Supporting Your Ideas
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,130 TEST BANK FOR THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
True-False Questions
1. T F The selection and use of supporting materials for a speech
involves critical thinking skills.
2. T F The two basic types of supporting materials discussed in your
textbook are facts and opinions.
3. T F The three basic types of supporting materials discussed in
your textbook are examples, statistics, and testimony.
4. T F Research has shown that examples have little effect on
listeners’ beliefs and actions.
5. T F Although examples work very well to clarify ideas in an
informative speech, they are less effective in a persuasive speech.
6. T F Examples are particularly effective as supporting materials
because they help get the audience involved in a speech.
7. T F Brief examples can be used either one at a time to illustrate a
point or piled one upon another to create an impression.
8. T F Because they tell a story vividly and dramatically, extended
examples are a good way to pull listeners into a speech.
9. T F A hypothetical example describes an imaginary or fictitious
situation.
10. T F Hypothetical examples can be especially powerful as
supporting materials when they create scenarios that involve the
audience.
11. T F Whenever you use a hypothetical example in a speech, it is
usually a good idea to follow it with statistics or testimony to show
that the example is realistic.
12. T F Because of their high credibility, you should use only factual
examples in your speeches.
13. T F As a speaker, you should usually avoid examples when
explaining complex or unfamiliar ideas.
14. T F One of the main reasons to use examples in a speech is that
they put abstract ideas into concrete terms that listeners can easily
understand.
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15. T F Examples are an excellent way to personalize a speech
because they put abstract facts and figures into vivid, human terms.
16. T F As your textbook makes clear, a vivid, richly textured
extended example is usually effective regardless of how well it is
delivered.
17. T F As your textbook explains, statistics are the most effective
type of supporting material because they are difficult to manipulate
or distort.
18. T F Unlike testimony, which can easily be quoted out of context,
statistics are difficult to manipulate for biased purposes.
19. T F The mean—popularly called the average—is determined by
summing all the items in a group and dividing by the number of
items.
20. T F The median is determined by summing all the items in a
group and dividing by the number of items.
21. T F The median is the middle number in a group of numbers
arranged in order from highest to lowest.
22. T F The mode is the number that occurs most frequently in a
group of numbers.
23. T F As your textbook explains, you need to make sure that the
statistics you use in your speeches come from reliable sources.
24. T F The major advantage of statistics is that they give your ideas
numerical precision.
25. T F Research has shown that the effect of examples is enhanced
when they are combined with statistics that show the examples to
be typical.
26. T F Research has shown that the more statistics you use, the
more effective your speech is likely to be.
27. T F It is seldom necessary to cite the source of statistics in a
speech.
28. T F An advantage of using statistics in your speech is that
numbers speak for themselves.
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