Southern New Hampshire University
COM-212 Public Speaking
EXAM 11 questions and answers
The Dean of Students has invited Sophie to speak during her upcoming graduation
ceremony. The Dean asks to review a detailed outline of Sophie’s speech before she
writes her rough draft.
While preparing her outline, Sophie finds a graduation speech given by the class
president 25 years ago. She decides to use this as the basis for her speech.
Order Sophie’s ideas according to where they should fall in her outline.
1. Sophie wants her classmates to understand how much they have grown in their time
at school, and how much they will continue to grow.
2. Sophie wants to share a story from her freshman year as a way to explain the growth
that she and so many of her classmates have gone through over the last four years.
3. Sophie wants to get her audience’s attention by reading some statistics cited in the
older graduation speech.
4. To bring it all together, Sophie wants to share some information on what the original
writer of the 25-year-old graduation speech did with her life.
● 3, 1, 2, 4
The audience at Sophie’s graduation will consist of over 1,000 people. Sophie’s
grandparents, who are originally from Poland, are coming. Many friends and families of
Sophie’s classmates are immigrants as well.
