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COM101 Quiz

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following activities would Haldane need to undertake as part of his research?

a)

Talking to parents and teachers

b)

Finding out how many students own digital devices

c)

Choosing a sample that is representative of his school's population

d)

All of the above

2.

Haldane found an article entitled "Modern Technology Causing Canadian Students to Fail". This article could be useful to his research as it

a)

Is reliable and accurate

b)

Can provide primary data

c)

Can yield sufficient data

d)

Provides secondary data

3.

Why would it be UNACCEPTABLE for Haldane to apply the findings of his research to all teenagers?

a)

He plans to use only students from his school

b)

The respondents might not tell the truth

c)

He plans to use only interviews

d)

The school is in a rural area

4.

Which of the following would be an advantage if Haldane conducted interviews?

a)

High reliability of the information to be collected

b)

Considerable depth of the information to be collected

c)

Wide geographic coverage of informants

d)

Costliness of the procedure

5.

Which of the following research designs would be the MOST suitable for Ms Davis to use?

a)

Descriptive

b)

Exploratory

c)

Correlational

d)

Experimental

6.

Which of the following factors could invalidate the generalization which Ms Davis makes from the findings?

a)

The sample size is too large

b)

The sample is not representative of the population

c)

The research is carried out only in Ms Davis' school

d)

The research is conducted during end of year examination

7.

All of the following are characteristics of primary research EXCEPT

a)

First hand information is obtained

b)

Information is based on published material that might be outdated

c)

This information is subjective

d)

The research can be long and time consuming

8.

The first step in the communication process is when the

a)

receiver decodes the message

b)

sender transmits a message through a channel

c)

sender encodes the message

d)

sender conceptualizes the message

9.

In communication studies, noise is referred to as

a)

any interference with clear transmission and reception of message during the process of communication

b)

loud music

c)

excessive words in the process of communication

d)

when a person is using a lot of run-on sentences and fragments in the process of communication

10.
a)

Waving hands in the air

b)

Shouting at the audience

c)

Embracing a close family member

d)

Smiling at the women in the audience

11.

A student's expository essay should typically aim to

a)

affect the emotions

b)

recount experiences

c)

present the writer's point of view

d)

enlighten and instruct

12.

Which of the following would be the MAIN organizational strategy used in an expository essay on the topic "Types of luxury vehicles"?

a)

Description

b)

Classification

c)

Chronological order

d)

Comparison and contrast

13.

What two organizational features would BEST help your audience to easily follow your speech?

a)

Editing and concluding

b)

Formatting and editing

c)

Researching and outlining

d)

Proofreading and paragraphing

14.

What is the setting of the first stanza?

a)

A funeral

b)

An airport

c)

A train station

d)

An underground station

15.

The main idea of the poem is that the author

a)

the author learns to accept partings

b)

people find it painful to deal with partings

c)

people eventually learn to deal with partings

d)

two young people are parting companies on different flights

16.

Which of the following literary devices are not used in the poem?

I. Pun

II. Metaphor

III. Oxymoron

a)

I and II only

b)

I and III only

c)

II and III only

d)

I, II and III

17.

When is this meme true?

a)

All the time

b)

Sometimes

c)

Never

d)

Most of the time