MULTIPLE CHOICE. Write the capital letter of your best answer on the space provided.

____ 1. Throughout history, people have used ______ as a vital means of communication.
a. Communication
b. Public Speaking
c. Persuasion
____ 2. Given the importance of ________, it is not surprising that it has been taught and studied
around the globe for thousands of years.
a. Communication
b. Public Speaking
c. Persuasion
____ 3. Public speaking is a vital means of civic engagement. It is a way to express your ideas and to have
an impact on issues that matter in society.
a. Communication
b. Public Speaking
c. Persuasion
____ 4. This comes from within your audience. Examples are an audience having a toothache, pain,
worrying about a test in the next class period, or someone could be brooding about an argument with
his girlfriend.
a. Frame of Reference
b. Internal Interference
c. External Interference
____ 5. These happens outside you audience such as traffic outside the building, the clatter of a radiator,
students conversing in the hall, and a room that is stifling or freezing cold.
a. Frame of Reference
b. Internal Interference
c. External Interference
____ 6. It is a form of power and therefore carries with it heavy ethical responsibilities.
a. Communication
b. Public Speaking
c. Speechmaking
____ 7. It is to gain a desired response from listeners – but not at any cost.
a. Communication
b. Public Speaking
c. Speechmaking
____ 8. It pirates an entire speech from a single source, patchwork plagiarism occurs when a speaker
pilfers from two or three sources.
a. Global Plagiarism
b. Patchwork Plagiarism
c. Incremental Plagiarism
____ 9. It is when the entire speech is cribbed more or less verbatim from a single source or a few
sources.
a. Global Plagiarism
b. Patchwork Plagiarism
c. Incremental Plagiarism
____ 10. The most blatant – and unforgivable – kind of plagiarism. It is grossly unethical.
a. Global Plagiarism
b. Patchwork Plagiarism
c. Incremental Plagiarism
____ 11. It is to evaluate a message for purposes of accepting or rejecting it, as when we listen to the
sales pitch of a used-car dealer or the campaign speech of a political candidate.
a. Appreciative Listening
b. Emphatic Listening
c. Comprehensive Listening
d. Critical Listening
____ 12. It is to understand the message of a speaker, as when we attend a classroom lecture or listen to
directions for finding a friend’s house.
a. Appreciative Listening
b. Emphatic Listening
c. Comprehensive Listening
d. Critical Listening
____ 13. It is to provide emotional support for the speaker, as when a psychiatrist listens to a patient or
when we lend a sympathetic ear to a friend in distress.
a. Appreciative Listening
b. Emphatic Listening
c. Comprehensive Listening
d. Critical Listening
____ 14. It is for pleasure or enjoyment, as we listen to music, to a comedy routine, or to an entertaining
speech.
a. Appreciative Listening
b. Emphatic Listening
c. Comprehensive Listening
d. Critical Listening
____ 15. This involves summarizing information, recalling facts, and distinguishing main point from
minor points.
a. Appreciative Listening
b. Emphatic Listening
c. Comprehensive Listening
d. Critical Listening
____ 16. It is to make a quick inventory of your experiences, interests, hobbies, skills, beliefs, and so
forth. Jot down anything that comes to mind, no matter how silly or irrelevant it may seem
a. Personal Inventory
b. Clustering
c. Reference Search
d. Internet Search
____ 17. It is wherein you take a sheet of paper and divide it into nine columns as follows: people,
places, things, events, processes, concepts, natural phenomena, problems, and plans and policies.
a. Personal Inventory
b. Clustering
c. Reference Search
d. Internet Search
____ 18. This is done by browsing through an encyclopedia, a periodical database, or some other
reference work until you come across what might be a good speech topic.
a. Personal Inventory
b. Clustering
c. Reference Search
d. Internet Search
____ 19. It is to connect a subject-based search engine such as google, or the Librarians’ Index to the
internet.
a. Personal Inventory
b. Clustering
c. Reference Search
d. Internet Search
____ 20. One of the advantages of using the internet in this way is that you can make your search more
and more specific until you find just the right subject.
a. Personal Inventory
b. Clustering
c. Reference Search
d. Internet Search
____ 21. It resembled fixed-alternative questions, but they allow more leeway in responding.
a. Fixed-alternative Questions
b. Scale Questions
c. Open-ended Questions
____ 22. The questions that allow respondents to answer however they want.
a. Fixed-alternative Questions
b. Scale Questions
c. Open-ended Questions
____ 23. The questions that offer a fixed choice between two or more alternatives.
a. Fixed-alternative Questions
b. Scale Questions
c. Open-ended Questions
____ 24. By limiting the possible responses, such questions produce clear, unambiguous answers. They
also tend to yield superficial answers. Other techniques are needed to get beneath the surface.
a. Fixed-alternative Questions
b. Scale Questions
c. Open-ended Questions
____ 25. Questions like these are especially useful for getting at the strength of a respondent’s attitudes.
a. Fixed-alternative Questions
b. Scale Questions
c. Open-ended Questions
Public Speaking- Public speaking, also called oration or oratory, is the process of communicating
information to a live audience. The type of information communicated is deliberately structured to
inform, persuade, and entertain. Many people fear they suffer from a public speaking weakness and lack
the will to master the skill.

Adrenaline- Britannica Dictionary definition of ADRENALINE. [noncount] : a substance that is released in

the body of a person who is feeling a strong emotion (such as excitement, fear, or anger) and that causes
the heart to beat faster and gives the person more energy.

Positive Nervousness - Positive Nervousness: Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for a
presentation. Reducing Speech Anxiety. Six ways to turn nervousness from negative to positive: 1)
Acquire speaking experience. 2) Prepare, prepare, prepare!

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking is the ability to effectively analyze information and form a judgment.
To think critically, you must be aware of your own biases and assumptions when encountering
information, and apply consistent standards when evaluating sources. Critical thinking skills help you to:
Identify credible sources

Frame of Reference - a set of criteria or stated values in relation to which measurements or judgments
can be made.

Ethics - the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and
wrong.

Ethical Decision - Ethical decision-making definition is the process by which people consider different
ethical rules, principles, and guidelines that will affect the decision.

Name-calling - abusive language or insults.

Plagiarism - The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

Paraphrase - The verb paraphrase means to sum something up or clarify a statement by rephrasing it.

Hearing - to receive or become conscious of a sound using your ears: She heard a noise outside. My
grandfather is getting old and can't hear very well.

Listening - Listening is the active process of receiving and responding to spoken (and sometimes
unspoken) messages. It is one of the subjects studied in the field of language arts and in the discipline of
conversation analysis. Listening is not just hearing what the other party in the conversation has to say

Emphatic Listening - Empathic listening is the practice of being attentive and responsive to others' input
during conversation. Listening empathically entails making an emotional connection with the other
person and finding similarities between their experience and your own so you can give a more heartfelt
response.

Appreciative Listening - Appreciative listening is a type of listening behavior where the listener seeks
certain information which they will appreciate, and meet his/her needs and goals. One uses appreciative
listening when listening to music, poetry or the stirring words of a speech.

Critical Listening - Critical listening is actively listening to what the speaker is saying, while analyzing,
judging and forming an individual opinion on the information that is being presented. It is used in
scenarios where an opinion needs to be developed on a particular topic.

Brainstorming - Brainstorming is a creativity technique in which a group of people interact to suggest

ideas spontaneously in response to a prompt. Stress is typically placed on the volume and variety of
ideas, including ideas that may seem outlandish or "off-the-wall"

Specific Purpose - A specific purpose starts with one of the three general purposes and then specifies the
actual topic you have chosen and the basic objective you hope to accomplish with your speech. Basically,
the specific purpose answers the who, what, when, where, and why questions for your speech

Central Idea - The central idea is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the
other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story.

Residual Message - Residual Message The residual message is an idea or thought that stays with your
audience well after the speech.

General Purpose - useful in many ways; not limited in use or function.

Egocentric - thinking only of oneself, without regard for the feelings or desires of others; self-centered.

Demographic Audience Analysis - Demographic audience analysis defines and examines an audience by
its demographics such as age, geography, gender, education, income, and other statistical data.

Stereotyping - In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of

people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group

Attitude - An attitude "is a summary evaluation of an object of thought. An attitude object can be
anything a person discriminates or holds in mind." Attitudes include beliefs, emotional responses and
behavioral tendencies

Open-ended Questions - An open-ended question is a question that cannot be answered with a "yes" or
"no" response, or with a static response. Open-ended questions are phrased as a statement which
requires a longer answer. They can be compared to closed questions which demand a “yes”/“no” or
short answer.