SC Chapter 1

What is the definition of Public Speaking?

• Speaking to a group of people for a defined length of time

• Writing a speech for oneself

• Listening to a group of people speak

• Reading a book out loud to a group

Which era saw the birth and expansion of mass media?

• Classical Era through the Modern Age

• Industrial Age

• Information Age

• Stone Age

What is the term Aristotle used for public speaking?

• Rhetoric

• Ethos

• Pathos

• Logos

Which of the following is NOT one of Cicero's Five Arts?

• Imagination

• Memory

• Arrangement

• Invention

What is the gap between populations with high and low access to digital communications called?

• Cyber Separation

• Communication Abyss

• Technological Gap

• Digital Divide

Which mode of human communication is the least interactive?

• Face to face

• Mediated personal communication

• Mass Media

• Expressive technology

What is the intended recipient of a speaker's message called?

• Audience

• Noise

• Speaker

• Channel

Which of the following is NOT an element of Audience centered Public Speaking?

• Context

• Memory

• Environment

• Feedback

What is the ability to access and share information in multiple forms from multiple locations called?

• Mediated personal communication

• Pervasive communication environment

• Mass Media

• Expressive technology

Which age saw the birth of precursors of today's personal communication devices?

• Stone Age

• Information Age

• Industrial Age

• Classical Era through the Modern Age