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Informative Speaking MCQ

Appropriate informative speeches are those that ______.

Bore the audience but teach them something

Bore the speaker but teach the audience

Neither bore the speaker nor audience

Excite the audience even if it doesn’t teach them

Answer

Correct Answer: Neither bore the speaker nor audience

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All of the following can help your audience transfer and retain information EXCEPT ______.

Explanations

Jokes

Stories

Descriptions

Answer

Correct Answer: Jokes

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Which of the following is NOT a recommended strategy for informative speakers?

Balance information in the speech

Create information hunger

Emphasize key points

Avoid too much novelty

Answer

Correct Answer: Avoid too much novelty

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Contemporary audiences are often ______, making it difficulty for informative speakers to engage them in a topic.

Restless

Too smart

Too unintellectual

Distracted

Answer

Correct Answer: Restless

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______ can occur when a speaker underestimates an audience’s intellectual abilities.

Information hunger

Information imbalance

Information underload

Paralysis of information

Answer

Correct Answer: Information underload

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An effective informative speaker ______.

Provides lots of information to an audience

Motivates the audience to want to learn

Focuses on only one main idea in a speech

Uses stable and predictable information

Answer

Correct Answer: Motivates the audience to want to learn

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Information ______ is an audience’s sense of a need to know.

Hunger

Overload

Balance

Novelty

Answer

Correct Answer: Hunger

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Speeches about people focus on ______.

Recreating a mental picture of something

Describing a tangible thing

Explaining how to do something

Offering a biological sketch

Answer

Correct Answer: Offering a biological sketch

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Speeches about processes and procedures focus on ______.

Offering a biological sketch

Recreating a mental picture of something

Explaining how to do something

Describing a tangible thing

Answer

Correct Answer: Explaining how to do something

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Speeches about ideas focus on ______.

Explaining how to do something

Defining the meaning of an intangible thing

Describing a tangible thing

Offering a biological sketch

Answer

Correct Answer: Defining the meaning of an intangible thing

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Speeches about objects focus on ______.

Describing a tangible thing

Defining the meaning of an intangible thing

Explaining how to do something

Recreating a mental picture of something

Answer

Correct Answer: Describing a tangible thing

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Which of the following is NOT a type of informative speech?

Speeches about objects and ideas

Speeches about people

Speeches about events

Speeches about tributes

Answer

Correct Answer: Speeches about tributes

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Which of the following is a challenge informative speakers face?

Persuading an audience to change their thinking

Persuading an audience to change their behavior

Increasing audience interest and knowledge of a topic

Increasing likeability for the speaker

Answer

Correct Answer: Increasing audience interest and knowledge of a topic

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Too much information at once can quickly turn into ______.

Information underload

Information skimming

Information overload

Information dumping

Answer

Correct Answer: Information overload

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Information, when turned into knowledge, confers ______.

Persuasion

Power

Understanding

Acceptance

Answer

Correct Answer: Power

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A speech that updates and adds to the knowledge of receivers is called

Formal speech

Informative speech

Informal speech

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Informative speech

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The situation that occurs when the information provided by a speech maker is already known to receivers is called information overload

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Psychological stress attributed to information overload is information anxiety

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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