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Lucas11e_TB_Chapter02
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- COMM 110
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- Columbia College (CC )
Lucas11e_TB_Chapter02 Ethics and Public Speaking
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2Ethics and Public
Speaking
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,30 TEST BANK FOR THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
True-False Questions
1. T F The aim of an ethical speaker is to accomplish his or her goals
by any means necessary.
2. T F Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with issues of
right and wrong in human affairs.
3. T F Ethical issues can arise at every stage of the speechmaking
process.
4. T F The ethical obligation of a speaker to be fully prepared
increases as the size of the audience increases.
5. T F A public speaker need only be concerned about ethics in the
conclusion of a speech.
6. T F The first responsibility of a speaker is to make sure her or his
goal is ethically sound.
7. T F A speaker’s ethical obligations decrease as the size of the
audience decreases.
8. T F As the Roman rhetorician Quintilian noted 2,000 years ago,
the ideal of speechmaking is to persuade the audience by any
means necessary.
9. T F As the Roman rhetorician Quintilian noted 2,000 years ago,
the ideal of speechmaking is the good person speaking well.
10. T F Because persuasion is such a complex process, juggling
statistics and quoting out of context to maximize your persuasive
effect are ethically acceptable in speeches to persuade.
11. T F As long as the goal of your speech is ethically sound, it is
acceptable to use any means necessary to achieve your goal.
12. T F Ethical decisions need to be justified against a set of
standards or criteria.
13. T F Sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of
action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines.
14. T F Because ethical decisions are complex, ethical choices are
simply a matter of personal preference.
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15. T F As your textbook explains, ethical decisions are essentially a
matter of personal whim or opinion.
16. T F You have an ethical obligation to make sure the information
you present in your speeches is accurate.
17. T F It is true, as the old adage says, that “sticks and stones can
break my bones, but words can never hurt me.”
18. T F As your textbook explains, the ethical obligation of a speaker
to avoid name-calling and other forms of abusive language is
essentially a matter of political correctness.
19. T F Avoiding sexist, racist, and other kinds of abusive language is
important primarily as a matter of political correctness.
20. T F If something is legal, it is also ethical.
21. T F Name-calling is ethical in public speaking because it is
protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
22. T F Public speakers need to take their ethical responsibilities as
seriously as their strategic objectives.
23. T F Because the aim of speechmaking is to secure a desired
response from listeners, speakers need to give their strategic
objectives priority over their ethical obligations.
24. T F Unlike writers, public speakers can present other people’s
ideas as their own without being guilty of plagiarism.
25. T F Global plagiarism occurs when a speaker takes material from
several different sources and presents it as his or her own.
26. T F Taking someone’s entire speech and passing it off as your
own is a form of unethical behavior called global plagiarism.
27. T F Copying passages from a few sources and stringing them
together to make a speech is a form of unethical behavior called
patchwork plagiarism.
28. T F One of the best ways to avoid falling into the trap of
plagiarism is to start work on your speeches well before they are
due.
29. T F It is necessary for a public speaker to identify his or her
source whether the speaker is paraphrasing or quoting verbatim.
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