Week 11 Quiz

True or false: an informative speech may close by asking the audience to take an action, as long as its specific purpose starts with "To inform."

True or false.

• True
• False

Which specific purpose passes all three tests of an informative specific purpose?

Select one.

• To discuss the town's new recycling pickup.
• To inform my audience why the town should end the new recycling pickup.
• To inform my audience about how the town's new recycling pickup works.
• The town's new recycling pickup and its bin colors.

A draft reads "To inform my audience why our dining hall should remove its trays." Which tests of an informative specific purpose does it fail?

Select one.

• Only the first test, because a specific purpose has to be phrased as a question for the audience
• The second and third tests, because "should remove" advocates and is unfair to a listener who wants trays
• None of the tests, because any draft that starts with the words "To inform" is informative
• Only the third test, because a listener who wants trays would find a talk about trays too long

A classmate plans an informative talk on how a search engine indexes a page. Which subject is it, and which pattern usually suits it?

Select one.

• A process, so a chronological pattern that follows the steps in order
• A person, so a chronological pattern that follows the inventor's whole life in order
• An idea, so a topical pattern built on definitions, examples, and one analogy
• A place, so a spatial pattern that walks the listener through each part of the building

A speaker plans an informative talk explaining confirmation bias. Which subject is it, and how is such a speech usually built?

Select one.

• An event, so a causal pattern that explains why the bias first happened and what it caused next
• A process, so a chronological pattern that follows each step of the bias from first to last
• A thing, so a spatial pattern that walks through the parts of the mind from front to back
• An idea, so a topical pattern built on definitions, examples, and an analogy

Select every item that is one of the course's retention strategies.

Select every option that applies.

• Relevance
• Defining terms
• Novelty
• Repetition with variation
• Managing the information load

A speaker states the message as the central idea in the introduction, again as the preview, and again in different words as the conclusion's summary. Which strategy is this?

Select one.

• Repetition with variation, a retention strategy
• Signposting, a clarity strategy
• Novelty, a retention strategy
• Managing the information load, a clarity strategy

Oral citation 2 reports that a week without trays reduced how much food diners took but did not show a significant reduction in food waste. A speaker plans to say only "Going trayless cuts food waste." What is the problem?

Select one.

• Nothing, because a shorter line is easier for listeners to remember after the speech ends
• The line needs a louder delivery so the audience notices the finding
• It drops half the finding and claims a waste reduction the study did not show
• It should be moved to the conclusion so it works as the clincher

A speaker is checking four planned oral citations for an informative speech. Which one is complete?

Select one.

• One that opens "According to a health website" and then gives the figure
• One that opens "Studies show" and then gives the figure
• One that opens "Experts agree" and then gives the figure without a source
• One that names reporter Dee-Ann Durbin of the Associated Press, PBS News, and the article's date before the figure

Which central idea fits an informative speech on the campus dining hall's plate waste?

Select one.

• "Our dining hall must go trayless to stop wasting food."
• "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."
• "What happens to the food we leave on our plates?"
• "Going trayless is the smartest way to end food waste."