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Group Communication Adams & Galanes 9th Edition
Chapters 10 & 11
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Multiple Choice Questions
1. "Leadership," as it is used in your text, implies all of the following, except:
A. leadership is accomplished through communication.
B. leadership involves coercion when necessary.
C. Communication is the central defining activity of leading.
D. leadership consists of behaviors that help the group achieve goals.
E. leaders must be adaptable to changing conditions of the group.
2. A person who holds an official position as leader (e.g., "chair" or "coordinator") of a small
group has _______ power as a result of that position.
A. reward
B. punishment
C. legitimate
D. expert
E. referent
3. A person with special knowledge important to the work of the group has ______ power.
A. reward
B. punishment
C. legitimate
D. expert
E. referent
4. ”Charisma" refers to ______ power.
A. reward
B. punishment
C. legitimate
D. expert
E. referent
5. Titles such as "chair" and "facilitator" indicate a ______ leader.
A. designated
B. appointed
C. elected
D. emergent
E. distributed
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6. The variable most predictive of emergent leaders in a recent study of groups of college
students was
A. sex.
B. skilled gatekeeping.
C. skill in reducing tensions.
D. communication relevant to the group's task.
E. relationship-oriented communicating.
7. Which was not presented in Communicating in Groups as a commonly believed myth
about leadership?
A. a person either does or doesn't have leadership quality.
B. a democratic style of leadership is ideal for almost all situations.
C. all members of a small group are responsible for performing leadership functions.
D. a leader's primary job is to get other members to work for him or her.
E. one is born a leader or follower.
8. A leader who decides what to include in group agendas, makes policy decisions for the
group, and determines who may speak, is called a(n) ______ leader.
A. autocratic
B. democratic
C. laissez-faire
D. task-oriented
E. relationship-oriented
9. A leader who displays a "hands off" approach, not providing structure or direction to
discussions, is called a(n) ______ leader.
A. democratic
B. laissez-faire
C. participatory
D. delegating
E. maintenance
10. Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer and Sarah Palin are often considered these
types of leaders:
A. autocratic.
B. democratic.
C. transactional.
D. transformational.
E. charismatic.
11. The functional concept of leadership encourages
A. members to listen and follow the instructions of the group leader.
B. members to be democratic.
C. members to use their unique strengths in supplying the needed leadership for the group.
D. certain members to take over leadership of the group.
E. one member to take over leadership during each different meeting.
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12. All of the following are factors that a leader should consider before identifying the
appropriate leadership style, except:
A. the time needed to complete the project.
B. the type of task.
C. how well members work together.
D. how well the members work with the leader.
E. the maturity level of the followers.
13. Hersey and Blanchard believe that if group members lack information or are unwilling or
unable to complete a job, the most appropriate style of leadership is
A. selling.
B. participating.
C. communicating.
D. delegating.
E. telling.
14. Hersey and Blanchard claim that a(n) ______ leader is appropriate for a fully mature
group.
A. contingent
B. laissez-faire
C. telling
D. spontaneous
E. delegating
15. "Distributed leadership" means that
A. each group member takes a turn at serving as designated leader.
B. each group member should provide any behavior he or she can to help move the group
toward its goal.
C. group members divide up leader responsibilities, so each provides functions he or she feels
most comfortable with.
D. the leader for each meeting is chosen by lot.
E. leaders divvy up tasks.
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16. The Marketing Group leader talks with the Finance Group leader to be sure the Marketing
Group isn't overspending its budget. Which type of follow-up function is being performed?
A. keeping track of member assignments.
B. making all necessary physical arrangements.
C. implementing decisions.
D. serving as liaison.
E. committing resources.
17. Which of the following is the list of items to be discussed at a meeting?
A. minutes.
B. records.
C. notes.
D. agenda.
E. reference.
18. Keeping a group goal-oriented and focused is part of the leader's responsibility in which
area?
A. structuring discussion.
B. equalizing opportunity to participate.
C. stimulating critical thinking.
D. stimulating creative thinking.
E. all of these.
19. Which was not suggested as a technique for equalizing opportunity to participate in
discussion?
A. address comments to the group as a whole
B. comment after each member remark
C. encourage less-outspoken members
D. politely cut off long-winded speakers
E. summarize periodically
20. A communicative behavior of a small group leader that would be considered unethical
A. an intentionally deceptive comment about what you believe.
B. quickly pointing out why you feel a suggestion of a member is stupid.
C. ignoring comments by a homeless person assigned to your mayor's advisory committee.
D. all of these.
E. none of these.
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True / False Questions
36. Influence over other members is exercised by any and all members of a group.
TRUE
37. Biological sex is a predictor of an emergent leader.
FALSE
38. If you emerge as a leader in one group, you are guaranteed to emerge as a leader in
another group.
FALSE
39. Leadership is a measurable personality trait.
FALSE
40. Leadership consists of behaving in ways that can be learned.
TRUE
41. Highly authoritarian leaders' groups tend to be highly unproductive.
FALSE
42. When group members experience moderate to high readiness to complete their task, the
leader should utilize the selling style of leadership.
FALSE
43. The distributive approach to leadership asserts that all group members are responsible for
supplying needed leadership functions.
TRUE
44. Leaders mainly create the dynamics of the group - not the followers.
FALSE
45. Tensions felt between control from the leader and control from the group are constantly
at play within groups.
TRUE
46. Good leaders never encourage others to step forward as leaders because that could usurp
their power.
FALSE
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47. Groups should have both an agenda and minutes for their meetings.
TRUE
48. When initiating discussions, reducing primary tensions is not an important task for the
leader.
FALSE
49. A group decision didn't work out as hoped. The leader would be well-advised to let others
take the blame for the failure so his or her credibility is maintained for liaison functions.
FALSE
50. Ethical leaders actively oppose all sex, race, and social class biases displayed by any
member toward another or others.
TRUE
Chapter 11
Planning, Organizing, and Presenting Small Group Oral Presentations
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When conducting an audience analysis, you should ask yourself:
A. What age range will be in the audience?
B. Are these college students or professionals?
C. Are these audience members strangers or familiar to me?
D. Is the audience coming voluntarily or are they obligated to be there?
E. all of the above.
2. Some audience members may be required to be in attendance for your presentation, these
audience members are called:
A. involuntary.
B. necessary.
C. audience.
D. required.
E. unnecessary.
3. Group A's presentation was intended to educate the audience about their service learning
organization. The purpose of their speech was to:
A. persuade.
B. entertain.
C. educate.
D. inform.
E. connect.
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4. Sara is attempting to convince her sorority to try a new fundraising technique, her speech's
purpose is which of the following?
A. persuade.
B. entertain.
C. educate.
D. inform.
E. connect.
5. During a panel presentation, it is important to seat the participants in which manner?
A. alphabetical order.
B. so they can see each other and make eye contact with the audience.
C. according to degree to which you think they disagree with each other.
D. none of these.
E. all of these.
6. Public discussions in which participants deliver uninterrupted speeches on a selected topic
is called which of the following?
A. symposium.
B. panel presentation.
C. forum presentation.
D. debate.
E. impromptu speech.
7. When you are acting as the moderator of a forum, you should not
A. assume that everyone knows the rules of a forum.
B. let the audience know when the forum will end.
C. make sure that a diversity of opinions and views get heard.
D. offer a brief summary of the proceedings at the end of the forum.
E. let the audience of the public presentation (e.g., symposium, panel) know that a forum will
follow the presentation.
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8. A statement taken from an ordinary individual is called
A. statistic.
B. example.
C. lay testimony.
D. expert testimony.
E. opinion.
9. The three most important types of verbal supporting materials for a presentation are
A. examples, ethos, logos.
B. statistics, stories, humor.
C. examples, testimonies, jokes.
D. examples, statistics, statements from authorities.
E. testimonies, humor, scary stories.
10. Which of the following is a good use of a statistic so that the audience is not confused and
the statistic clearly makes a point?
A. light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.
B. the sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth. That's the equivalent of 31,000 plane flights
back and forth from New York to Los Angeles.
C. the average American's yearly income is .0001234879 percent of the national debt.
D. a t-test revealed a statistically significant difference of factor 4, with a .01 degree of
confidence, showing that the salinity in brackish water is lower than in marine water.
E. the universe is now considered by scientists to be expanding at a rate of 2 light years of
distance every half decade.
11. Regarding the do's and don'ts of using visual aids, which of the following is a don't?
A. make sure the visual aid is visible to all audience members.
B. practice with the visual before the presentation.
C. make sure the visual is large enough to be seen by all.
D. pass small visual aids around during your speech so all are able to see and feel it.
E. be sure that all equipment used to show something visually is working properly.
12. Motivating your audience to listen is called the
A. motivation step.
B. attention step.
C. actuation step.
D. delivery step.
E. interest step.
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13. When using humor in a presentation, you should:
A. tell the joke to others beforehand to make sure it is funny to someone other than you.
B. use humor that your audience will find in good taste.
C. use humor that is related in some way to your topic.
D. all of these.
E. none of these.
14. Which of the following is not an attention-getting device suggested in the text for use in
an introduction?
A. striking quotation.
B. humor.
C. rhetorical question.
D. story.
E. hard evidence.
15. The second step in the introduction is called this:
A. thesis step.
B. preview step.
C. need step.
D. orientation step.
E. qualification step.
16. Identify which one of the following choices is not a pattern of organization suggested for
the body of a presentation.
A. problem-solution.
B. nomological.
C. spatial.
D. cause-and-effect.
E. chronological.
17. Saul has described how a virus was discovered and how it works, then he discussed the
suffering of the people who have contracted the virus. His organizational pattern is which of
the following?
A. problem-solution.
B. chronological.
C. spatial.
D. cause and effect.
E. topical.
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18. When preparing an individual oral presentation, which of the following is not a step in the
preparation process?
A. organize your materials
B. select and narrow your topic
C. check your language
D. make a pie chart
E. practice aloud
19. An extemporaneous speech is a type of presentation whereby the speaker
A. relies on an outline and brief of the points to be made for the speaker to refer to as cues for
remembering what will be covered.
B. reads the speech word-for-word.
C. memorizes the speech so that nothing is left out.
D. delivers the speech off the top of her/his head, without prior preparation.
E. delivers the speech in an outdoor setting.
20. The five canons of classical rhetoric are
A. arrangement, style, clarity, delivery, emotion.
B. invention, delivery, topical, style, ethos.
C. invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory.
D. spatial, arrangement, pathos, style, delivery.
E. invention, emotion, cause-and-effect, style, arrangement.
True / False Questions
36. If you know that your audience is not familiar with your topic, then you should stay with
basic facts and provide background information.
TRUE
37. When deciding on a topic for a presentation, the best resource for finding a topic is your
own experience, beliefs, or skills.
TRUE
38. The panelists should avoid disagreeing with each other during a panel group discussion.
FALSE
39. The purpose of a symposium is to give audience members a chance to voice their
opinions throughout the entire presentation.
FALSE
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40. The purpose of a symposium—to enlighten the audience on an important subject—is very
different from the purpose of a panel.
FALSE
41. Statistics can bore an audience and should be avoided when giving a presentation.
FALSE
42. Drawing a chart or graph on a chalkboard during an oral presentation is preferable to
creating that visual aid before the presentation.
FALSE
43. Polaroid photos make excellent visual aids.
FALSE
44. Passing objects (visual aids) around during your presentation is a bad idea.
TRUE
45. A very raunchy joke is a great way to get your audience's attention at the beginning of an
oral presentation.
FALSE
46. During the introduction, you need to tell the audience specifically what points you will be
covering in the body of the speech to follow.
TRUE
47. Your audience will always figure out why what you propose in a speech is important, so it
is unnecessary to offer them a need statement.
FALSE
48. (p. 18) Telling an audience how a lack of exposure to sunlight leads to a house plant's death
is an example of the cause-and-effect pattern.
TRUE
49. The average college student can recognize 60,000 words.
TRUE
50. Reading the notes of your speech over and over is better than practicing the speech out
loud.
FALSE
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