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Listening Critically MCQ

During the evaluation stage, audience members will decide ______.

How to rate the speaker on the evaluation sheet

Whether they will share the information with their friends

Whether this speech was worthwhile

Whether they accept the speaker’s point of view

Answer

Correct Answer: Whether they accept the speaker’s point of view

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To understand a speaker’s message you can ask questions in order to clarify what you have heard.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Hearing is an involuntary physiological process. Listening is a voluntary mental process.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Culture affects speaking style, which can impede ______.

The audience’s willingness to share the message with others

Listeners from fairly processing a speaker’s words

Acceptance of the message

Belief in the message

Answer

Correct Answer: Listeners from fairly processing a speaker’s words

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During the understanding stage, the audience will focus on ______.

The reaction of other audience members

How long the speaker will talk

What the speaker is wearing

The meaning of the message

Answer

Correct Answer: The meaning of the message

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To retain the attention of the audience, a speaker should incorporate activity and movement into their presentations.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The responding stage gives an audience the opportunity to ______.

Talk about their ideas for a speech

React and provide feedback

To talk to each other about the speech

Leave the room if they disagree

Answer

Correct Answer: React and provide feedback

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Audience members are easily able to attend to all sounds during a presentation.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which of the below represents the six stages of listening?

Remembering, discussion, understanding, sitting quietly, sharing, responding

Evaluating, speaking, transcribing, understanding, interpreting, recall

Hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating, responding

Hearing, understanding, listening, conversation, recall, patience

Answer

Correct Answer: Hearing, understanding, remembering, interpreting, evaluating, responding

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A good speaker’s message should include ______.

Something unexpected

Redundancy

Directions or guidelines

Humor

Answer

Correct Answer: Redundancy

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A stage in _____is known as understanding

Talking

Writing

Listening

Teaching

Answer

Correct Answer: Listening

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The difference between speaking speed and thinking speed is known as speech-opinion differential

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Responding is the process of replying and providing ______

Opinion

Argument

Feedback

Information

Answer

Correct Answer: Feedback

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The mental saving of a message for further use is known as

Reminder

Remembering

Memory

Future

Answer

Correct Answer: Remembering

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A voluntary mental process occurring in stages

Accidental

Involuntary

Voluntary

Both A and B

Answer

Correct Answer: Voluntary

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A listening stage during which the focus is on meaning and the decoding of the speaker’s message is known as interpreting

Listener

Speaker

Writer

Elaborator

Answer

Correct Answer: Speaker

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An involuntary ______ process is known as hearing

Physical

Anatomical

Histological

Physiological

Answer

Correct Answer: Physiological

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Evaluating is the process of using critical thinking skills to weigh a message’s worth

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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-Judging another culture solely by the standards of your own culture is known as

Evaluation

Ethnocentrism

Comparison

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Ethnocentrism

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-Attending is the _____ stage during which an individual selects to pay attention to one or more specific aural stimuli

Listening

Writing

Speaking

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Listening

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