Spch 101: Test on Chs. 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14 FA 10
Directions: Use a #2 pencil and make sure to completely erase any marks other than your
answers. Make sure to put your name on your scantron.
TRUE/FALSE (3 pts.)
1. You should evaluate your topic to make sure it is important to both you and your
audience.
2. You analyze your audience to become more insightful about how you approach
your topic.
3. Demographic analysis is the process of discovering whether the audience is captive
or voluntary.
4. Incremental plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional use of information from
one or more sources without fully divulging how much information is directly quoted.
5. Surprising, a disorganized speech does not reduce a speaker’s credibility.
6. The use of nonfluencies can decrease the audience’s ratings of speaker competence
and dynamism but seem not to affect ratings of trustworthiness.
7. The type of organizational pattern you choose should be based on the kind of
information and argument you plan to present.
8. A speech explaining the evolution of the U. S. government would most likely use a
problem-solution organizational pattern.
9. An important principle to remember about gaining and maintaining attention is to
always relate your strategy to your topic.
10. You should reveal to the audience any special qualifications you have as a source.
11. A vocalized pause is a positive feature of delivery because Americans dislike breaks
and silence.
12. An early research study found that the audiences retained more information when
there were large variations in rate, pitch, and voice quality.
13. Experiencing fear when presenting is rare.
14. Audience retention is approximately the same whether we tell, show, or show and
tell our message.
15. If a primary goal of informative speaking is clarifying a topic, then a second concern
is making the topic interesting and significant to the audience.
16. Repetition works better than overt audience response or actual behavior to increase
audience comprehension.
17. Research tends to support the old saying that “You should tell ‘em what you’re going
to tell ‘em, tell ‘em, and tell ‘em what you told them.”
18. Use of transitions can increase an audience’s comprehension or understanding of the
message.
MULTIPLE CHOICE (3 pts.)
19. Which of the following is NOT one of the ways of determining if the topic is narrow
enough?
a. There is sufficient information about the topic.
b. The information can be told within the time limits.
c. The topic can be discussed with enough depth to keep the audience interested.
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