Week 10 Quiz

Which list names the four functions this course says a presentation aid can serve for an audience?

Select one.

• Clarity, retention, interest, and credibility
• Decoration, effort, length, and polish
• Clarity, retention, notes for the speaker, and decoration
• Interest, credibility, more slides, and full sentences to read

A speaker wants to compare enrollments in 5 departments in one aid. Which graph type fits these data?

Select one.

• A pie graph, because the departments are slices of the college
• A line graph, because the departments are listed one after another
• A bar graph, because the data compare separate categories
• A photograph of each department's building, because pictures aid retention

A chatbot builds a slide that shows plate waste in each week of the term as a pie graph and calls the slide professional. Which fix matches the data?

Select one.

• Keep the pie graph and add a sixth slice for the final week
• Change it to a line graph, because weekly plate waste is change over time
• Change it to a bar graph, because every week is a separate category
• Keep the pie graph, because the chatbot already judged the slide professional and engaging

True or false: the six-by-six heuristic (at most six lines, at most six words a line) is a rule of thumb for slide text, not a law.

True or false.

• True
• False

The running speech's crowded draft slide holds a 10-word headline, subpoints of 8 and 6 words, and a pasted 50-word citation. The six-by-six ceiling is 6 × 6 words. How many words over that ceiling is the slide?

Select one.

• 74 words over, the whole slide
• 36 words over
• 28 words over
• 38 words over

A speaker reveals the running speech's bar graph after the transition into main point II, references it in one sentence, then keeps it showing through the conclusion. Which step of reveal, reference, return was skipped?

Select one.

• Return, because the graph should come down once its idea is done
• Reveal, because the graph should have appeared during the introduction
• Reference, because the speaker should read every label aloud
• No step, because an aid should stay up so latecomers can see it

Why does this course call reading the slides the most common misuse of a presentation aid?

Select one.

• Because slides should never contain any words at all
• Because the audience cannot read as fast as the speaker talks
• Because the speaker faces the screen and stops watching for feedback
• Because reading aloud makes the speech run far too short for its stated time limit

Select every item that is one of the course's design principles for a slide.

Select every option that applies.

• One idea per slide
• High contrast
• As many slides as possible to show effort
• Full sentences so the audience can read along
• Minimal text

A charge nurse briefs 4 colleagues at a counter, with no screen and two minutes, and chooses one printed diagram of the unit instead of slides. Which lens of audience analysis drove that choice?

Select one.

• The demographic lens, because the colleagues share a profession
• The situational lens, because the size, setting, and equipment decide what aid can work
• The psychographic lens, because the colleagues value clear instructions
• The six-by-six heuristic, because a diagram holds fewer words

A speaker learns the speech will be in a large, brightly lit hall with the screen far from the back row. Which adaptation of the aid follows from that situational finding?

Select one.

• Add more bullet lines so the back row has more to read
• Switch to a pie graph, because circles are easier to see from far away
• Use pale text on a white background so the slide looks clean
• Use large readable type and high contrast so the back row can read it in the light