Name :…………………………………………………… Registration number :…………………………….. Course Title : Public Speaking and Debating EXAM (questions and answers) A-How Flexible Are You as a Public Speaker ? Visualize yourself in each of the following situations. Reflect for one minute on each situation and identify as many different appropriate ways of handling the situation that you can think in this one minute. Lot down brief abbreviations for each of the possibilities you think of. Record the number of ways you might appropriately handle each situation in the spaces provided. l. You're preparing a speech on abortion and were planning to use some posters on both sides of the issue. Unfortunately, the person who was going to lend you the posters went on vacation and you now have no way of get. Ting them These were going to be great visual aids. What might you do ? 2. Right in the middle of delivering a speech on violence on television, one of the listeners in the back row yells out in a perfect Austrian accent "Hasta la vista, babyl" The entire class busts out laughing. What might you do ? 3. While giving your speedh, one of the members at your audience not only falls asleep but starts snoring so loudly that everyone begins to concentrate on the snoring rather thdn on what you're saying. What might you do ? 4. in your speech on email programs you had planned to show the class three different programs ; The first two went along without any problems.When you tried to show ; the third one, you got on error message that you didn't understand. What might you do ? 5. One of your speeches requires that, as part of your supporting material, you interview someone ivith special knowledge of your speech tapic. You've developed a really great Speech on the dangers of taking too many vitamins and your interviiewee is going to be a nurse who suffered from taking an excessive amount of vitamins and has iust written a book on the tapnc. Unfortunately, the ; nurse is called out at town for several weeks and won't be available for the interview. What might you do ? The number of ways of handling each situation is a measure of your flexibility. The more ways you can think of, the niore flexible you are. If possible, share your responses with others in small groups or ngll't the class as a whole. You should find that the group is a lot more flexible than anfy one person ; that is, the group as a whole will come. Up with more possibilities than Wofuld any one individual. Can you think of other situations where flexibility would contain handy ? B-Can you Distinguish Facts from inferences ? Read the following report and the observations based on it. Indicate whether you thinh' the observations are two, false, or doubtful on the basis of the information presented in the report. Write T if the observation is definitely true F if the Observation is definitely false, and ? if the observation may be either true or false. Judge each observation in order. Don 't reread the observations after you've indicated your judgment. And don 't change any of your answers. A well-liked college instructor had just completed making up the final examinations and had turned off the lights in the office. just then a tall broad figure with dark glasses appeared and demanded the examination. The professor opened the .drawer. Everything in the drawer was picked up and the individual ran down the corridor. The president was notified immediately. 1. The thief was tall, brood, and were dark glasses. 2. The professor turned off the lights. 3. A tall figure demanded the examination. 4. The examination was picked up by someone. 5. The exomihotion was picked up by the professor. 6. A tall, broad figure appeared after the professor turned off the lights in the office. 7. The man who opened the drawer was the professor. 8. The professor ran down the corridor. 9. The drawer was never actually opened. 10. Three persons are referred to in this report. Number 3 is True, Number 9 is False and all the rest are 3 Review your answers by referring back to the story. To get you started, note that the teacher and the professor need not be the some person. Also, there might not have been a thief ; the dean mayhave demanded to see the instructor's examination.