Week 1 Quiz

In the illustrative lobby announcement, a building manager says, "The north lot closes at noon for repaving; please move your car to the south lot before noon," into the lobby microphone. In the course's six-element model, what are the lobby speakers that carry the words?

Select one.

• The message
• The channel
• The source
• The feedback

In the lobby announcement, a first-year student hears every word but does not know which lot campus maps call "north." Which kind of noise is that?

Select one.

• Physical noise
• Psychological noise
• Semantic noise
• Physiological noise

The course's six-element model takes five elements from the linear model drawn from Shannon (1948) and Shannon and Weaver (1949). Which element comes instead from Schramm's interactional model (1954)?

Select one.

• Noise
• Receiver
• Channel
• Feedback

Which of these actions are plagiarism, as this course describes it by what the speaker does? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• Delivering a speech a friend wrote as if it were your own
• Using a paraphrase in a speech without naming its source out loud
• Quoting a study that a chatbot described when the study cannot be found
• Naming a source out loud right before quoting a sentence from it
• Stitching together passages from several articles without crediting any of them

Which statement describes Barnlund's transactional model (1970), the picture this course lands on?

Select one.

• It adds feedback as a new element of the model
• Speaker and audience send and receive at the same time
• A message travels one way from source to receiver
• It names only source, message, channel, and receiver

In this course, feeling nervous before a speech is treated as a sign that a speaker is poorly suited to public speaking.

True or false.

• True
• False

A speaker plans an icebreaker as four keyword beats, practices it aloud several times, and then speaks conversationally from a single note card. Which delivery method is that?

Select one.

• Manuscript
• Memorized
• Impromptu
• Extemporaneous

A speaker at a neighborhood meeting repeats a statistic, with an author and a year attached, that a chatbot supplied. Nobody, including the speaker, can find the study. What is the most serious breach here?

Select one.

• Fabrication
• Plagiarism
• Semantic noise
• A missing transition

After recording a practice take, which self-assessment line follows the rehearsal loop by naming a moment rather than a feeling?

Select one.

• It went okay overall, I think
• I felt nervous the whole time
• I rushed past the hook and then glanced at my card after every sentence
• The chatbot said my delivery was very engaging

The building manager posts the same sentence about the north lot on the lobby's display screen instead of saying it into the microphone. Which element of the model changed?

Select one.

• The channel
• The message
• The source
• The feedback