Communication 101 - Public Speaking. » Spring 2022 » Chapter 1 Quiz

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Question #1
Employers looking for new hires consider communication skills to be important.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #2
A speaker who maintains an audience-centered perspective keeps the needs, values, attitudes, and wants of listeners firmly in focus.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #3
Public speaking skills can help you enter the public conversation about issues that matter to you, making you a(n)
A.   talking head.
B.   representative of a special interest group.
C.   elected official.
D.   engaged citizen.
Question #4
For the ancient Greeks, what was a necessary tool in settling arguments, determining public policy, and establishing laws?
A.   oratory
B.   agora
C.   forum
D.   listening
Question #5
Athenians in the fifth century B.C.E. believed that citizenship demands active participation in
A.   public affairs.
B.   educational affairs.
C.   private affairs.
D.   economic affairs.
Question #6
Into how many parts (canons) did Greek and Roman teachers divide the process of preparing for a speech?
A.   five
B.   four
C.   seven
D.   six
Question #7
The canon of rhetoric that deals with discovering types of evidence and constructing your arguments is
A.   invention.
B.   arrangement.
C.   style.
D.   memory.
Question #8
In which kind of communication does a speaker, with little interruption, deliver a message with a specific purpose to an audience of people who are present during the delivery?
A.   mass communication
B.   dyadic communication
C.   small group communication
D.   public speaking
Question #9
The process of transforming thoughts into messages for the purpose of delivering them to an audience is called
A.   giving feedback.
B.   decoding.
C.   encoding.
D.   sharing meaning.
Question #10
What reminds us that successful communication can never be divorced from the concerns and expectations of others?
A.   meaning
B.   context
C.   channel
D.   shared meaning
Question #11
When an audience interprets and assigns meaning to a speaker's message, that process is referred to as
A.   encoding.
B.   shared meaning.
C.   decoding.
D.   channeling.
Question #12
Interference or barriers to the communication process are known as
A.   noise.
B.   turbulence.
C.   dissonance.
D.   blockade.
Question #13
What is the verbal or nonverbal listener response to a message?
A.   channel
B.   feedback
C.   context
D.   shared meaning
Question #14
What is the mutual understanding of a message between a speaker and the audience?
A.   encoding
B.   the channel
C.   self-concept
D.   shared meaning
Question #15
What is a rhetorical situation?
A.   a circumstance that calls for a public response
B.   the purpose or thesis of a speech
C.   a question the speaker poses to the audience
D.   an anecdote used in the speech's introduction

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