21st Century Study Skills Quiz Chapters 20-23

How can voice intonation be used effectively in an oral presentation?

• to create a monotone delivery

• to emphasize a point or transition

• to avoid engaging the audience

• to increase the length of the presentation

Anticipating questions and choices your teacher might include on a multiple choice test is a good way to study. When you do this include: wrong, better & best choices, choices with processes & steps, choices with chronology of events.

• only wrong choices

• only better choices

• only choices with processes & steps

• all of the above

How can the speaker's facial expression add to their message in a speech?

• Can "draw in" the audience

• Makes the speech longer

• Distracts from the main points

• Is irrelevant to the message

By using a process of elimination to find the answer in the previous question about Martha Washington, you eliminated the answer because

• it was not grammatically correct

• it was too vague

• it was historically inaccurate

• it was not relevant to the question

What is the obvjious distractor of this multiple choice question? Martha Washington was: George Washington's wife, the first president's wife, cleaned the house, picking apples at Mount Vernon

• George Washington's wife

• the first president's wife

• cleaned the house

• picking apples at Mount Vernon

In order to get good grades, students must have good attendance, complete all of their work, and ask for help when needed. What must be true?

• All must be true

• Only good attendance is necessary

• Completing work is optional

• Asking for help is not required

What is the stem of a multiple choice question?

• the question

• the answer

• the explanation

• the distractor

What can you do at Palm Beach Lakes High School to help you develop strong public speaking skills?

• Join the debate club

• Enroll in a debate class

• Sing in the courtyard during lunch

• Both A and B

On a multiple choice test, when deciding between 2 choices which both seem correct, eliminate the choice that:
- grammatically agrees with the stem
- is true only under certain narrow conditions
- needs additional facts read into it to make it work

• is grammatically correct

• is true only under certain narrow conditions

• needs additional facts read into it to make it work

• both b and c

When an action word tells you to analyze a key word, concept or idea, what should you do?

• examine in detail

• ignore the key word

• summarize the concept

• list related ideas