Chapter 13 Delivering Business Presentations and Speeches Answer
Key
True / False Questions
1.
Persuasive presentations are primarily intended to engage and reward the audience’s
attention.
2.
When choosing a topic, the occasion of the speech is always the most important factor to
consider.
3.
When planning the duration of your speech, it is better to err on the side of saying too little
than saying too much.
4.
In an oral presentation, humor should be avoided.
5.
It is more effective for most people to read a speech than to present it extemporaneously.
6.
In a webinar, participants expect to interact with the speaker and presentation through
polls, questions, and even live chat with the speaker.
7.
When creating a slideshow presentation, it is important to use animation to transition
between each slide.
8.
Handouts should always be given before a presentation so that listeners can review them
and prepare questions.
9.
Audiences typically wait until after the introduction of a presentation to begin assessing
whether to trust a speaker.
10.
An effective approach to delivering a speech is to remain impersonal and distant from your
audience in order to project the image of authority.
11.
Smiles, grimaces, and frowns should be avoided when making oral presentations.
12.
When using visuals to present information, you should look at the visuals only when the
audience should look at them.
13.
When discussing a visual, you should
not
refer to it with physical action and words.
14.
When presenting information using visuals, you need not explain them since they have
been added just for visual interest.
15.
If you are interacting with the audience and someone disagrees with you, you should
acknowledge why the person might think that way, reiterate why you think the way you do,
and move on.
16.
If you ask a question during a presentation and no one responds, you should ignore the
lack of response and move on.
17.
A webcast is a web-based get-together where a small group interacts online instead of in
a conference room.
18.
Planning the content and physical aspects of a presentation is especially important for
team (collaborative) presentations.
19.
When working on a collaborative presentation, individual speakers should rehearse on
their own and avoid rehearsing as a group in order to avoid distracting each other.
Multiple Choice Questions
20.
Which of the following statements about informative presentations is true?
21.
Which of the following statements about informative presentations is true?
22.
Oliver plans to give an informative presentation on how a new state law will affect the way
his company stores records. He knows that his listeners will quickly grow bored if he
spends a lot of time discussing background information on the law. What should Oliver
do?
23.
Persuasive oral presentations are primarily intended to
24.
Audiences typically expect persuasive presentations to
25.
An entertaining presentation will likely involve
26.
Dante is a manager attending a retreat with his company. During the retreat, Dante gives a
presentation to praise his employees for their hard work over the last year and gives them
gift certificates as thanks for their hard work. This would best be defined as
27.
Mae, a project manager with 15 years of experience, delivers a speech on how to stay
organized and stick to a schedule. Which of the following factors primarily guided her to
choose this topic?
28.
Aaron is the owner of a small paper company. At the annual company dinner in January, he
delivers a speech in which he talks about the successes of the last year and the goals he
hopes the company will achieve in the coming year. Which of the following considerations
was most likely the main factor in his speech topic?
29.
Which of the following statements about preparing your presentation is true?
30.
In which of the following parts of a speech do you need to convey the central topic to and
make a personal connection with the audience?
31.
Keely is a business management consultant giving a presentation to a group of mid- and
upper-level managers at a large international company. She begins her presentation by
saying, “Good morning. My name is Keely King, and I want to thank you for inviting me
here today to speak to you.” By saying this, Keely