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Integrating Support MCQ

1. An audience is likely to accept literal analogies if the things being compared are similar.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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2. Any examples you use in your speech should serve to reinforce, clarify, and personalize your ideas and relate directly to your listeners.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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3. A speaker should not tell the audience when an example is hypothetical because this will lessen their credibility.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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4. A figurative analogy ______.

Explains how things are related

Chronicles the development of fictional characters

Refers to metaphors that include numbers

Compares two things that have little in common

Answer

Correct Answer: Compares two things that have little in common

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5. An analogy has the same meaning as definition.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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6. ______ are especially useful when your audience members are unfamiliar with the way you are using key terms.

Analogies

Definitions

Narratives

Metaphors

Answer

Correct Answer: Definitions

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7. Explanations and descriptions should clarify and illuminate your speech topic for the audience.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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8. In a speech with technical words, or words with two or more meanings, it is the speaker’s responsibility to ______.

Provide enough context that the audience can determine the speaker’s meaning

Say each word more than once to the audience

Provide definitions

Eliminate most of the technical words

Answer

Correct Answer: Provide definitions

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9. Hypothetical examples are examples of things that ______.

Are likely to occur

The audience has experienced

Are unlikely to occur

Have not actually occurred

Answer

Correct Answer: Have not actually occurred

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10. Range, mean, median, and mode are all examples of ______.

Statistics

Analogies

Figures

Definitions

Answer

Correct Answer: Statistics

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11. The use of opinions of others to support positions the speaker is taking or to reinforce claims the speaker is making is called Testimony

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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12. Numbers summarizing a group of observations is known as statistics

Calculations

Observations

Hypothesis

Results

Answer

Correct Answer: Observations

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13. Testimony provided by lay or ordinary people who possess firsthand experience on a subject is known as

Peer Testimony

Expert Testimony

Lay Testimony

All of above

Answer

Correct Answer: Peer Testimony

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14. An extended example or illustration; a story describing what people are doing and why is known as

Idea

Thought

Narrative

Both A and B

Answer

Correct Answer: Narrative

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15. An analogy comparing two things from similar classes is known as Figurative Analogy

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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16. The opinions of ordinary people is

Expert Testimony

Lay Testimony

Peer Testimony

Both B and C

Answer

Correct Answer: Both B and C

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17. "Examples that have not actually occurred but might" are called

Brief examples

Extended examples

Hypothetical examples

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Hypothetical examples

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18. An analogy comparing two things that are distinctively ______ is known as Figurative Analogy

Similar

Dissimilar

Comparative

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Dissimilar

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19. Clarifying words are called Explanations

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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20. Testimony provided by sources recognized as authorities on the topic is known as

Peer Testimony

Expert Testimony

Lay Testimony

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Expert Testimony

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21. Descriptions are the words that evoke fresh imagery or ______ response

Visual

Sensory

Physical

Psychological

Answer

Correct Answer: Sensory

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22. Statement used to clarify the meaning of words and concepts is known as summary

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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