Public Speaking Matters 2nd Edition By Kory Floyd – Test Bank

Chapter 11 Organize the Body of Your Speech

1) Most speeches have between two and five main points.

Answer: TRUE
Topic: Main points
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2) If you have more than five main points, your audience will be more likely to remember them all.

Answer: FALSE
Topic: Main points
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3) You want some of your main points to seem unrelated to the topic of your presentation to keep the audience interested.

Answer: FALSE
Topic: Main points
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4) Main points should be similar and cover the same information.

Answer: FALSE
Topic: Main points
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5) The time you devote to each of the main points during your speech should be relatively equal.

Answer: TRUE
Topic: Main points
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6) Your main points should be roughly equal in importance.

Answer: TRUE
Topic: Main points
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7) Quotations, definitions, and statistics will often be incorporated in your main points.

Answer: FALSE
Topic: Subpoints
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8) Good public speakers use transitions to link together the parts of their speech.

Answer: TRUE
Topic: Transitions
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9) Summaries and previews are two different types of transitions and cannot be used together.

Answer: FALSE
Topic: Transitions
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10) Signposts are typically full sentences.

Answer: FALSE
Topic: Transitions
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