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WorksheetsOrder of Business: Orders of the Day: Agenda - PPTQ Sec 41
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 36mins
Which of the following terms or phrases deal with the order in which business is taken up in a session?
Agenda
Order of Business
Orders of the Day
All of the above
Any established sequence that prescribes that business will be taken up at a session is called an
order of business.
adjournment sine die.
order of the day.
All of the above
Which one of the following is not a subdivision of a "standard" order of business?
Reading and Approval of Minutes
Roll Call
New Business
Reports of Officers, Boards, and Standing Committees
The agenda for a regular business meeting calls for unfinished business to be taken up
before committee reports.
before new business.
immediately after the call to order.
immediately after the reading of the minutes.
The actual reading of the minutes by a society's secretary may be waived if
It is generally more efficient to approve and to handle the correction of the minutes by
conducting a rising vote after the chair offers a formal motion.
a member proposing a formal motion.
the chair stating "they are correct as read" immediately after they are read.
unanimous consent.
The minutes do not become the official record of a society's proceedings until they are
In most societies it is customary to hear reports from all officers, boards, and standing committees
A motion arising out of a report of an officer, board, or committee is taken up
Special committees are called on to report
For items of business that have been made a special order for a specific time, the chair should
A club which meets monthly adjourned in January while a motion was still pending. At the February meeting, the motion that was left pending at the end of the January meeting became
Which term below refers to questions that are carried over from a previous meeting because the meeting adjourned before they could be completed?
The chair should announce the heading of Unfinished Business and General Orders
If a topic is discussed informally at a meeting and a member suggested that it be "brought up at the next meeting," the chair should announce that the topic be
In the standard order of business, new business is considered
After New Business is announced by the chairman, members can
Opening Ceremonies or Exercises include items such as
The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
roll call.
announcements.
an open forum.
Which of the following is an optional heading for an order of business?
Announcements
Roll call
Opening ceremonies
All of the above
Which procedure below is often used by assemblies such as city councils which have to deal with a large number of routine matters?
Open forum
Good of the order
Open agenda
Consent calendar
The Program is usually presented
after the meeting is adjourned.
before new business.
during roll call.
just before the meeting is adjourned.
If you were chairman and a guest speaker had to leave before roll call, what would you do?
Ask the assembly (by unanimous consent) if the guest can speak early.
Tell the guest that the speech cannot be presented.
Conduct a voice vote on whether the guest speaker may make an earlier presentation.
Allow the speaker to make the presentation at any time he or she wishes.
How can an item of business be taken out of its proper order?
The chair simply makes an announcement.
A recess is called, and it is handled during that time.
Adopt a motion to suspend the rules.
Postpone the pending motion indefinitely, and then take up the necessary business.
To take a motion out of its proper order at a meeting requires
a two-thirds vote in the affirmative.
a majority vote in the affirmative.
the chairman's approval.
a three-fourths affirmative vote by ballot.
An Order of the Day is a specific item of business that
has been amended and ordered to be completed immediately by the chairman.
must be incorporated into the bylaws by a majority vote.
is set in advance to be taken up at a given session.
lists in detail all the standing committees in the bylaws.
Orders of the Day are divided into two classes called
general orders and special orders.
points of order and good of the order.
rules of order and call to order.
order of business and order of precedence.
Which one of the following has a unique feature of being able to interrupt most business that is pending when the specified time arrives to consider it?
Rules of order
General orders
Business orders
Special orders
Which motion below is used to make a pending question an order of the day for a future time?
Lay on the Table
Amend
Postpone
Reconsider
Orders of the day that are not set for particular hours are taken up under the heading of
General Orders.
Unfinished Business.
Special Orders.
Any of the above
A general order that has been set for a particular hour cannot be considered before that hour unless the
chairman makes a ruling.
rules are suspended by a two-thirds vote.
the member who made the general order grants permission.
a committee is formed and they give permission.
If several general orders are made for the same time, they are taken up in
alphabetical order.
an order as decided by the chairman.
the order in which they were made.
random order so that no one order will be given an advantage.
Which of the following postponed questions would be the first to be considered?
Unfinished special order
Special order for the same hour made later
Special order for a particular time
Special order
A special order automatically interrupts any business that is pending except a
motion to adjourn.
motion to recess.
question of privilege.
All of the above
Assume a special order was made for 2 p.m. Later, another was made for 1 p.m. If the 1 p.m. special order is pending at 2 p.m., what would you do as chairman?
Allow the 1 p.m. pending order to be completed.
Stop the 1 p.m. pending motion and allow the 2 p.m. special order to begin.
Declare the 2 p.m. special order lost.
None of the above
If a special order is pending and the time for a pre-scheduled recess arrives, what would you do as chairman?
Allow the pending business to continue.
Call for an immediate vote on the pending business and then call the recess.
Declare the assembly in recess.
Any of the above
An order of business that is specially adopted for a given session is called a (an)
Agenda.
Special meeting.
Assembly.
Program.
