Week 6 Quiz

A speaker has finished both outlines for an informative speech and is about to walk to the lectern. Which document should the speaker carry?

Select one.

• The preparation outline, because its complete sentences keep a nervous speaker from blanking in the middle of a point
• The speaking outline, so the speaker can glance down and look back up
• Both outlines, so the speaker can switch to the full sentences whenever the nerves start to rise
• Neither one, because an extemporaneous speech is always delivered with no notes of any kind

In an illustrative exchange, a chatbot outlines a main point as "III. Diverted food goes to donation and composting. A. Composting." and calls it a great outline. Which outlining rule does point III break?

Select one.

• Coordination
• Parallelism
• Division
• Subordination

Which of these lines from the running speech, which is illustrative, is a transition rather than a signpost?

Select one.

• "Second."
• "Finally."
• "Also, composting."
• "Once you know how the waste is weighed, the next question is how to bring the number down — which brings us to serving."

Select every item that is one of the four outlining rules this course names.

Select every option that applies.

• Coordination
• Transition
• Subordination
• Chronology
• Division
• Parallelism

True or false: A signpost such as "also" or "next" tells listeners how two ideas relate to each other.

True or false.

• True
• False

An illustrative outline of the running speech contains the line "Also, composting." Which revision fixes it?

Select one.

• "Also, and this is something every one of you should really remember, composting."
• "Second, and separate from donation, the dining hall composts what cannot be donated."
• "Composting."
• "III. Composting."

An illustrative outline jumps from "II. B. Portion-controlled serving lowers plate waste further." straight to "III. Diverted food goes to donation and composting." What is missing between them?

Select one.

• A transition naming both points
• A second subpoint under point III, so that the division rule is satisfied
• An internal summary of the introduction's four functions, repeated before point III
• A clincher that tells listeners the speech is about to end

In the running speech's two outlines, which are illustrative, where does oral citation 2, the study by Wenhao Zhang and Junehee Kwon in Sustainability, appear?

Select one.

• Only in a written bibliography at the end of the preparation outline, in whatever style the instructor sets for written work
• Written in full under point II on the page, and cued on point II's card
• Written out in full, word for word, on main point II's card so the speaker can read it aloud exactly
• Nowhere in either outline, because oral citations are added later, during the rehearsal takes

Inside main point II of the running speech, which is illustrative, the speaker says: "So trays change how much diners take, and portions change how much comes back." Which connective is this?

Select one.

• A signpost
• A transition
• An internal preview
• An internal summary

An illustrative outline lists "I. Plate waste is measured by weighing. II. The scale sits at the dish-return window. III. Serving changes reduce plate waste." A classmate runs the "because" test and finds that point II supports point I. Which fix follows the outlining rules?

Select one.

• Keep all three main points as they are, because each one is already written as a complete declarative sentence
• Move the scale under point I as subpoint A, add a B, and keep two main points
• Delete point I entirely, because point II is the more specific and more concrete of the two
• Move the scale under point I as its only subpoint, so point I holds the detail it needs