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

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