Deck 11: Planning, Organizing, and Presenting Small Group Oral Presentations

Question 1

Some audience members may be required to be in attendance for your presentation. These audience members are called

A) required.
B) unnecessary.
C) audience.
D) necessary.
E) involuntary.

Answer 1

involuntary.

Question 2

The average college student can recognize 60,000 words and actually uses about 20,000.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

_____ is a systematic approach to gathering as much information as possible about the audience for the purpose of tailoring your presentation to the information you uncover in that analysis.

Answer 3

Audience analysis

Question 4

An _____ allows audience members an opportunity to comment on and ask questions about what they have heard after a panel discussion, symposium, debate, or other public presentation.

Question 5

Overloading a power point slide with too much information, fancy fonts, and special effects is an effective visual aid.

Question 6

Reading the text of a speech word-for-word is the _____ style of speech.

Question 7

When you are acting as the moderator of a forum, you should NOT

A) assume that everyone knows the rules of a forum.
B) let the audience of the public presentation (e.g., symposium, panel) know that the forum will follow the presentation.
C) make sure everyone can hear questions or comments. If necessary, repeat them for the audience.
D) let the audience know when the forum will end.
E) make sure that a diversity of opinions and views get heard.

Question 8

Regarding the do's and don'ts of using visual aids, which of the following is a don't?

A) Be sure that all equipment used to show visuals is working properly and be prepared if the equipment fails.
B) Make sure the visual is large enough to be seen by all.
C) Be prepared to give the presentation even if the equipment fails.
D) Practice with the visual before the presentation.
E) Move as quickly as possible through your slides or visuals.

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT an attention-getting device suggested in the text for use in an introduction?

A) hard evidence
B) humor
C) story
D) rhetorical question
E) striking quotation

Question 10

A(n) _____ is a public interaction between a small number of people, often selected because of their knowledge of a topic and usually holding conflicting viewpoints.

Question 11

Telling an audience how the lack of exposure to sunlight leads to a house plant's death is an example of the cause and effect pattern.

Question 12

A statement taken from an ordinary individual is called

A) lay testimony.
B) expert testimony.
C) an example.
D) an opinion.
E) a statistic.

Question 13

The three most important types of verbal supporting materials for a presentation are

A) examples, testimonies, and jokes.
B) examples, ethos, and logos.
C) statistics, stories, and humor.
D) testimonies, humor, and scary stories.
E) examples, statistics, and testimonies.

Question 14

Which of the following questions should you ask yourself when conducting an audience analysis?

A) Will the audience members be there voluntarily, or is someone forcing them to attend?
B) Will it be the entire membership of your fraternity or just the executive committee?
C) Will you be speaking only to your class, or will your instructor be part of the audience?
D) All of these answers are correct.
E) Will it be people you know, or will most of them be strangers?

Question 15

You have been selected to present a speech during a symposium that introduces new college students to the registration process at your university or college. Construct a presentation that employs the elements of a good introduction covered in the text.

Question 16

_____ is the canon concerned with how a speech is put together or organized.

Question 17

The canon that pertains to the raw materials of a speech and how they are adapted to an audience is known as _____.

Question 18

If you distribute an outline, leave some blanks so that listeners can take notes and stay involved with your presentation.

Question 19

A very raunchy joke is a great way to get your audience's attention at the beginning of an oral presentation.

Question 20

Saul described how a virus was discovered and how it works. He then discussed the suffering of the people who have contracted the virus. His organizational pattern is which of the following?

A) chronological
B) topical
C) problem-solution
D) cause and effect
E) spatial

Question 21

When using humor in a presentation, you should

A) use humor that is related in some way to your topic.
B) tell the joke to others beforehand to make sure it is funny to someone other than you.
C) none of these answer is correct.
D) use humor that your audience will find in good taste.
E) all of these answers are correct.

Question 22

Which of the following is good use of a statistic so that the audience is not confused, and the statistic clearly makes a point?

A) Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.
B) At-test revealed a statistically significant difference of factor 4, with a.01 degree of confidence, showing that the salinity in brackish water is lower than in marine water.
C) The universe is now considered by scientists to be expanding at a rate of 2 light years of distance every half decade.
D) The Sun is 93,000,000 miles from Earth. That is the equivalent of 31,000 plane flights back and forth from New York to Los Angeles.
E) The average American's yearly income is.0001234879 percent of the national debt.

Question 23

When deciding on a topic for your presentation, the best resource for finding a topic is your own experience, beliefs, or skills.

Question 24

Reading the notes of your speech over and over is better than practicing your speech out loud.

Question 25

What are the four tips for using technology outlined in your text?

Question 26

Group A's presentation was intended to educate the audience about its service learning organization. The purpose of its speech was to

A) entertain.
B) persuade.
C) connect.
D) inform.
E) educate.

Question 27

What are a moderator's responsibilities for facilitating a forum discussion?

Question 28

Which of the following is a procedure to be followed during panel presentations?

A) All of these answers are correct.
B) Allow the panelists to disagree, but do it politely.
C) Seat panelists so they can see each other and make eye contact with the audience.
D) Select a moderator to maintain order.
E) Make an outline of the important points to be covered by the group.

Question 29

The second step in an introduction is called a(n)

A) qualification step.
B) need step.
C) preview step.
D) thesis step.
E) orientation step.

Question 30

The type of body organization that examines the inherent parts of a topic is known as the _____ pattern of organization.

Question 31

An especially effective pattern to use in the body of a speech, to persuade an audience, is the _____ pattern, which presents a dilemma and then offers an answer.

Question 32

The purpose of a symposium is to freely interchange ideas between discussants.

Question 33

_____ is a speaker's choice of language.

Question 34

Panelists should avoid disagreeing with each other during a panel group discussion.

Question 35

The purpose of a symposium is to give audience members a chance to voice their opinions throughout the entire presentation.

Question 36

A(n) _____ speech is delivered without preparation and is delivered off-the-cuff.

Question 37

When you are in the presenting stage of your speech, what is involved in checking your language?

A) clarity requires language that is concrete rather than abstract.
B) add vividness to your presentation and make it easier for your audience to pay attention.
C) All the answers are correct.
D) If you don't know how to pronounce a word, learn it before the speech.
E) the more word choices speakers have, the better able they are to make language do their bidding and fulfill their purposes.

Question 38

Describe audience analysis. What information can be gathered? How can this information be gathered? What does the information do for the speaker?

Question 39

The five canons of classical rhetoric are

A) invention, delivery, topical, style, and ethos.
B) invention, emotion, cause and effect, style, and arrangement.
C) invention, arrangement, style, delivery, and memory.
D) arrangement, style, clarity, delivery, and emotion.
E) spatial, arrangement, pathos, style, and delivery.

Question 40

Statistics can bore an audience and should be avoided when giving a presentation.

Question 41

Identify which of the following choices is NOT a pattern of organization suggested for the body of a presentation.

A) chronological
B) cause and effect
C) spatial
D) problem-solution
E) nomological

Question 42

A(n) _____ or required audience member is going to need a presentation with lots of enthusiasm and reasons why they should listen.

Question 43

Charts are not preferred when explaining statistics to your audience.

Question 44

More structured than the panel discussion, a(n) _____ is divided into segments where the discussants present uninterrupted speeches.

Question 45

During an introduction, you need to tell the audience specifically what points you will be covering in the body of the speech to follow.

Question 46

Motivating your audience to listen is called the

A) delivery step.
B) interest step.
C) attention step.
D) actuation step.
E) motivation step.

Question 47

On occasion you may be asked to give a _____ speech, such as to wrap up the year's events or "roast" a colleague at the annual company picnic.

Question 48

Your audience will always figure out why what you propose in a speech is important, so it is unnecessary to offer them a direct purpose statement.

Question 49

Sara is attempting to convince her sorority to try a new fundraising technique. Which of the following is the purpose of her speech?

A) to inform
B) to connect
C) to persuade
D) to entertain
E) to educate

Question 50

The _____ of an individual presentation summarizes the main points covered during the presentation.