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Generally, the level of education a person has influences his or her ideas and
perspectives.
In an introduction, using a quotation from someone who is not famous will discredit the
speaker.
Commercial factors never influence Internet search results or degrade your findings.
When it comes to presentation aids, the more colors the better, so that the aids are as
flashy as possible.
Success in persuasive speech requires attention to what motivates listeners.
Awareness of audience members' participation in a distinct co-culture, or ethnic
community, is important when adapting your message.
Crisis-response presentations are also known as crisis communication.
Speakers who introduce their speeches with startling statements or unusual information
are ineffective in gaining the audience's attention.
Webinars are presentations or training sessions that are prerecorded and played at a time
convenient for each audience member.
The affirmative side attempts to convince the judges or audience to agree with their
resolution.
Creating, organizing, and producing the message is termed encoding.
The practice of oratory, or rhetoric, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth century
b.c.e.
During a debate you should listen carefully to the other side, but writing things down is
likely to distract you.
Listeners have better recall of the main points made in the middle of the speech than for
those at the beginning and at the end of a speech.
Boldface, underlining, and italics should be used sparingly to call attention to the most
important points.
Outlines are critical to delivering, but not to organizing, a speech.
The request for funding presentation can be delivered as an individual or a team
presentation.
Many students taking arts and humanities courses must research a question and then
lead a classroom discussion on it.
In a roman numeral outline, supporting points are enumerated with Arabic numerals.
To narrow a speech topic, you need to consider time constraints, audience expectations,
and the nature of the occasion.
Practicing a speech in front of someone and gaining constructive criticism is helpful for
speakers.
Instructors in the arts and humanities often ask students to compare and contrast events,
stories, people, or artifacts.
The thesis statement is the theme or central idea of the speech.
In defensive listening, audience members decide that they like what the speaker is
going to say.
Laziness and overconfidence occur when we expect too little from speakers, ignore
important information, or display an arrogant attitude.
Pre-preparation anxiety usually occurs when a speaker rehearses the speech.
A speech using the narrative organizational pattern is not likely to incorporate elements
of other patterns.
An engineering design review typically doesn"t discuss any future plans or unresolved
problems.
Putting main points in parallel form means casting your main points in similar
grammatical form and style.
A policy recommendation report does not include a plan for implementing its
recommendations.
The person with the weakest presentation style and least credibility should deliver the
opening portion of the presentation.
Individual search engines compile their own databases as well as scanning a variety of
others.
A dynamic delivery style is inappropriate for a speech of inspiration.
Being an audience-centered speaker means keeping the context and the rhetorical
situation in mind.
Any source that requires credit in written form should be acknowledged in oral form.
Once you have prepared your presentation well, you should be able to record it in only
one take.
Effective presentations in education require careful attention to the selection of a speech
organizational pattern.
A mini-lecture is designed to give students an opportunity to synthesize information in
shorter form, and usually lasts fifteen to twenty minutes.
To inform, to persuade, and to mark a special occasion are the three types of
A)general speech purposes.
B)specific speech purposes.
C)thesis statements.
D)speech occasions.
Maria wishes to show how the university budget is spent each year. To best illustrate the
division of the budget, Maria should use a
A)bar graph.
B)flowchart.
C)pie graph.
D)pictogram
The function of a speech of acceptance is to
A)express gratitude for the honor bestowed.
B)react with surprise.
C)question whether the speaker should have been given the award.
D)describe the speaker's background and accomplishments.
Which of the following PowerPoint options offers help in creating your slideshow by
offering predesigned templates?
A)AutoContent Wizard
B)Design Tab
C)Blank Presentation Tab
D)Guidebook Pattern
An effective informative speech shows listeners
A)why they should change their attitude about the topic.
B)something they didn't previously know.
C)the correct way to follow a procedure.
D)why they should adopt a certain viewpoint.
A ________ is a digital audio recording of a speech or presentation captured and stored
in a form accessible via the Web.
A) Webinar
B) podcast
C) screencast
D) streamed presentation
With a speaking outline,
A)condense full sentences into key words or phrases.
B)expand the sentences into larger, more detailed sentences.
C)practicing the speech is unnecessary.
D)highlighting delivery cues is unnecessary.
For a speech of presentation, the speaker should
A)assume the audience knows the meaning of the award.
B) assume the audience knows why the recipient is receiving the award.
C) explain why the recipient is receiving the award.
D)always have a humorous element involved.
Brief stories of interesting, humorous incidents based on real life are called
A)facts.
B)testimony.
C)statistics.
D)anecdotes.
A speaker who delivers a speech of introduction should avoid
A) preparing for the speech.
B)speaking briefly.
C)previewing the speaker's topic.
D) providing background on the person being introduced.
Which of the following outlines permits the greatest degree of eye contact?
A)working
B)preparation
C)phrase
D)key-word
Listeners may perceive a speaker who slouches as
A)sloppy, weak, and unfocused.
B)unqualified yet friendly.
C)casual and credible.
D)an expert in the field.
An effective social science presentation includes all of the following except
A) aclear illustration of the research questions.
B)the speaker's background.
C)reference to current research.
D)timely data.
Keeping the needs, values, attitudes, and wants of your listeners clearly in focus is
being
A) audience centered.
B) a receiver.
C) contextually aware.
D) a decoder.
Speech that is ____________ is potentially harmful to a person's reputation at work or
in the community and might be illegal if you spoke with a reckless disregard for the
truth.
A) manipulative
B) honest
C) defamatory
D) illegal
Superior _______ ____ can provide your audience with a compelling visual experience,
even though you and your audience are not face-to-face.
A) bodily movement
B) presentation aids
C) vocal variety
D) transitional graphics
The _______ presentation for science and math describes original research that the
speaker has conducted.
A)research
B)field study
C)research overview
D) methods/procedure
In which type of speech does the speaker challenges audience members to use what
they have learned in a way that benefits them?
A)transitional
B)informative
C) persuasive
D) rhetorical
The ______ speech purpose answers the question, "What is my objective in speaking on
this topic to this audience on this occasion?"
A)general
B)specific
C)informative
D)persuasive
During the speech introduction the audience decides whether they are interested in the
topic and the speaker. To build credibility, a speaker should establish his or her
A)family background
B)supporting material.
C)qualifications.
D)logos.
All of the following are guidelines for conducting interviews except
A) prepare the questions ahead of time.
B) aim for leading questions that will take the interviewee where you want them to go.
C) use active listening.
D) end by rechecking and confirming.
A speech should be practiced at least how many times?
A)six
B)seven
C)eight
D)nine
"A theory is like a set of glasses we put on to look through" is an example of
A) a syllogism.
B) an analogy.
C) a rhetorical question.
D) parallelism.
Which type of presentation recommends a course of action on a current issue or
problem?
A)explanatory research presentation
B)program evaluation presentation
C)review of the literature
D)policy recommendation report
Videotaping _______ practice sessions is most helpful to a speaker.
A)two
B)four
C)five
D)at least six
Socioeconomic status (SES) includes
A)gender, occupation, and religion.
B)ethnicity, education, and occupation.
C)income, occupation, and education.
D)religion, education, and gender
An effective social science presentation makes use of timely data.
"Have you ever been to a professional hockey game?" is an example of
A)an open-ended question.
B)a closed-ended question.
C) a scale question.
D) an expert question.
A ______ typically provides information so that an organization can make a decision
about a product, procedure, or policy.
A)proposal
B)sales pitch
C) case study
D)staff report
If a source used in a speech requires credit in written form, it also
A)requires consent from the author.
B)should be mentioned before the speaker's findings.
C)needs to be quoted directly.
D)should be acknowledged orally.
If you ask survey respondents to respond to questions with a limited choice of answers,
you are asking what type of questions?
A)interview
B)fixed-alternative
C)essay
D)open-ended
Which type of delivery gives speakers the least time to gather their thoughts?
A)memorized
B)manuscript
C)impromptu
D)extemporaneous
Each team member's responsibilities regarding content and presentation aids should be
put in _______.
A form of communication between two people, such as a conversation, is ________
communication.
When you _______ a speech topic, you focus on specific aspects of it to the exclusion
of others.
A _______is the quantified portion of a whole, and can be used to compare categories.
A presentation aid that includes movie, television, and other recording instruments is
called _______ .
_______ language is specific, tangible, and definite.
A(n) _______ represents relationships among two or more things.
Speakers should take steps to avoid __________ _________ when they download audio
and visual materials from the Web into their slideshows.
Whether lengthy and formally organized or brief and loosely structured, the ____ is
used to help organizations make decisions on products, procedures, and policies.
Points that are _______ are given equal weight.
The delivery method known as _______ speaking is the most natural way to deliver a
speech.
A speaker who identifies and appeals to the audience's emotions employs the classical
persuasive appeal known as ______ .
The _______ _______ consists of those individuals within the broader audience whom
you are most likely to influence in the direction you seek.
A _______ outline uses partial construction of the sentence form of each point.
The _______ pattern relates a cause to its effects.
You can conduct ________ in a one-on-one or a group setting, in person or over the
telephone to learn about your audience.
______ evidence is any information in support of a claim that originates with sources
other than the speaker's own experience.
The presentation will go more smoothly if the whole group __________ the
presentation with presentation aids several times.
