Reference no: EM133572097
Questions
1. Which is an example of an ethnic group?
older adults
white men
women
Brazilians
2. Which is a scaled question?
Which of the items on this table do you think would be legal to carry onto an airplane?
How would you rate the food at the restaurant-bad, good, or great?
What was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?
Which type of wine would you prefer for dinner, white or red?
3. When assessing prior exposure, what is the first question you should ask yourself?
Has my audience responded positively to the message?
Why did the previous message fail?
Has my audience heard this message before?
Has my audience had a major change in perspective since a previous presentation?
4. Which type of audience would MOST likely respond favorably to your speech?
neutral
captive
mobile
sympathetic
5. Which sentence passively acknowledges LGBTQ individuals?
Many husbands disagree with their wives over the best way to handle financial matters.
When the bride joins the groom at the front of the church, the ceremony can begin.
It's important for people in long-term committed relationships to do some estate planning.
If your brother wants to score big points with his boyfriend on Valentine's Day, he should buy Tastee Choklits.
6. Which is a benefit of speaking to a small group of people?
You are guaranteed to get a wide variety of questions and comments.
You can communicate a more detailed and specific message.
Everyone in the audience will be active listeners.
You can incorporate the use of humor into your presentation.
7. What does the term prior exposure refer to?
the extent to which audience members have already heard your message
the amount of knowledge the audience has about your topic
how familiar you are with the topic you are speaking about
how long you and the majority of the audience members have known one another
8. Imagine you are giving a speech about a new treatment for cancer to a local community group. Which choice would help the audience understand your presentation?
focus on the financial aspects of the treatment
provide explanations and examples
focus on the politics of medical research
include a lot of medical terminology
9. Which strategy seeks common ground with the audience?
talking about the ways in which you are different from them
expressing your main points with strong emotion
explaining how your topic makes you feel
identifying an experience that you and the audience have shared
10. If the audience you are presenting to is not the audience you expected, you should
cut out any planned question-and-answer period, and deliver your speech without any changes.
try to read the mood of your audience members and adjust your delivery appropriately.
rely on your presentation aids to make your speech work for any possible audience.
improvise a new speech on the spot once you learn who your audience will be, and hope for the best.
11. The term body clock refers to the
time of day or day of the week of your presentation.
setting where your audience will listen to your speech.
degree to which listeners move around during a speech.
length of time you have to deliver your speech.
12. What should be your focus when facing a hostile audience?
pushing for commitment from them
determining their level of conviction regarding your topic
seeking incremental change rather than a complete turnaround
simplifying your topic to make it easier to understand
13. An example of a forum would be a(n)
audience of 50 physicians.
single-gender audience.
school auditorium.
question and answer session.
14. When interviewing someone, you should
focus on phrasing your next questions exactly as you have written them.
encourage creative interview responses by making up questions as you go.
be confrontational and oppositional to elicit quotable responses.
ask a range of fixed-response, scaled, and open-ended questions.
15. An example of a situational characteristic is the
size of the audience.
topic of your speech.
types of questions the audience asks.
audience's reaction.
16. Which sentence contains demographic information?
The majority of the people in the audience are nurses.
The presentation is set to begin at 10:30 tomorrow morning.
It's getting late, and the members of the audience are getting tired.
There are several dozen people in the audience.
17. The length of time you have to deliver your speech is called
delivery time.
chronemics.
presentation time.
meeting time.
18. Which statement about gender stereotypes is true?
They focus on negative attributes of a specific group.
They are developed from the completed audience analysis.
They are a means of being more inclusive of each gender group.
They are oversimplified views about different gender groups.
19. A presentation arguing in favor of government vouchers to allow children to attend private school would be MOST appropriate for which audience?
elementary school students
retirement home residents
investment bankers
state congress members
20. Where would you be MOST likely to encounter a mobile audience?
business school classroom
university lecture hall
college graduation
conference exhibition hall