks

I. Direction: True or False: Write True if the statement expresses correct information
and False if it doesn’t.

1. Silence could be a language in itself.

2. Communication includes symbols, gestures and non - verbal messages.
3. The receiver is usually the one who encodes the message.
4. The communication cycle is not complete until the receiver correctly gets the
message.
5. Communication is meaning sharing. Without meaning, there is no
communication.
6. Oral communication is used mostly for documentation of information.
7. Communication refers only to articulating words.
8. Communicators bring to the interaction their respective field of experience.
9. Communication includes symbols and gestures.
10. Communication does not need any feedback at all.
11. Noise is non-verbal communication.
12. The decoder is the receiver of the message.
13. Feedback simply means reply.
14. The receiver of a message is also a communicator.
15. Facebook is another channel of communication.

II. Direction: Identify the elements of communication found in Column A with its
description in column B. Write the element.

A B
Encoder a. a combination of signals that serves as a stimulus for a receiver
Decoder b. the means by which the message is sent through from S to R
Message c. the initial source of information
Channel d. anything that interferes with the transmission of the message by the S to R
 Feedback e. the heart of every communication
Noise/ Barrier f. makes the communication process meaningful
g. the one that initially decodes the message and soon understands it.
h. the one who decides on the purpose or goal of the communication
i. this element can be verbal or non-verbal
j. the reply can be instant or delayed

III. Direction: Identify the dimension of communication being described in each given item.

1. Information is delivered through words and sounds

2. Transcription of thoughts and ideas

3. Casual approach with no regard for formalities

4. A speaker may not be aware of the unintended meaning of a message

5. The way a person walks, sits and dresses herself

6. The use of time based on position or power

7. The use of space to show importance

8. The use of touch to express what cannot be said

9. The use of feedback to validate the information

10. How “something” is said, not what is said

11. Used to show size, height, distance

12. The meticulous observation of appropriateness in dress, language and setting.

13. Gestures associated with specific meanings

14. Used to control the flow of communication

15. Punctuate what one wants to highlight in a message

IV. VOWEL SOUNDS

Identify the word that has a different vowel sound.

1. cuts, caste, cask, casque

2. trim, Tim, sin, seen
3. meat, meet, met, mete
4. tan, sand, band, ten
5. dole, thaw, pall, paw
6. Sam, dock, God, block
7. peach, speech, pink, peak
8. bear, care, hear, pear
9. curve, bird, here, her
10. book, foot, boy, would
11. most, soft, mall, draw
12. stair, hair, gain, stare
13. pure, cure, your, use
14. has, pant, was, can’t
15. said, bed, says, days

V. Place the primary stress of the given words.

1. intestine
2. motif
3. abdomen
4. guitarist
5. pomelo
6. rapport
7. Protestant
8. interval
9. professor
10. entrepreneur