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JACINTO BORJA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Cantaongon, Loon, Bohol

Diagnostic Test in Oral Communication

Name: ______________________________________________________ Yr./Section:

_______________ Date: ____________ Score: _______
Directions: Read and understand the questions carefully. Encircle the letter of your choice.

1. It is defined as a process by which ideas, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and information are
conveyed through symbols, signs, or behavior.
a. Communication b. story telling c. declamation
d. news writing
2. What type of communication model is emphasized below?
(Message) (Listener)
Speaker
Speech Audience

a. Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver b. Wilbur Schramm c. Aristotle

d. Eugene White
3. In this model, the message sent by the Source (Speaker) is not necessarily the Message
received by the Destination (Listener) due to the intervention of noise that hampers the
communication.
a. Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver b. Wilbur Schramm c. Aristotle
d. Eugene Whit
4. The one who receives the Message.
a. Response b. speaker c. listener
d. feedback
5. The result of monitoring by the Speaker of the Listener’s Response.
a. Response b. speaker c. listener
d. feedback
6. The means by which the Message is sent.
a. Channels b. listener c. noise
d. speaker
7. This is the central to the process because the points of communicating is to say “something”.
a. Feedback b. speaker c. message
d. response
8. It is also called as “communication breakdown”.
a. Miscommunication b. noise c. speaker
d. nonverbal
9. The following are the types of noise, EXCEPT
a. psychological b. Physiological c. Physical
d. system
10. A function of communication used if the speaker’s purpose is to control other by managing
their behavior.
a. Regulation and control b. Motivation c. social interaction
d. information
11. This is when the Speaker’s purpose is to persuade or try to persuade another person to change
his/her opinion, attitude, or behavior.
a. Regulation and control b. Motivation c. social interaction
d. information
12. What is the most familiar and the primary reason why people communicate?
a. Regulation and control b. Motivation c. social interaction
d. information
13. What function is used when the Speaker wants to make other aware of certain data, concepts,
and processes – knowledge that may be useful to them.
 a. Regulation and control b. Motivation c. social interaction
d. information
14. The teacher looks sharply at the noisy students. What function of communication is used in
this instance?
a. Regulation and control b. Motivation c. social interaction
d. information
15. The janitor tells the students to move away from the area of the corridor he is cleaning. What
function of communication is used in this instance?
a. Regulation and control b. Motivation c. social interaction
d. information
16. Asking the janitor where the comfort room is. What function of communication is used in
this instance?
a. Regulation and control b. Motivation c. social interaction
d. information
17. It is communicating with oneself.
a. Interpersonal communication b. intrapersonal communication
18. Communication which involves more than one person.
a. Interpersonal communication b. intrapersonal communication
19. A type of interpersonal communication which involves two participants.
a. Small group discussion b. Dyadic communication c. public
communication d. mass communication
20. If 3 to 15 people involve to study an issue, discuss a problem, and come up with a solution
or a plan, what type of intrapersonal communication it is?
a. Small group discussion b. Dyadic communication c. public
communication d. mass communication
21. It is considered as a formal type of communication where the Speaker addresses many
Listeners.
a. Small group discussion b. Dyadic communication c. public
communication d. mass communication

22. A type of intrapersonal communication where human interactions carried out with the aid of
mass media.
a. Small group discussion b. Dyadic communication c. public
communication d. mass communication
23. The exchange of concepts, traditions, values, and practices between and among people of
different nationalities and ways of life.
a. Small group discussion b. Dyadic communication c. public
communication d. mass communication
24. A type of communicative strategy in which speaker carries out nomination to collaboratively
and productively establish a topic.
a. Nomination b. Restriction c. Turn-taking d. Topic control
25. It constrains or restricts the Response of the other person involved in
the Communication Situation
a. Nomination b. Restriction c. Turn-taking d. Topic control
26. It acknowledges the necessity of observing the fine art of conversation by recognizing
someone’s need to speak when it is his/her turns.
a. Nomination b. Restriction c. Turn-taking d. Topic control
27. It acknowledges the need of keeping the conversation active by asking relevant questions and
giving appropriate responses.
a. Nomination b. Restriction c. Turn-taking d. Topic control
28. It is where one part of a conversation ends and where another begins.
A. Topic-shifting b. Repair c. Termination d. feedback
29. It refers to how speakers address the problems in speaking, listening, and comprehending that
they may encounter in a conversation.
a. Topic-shifting b. Repair c. Termination d.
feedback
30. It refers to the conversation participants’ close-initiating expressions that end a topic in a
conversation.
a. Topic-shifting b. Repair c. Termination d.
feedback
31. This act happens with the utterance of a sound, a word, or even a phrase as a natural unit of
speech.
a. Loctionary speech act
b. Illocutionary speech act
c. perlocutionary speech act

32. A type of speech act with the intention of stating an opinion, making a prediction, issuing and
order and giving advice or permission.
a. Loctionary speech act c. perlocutionary speech act
b. Illocutionary speech act
33. The type of speech act that focuses on the effect and response either the speaker, listener or
both.
a. Loctionary speech act c. perlocutionary speech act
b. Illocutionary speech act
34. A type of communicative strategy in which speaker carries out nomination to collaboratively
and productively establish a topic.
Nomination b. Restriction c. Turn-taking d. Topic control

Test II. Match the words in column A with its correct definition in Column B. Write your
answer before the number.
A B
35. Receives the message a. receiver
36. The means by which the message is sent b. noise
37. The only way the speaker knows c. channel
that the message has been sent d. speaker
38. The barrier of communication e. message
39. Crafts the message f. response
40. What needs to be delivered g. feedback