Finding Your Topic Test Bank Docx Chapter.6 11th Edition

CHAPTER 6 Test Bank

Multiple-Choice Questions

6.1. When selecting a speech topic, what is the first requirement that must be met?

a. It should be concise enough to fit into the time allowed.

b. It should be something you have never studied before.

c. It should meet the expectations of the audience and the occasion.

d. It should require presentation aids.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.2. Camille is interested in speaking on the general topic of healthy food choices. To make her topic area more manageable, she is currently looking for articles on the Mediterranean diet. Which stage of finding and developing her topic is Camille working on?

a. exploration

b. refinement

c. discovery

d. implementation

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Apply What You Know

6.3. What does the speaker do in the discovery phase of selecting a topic?

a. identify general topic areas

b. articulate a thesis statement

c. articulate a specific purpose statement

d. consider ideas for presentation aids

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.4. Which of these speakers is in the refinement phase of developing a speech topic?

a. Jessica decides to rehearse her speech in front of two friends to help ease her anxiety.

b. Prab identifies the general and specific purpose for his speech and writes out his thesis statement.

c. Norris knows he wants to talk about marine life and decides he should narrow his focus on efforts to preserve endangered fish in his home state.

d. Micah decides to prepare note cards for her speech and organizes them based on her outline.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Apply What You Know

6.5. According to the text, you should allow at least _____ to select your topic, prepare your speech, and practice your presentation.

a. one month

b. one week

c. two days

d. two weeks

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.6. What should you refrain from in the initial stage of brainstorming?

a. free association

b. critiquing

c. combining

d. wild thinking

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.7. A speaker would engage in brainstorming during which part of the process of finding and developing speech topics?

a. writing a thesis

b. analyzing the audience

c. narrowing a topic

d. discovering a topic

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.8. What approach to developing topic ideas explores “habitual” paths of thought such as people, places, ideas, values, and problems?

a. mind mapping

b. topic analysis

c. interest charts

d. mediated prompts

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.9. The self-awareness inventory is an example of which tool for discovering ideas for speech topics?

a. interest chart

b. topic analysis

c. brainstorming

d. mediated prompts

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.10. When you use a topic area inventory chart to discover ideas for speech topics, you _____.

a. write down all topic ideas you can think of regardless of their probable use

b. list possible topics that interest you and list those that interest your audience and match them

c. make a list of all resources you have access to and decide the topic based on these resources

d. survey the audience to learn their interests

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.11. When you scan newspapers, the Internet, and magazines in search of speech topics, what are you using?

a. mediated prompts

b. interest charts

c. mind mapping

d. brain storming

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.12. The greatest advantage to using mediated prompts for discovering speech topic ideas is that _____.

a. you are assured your audience will be interested in the topic

b. the topics it generates are generally more timely

c. the information you find will be accurate

d. few people use this method, so your ideas will be original

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.13. The techniques of topic exploration are concerned primarily with _____.

a. discovering general areas of interest to address in your speeches

b. determining your specific purpose for speaking

c. focusing general areas of interest into more specific topic ideas

d. using the narrative of a journey to broaden your topic horizons

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.14. What are we trying to change when we practice mind mapping?

a. our fears and inhibitions

b. our social biases and stereotypes

c. our habitual patterns of thinking

d. our judgments about experiences

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.15. The professor suggested that the students should write their general topic areas in the middle of the page and then list more specific ideas radiating out from this center point. What method of topic exploration is the professor suggesting?

a. topic analysis

b. brainstorming

c. mediated prompts

d. mind mapping

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.16. What approach to exploring topics focuses on basic journalistic questions such as who? what? why? when? where? and how?

a. mind mapping

b. topic analysis

c. topoi of topic discovery

d. brainstorming

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.17. To focus her general interest in landfills into usable speech topics, Erica wrote down a list of questions: Who uses landfills? How many landfills are in our community? What goes into a landfill? These types of questions show that Erica is using _____ to explore her topic area.

a. topic analysis

b. brainstorming

c. mind mapping

d. interest charts

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.18. The topic analysis method of learning more about a speech topic is similar to the process used by _____.

a. lawyers arguing a case in court

b. teachers instructing elementary students

c. journalists reporting on a story

d. accountants listing debits and credits

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.19. What is the general purpose of a speech to inform?

a. create good will

b. share knowledge

c. manage impressions

d. give advice

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.20. What is the general purpose of a speech to persuade?

a. create impressions of good will

b. share knowledge and enlightenment

c. celebrate shared values and traditions

d. influence beliefs and actions

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.21. What does the specific purpose of a speech represent?

a. the speaker’s intent to inform

b. our honest biases and stereotypes

c. the response desired from the audience

d. the relevance of the topic

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.22. Which would make the best specific purpose statement for a speech encouraging listeners to donate money to Habitat for Humanity?

a. My audience should understand that homelessness is bad for everyone in our society.

b. To convince my audience that Habitat for Humanity is a reputable group.

c. To persuade my audience to donate money to Habitat for Humanity.

d. To celebrate the fact that groups like Habitat for Humanity help those in need.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.23. The specific purpose statement “to inform my listeners about heart disease and the latest drugs for treating high blood pressure” would fall into which trap of poor topic selection?

a. double-focus

b. triviality

c. polarization

d. technicality

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.24. While a specific purpose should express what the speaker wants to accomplish, the thesis statement should _____.

a. act as a transition between the body and conclusion

b. reveal the speaker’s intent to inform or persuade

c. organize the main points of the speech

d. summarize the speaker’s central idea

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.25. For ethical reasons, you should avoid all of the following topic ideas EXCEPT _____.

a. anything that might promote hurtful or dangerous behavior

b. anything that might offend the sensibilities of listeners

c. anything that might promote illegal activities

d. anything upon which you cannot speak from responsible knowledge

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

True-False Questions

6.26. A good topic is one that involves you and one that you care about.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.27. The exploration phase of topic selection involves identifying general topic areas for discovery and refinement.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.28. Brainstorming is a controlled process of topic exploration that subjects ideas to rigorous scrutiny as they are generated.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.29. A topic area inventory chart can help you discover topic ideas by listing and cross-checking points of interest shared with your listeners.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.30. Mind mapping establishes certain basic patterns of expression we take for granted in order to free our minds for creative exploration.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.31. Mediated prompts are a method for exploring a topic area where the speaker uses a system of questions similar to those used by news writers.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.32. Invitations to speak outside class will usually indicate your general focus and purpose for speaking.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.33. The specific purpose of a speech should focus on the speaker’s intent to inform or persuade.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.34. The central idea of a speech is also known as the thesis statement.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.35. “The economy is about to collapse” provides a good example of a specific purpose statement.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

FILL-IN-THE BLANK Questions

6.36. During the _____ phase of searching for a speech topic, you would identify the general and specific purpose of the speech.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.37. The technique for discovering speech topics that works by first generating as many ideas as possible and then critiquing them one at a time is called _____.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.38. Referring to newspapers, magazines, and electronic media to discover a speech topic is referred to as using _____.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.39. Making a list of things you enjoy doing and making a similar list of things you know the audience likes to do is the first step in creating a(n) _____ chart to determine a speech topic.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.40. A broad subject that has potential for a speech topic but must be narrowed and focused to develop a good speech is called a(n) _____.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.41. _____ changes the customary linear patterns of thinking into a visual representation of relationships to enhance creative topic exploration.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.42. _____ is used to explore general topic areas in terms of Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How?

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.43. The _____ purpose of a speech refers to the speaker’s intent to inform or persuade listeners or to commemorate some person or occasion.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Easy

Skill: Remember the Facts

6.44. The single sentence that summarizes the central idea of a speech is called the _____ statement.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.45. A(n) _____ refers to when speakers fail to reveal their true motivations or purpose for speaking to listeners.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

Short-Answer/Essay Questions

6.46. Discuss two principles of a good speech topic. How do they best relate to the speech you last presented in this class?

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.1

Learning Objective: LO 6.1 Learn the qualities of a good speech topic.

Topic: What Is a Good Topic?

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Apply What You Know

6.47. Explain the process of brainstorming as it relates to discovering a speech topic. Provide examples.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.2

Learning Objective: LO 6.2 Discover topic possibilities through brainstorming, interest charts, and mediated prompts.

Topic: Discovering Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Apply What You Know

6.48. Discuss the technique of mind mapping as it relates to exploring topic areas. Provide examples.

Module: 6.3

Learning Objective: LO 6.3 Explore a promising topic area through mind mapping and topic analysis.

Topic: Exploring Your Topic Area

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Apply What You Know

6.49. Discuss the differing goals of speeches to inform, persuade, and celebrate. Provide examples.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Understand the Concepts

6.50. List and explain three principles for testing specific purpose statements. Provide examples.

Chapter: 06

Module: 6.4

Learning Objective: LO 6.4 Refine your topic for speaking.

Topic: Refining Your Topic

Difficulty: Moderate

Skill: Apply What You Know