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A Speaker's Guidebook Text and Reference Eighth Edition Dan O'Hair; Rob Stewart; Hannah Rubenstein
Chapters 1-31 Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
Chapter 1
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Cultural intelligence involves becoming more sympathetic to another culture.
a. True
b. False
2. Public speaking is similar in many ways to engaging in an important conversation.
a. True
b. False
3. Oral communication skills are ranked as the number one job skill employers seek MOST in college
graduates.
a. True
b. False
4. The Internet is today's global public forum or agora.
a. True
b. False
5. Which type of communication is the MOST formal?
a. small group
b. dyadic
c. public
d. conversation
6. The Athenians demonstrated their oratorical talent in a public space called a(n):
a. public forum.
b. deliberative forum.
c. city-state.
d. agora.
7. The audience's response to a message is called feedback.
a. True
b. False
8. Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
a. True
b. False
9. Delivery refers to adapting speech information to the audience in order to make a case.
, a. True
b. False
10. A form of communication between two people, such as a conversation, is called:
a. dyadic communication.
b. public communication.
c. mass communication.
d. small group communication.
11. In general, speakers use more unfamiliar words and complex sentences than do writers.
a. True
b. False
12. Another term for noise is interference.
a. True
b. False
13. Converting thoughts into words is called:
a. encoding.
b. decoding.
c. receiving.
d. channeling.
14. How does spoken language differ from written communication?
a. Speakers use unfamiliar words and complex sentences.
b. Oral language is less interactive than written language.
c. Speakers make more references to themselves and to the audience.
d. Written communication is far more formal than spoken language.
15. Anything that influences the speaker, such as the situation or environment in which a speech is given, is
known as:
a. noise.
b. context.
c. feedback.
d. shared meaning.
16. Learning to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals.
a. True
b. False
17. What term refers to the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and material objects that are passed on
from one generation to the next?
a. shared meaning
b. culture
c. rhetorical situation
d. public forum
,18. What the Greeks called the agora exists today in the form of town halls.
a. True
b. False
19. What term refers to the audience's verbal or nonverbal response to a message?
a. feedback
b. interpretation
c. meaning
d. rhetorical situation
20. A message can be expressed both verbally and nonverbally.
a. True
b. False
21. Which canon of rhetoric refers to the speaker's vocal and nonverbal behaviors?
a. invention
b. style
c. delivery
d. memory
22. What term refers to the process of interpreting a message?
a. feedback
b. decoding
c. encoding
d. channeling
23. In the Roman republic, citizens met in public spaces called marketplaces to engage in oral discourse.
a. True
b. False
24. When a speaker tells a joke and an audience member raises their eyebrows, the audience member is
engaging in:
a. civic engagement.
b. feedback.
c. conversation.
d. critical thinking.
25. The Greeks referred to advocating or legal speech as epideictic oratory.
a. True
b. False
26. E-mail is one example of a communication channel.
a. True
b. False
27. According to Roman scholars of rhetoric, including Cicero and Quintilian, memory is one of the five canons
, of rhetoric.
a. True
b. False
28. The practice of rhetoric, or oratory, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth-century B.C.E.
a. True
b. False
29. The cultures of the speaker and audience members are part of the:
a. speaking context.
b. degree of formality.
c. canons of rhetoric.
d. public forum.
30. The receiver decodes, or interprets, the message.
a. True
b. False
31. Preparing speeches can help students develop skills needed in other college courses.
a. True
b. False
32. Which canon of rhetoric involves speakers developing their arguments and evidence to make their case to an
audience?
a. invention
b. arrangement
c. style
d. delivery
33. Benefits of public speaking include:
a. gaining real-life skills.
b. advancing written communication skills.
c. improving dyadic communication skills.
d. enhancing relationships with others.
34. Which style of oratory is used during special ceremonies, such as celebrations and funerals?
a. deliberative
b. forensic
c. improvisational
d. epideictic
35. The mutual understanding of a message between the speaker and the audience is called:
a. decoding.
b. context.
c. rhetorical situation.
d. shared meaning.
A Speaker's Guidebook Text and Reference Eighth Edition Dan O'Hair; Rob Stewart; Hannah Rubenstein
Chapters 1-31 Answers are at the End of Each Chapter
Chapter 1
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Cultural intelligence involves becoming more sympathetic to another culture.
a. True
b. False
2. Public speaking is similar in many ways to engaging in an important conversation.
a. True
b. False
3. Oral communication skills are ranked as the number one job skill employers seek MOST in college
graduates.
a. True
b. False
4. The Internet is today's global public forum or agora.
a. True
b. False
5. Which type of communication is the MOST formal?
a. small group
b. dyadic
c. public
d. conversation
6. The Athenians demonstrated their oratorical talent in a public space called a(n):
a. public forum.
b. deliberative forum.
c. city-state.
d. agora.
7. The audience's response to a message is called feedback.
a. True
b. False
8. Shared meaning is the mutual understanding of a message between speaker and audience.
a. True
b. False
9. Delivery refers to adapting speech information to the audience in order to make a case.
, a. True
b. False
10. A form of communication between two people, such as a conversation, is called:
a. dyadic communication.
b. public communication.
c. mass communication.
d. small group communication.
11. In general, speakers use more unfamiliar words and complex sentences than do writers.
a. True
b. False
12. Another term for noise is interference.
a. True
b. False
13. Converting thoughts into words is called:
a. encoding.
b. decoding.
c. receiving.
d. channeling.
14. How does spoken language differ from written communication?
a. Speakers use unfamiliar words and complex sentences.
b. Oral language is less interactive than written language.
c. Speakers make more references to themselves and to the audience.
d. Written communication is far more formal than spoken language.
15. Anything that influences the speaker, such as the situation or environment in which a speech is given, is
known as:
a. noise.
b. context.
c. feedback.
d. shared meaning.
16. Learning to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals.
a. True
b. False
17. What term refers to the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and material objects that are passed on
from one generation to the next?
a. shared meaning
b. culture
c. rhetorical situation
d. public forum
,18. What the Greeks called the agora exists today in the form of town halls.
a. True
b. False
19. What term refers to the audience's verbal or nonverbal response to a message?
a. feedback
b. interpretation
c. meaning
d. rhetorical situation
20. A message can be expressed both verbally and nonverbally.
a. True
b. False
21. Which canon of rhetoric refers to the speaker's vocal and nonverbal behaviors?
a. invention
b. style
c. delivery
d. memory
22. What term refers to the process of interpreting a message?
a. feedback
b. decoding
c. encoding
d. channeling
23. In the Roman republic, citizens met in public spaces called marketplaces to engage in oral discourse.
a. True
b. False
24. When a speaker tells a joke and an audience member raises their eyebrows, the audience member is
engaging in:
a. civic engagement.
b. feedback.
c. conversation.
d. critical thinking.
25. The Greeks referred to advocating or legal speech as epideictic oratory.
a. True
b. False
26. E-mail is one example of a communication channel.
a. True
b. False
27. According to Roman scholars of rhetoric, including Cicero and Quintilian, memory is one of the five canons
, of rhetoric.
a. True
b. False
28. The practice of rhetoric, or oratory, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth-century B.C.E.
a. True
b. False
29. The cultures of the speaker and audience members are part of the:
a. speaking context.
b. degree of formality.
c. canons of rhetoric.
d. public forum.
30. The receiver decodes, or interprets, the message.
a. True
b. False
31. Preparing speeches can help students develop skills needed in other college courses.
a. True
b. False
32. Which canon of rhetoric involves speakers developing their arguments and evidence to make their case to an
audience?
a. invention
b. arrangement
c. style
d. delivery
33. Benefits of public speaking include:
a. gaining real-life skills.
b. advancing written communication skills.
c. improving dyadic communication skills.
d. enhancing relationships with others.
34. Which style of oratory is used during special ceremonies, such as celebrations and funerals?
a. deliberative
b. forensic
c. improvisational
d. epideictic
35. The mutual understanding of a message between the speaker and the audience is called:
a. decoding.
b. context.
c. rhetorical situation.
d. shared meaning.
