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The need for audience analysis and adaptation is one of the major differences between public speaking and everyday conversation.

One of the major demographic traits of audiences is interest in the speaker’s topic.

Speeches arranged in spatial order follow a time sequence.

If you were constructing an audience-analysis questionnaire and wanted to learn why some of your listeners had not signed organ donor cards, which of the following would be the best kind of question to ask?

Interference can come from either inside or outside your audience.

Interference is anything that impedes the communication of a message.

According to your textbook, the following is an example of which type of audience-analysis question? “Explain why you believe that capital punishment is moral or immoral.”

When you construct an audience-analysis questionnaire, scale questions give respondents the maximum leeway in responding.

According to your textbook, the following question from a student audience-analysis questionnaire is an example of what type of question? The percent of the U.S. population who speak Spanish in their homes is closest to ___5%___10%___20%___30%

In many aspects of public speaking, you will employ the skills of critical thinking.