Week 16 · Final exam

Final Exam — Instructions

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The final exam's instructions page, as students read it before they start. The exam's questions and its answer key ship only inside the course's .imscc (Classic QTI); a scored exam's items are not published on this public page.

Overview

This is the scored final exam for Public Speaking. It is cumulative: its questions reach all eight course objectives, from the communication process in Week 1 to impromptu speaking and questions from the audience in Week 15. It is given in Week 16, the finals week, which has no new material.

The final has 40 questions, and every question counts the same. Most of them (34) ask you to select exactly one option. Four ask you to select every applicable option, and two ask you to judge a true-or-false statement. Twelve questions are on the easier side, 20 are of medium difficulty, and 8 are harder. Every speech moment, slide, outline line, or chatbot exchange a question uses is written out in the question, so nothing depends on watching or hearing a recording, and no question needs a calculator.

Every question practices a skill you have already used in the weekly quizzes, lecture tutorials, and Speech Workshops. Most questions describe a short, illustrative speaking situation and ask you to name the idea at work in it.

Coverage and scope

The questions were drawn from the course's question bank, and every one of the eight objectives appears at least once. The draw does not spread evenly across the weeks. Here is what this form actually contains, first by the week each question's material comes from and then by objective.

The final's 40 questions by the week whose material each question comes from, with the objectives those questions check
Week	Topic	Questions	Objectives checked
2	Listening and audience analysis	1	Objective 2 (1)
9	Delivery and the modes of delivery	8	Objective 5 (7), Objective 1 (1)
10	Presentation aids	3	Objective 6 (3)
11	Informative speaking	4	Objective 7 (3), Objective 3 (1)
12	Persuasive speaking and the appeals	6	Objective 7 (4), Objective 4 (2)
13	Argument, reasoning, and fallacies	6	Objective 7 (4), Objective 3 (2)
14	Special-occasion and small-group speaking	9	Objective 8 (7), Objective 5 (2)
15	Impromptu speaking and the Q&A session	3	Objective 8 (2), Objective 4 (1)

The final's eight objectives, the weeks that teach each one, and the number of the exam's 40 questions on each
Objective	What the questions ask you to do	Weeks that teach it	Questions
1	Explain the communication process, speak ethically, and treat nerves as normal and manageable	1, carried into 9	1
2	Listen well and read an audience through its three lenses without stereotyping	2	1
3	Write a purpose and a central idea, and support them with evidence cited aloud	3 and 4	3
4	Organize a speech in a pattern that fits its purpose, and outline it	5 and 6	3
5	Choose words for a listener and deliver extemporaneously with voice and body	7 and 9	9
6	Design presentation aids and use them without reading from the screen	10	3
7	Inform without an agenda, persuade ethically with the three appeals, and reason soundly	11, 12, and 13	11
8	Fit a special occasion, work in a small group, frame an impromptu reply, and handle questions	14 and 15	9

Each question checks exactly one objective, so the objective column adds to 40, the same as the week column.

Read the two tables together. Thirty-nine of the 40 questions come from the material of Weeks 9 to 15, and the other one comes from Week 2. No question is drawn directly from the material of Week 1 or Weeks 3 to 8. Week 14 carries the most questions, 9, and Week 9 is close behind with 8. Weeks 12 and 13 have 6 each, Week 11 has 4, and Weeks 10 and 15 have 3 each. By objective, informative and persuasive speaking with reasoning (Objective 7) is the heaviest, with 11 questions. Delivery (Objective 5) and the occasions, groups, and impromptu speaking (Objective 8) follow with 9 each.

Here are the skills the drawn form asks for, week by week:

Week 2: read an audience through the demographic, psychographic, and situational lenses, keep a checked tendency apart from a stereotype, and attach an adaptation to every finding.
Week 9: match the four delivery methods to their moments, keeping extemporaneous apart from memorized and from impromptu. Use the six elements of vocal delivery and the five of physical delivery, tell a strategic pause from a filler, and tell a gesture from an adaptor. Correct the "7-38-55" figure in words, judge a rehearsal by the one moment it fixes, and use eye contact to read feedback while you speak.
Week 10: name the four jobs an aid can do for listeners, and match a graph to the question its data answer.
Week 11: test the specific purpose of a speech that informs, sort an informative subject and its usual pattern, tell the retention strategies from the clarity strategies, and keep an oral citation complete.
Week 12: sort the three appeals, walk the five steps of the Motivated Sequence and its alternatives, aim at a target audience, and name the manipulation moves.
Week 13: sort the four types of reasoning, map an argument's claim, its evidence, and its warrant, repair weak evidence, and name the course's fallacies, keeping false cause apart from hasty generalization.
Week 14: apply the three special-occasion criteria and the rule that one true, specific detail beats a generic line, sort occasions by the speaker's job, build and deliver the four-beat toast, walk Dewey's six-step problem-solving agenda, sort the three role families, and tell a panel from a symposium.
Week 15: use the PREP frame, keep impromptu apart from extemporaneous, and adapt when something goes wrong mid-speech, starting from the summary sentence.

The early objectives still count. Eight questions check Objectives 1 to 4, and 7 of them sit inside the later weeks' material. The evidence and the oral citation from Weeks 3 and 4 come back inside the informative speech and the Toulmin map. The patterns from Week 5 come back in the Motivated Sequence and its alternatives, and the summary and clincher come back when a speech has to adapt. The transactional loop from Week 1 comes back in Week 9's eye contact. Week 8's five canons of rhetoric are not scored on their own, though they lay the whole course out as one workflow.

These notes map the skills the final checks. The questions themselves are drawn from the course's question bank and are not listed here.

Instructions

Attempts: one. The final is a single scored attempt.
Time limit: there is no time limit. Take the time you need, as long as you submit before the exam closes.
Window: the final opens in Week 16 and closes at the due time your instructor sets. Start early enough to finish comfortably inside that window.
Navigation: the questions appear one at a time, and once you move on you cannot go back to an earlier question. Settle each one before you move to the next.
Order: the options inside each question are shuffled for each student, so refer to an option by what it says, never by its place in the list.
Materials: every speech moment, slide, outline, or chatbot exchange a question uses is written out in the question, so scratch paper is all you need. Unless your instructor announces otherwise, the final is closed-note.
After you submit: Canvas shows your result. The keyed choices stay hidden so the final stays fair for every student.

Academic integrity

The final is an individual, scored assessment, and it is closed to AI. Do not use a chatbot or any other AI tool, do not get help from another person, and do not share or post the questions during or after your attempt. These rules come from the course syllabus. The final confirms that you personally can name an appeal or a fallacy, classify a delivery method, test a specific purpose, and fit a speech to its occasion.

The honest way to prepare is open to you. The study guide, the practice final, and the exam-prep tutorial rehearse the same skills with fresh variants, and nothing on them appears on the final word for word.

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