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Created By: A SolutionTest Bank for The Art of Public Speaking, 13th
Edition by Stephen Lucas A+
True-False Questions
1. TF Communication skills, including public speaking, are often more important to
employers than a job candidate’s undergraduate major.
2. TF In specialized fields, technical knowledge is more important to employers than
communication skills when deciding whom to hire and promote.
3. TF As your textbook states, texting, tweeting, and other forms of electronic
communication have significantly reduced the need for public speaking.
4. TF As your textbook states, public speaking is a form of empowerment because it
gives speakers the ability to manipulate people.
5. TF The teaching and study of public speaking began more than 4,000 years ago.
6. TF Both public speaking and conversation involve adapting to listener feedback.
7. TF Public speaking requires the same method of delivery as ordinary conversation.
8. TF Public speaking usually requires more formal language than everyday
conversation.
9. TF Public speaking is more highly structured than everyday conversation.
10. TF 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. TF As a speaker, you can usually assume that an audience will be interested in what
you have to say.
12. TF Fortunately, stage fright only affects inexperienced speakers.
13. TF Most successful speakers are nervous before taking the floor.
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14. TF Some nervousness before you speak is usually beneficial.
15. TF 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. TF Thinking of stage fright as “stage excitement” or “stage enthusiasm” can help you
get focused and energized for a speech.
17. TF For most beginning speakers, the biggest part of stage fright is fear of the
unknown.
18. TF It has been estimated that being fully prepared for a speech can reduce stage fright
by up to 75 percent.
19. TF Thinking positively about your ability to give a speech is one way to control your
anxiety about speaking.
20. TF Research has shown that for most speakers, anxiety decreases significantly after
the first 30 to 60 seconds of a speech.
21. TF Using the power of visualization to control stage fright means that you should
approach your speech as a performance in which the audience is looking for perfection.
22. TF As your textbook explains, visualization involves creating a mental picture of
yourself succeeding at your speech.
23. TF Speakers who think positively about themselves and the speech experience are
more likely to overcome their stage fright than are speakers who think negatively.
24. TF Researchers suggest that you counter every negative thought you have about your
speeches with at least five positive ones.
25. TF Listeners usually realize how tense a speaker is.
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26. TF Most of the nervousness public speakers feel internally is not visible to their
listeners.
27. TF As your textbook explains, the best way to approach public speaking is to view it
as an act of communication, rather than as a performance.
28. TF Audiences are usually critical of speakers for making minor mistakes.
29. TF You will do the best in your speeches if you expect perfection every time.
30. TF It is usually a bad idea to make eye contact with individual members of your
audience.
31. TF In many aspects of public speaking, you will employ the skills of critical thinking.
32. TF Organizing ideas for presentation in a speech is an important aspect of critical
thinking.
33. TF Critical thinking is a way of thinking negatively about everything you hear in a
speech.
34. TF Practicing speech delivery is one of the most important ways in which public
speaking helps develop your skills as a critical thinker.
35. TF Your goal in public speaking is to have your intended message be the message
that is actually communicated.
36. TF As your textbook explains, the speaker’s message consists only of what the
speaker says with language.
37. TF The channel is the room in which speech communication takes place.
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38. TF The channel is the means by which a message is communicated.
39. TF A speaker’s frame of reference and a listener’s frame of reference will never be
exactly the same.
40. TF Most of the time, the listener’s frame of reference is identical to the speaker’s
frame of reference.
41. TF Because most people share the same frame of reference, the meaning of a
message is usually the same to a listener as to a speaker.
42. TF Most public speaking situations involve two-way communication.
43. TF When you give a speech to your classmates, you are engaged in one-way
communication.
44. TF The nonverbal messages that listeners send back to speakers are called feedback.
45. TF Interference is anything that impedes the communication of a message.
46. TF Interference can come from either inside or outside your audience.
47. TF Speechmaking becomes more complex as cultural diversity increases.
48. TF Although language changes from culture to culture, the meaning of nonverbal
signals is consistent across cultures.
49. TF Ethnocentrism is an advantage to speakers who seek to understand the values,
beliefs, and customs of audiences from different cultures.
50. TF Ethnocentrism often leads to prejudice and hostility toward people of different
racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
51. TF Public speakers who seek to avoid being ethnocentric need to show respect for the
cultures of the people they address.
52. TF Avoiding ethnocentrism means that you must agree with the values and practices
of all groups and cultures.
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