Multiple choice

1. Informing, persuading, and entertaining are three distinctly different kinds of speeches. 

True 

False 

2. Hobart wants to list the benefits of a new health care plan alongside the costs of such a plan. Which type of visual aid should he use to display this information? 

a flowchart 

a statistical chart 

a bar graph 

a columnar chart 

a model

3. Norm was asked to speak at the retirement dinner for his boss and he really wanted to make a good impression. He spoke about every good quality his boss had and embellished it until his praise was so lavish that his boss was thoroughly embarrassed. What aspect of decorum did Norm violate? 

length 

formality 

intensity 

resonance 

identification 

4. The speech purpose of creating positive or negative feelings relies on what strategies? 

informative 

persuasive 

entertaining 

all of these 

informative and persuasive only