As a speaker, you build _____ or ______ as a community member through your
disciplined performance.
A. Ethos; credibility
B. Pathos; emotions
C. Logos; emotions
D. Ethics; credibility
Communication can produce change.
a. True
b. False
Justice, as a concept, is ambiguous because the word “justice” was applied to the
concept randomly.
a. True
b. False
Performance scholar, Dwight Conquergood encourages us to engage in dialogical
performance to have a genuine understanding of others.
a. True
b. False
The audience response, or level of participation in the performance event is based on
convention and set cultural expectations. This is an example of
A. Proactive participation
B. Inactive participation
C. Interactive participation
D. Preferred participation
____________ is not as simple as talking, public speaking, texting, or emailing, though
it could include all of these.
A. Critical literacy
C. Culture
B. Communication
D. Critical inquiry
When language accomplishes action, it is known as a
A. Constative
B. Sign
C. Performative
D. Speech Act
A blurring of distinction between audience and performer is known as
A. Proactive participation
B. Inactive participation
C. Interactive participation
D. Preferred participation
The idea that our social reality emerges through our actions and that our world, and the
social rules we life by, are the product of verbal and nonverbal communication
describes which of the following perspectives on identity?
A. Social construction
B. Performativity
C. Positionality
D. Cultural location
Have a lot of information for your speech is not that same as having solid, accurate, and
meaningful information.
a. True
b. False
____ characterizes a relationship between a subject and the object.
A. I-Thou
B. I-It
C. I-You
D. I-Other
Learning to see the power of messages helps us to become __________ of the media.
A. Critical consumers
B. Interpellators
C. The expected audience
D. None of the above
To develop a more complex and inclusive understanding of listening, the authors’ ask us
to consider listening as an approach to the experience or a
A. Position
B. Stance
C. Development
D. Mode
“Follow the yellow brick road” is a __________ reference.
A. Politically correct
B. Mythical
C. Citational
D. Cultural
The effect of a given message is known as the
A. Illocutionary act
B. Perlocutionary act
C. Locutionary act
D. Speech movement
Using media aids in presentations __________.
A. Requires practice
B. Should be readable from a distance
C. Should strengthen speaker credibility
D. All of the above
When the group begins to run more like a well-oiled machine, the members are moving
into the ________ stage.
A. Adjourning
B. Forming
C. Norming
D. Performing
Which of the following is most likely a trusted source by an audience?
A. The Bible
B. Newspaper
C. Journal article
D. None of the above
Standing up against the oppression of a social or cultural group by speaking at a campus
event is a way of engaging in advocacy.
a. True
b. False
Our social reality emerges through our actions and that our world, and the social roles
we live by, are the produce of our communication. This is known as
A. Social construction
B. Mythical norm
C. Standpoint theory
D. Positionality
The perspective on communication research that is vulnerable and willing to question
itself and willing to accept multiple, sometime conflicting, truths is represented by
which of the following terms?
A. Elocution
B. Postmodernity
C. Aristotelian
D. Intersubjective
A certain amount of self-disclosure is important in relationships.
a. True
b. False
The process of how members complete certain projects in order to make the
organization run is known as
A. Facts
B. Practices
C. Relevant constructs
D. Rituals
Pausing is a form of nonverbal communication.
a. True
b. False
The question of ______ and how it communicates often figures prominently in whether
we perceive someone as caring and compassionate.
A. Time
B. Space
C. Body ornaments
D. Paralanguage
Statistics, examples, and testimony are forms of the warrant or a way to the connective
tissue that links the evidence to the claim.
a. True
b. False
We must account for how we contribute to systems of power and oppression.
a. True
b. False
Roman philosopher Cicero identified the 5 Canons of Rheotric. The presentation of a
message is known as
A. Style
B. Delivery
C. Memory
D. Invention
__________ can work to undermine critical efforts for social justice.
A. Cynicism
B. Nihilism
C. Exhaustion
D. All of the above
______ is the practice of citing your sources, being truthful and advocating for the
public good.
A. Political correctness
B. Public speaking
C. Citationality
D. Academic integrity
A collective set of assumptions or expectations, such as rule and social norms, can also
be referred to by which of the following terms?
A. System of meaning
B. Negotiation
C. Construction
D. Informed choice
