47 Points Total (.5 each for Bag O’ Me Questions)
Communication Studies Test
What is Communication?
PART ONE: Matching Vocabulary
A. EthicsB. Communication
C. Sender
D. Message
E. Receiver
AB. Feedback
AC. Communication barrier
AD. Written communication
AE. Oral (verbal) communication
ABC. Nonverbal communication
BCD. Symbol
CDE. Intrapersonal communication
ABD. Interpersonal communication
ABE. Oratory/ Rhetoric
1. _____ the ability to conduct an inner dialogue and to assess one’s own thoughts, feelings, and reactions
2. _____ any communication that is spoken
3. _____ the process of sending and receiving messages, which occurs whenever we express ourselves in a manner that is clearly understood
4. _____ a person’s sense of right and wrong
5. _____ the person who intercepts a message and then decodes or interprets it
6. _____ words, body language, and symbols communicated by the receiver that responds to the sender’s message
7. _____ an obstacle that gets in the way of effective communication
8. _____ that which is sent or said
9. _____ any communication is must be read
10. _____ facial expressions or body movements that express one’s ideas about a person, situation, or idea
11. _____ the art or study of speaking effectively
12. _____ one who starts the communication process by transmitting a message
13. _____ a form of communication which takes place when messages are transmitted between two or more people
14. _____ anything that stands for an idea and is used for communication. It represent something else by association and incudes both nonverbal and verbal communication
A. OratorB. Logical appeal
C. Emotional appeal
D. Ethical (personal) appeal
E. Dialogue
AB. Motivation
AC. Stereotyping
AD. Perception
AE. Anxiety
15. _____ a person who delivers oratory and uses words effectively
16. _____ labeling every person in a group based on a preconceived idea as to what the group represents
17. ______arousing an audience’s feeling to “strike a chord” with them
18. _____ conveying a strong sense of honesty, integrity, and ethics to an audience
19. ______a feeling of fear, unease, or worry
20. _____ how one sees things
21. _____ a need or desire that causes a person to act
22. _____ conversation
23. The Communication Process consists of all of the following, except:
A. Receiver
B. Sender
C. Message
D. Communication Barrier
E. Feedback
24. All of the following are obstacles that can prevent the receiver from correctly interpreting the words being spoken, except:
A. Attitudinal obstacle
B. Social obstacle
C. Financial obstacle
D. Educational obstacle
E. Cultural obstacle
25. Facial expressions and body language communication nonverbal messages:
A. True
B. False
26. The best way to converse with a person in a wheelchair is by standing above them.
A. True
B. False
27. What type of communication involves having a conversation with yourself?
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Intrapersonal communication
28. What type is a “one-on-one” with someone else?
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Intrapersonal communication
29. Chatting with your friends at lunch is an example of…
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Intrapersonal communication
30. Reflecting on your day by writing in your private journal is an example of…
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Intrapersonal communication
31. Thinking about what you have to do at practice after school while the teacher lectures is an example of…
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Intrapersonal communication
32. A good speaker is aware that she or he has an ethical obligation to use the spoken word responsibly.
A. True
B. False
33. A good speaker is aware of communication barriers and realizes that there is nothing they can do to eliminate them.
A. True
B. False
34. The foundation for effective oral communication must be firmly laid before any content or delivery work is done.
A. True
B. False
35. Traffic lights are considered a form of communication:
A. True
B. False
36. Hieroglyphics are considered a form of communication:
A. True
B. False
37. Aristotle said that an audience is influenced by someone with ______appeal.
A. Ethos
B. Pathos
C. Logos
D. All of the above
38. All of the following are the 3 verbs suggested to the “sender”, except:
A. Think
B. Articulate
C. Watch
D. Respond
39. All of the following are the 3 verbs suggested to the “receiver” except:
A. Ask
B. Learn
C. Relate
D. Receive
40. When Analyzing a written speech you should examine all of the following, except:
A. Audience
B. Speaker
C. Tone
D. Purpose
E. Publication
AB. Occasion
AC. Literary / Rhetorical Devices
41. All of the following are ways that you reduce or lessen anxiety about public speaking and make you feel more confident, except:
A. Loosen the tension
B. Knowing the content
C. Being prepared and organized
D. Act like you don’t care
E. Deeply breathing
Reading the speech and answer the questions that follow.
“Kidstuff”
Sarah Gauche
Apple Valley High School, Minnesota
It was a hot summer day and we were playing for keeps. My brother and I were
surveying the world from twenty feet above the ground in our special lookout tree.
We were vigilant as we waited for “Senor Monster” to spring up from behind the
water tower across town. As members of the spy team, it was our duty to notify our
special forces on the ground – the other kids at day care – of any suspicious activity.
Suddenly, we heard a voice. It was our mothers. It was time to go home and time
for the wonderful world of mystery, magic and make-believe to end. Playtime was
over.
And now, even though it’s ten years later, this statement is still true. Unfortunately,
for too many of us playtime is over, for America no longer knows how to play. And
this is true for the little kids and the “big kids” – the children and the adults.
Author Matt Schudel agrees. In his article entitled The Kidnapping of Play, he
states that Americans have lost sight of what play really means: Imagination,
creativity and a sense of playfulness. And in its place, we’ve either put pretend play
or no play at all.
So, let’s take a look at these two worlds and examine, first, the programmed play
world of children, and, second, the prohibited play world of adults.
Now, today’s kids aren’t allowed to play – they’re instructed; they’re organized and
compartmentalized. You can forget about going outside to play. Instead, schedule
a play date. Even though Dutch historian Johan Huzinga believes that “supervised
play” isn’t really play at all, more and more this is exactly what kids are getting. We
have clubs and classes, leagues and teams, soccer, T-ball, gymnastics. One Los
Angeles community even offers finger painting lessons.
Hello! Don’t you just do finger painting?
Real play is freedom from constraints. “Lucy-goosey, pie-in-the-sky” freedom to
create a world that has its own characters, its own language. Now earlier you may
have thought that “Senor Monster” sounded pretty dumb. As a matter of fact, now
that I am so much older, he sounds pretty dumb to me, too. But at that time, to my
brother and to me “Senor Monster” was real, and more importantly he was ours –
our own creation.
Today, American has three percent of the world’s children and sixty percent of the
world’s toys. Toys that often do everything for us, except inspire us to create.
Ironically, Doctor Tricia Greenhaugh believes that it is not toys, but the absence of
toys that inspires real play. Now, I’m not saying that adult guidance isn’t critical in the development of a child, but when fostering free play isn’t a priority, we end up
trading our imaginations for somebody else’s.
Now programmed play is definitely part of the adult world as well, but I think that
there’s an even larger problem facing the “big kids,” and that’s that play is often not
allowed. And that’s our second world, the prohibited play world of adults.
While many adults know how to “play it cool,” play it safe, play the stock market
and play doctor, few know how to extend the play in the child’s world to the
playfulness that is critical in the adults. It’s an inline, online, bottom-line world out
there, so in this zone, play is often prohibited. The book, The Playful Self, states
that evidently modern society sees the words work and play as being diametrically
opposed. Work and play seem to have the compatibility factor of a surveillance
camera and Winona Ryder.
Now, I’m not saying that our lives should be one continuous game of Silly String or
Hacky Sack, but it does seem as though our definition of play has been obscured,
that we’ve turned it into something else.
Nearly ten years ago, author William Oscar Johnson published a report stating that
repressed natural play in children often materializes later in life, in sometimes
disastrous forms. He called this, “unspent war-like energy,” and said that when we
don’t learn how to play, or when we don’t learn the rules of play, we end up
associating mayhem, violence and unruly behavior as normal adult “play.”
So, isn’t it time that we turned play around?
In her poem, Diane Loomans writes,
If I had my child to raise again,
I would build esteem first, and the house later.
I would finger paint more,
And point the finger less.
I would do less correcting,
And more connecting.
And I would stop playing serious,
And seriously play.
So, regardless of your age, remember that some of life’s greatest lessons are learned
on that playground, or in that tree, or in the boxes that the swing set came in. You
see, in the end, it’s all kidstuff. And from now on, let’s play, for keeps.
42. Who is the speaker?
A. Johan Huzinga
B. Sarah Gauche
C. Diane Loomans
D. Unknown
43. How does the speaker establish their authority over the topic? (Mark all that apply)
A. The speaker uses personal testimonies
B. The speaker references historians
C. The speaker references poems and literature
D. The speaker creates their own word: kidstuff
44. What is the purpose of this speech?
A. To entertain
B. To inform
C. To persuade
45. Who LOVES all things motor cross?
A. Gavin
B. Shayne
C. Michael
D. Nick
46. Who wants to be an neo-natal nurse?
A. Hannah
B. Madison
C. Brandy
D. Odalys
47. Who can spend hours on youtube?
A. Nick
B. Peter
C. Jonny
D. Mike
48. Who loves “all things country?”
A. Darcy
B. Jill
C. Katie
D. Haley
49. Who wants to move to the beach?
A. Anna
B. Peri
C. Will
D. Abbey
50. What does Sam Gryna want to play in college?
A. lacrosse
B. baseball
C. basketball
D. wrestling