Quiz 2

Speakers need to change the content of their message if listeners' perspectives on an issue shift over time.

Speakers can learn about their audience through observation.

Scaled questions measure the intensity of feelings on an issue.

Capturing attention is more difficult with stationary audiences than with mobile ones.

Open-ended questions offer a set of general but limited responses.

A speaker who is trying to communicate common ground with an audience nonverbally might

Which of the following is not a desired purpose of interviews?

Which of the following is an example of an ethnic group?

Speakers who wish to address age with their audience should

The tactics for selecting topics and narrowing topics are similar.

When marking a special occasion, speakers must persuade their audiences.

After students have carefully chosen speech topics, they should continue to examine alternative topics that may be even better.

For someone who is delivering a speech, “To make eye contact with all audience members” is an appropriate specific purpose.

Context is the main topic of a speech.

In general, which of the following is not an appropriate research source?

Speakers who focus on topics familiar to them benefit from

When considering speech topics, speakers should

When creating research plans, speakers should consult school or community libraries as well as the Internet.

Audiences are likely to accept biased evidence because it demonstrates an opinion.

College students should not use advanced search features on search engines because these are reserved for experts and professionals.

Reference works provide more in-depth information than do scholarly journals.

During interviews, paraphrasing key responses back to interviewees is an effective way to ensure accurate communication.

Researchers who would like to search online resources by file format should

Research is a critical part of the public speaking process because it does all of the following except

When speakers find an Internet article with questionable credibility, they should

Etymological definitions explain how things are used.

Anecdotes can help reenergize audiences after tackling complex or technical material.

Undefined terms can frustrate listeners and work counter to public speaking goals.

Because they have expertise in common-knowledge subjects, lay sources should
be used to prove factual claims in speeches.

In presentations, active learners usually benefit from supporting materials that invite physical activity.

Which of the following learner types would benefit most from an exercise that requires audience members to simulate wave motion using their arms?

Speakers should avoid using lay testimony to support factual claims in speeches because:

As supporting material, a brief example differs from an extended example in that an extended example:

In a presentation, the best supporting materials:

A small audience in a cramped space would be best served with the aid of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

By establishing common ground with their audiences, speakers can strengthen their credibility.

Relative to other types of informative speeches, speeches about ideas are more concrete and less abstract.

Informative speeches are unique in that speakers need not adapt their messages to the audience.

An informative presentation in which the speaker demonstrates the steps involved in connecting an iPad to a television set is a speech on which type of topic?

The sentence “In practice, American law recognizes obscenity as hard-core pornography (and not as violence, disease, or other social ills)” is an example of which type of definition?

Which of the following techniques for clarifying or simplifying informative speech messages involves using different words to restate a message?