Informative Speaking MCQs
Informative Speaking MCQs
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1: Psychological stress attributed to information overload is information anxiety
A. True
B. False
2: The situation that occurs when the information provided by a speech maker is already known to receivers is called information overload
A. True
B. False
3: A speech that updates and adds to the knowledge of receivers is called
A. Formal speech
B. Informative speech
C. Informal speech
D. All of these
4: Information, when turned into knowledge, confers ______.
A. Persuasion
B. Power
C. Understanding
D. Acceptance
5: Too much information at once can quickly turn into ______.
A. Information underload
B. Information skimming
C. Information overload
D. Information dumping
6: Which of the following is a challenge informative speakers face?
A. Persuading an audience to change their thinking
B. Persuading an audience to change their behavior
C. Increasing audience interest and knowledge of a topic
D. Increasing likeability for the speaker
7: Which of the following is NOT a type of informative speech?
A. Speeches about objects and ideas
B. Speeches about people
C. Speeches about events
D. Speeches about tributes
8: Speeches about objects focus on ______.
A. Describing a tangible thing
B. Defining the meaning of an intangible thing
C. Explaining how to do something
D. Recreating a mental picture of something
9: Speeches about ideas focus on ______.
A. Explaining how to do something
B. Defining the meaning of an intangible thing
C. Describing a tangible thing
D. Offering a biological sketch
10: Speeches about processes and procedures focus on ______.
A. Offering a biological sketch
B. Recreating a mental picture of something
C. Explaining how to do something
D. Describing a tangible thing
11: Speeches about people focus on ______.
A. Recreating a mental picture of something
B. Describing a tangible thing
C. Explaining how to do something
D. Offering a biological sketch
12: Information ______ is an audience’s sense of a need to know.
A. Hunger
B. Overload
C. Balance
D. Novelty
13: An effective informative speaker ______.
A. Provides lots of information to an audience
B. Motivates the audience to want to learn
C. Focuses on only one main idea in a speech
D. Uses stable and predictable information
14: ______ can occur when a speaker underestimates an audience’s intellectual abilities.
A. Information hunger
B. Information imbalance
C. Information underload
D. Paralysis of information
15: Contemporary audiences are often ______, making it difficulty for informative speakers to engage them in a topic.
A. Restless
B. Too smart
C. Too unintellectual
D. Distracted
16: Which of the following is NOT a recommended strategy for informative speakers?
A. Balance information in the speech
B. Create information hunger
C. Emphasize key points
D. Avoid too much novelty
17: All of the following can help your audience transfer and retain information EXCEPT ______.
A. Explanations
B. Jokes
C. Stories
D. Descriptions
18: Appropriate informative speeches are those that ______.
A. Bore the audience but teach them something
B. Bore the speaker but teach the audience
C. Neither bore the speaker nor audience
D. Excite the audience even if it doesn’t teach them
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