Analyzing the Audience
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,94 TEST BANK FOR THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
True-False Questions
1. T F The primary purpose of speechmaking is to demonstrate your
command of the topic.
2. T F According to your textbook, public speakers need to be
audience-centered.
3. T F Being audience-centered means that your primary purpose as
a speaker is to gain a desired response from the audience.
4. T F The aim of successful speechmaking is to gain a desired
response from listeners by any means necessary.
5. T F The need to adapt to the audience means that speechmakers
must usually compromise their own beliefs or values.
6. T F The aim of successful speechmaking is to gain a desired
response from listeners even if the speaker must compromise his or
her beliefs to do so.
7. T F Being audience-centered means a speaker must sacrifice
what she or he really believes to get a favorable response from the
audience.
8. T F Adapting to audiences is one of the easiest tasks facing
beginning speakers.
9. T F The need for audience analysis and adaptation is one of the
major differences between public speaking and everyday
conversation.
10. T F The classroom is an artificial speaking situation in which you
can overlook the attitudes and interests of your audience.
11. T F You are most likely to be successful in your classroom
speeches if you think of your classmates as a real audience.
12. T F An audience’s response to a message is invariably colored by
its perception of the speaker.
13. T F Unlike beginning speakers, experienced speakers have little
need for audience analysis.
14. T F Audience analysis and adaptation affect all aspects of
speechmaking except for the delivery of the speech itself.
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15. T F The process of audience analysis and adaptation affects every
aspect of speech preparation from choosing a topic to delivering the
speech.
16. T F Public speaking is essentially like acting because once you
learn a speech, you can give it over and over without adapting to
the different audiences you address.
17. T F Audience analysis first comes into play after a speaker has
chosen a speech topic.
18. T F Audience analysis first comes into play after a speaker has
chosen a specific purpose.
19. T F Audience analysis is only important after a speaker has
completed research for a speech.
20. T F Audience analysis is only important after a speaker has
prepared an outline for the speech.
21. T F The process of audience adaptation is over by the time a
speaker starts delivering the speech.
22. T F Although most of the process of audience adaptation occurs
as part of preparing a speech, a speaker may still need to adapt her
or his remarks to the audience during the presentation of the
speech.
23. T F Even when listeners pay close attention, they don’t process a
speaker’s message exactly as the speaker intended.
24. T F As your textbook explains, a speaker’s frame of reference is
usually the same as that of his or her listeners.
25. T F Every speech contains two messages—the one sent by the
speaker and the one received by the listener.
26. T F Egocentrism is the belief that one’s culture is superior to all
others.
27. T F Egocentrism means that audiences typically approach
speeches by asking “Why is this important for me?”
28. T F Ethnocentrism means that audiences typically approach
speeches by asking, “Why is this important to me?”
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