COMM 2025 Quiz 2 (Chapters 9 and 12)

There are four methods for selecting an appropriate topic. Which of the following is not one? (Please get this one right :) )

• Determine your topic's age

• Use brainstorming

• Survey your interests

• Assess your knowledge of a commitment to your topic

• Put on a blindfold and throw a dart at a list of topics

As a presenter, you should be the one in the room who is the most knowledgeable of your topic.

• True

• False

Audience analysis is one of the last things you should think about in planning your speech topics.

• True

• False

Audience analysis involves

• Collecting and interpreting audience characteristics through observations, inferences, questionnaires, and reading their diaries

• Tricking your audience into answering personal questions

• Collecting and interpreting audience characteristics through observations, inferences, questionnaires and the Internet

• Finding out where each audience member lives and sitting outside their home

A voluntary audience needs more convincing than a captive audience.

• True

• False

A captive audience attends a presentation because they're captivated by the topic.

• True

• False

Determining the audience's attitudes, beliefs, and values is part of conducting a

• Demographics analysis

• Psychographic analysis

• Statistical analysis

• Philanthropic analysis

Determining the audience's age, gender, year in school, etc. is part of conducting a

• Demographic analysis

• Psychographic analysis

• Statistical analysis

• Philanthropic analysis

Which method of audience analysis involves making an assertion about the audience through both indirectly and directly gathered data?

• Observation

• Inference

• Questionnaires

• Searching the Internet

If you find that the audience is not engaging with your presentation, what is one thing you cannot adapt?

• Yourself

• Your language

• Your audience's attitude

• Your topic

• Your thesis statement and purpose