Ch8 Test Bank + Answers Organizing The Main Points Of Your

Test Bank

Chapter 8: Organizing the Main Points of Your Speech

Multiple Choice

1. How does organization affect a speech?

a. It empowers the speech.

b. It hinders the speech.

c. It muddies the speech.

d. It burdens the speech.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Creating a speech has been compared with ______.

a. playing a game

b. writing an essay

c. taking a test

d. playing football

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. ______ generally contain short sentences, whereas ______ often contain complex sentences.

a. Speeches; essays

b. Essays, speeches

c. Arguments; speeches

d. Speeches; arguments

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. We begin by introducing the topic, offering a preview of what’s to come. This done, we go on to discuss the topic, developing it fully. Then, we wrap up with a concluding statement that summarizes the main points and ties the presentation together. This formula is called ______.

a. the principle of redundancy

b. the principle of speaking

c. the principle of writing

d. the essay writing principle

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. A speech has a ______ organization if its main points develop and relate directly to the thesis or topic sentence that comes early in the presentation.

a. circular

b. straightforward

c. linear

d. simple

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The principle of ______ refers to the notion that the use of repetition reduces the uncertainty of receivers.

a. chronemics

b. causality

c. ethics

d. redundancy

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Which of the following is a traditional or linear approach to ordering material?

a. chronological order

b. timing order

c. problem–solution order

d. manuscript order

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. When you use ______ organization for your speech, you explain to your audience members the order in which events happened.

a. chronological

b. cause and effect

c. spatial

d. topical

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2a. Time Order: It’s Chronological

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Chronological ordering can be especially useful in ______ speaking.

a. informative

b. persuasive

c. academic

d. business

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2a. Time Order: It’s Chronological

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. When you use ______ organization for your speech, you follow various aspects of your topic from top to bottom, left to right, front to back, or north to south.

a. chronological

b. cause and effect

c. spatial

d. topical

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2b. Spatial Order: It’s Directional

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. For a speech where you discuss major cities’ proximity to one another, you would likely use ______.

a. chronological organization

b. cause and effect organization

c. spatial organization

d. topical organization

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.2b. Spatial Order: It’s Directional

Difficulty Level: Hard

12. Which of the following speeches would likely be organized spatially?

a. a speech on railroad development from east to west

b. a speech on the largest hurricanes each year

c. a speech on the reasons for cancers in the United States

d. a speech on the health problems related to tobacco

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.2b. Spatial Order: It’s Directional

Difficulty Level: Hard

13. Like chronological order, ______ order is used most frequently in informative speeches.

a. configural organization

b. cause and effect organization

c. spatial organization

d. topical organization

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2b. Spatial Order: It’s Directional

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. When you use ______ organization for your speech, you specify the reasons and the consequences of specific phenomena.

a. chronological

b. cause and effect

c. spatial

d. topical

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2c. Cause-and-Effect Order: It’s Relational

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. A speech in which you began by discussing the percentage of drivers during a particular period of time who were drunk when involved in car accidents and then discussed number of deaths each year attributed directly to driving under the influence of alcohol, would be using which organizational pattern?

a. topical

b. cause-and-effect

c. chronological

d. spatial

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.2c. Cause-and-Effect Order: It’s Relational

Difficulty Level: Hard

16. Cause-and-effect speeches lend themselves well to ______.

a. informative and persuasive speeches

b. informative speeches and speeches on topics related to location

c. speeches on topics related to location and time

d. persuasive speeches and speeches on topics related to time

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2c. Cause-and-Effect Order: It’s Relational

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. When you use ______ organization for your speech, you reveal an issue that needs a resolution and then you find the best way to address is.

a. chronological

b. cause and effect

c. spatial

d. problem–solution

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2d. Problem–Solution Order: It’s Workable

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. A speaker who organized his or her speech by discussing health issues related to traditional 5-day school weeks before presenting the notion of a 4-day school week would be using a/an ______ organizational pattern.

a. problem solving

b. problem–solution

c. issue solving

d. issue–solution

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.2d. Problem–Solution Order: It’s Workable

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. In a ______ organizational pattern, the emphasis is on how a problem can be resolved.

a. problem–solution

b. topical

c. spatial

d. chronological

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.2d. Problem–Solution Order: It’s Workable

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Which of the following would be an appropriate topic for a problem–solution organizational pattern?

a. income equality in the United States and a law aimed at changing it

b. Why it has been historically difficult for women to break into STEM fields?

c. the reasons for chemical dependency

d. the problem with childhood obesity

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.2d. Problem–Solution Order: It’s Workable

Difficulty Level: Hard

21. When you use ______ organization for your speech, you may arrange your material into a series of appropriate topics.

a. chronological

b. cause and effect

c. spatial

d. topical

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. A speech examining the pros and cons of online anonymity would likely be using which linear organization?

a. chronological

b. cause and effect

c. spatial

d. topical

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. A ______ is a device that is used to trigger memory.

a. analogy

b. mnemonic

c. mental reminder

d. cue

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. When a speech does not fit a typical pattern, the speaker may arrange the material into a series of appropriate topics. This is known as ______ order.

a. topical

b. numeric

c. chronological

d. rational

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Jane used the word BRIEF as follows to organize the body of the presentation, as follows: Brainstorm ideas, Research ideas, Interpret ideas, Energize ideas, Finalize ideas. What type of organization pattern did Jane use?

a. chronological

b. cause and effect

c. spatial

d. topical

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Linear organizational patterns are generally preferred by ______-context cultures.

a. high

b. moderate

c. low

d. collective

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Speakers who use ______ patterns devise a series of “stepping stones” that circle their topic instead of hitting it head on.

a. configural

b. linear

c. topical

d. chronological

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. In the ______ pattern, the main points of a speech gradually build up to the speaker’s thesis, which the speaker does not reveal until the speech is nearly over.

a. web

b. deferred-thesis

c. linear

d. narrative

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. In the ______ pattern, threads of thought refer back to the speaker’s central purpose.

a. web

b. deferred-thesis

c. linear

d. narrative

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. In the ______ pattern, the speaker tells a story or series of stories without stating a thesis or developing it with main points.

a. web

b. deferred-thesis

c. linear

d. narrative

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. When speaking to an audience composed of people from diverse cultures, speakers may consider adjusting their ______ preferences.

a. topical

b. organizational

c. speech

d. stylistic

Learning Objective: 8.5: Discuss how culture influences organizational preference.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. Instead of previewing and discussing main points one a time, ______ thinkers approach their subject from a variety of perspectives.

a. topical

b. configural

c. linear

d. narrative

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

Fill-in-the-Blank

1. The principle of ______ refers to the notion that the use of repetition reduces the uncertainty of receivers.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Organization and ______ are equal partners in speech development.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. By building a certain amount of repetition into a speech, a speaker improves receiver ______.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. ______ are logical groupings of the most important ideas or what will be the main points of a speech.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Unless audience members are able to ______ and ______ your speech, they might as well not listen to it.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Organization has the ability to ______ a speech.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. A speech has a ______ format if its main points develop and relate directly to the thesis or topic sentence.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Linear organizational patterns are generally preferred by ______-context cultures.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. ______ ordering can be especially useful in informative speaking.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2a. Time Order: It’s Chronological

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Time order is also referred to as ______ order.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2a. Time Order: It’s Chronological

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. If you can observe your subject in space, it may be a candidate for ______ order.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2b. Spatial Order: It’s Directional

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. ______ is a device that is used to trigger memory.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. ______ order requires you to categorize your materials into those related to the causes of a problem, and those related to its effect.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2c. Cause-and-Effect Order: It’s Relational

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Arranging your material into a series of appropriate topics is referred to as ______ order.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. A speaker who uses configural patterns devises a series of “______” that circle their topic instead of hitting it head on.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Web, deferred-thesis, and narrative patterns are all ______ forms of organization.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. Using the ______ pattern, the speaker tells a story or series of stories without stating a thesis or developing it with main points.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. The ______-thesis pattern is a system of configural organization.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. In using the ______ pattern, the main points of a speech gradually build up to the speaker’s thesis, is not revealed until the speech is nearly over.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. According to Richard Nisbett, there is a ______ when it comes to both the development of a worldview and the frameworks of thinking that support it.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. ______ formats are less explicit than linear formats in offering hard evidence in defense of a position.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Instead of previewing and discussing main points one a time, configural thinkers approach their subject from a variety of ______.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. ______ format seeks to identify significant problems that need resolution and then a solution to help alleviate said problem.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. ______ format helps to highlight natural divisions of a topic.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. According to intercultural communication theorists, English is primarily “______-responsible” language, whereas other languages such as Japanese and Arabic are more “______-responsible.”

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Native users of ______ -responsible languages typically believe it is upto the speaker to be explicit about what he or she wants the listener to know.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Often, native speakers of listener-responsible languages typically believe that speakers need indicate only ______ what they are speaking about.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Organization and content are equal partners in speech development.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. It is said that organization can empower a speech.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Patterns often repeat in unpredictable ways.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Patterns are logical groupings of the most important ideas or what will be the speech’s main points.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Essays generally contain short sentences, whereas speeches often contain complex sentences.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. A speech’s organization is revealed naturally, whereas the organization of an essay is often revealed by heads and subheads.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Even though people think the audience learns more from an organized speech, research does not support this.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Creating a speech is just like writing an essay.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Members of low-context cultures (such as the United States) will often use a linear format.

Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. A mnemonic is a device that is used to trigger memory.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. A speech has a circular organization if its main points develop and relate directly to the thesis or topic sentence that comes early in the presentation.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Action order is also referred to as chronological order.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2a. Time Order: It’s Chronological

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Spatial order shows the progress of time.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2b. Spatial Order: It’s Directional

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. When a speech does not fit a typical pattern, the speaker may arrange the material into a series of appropriate topics. This is known as rational order.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. In a cause-and-effect speech, you can’t discuss the effect first.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.2c. Cause-and-Effect Order: It’s Relational

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Cause-and-effect order requires you to categorize your materials into those related to the causes of a problem and those related to its effects.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.2c. Cause-and-Effect Order: It’s Relational

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Problem–solution order is most frequently employed in informative presentations.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2d. Problem–Solution Order: It’s Workable

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. When using the narrative pattern, the speaker tells a story or series of stories without stating a thesis or developing it with main points.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Speakers seeking to influence often select a problem–solution order.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2d. Problem–Solution Order: It’s Workable

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Topical order is used when other formats do not fit.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.2e. Topical Order: It’s Part of the Whole

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Configural formats are more explicit in offering hard evidence and proof in defense of a position and less listener-responsible in organization.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. The deferred-thesis pattern is a system of configural organization.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Web patterns occur when the main points of a speech gradually build to the speaker’s thesis.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Instead of previewing and discussing main points one a time, configural thinkers approach their subject from a variety of perspectives.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. According to intercultural communication theorists, English is primarily “speaker-responsible” language.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. According to intercultural communication theorists, languages such as Japanese and Arabic are “listener-responsible.”

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. The three main systems of configural organization are deferred-thesis, web, and extemporaneous.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. Speakers who use configural patterns circle their topic; they do not hit it head on.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. In the West, speakers tend to cycle back into the same topic from different directions.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. In both the East and West, speakers will summarize and offer a set conclusion.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. Speakers should not adjust organizational preferences in their speeches.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. How does an essay and speech differ in terms of organization?

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. What is the benefit of organization in speechmaking?

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. Explain the purpose of using redundancy, and why is that important for the speechmaking process.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Define redundancy in the context of public speaking.

Learning Objective: 8.2: Explain the principle of redundancy and why it is useful in a speech.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.1. Understand Speech Patterns: Organization

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss why low-context cultures (like the United States) prefer linear organizational formats.

Learning Objective: 8.1: Explain why organization matters.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Hard

6. What are the five traditional or linear approaches to ordering material?

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2. Use Linear Organizational Formats to Arrange a Speech’s Main Points

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Explain how a problem–solution format could have either two or three main points.

Learning Objective: 8.3: Identify linear organization and list some examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.2d. Problem–Solution Order: It’s Workable

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. What does “geography of thought” refer to?

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Explain the difference between “speaker responsible” language and “listener responsible” language.

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. What are three main systems of configural organization?

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. What game plan should a speaker have when organizing their speech?

Learning Objective: 8.4: Identify configural organization and list examples of this format.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: 8.3. Use Less Direct Configural Formats

Difficulty Level: Medium