Week 3 Quiz

At a cousin's wedding, a guest gives a short toast that tells one story about the couple and ends by raising a glass to them. What is the toast's general purpose?

Select one.

• To inform, because the toast tells the guests a story about the couple
• To persuade, because the toast asks the guests to raise their glasses
• To entertain or mark an occasion, because the toast honors the day

For the illustrative running speech on food waste in a campus dining hall, given to a first-year seminar in a five-minute slot, which line is a well-formed specific purpose?

Select one.

• Food waste in the dining hall.
• To inform my audience about how our campus dining hall handles its plate waste.
• What happens to the food we leave on our plates?
• To inform and persuade people about the global food waste crisis and how recycling can solve it.

True or false: In this course, the specific purpose is said aloud word for word near the end of the speech's introduction.

True or false.

• True
• False

A student hands in "Food waste in the dining hall." as the specific purpose for the running speech (an item from the course's illustrative outline-error set). What is the problem with it?

Select one.

• It is a topic: it has no infinitive phrase and names no audience
• It holds two separate ideas that belong in two speeches
• It is written as a question instead of a statement
• It is a central idea, so it belongs in the introduction

A speaker plans to use "What happens to the food we leave on our plates?" as the central idea of the running speech. Which statement best describes that choice?

Select one.

• It works as a central idea, because a question makes the audience curious
• It can open the speech as a hook, but a central idea must be a declarative sentence that states the message
• It is the specific purpose, because it names the topic of the speech
• It fails only because it is too short to hold the whole message

Asked for a specific purpose, a chatbot returns: "To inform and persuade people about the global food waste crisis and how recycling can solve it." (This exchange is illustrative.) For the running speech's seminar and five-minute slot, which tests of a specific purpose does this draft fail? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• One idea
• An infinitive phrase
• Audience-centered
• Achievable in the time
• Declarative sentence

The running speech narrowed "food" to "food waste in our campus dining hall" because every listener in the first-year seminar eats in that dining hall. In the Week 2 audience profile, which lens produced that finding?

Select one.

• The demographic lens
• The psychographic lens
• The situational lens

While planning the running speech, the student cuts "every kind of waste in the building" down to plate waste, because one kind of waste is all a five-minute speech can hold. Which narrowing filter is at work?

Select one.

• Purpose
• Audience
• Context
• Time

The running speech's specific purpose is checked against 4 tests, and its central idea is checked against 3 checks. How many checks are applied across the two sentences in all?

Select one.

• 7
• 8
• 12

In the delivered running speech, which of these sentences does the seminar audience actually hear?

Select one.

• A dining hall's plate waste is measured by weighing what comes back on plates, targeted by changing how food is served, and diverted through donation and composting.
• To inform my audience about how our campus dining hall handles its plate waste.
• Food waste in the dining hall.
• My purpose is to inform you about plate waste.