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The most important activism behavior for advocates involves talking to others, “outing”
systems of oppression in an effort to fight them.
a. True
b. False
Sometimes we see movement through time and place as good, whether or not it actually
is.
This statement best represents the Myth of
A. Culture and power are separate
B. Stereotypes are built on truth
C. Progress is Progress
D. Culture is static
_______ reminds us that ‘schooled’ bodies are efficient and easily controlled.
A. Frankenberg
B. Foucault
C. Freire
Engaging in “The Enthusiast’s Infatuation” is an effective way to engage in listening.
a. True
b. False
__________ to an audience is important for letting them know you are interested in
dialogic communication with them.
A. Speaking
B. Relating
C. Listening
D. None of the above
Telling someone that he or she is exaggerating only insults that person and diverts
attention we need to be giving to fix the problem to some off topic issue. This is an
example of the Myth of
A. Culture is static
B. We’re all making a big deal out of nothing
C. Progress is Progress
D. Stereotypes are built on truth
The anthropologist who wrote, “[Wo/]Man is an animal suspended in webs of
significance [s/]he [her/]himself has spun” is
A. Geertz
B. Conquergood
C. Buber
D. Frankenberg
__________, a sociologist, wrote about colorblindness as “color evasiveness.” In other
words, when we try to be colorblind, we are not blind and unable to see race, but rather,
we evade the topic and the implications of race.
A. Freire
B. Conquergood
C. Buber
D. Frankenberg
____________ are words that describe or identify a state of affairs.
A. Performatives
B. Constatives
C. Signifiers
D. Signs
An audience member is more willing to accept a message in a text if she or he can
connect to the message.
a. True
b. False
According to your textbook, _________ shapes what we can think about or do in the
world.
A. Symbols
B. Concepts
C. Language
D. Signifiers
Stockfelt explains the contextual nature of listening to music in terms of ________ and
argues there are multiple modes of listening we might engage.
A. Situation
B. Genre
C. Context
D. Style
According to the textbook, public advocacy involves taking action against _________
we encounter.
A. complications
B. revolutions
C. relationships
D. injustices
Variation in one’s vocal delivery is known as paralanguage.
a. True
b. False
Roman philosopher Cicero identified the 5 Canons of Rhetoric. The mode or genre of a
message is known as
A. Style
B. Delivery
C. Memory
D. Invention
Engaging in critical compassionate analysis is only important for you, not your
audience.
a. True
b. False
Within the strategies of the powerful, people can transgress the territory of the powerful
for their own purposes. This is also known as
A. Strategy
B. Poaching
C. Co-constitution
D. Representation
Conquergood’s fourth ethical danger of listening, _______________, is characterized
by avoidance or a refusal to take a moral stand.
A. Custodian’s Rip-Off
B. Curator’s Exhibitionism
C. Enthusiast’s Infatuation
D. Skeptic’s Cop-Out
__________ has/have the power to reinforce systems of oppression and privilege.
A. Language
B. Citationality
C. Politically correctness
D. All of the above
Audiences are blank slates, and they will listen openly and supportively, without
judgment, to topics a speaker presents.
a. True
b. False
A frame is a __________.
A. Context
B. Circumstance
C. Environment
D. All of the above
At least three pieces of evidences can effectively persuade an audience.
a. True
b. False
Understanding your _____________ helps you to understand how power and privilege
are at play in a given situation.
A. Symbolism
B. Hegemony
C. Self-Identity
D. Positionality
According to ______________, (2009) to engage in an alliance is to be an activist in
order to created “powerful, meaning-making experiences” (p. 141).
A. Ramani
B. Anzaldua
C. Carillo Rowe
D. Warren
_______ is a cultural shortcut, which dismisses language choices around race or gender
or sexuality.
A. Political correctness
B. Citationality
C. Colorblindness
D. Trope
The relationship between identity/perception and communication is called a
co-curricular relationship that both produce and shape each other.
a. True
b. False
Your communication has consequences for other and for yourself. If you care about
yourself, your community, and your ideas, you will exercise good judgment in every
stage of the speech making process.
a. True
b. False
How we listen or the agency we have as listeners is always filtered through and
influenced by our cultural locations.
a. True
b. False
Communication constitutes groups and creates the everyday-ness of the world.
a. True
b. False
We tend to trust speakers who have a certain amount of ethos.
a. True
b. False
Someone’s perspective or point of view is also known as his/her
A. Positionality
B. Interactions
C. Performance
D. Perception
Social networking sites (SNS. have made in nearly impossible for friends who live a
distance to stay in contact.
a. True
b. False
The justification or reasoning that a speaker uses to connect evidence with the claim is
__________.
A. An argument
B. A warrant
C. A qualifier
D. The grounds
We are united by our __________.
A. Communication
B. Differences
C. Oppositions
D. None of the above
Our bodies are _______, that is, we come to know through our bodies.
A. Paralinguistic
B. Embodied
C. Epistemic
D. Linguistic
