COMM 301 Week 7 Quiz

COMM 301 Week 7 Quiz | Los Rios Community College

Stand Up, Speak Out Chapter 13 Quiz

Question 1

Language is a system through which we strive to:  

·         communicate our thoughts and meanings.  

·         convey universally understood ideas.  

·         create groundwork for discussions.  

·         deliver exact directives and definitions.

Question 2

Oral communication is different from written communication because it:  

·         reliably communicates exact meanings.    

·         uses fewer words and shorter sentences.  

·         relies on an extensive working vocabulary.  

·         is more likely to be denotative and precise.

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT true?    

·         Oral language has longer sentences.  

·         Oral language has more pseudoquantifying terms (many, few, some).  

·         Oral language has fewer quantifying terms or precise numerical words. 

·         Oral language has more self-reference words (I, me, mine).

Question 4

Which of the following is TRUE?  

·         readers can reread a sentence or look up a word.  

·         readers agree with the content; a listener does not.  

·         listeners exerts more effort that readers to understand a message.  

·         listeners can re-hear a sentence and look up a word.

Question 5

Language should be appropriate for the: 

·         audience

·         all of these are true 

·         speaker 

·         topic

Question 6

The goal of ______ is to help an audience member create a mental picture of what a speaker is saying.  

·         simile    

·         imagery  

·         metaphor 

·         rhythm

Question 7

The use of language to make sure the audience understands a speaker’s ideas in the way the speaker intended is called:  

·         clarity 

·         variety 

·         jargon 

·         economy

 Question 8

Powerless language should generally be avoided in public speaking because it can damage audience perceptions of the speaker’s credibility.  

·         True  

·         False

Question 9

Connotative meanings are precise dictionary meanings.  

·         True 

·         False

 Question 10

Oral communication should be conversational.  

·         True 

·         False