Practice Final Examination.

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1.      True  False: Communication is simply motivated by the need to transmit information.

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2.      True or False: Topical Organization can also be considered the “etc. design.” If it isn’t anything else, it’s topical.

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F.

3.      True or False: The only speech an audience member ever hears is: "How am I doing right now?"

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F.

4.      “Shotgun” is a type of:

A.     Organization.
B.     Introduction.
C.     Transition.
D.     Citation.

5.      True or False: whichever a shotgun is, it almost always ought to be avoided.

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F.

6.      Morris’s first debatable truism is:

A.     We often see what we are told to see, instead of what is there.
B.     No one likes a smart aleck.
C.     It is better to be prepared than to be good.
D.     Get to them before they get to you.

 7.      True or False: Morris’s second debatable truism is  “The fix is always in.” (That part is true.) What that means is that the people who make messages well put things in them for a reason.

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8.      True or False: All talk should be motivated by the urgency to change the listener in some specific, predictable way.

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9.      General purposes are important because:

A. Audiences only respond “in general.”
B.  It’s important to have a theme.
C. Different types of interaction generate certain unique expectations.
D. None of the above. Outside the construction of a class outline, there is no compelling reason to include a general
           purpose.

 10.  The most important sentence of the speech is:

A. The first one.
B. The specific speech purpose.
C. The one where you identify the subject matter.
D. The last one.

11.  True or False: Efficiency dictates squeezing as many possible responses as one can into the specific speech purpose.

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12.  True or False: Without exception, the Central Idea should begin with the four words, “The audience member will . . . .”

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13.  True or False: The instructor says that the speaker should always consider a breakdown in communication his or her fault. This is because we want to get used to thinking that there is always something more that I can do to make my position clear.

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14.  According to the text, that “public speaking is dynamic” relates most specifically to:

A. The Specific Speech Purpose.
B. The speaking moment.
C.  Transitions.
D. Audience Analysis.

15.  A good claim demonstrates which of the following characteristics?

A. It is a declarative sentence.
B. It makes the children giggle.
C. It can be supported by evidence.
D. A and C. above.

16.  True or False: The text listed “Dental Hygiene is important.” As a good claim.

(Hint. The text did list the sentence as one or the other.)

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17.  True or False: The more bizarre the claim, the more immediate must be its demonstration.

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F.

18.  True or False: An argument, regardless of its content, should be compelling.

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19.  A good claim is all but which of the following?

A. specific.
B. Predictable.
C. Logical.
D. Sensible.

20.  Which refers to the capacity of the audience member to understand what you are saying when he or she is hearing it?

A. Clarity.
B. Retention.
C. Veracity.
D. Comprehension.

21.  True or False: Reduction is the act of taking a number of small parts and reducing them to one central whole.

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22.  True or False: A signpost is a direct verbal instruction to an audience member.

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F.

23.  Which of the following is one of the three types of summary?

A. Rhetorical.
B. Introductory.
C. Internal.
D. Methodical.

24.  True or False: Analogy is the literal description of the content of one thing by showing what characteristics it shares with another.

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F.

25.  Mnemonics are:

A. The Greek scholars who created the tradition of rhetoric.
B. Memory devices.
C. Words one uses in place of others words that might be offensive to some audience members.
D. People who are unable to form visual mental images.

26.  A narration, rather than being broken into steps, is broken into:

A. Chapters.
B. Places.
C. Episodes.
D. Sub-plots.

27.  True or False: By and large, people relate the amount of time you spend on a point to the relative importance of that point.

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28.  True or False: Assuming that because A happened before B, A caused B is called faulty causal reasoning.

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F.

29.  The text defines Problem and solution as dealing with:

A. Policy.
B. Interaction.
C. Rationality.
D. Ethos.

30.  True or False: There are no “pretty good” statistics.

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F.

Section Two: Outline Analysis.

Read and digest the following outline, then answer the questions referring to it.

(Hint: Look at how everything fits together. Don’t just respond to one part in isolation.)

 Outline One

General Purpose: To Inform.
Specific Speech Purpose: The audience member will try to understand why Level 9 is the best show on TV.
Central Idea:           Something for everybody.
 Main Idea I:     Everyone loves hackers.
A. Sosh
B. Jargon
Main Idea II:  Everyone is paranoid about computers
A.     My friend
B. H.A.L.
Main Idea III:             What else is on?
A.  C.S.I.?
B.     Norm?
C.     Dateline?

31.  True or False: The only thing that is wrong with Main Idea III is that it is a question.

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32.  True or False: The Specific Speech Purpose, as written, matches the general purpose.

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F.

33.  True or False: The specific speech purpose is fine.

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34.  True or False: The central idea is good, because it permits a broad range of ideas to be included in the speech.

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35.  True or False: The sub-points of Main Idea I do a good job of developing the idea (Hint: Jargon and Sosh are the too-hip-for-the-room-relatively-teen hackers.).

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36.  H.A.L. is the famous computer that caused so much trouble in 2001: a Space Oddessy. Assuming that the speaker has a terrific story about a friend who was personally harmed through the use of computers, which of the below best states to likely outcome of the point?

A. The combination of a good, visual personal anecdote and a famous case will provide ample evidence.
B. The claim lacks evidence to generalize from the two specific cases.
C. The story is wasted, because it appears too late in the speech to visualize the central idea.
D. Since H.A.L. was just in a movie, it would have nothing to do with how people in America feel about computers.

37. Since it is so obviously true that not everyone likes hackers, that in fact most people
     dislike hackers, the best thing for the speaker to do is:

A. Get rid of the idea altogether. Why turn people off to the show by telling them it’s about people they don’t like?
B. Focus on the good-guy hackers vs. bad-guy hackers angle.
C. Focus on the hackers but call them something else.
D. Get rid of the  “everybody.” Aim at a target audience that does respond to the rebellion of hacking. Older people
           probably won’t like this program anyway.
E. All of the above
F. A. and B. above.
G. B. and D. above.

38.  True or False: The problem with the Specific Speech Purpose is that “try” and  “understand” are two different responses.

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39.  True or False: The central idea is weak, because “something for everybody” is a pretty flimsy criterion for picking the “best show on TV.”

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F.

40.  True or False: The whole speech is doomed from the start. How could this possibly be the best show in a TV schedule that includes Buffy, the Vampire Slayer?

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F.

 

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