Active Listening Quiz

What is a Listening Block?

• Blocks that interfere with effective or active listening

• Blocks that interfere with normal or clear understanding

• Earwax that built up overtime

• Blocks that interfere with a persons success

Identify the following Listening Block?

ADVISING

• Being intent on offering the right perspective before the person is finished speaking

• Being focused on disagreeing with what someone else is saying

• Being focused on how someone else is dressed, what they look like or how they talk

• Tuning people out while they are speaking to you

Identify the following Listening Block?

SPARRING

• Being intent on offering the right perspective before the person is finished speaking

• Being focused on disagreeing with what someone else is saying

• Being focused on how someone else is dressed, what they look like or how they talk

• Tuning people out while they are speaking to you

Which of the following is NOT a listening block listed in our text?

• Judging

• Sparring

• Gaslighting

• Advising

Name the Listening Block:

Tuning out someone while they are talking and drifting into your own thoughts/fantasies while likely not hearing a thing they say is....

• Being Right

• Daydreaming

• Put-Downs

• Ignoring

Name the Listening Block:

A person using sarcastic comments to block another persons point of view and potentially cause an argument.

Choose the Listening Block(s) listed below.

• Derailing

• Walking Away

• Identifying

• Sparring

True or False:

Bullying is a horrible Listening Block.

• True

• False

Identify the Listening Block:

If you are silently planning what to say back or reply to a person that is speaking to you, you are...

• Being Right

• Derailing

• Smoothing Over

• Rehearsing

Name the Listening Block:

If you are intent on proving your point or not admitting ANY wrongdoing, you may end up twisting the facts, shouting, making excuses, or even arguing the opposite of what you initially said confusing both you and the other person.

• Judging

• Advising

• Being Right

• Sparring