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1 Speaking in Public
T he questions for each chapter are organized according to type: true-false, multiple-choice, short-
answer, and essay. Within each of these categories, questions are clustered by topic, roughly
following the order of topics in the textbook.
To provide as much flexibility as possible in constructing examinations, there is deliberate overlap
among the questions, both within and across question types. This enables you to choose the wording and
question type that best fits your testing objectives. In deciding which questions to use, take care to avoid
items such as a multiple-choice question that gives away the answer to a true-false or short- answer
question, or an essay question that covers essentially the same ground as a true-false, short- answer, or
multiple-choice question.
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automatically number themselves consecutively, beginning with “1.” The five answer choices for each
multiple-choice question are also ordered automatically, so you can add, change, or reorder answer choices
without rearranging the lettering.
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True-False Questions
1. T F Communication skills, including public speaking, are often more important to
employers than a job candidate’s undergraduate major.
2. T F In specialized fields, technical knowledge is more important to employers than
communication skills when deciding whom to hire and promote.
3. T F As your textbook states, texting, tweeting, and other forms of electronic
communication have significantly reduced the need for public speaking.
4. T F As your textbook states, public speaking is a form of empowerment because it gives
speakers the ability to manipulate people.
5. T F The teaching and study of public speaking began more than 4,000 years ago.
6. T F Both public speaking and conversation involve adapting to listener feedback.
7. T F Public speaking requires the same method of delivery as ordinary conversation.
8. T F Public speaking usually requires more formal language than everyday conversation.
9. T F Public speaking is more highly structured than everyday conversation.
10. T F When you adjust to the situation of a public speech, you are doing on a larger scale what
you do every day in conversation.
11. T F As a speaker, you can usually assume that an audience will be interested in what you have
to say.
12. T F Fortunately, stage fright only affects inexperienced speakers.
13. T F Most successful speakers are nervous before taking the floor.
14. T F Some nervousness before you speak is usually beneficial.
15. T F Many of the symptoms of stage fright are due to adrenaline, a hormone released into the
bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress.
16. T F Thinking of stage fright as “stage excitement” or “stage enthusiasm” can help you get
focused and energized for a speech.
17. T F For most beginning speakers, the biggest part of stage fright is fear of the unknown.
18. T F It has been estimated that being fully prepared for a speech can reduce stage fright by up
to 75 percent.
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