Questions and CORRECT Answers
Stories cannot define relationships and future generations of listeners - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔False
Communication is up to interpretation. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
The way a performer elects to stage the story is just as important as the story itself. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
Telling stories in a public setting is an exciting way to share culture and community. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
By locating an collecting the oral we understand people better. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔True
Communication is a process in which people create _______. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Meaning
Performance is a process in which individuals display and create themselves through the roles
they _____ to portray. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Elect
Stories are aesthetic artifacts. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
Stories do not happen in a vacuum - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
The sketch of Eric does NOT show that each individual's stories - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Are static
Pedestrian everyday behaviors and speech patterns become less important unless it is
signifying and heightening the character being portrayed. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
,Audience members who witness oral history as a performance not only _____ and _____ the
story but often go away with a deeper understanding. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Engage
and Translate
Telling stories does not strengthen communal bonds. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
Communication is motivated by individual _____. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Desires
When performing a story and turning it into an aesthetic text a performer would not consider
wording structure phrases and literary devices - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
Audiences are static in nature - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
Myths legends and folktales do not exemplify the power of a story to exist for generations to
be shared orally across cultures and to be documented as a central artifact of a culture. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
Ethnography is the ______ study of another culture using fieldwork methods such as
participant observation interviewing and journaling. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Systematic
Myths legends folklore and folktales are considered: - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Communal
stories
The stories we tell evolve shift and change depending upon the audience we have. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
according to our text three approaches to performance studies would include: - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Performance as a metaphor for understanding communicative act as a method
of inquiry and objective study.
The root of performance is to fake or hide. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
, All human communication is not an act of performance. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
To think of human communication as a performance is to accept stereotypes a negative
connotations which sometimes are associated with performance. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔False
Audiences and performers need each other. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
Performing stories as an aesthetic text requires ______ choices like attention to the art form
to the staging and the actual telling of he story. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Intentional
In terms of performance and stories people are both products and ______ of their culture. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Producers
Performance studies scholars are committed to the ethnographic method in order to
understand others ______. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Experientially
The impact of a story on a community is finite. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
Telling stories in a public setting is an exciting way to share culture and community. -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
Those who interact with us become our ___________. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Audience
One's real self is a composite of only their familial and professional roles. - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔False
Where do stories originate _____ yet are shaped by ______? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Individually ; community
Culture is a process - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True