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MIDTERM Exam in Oral Communication

Name: _____________________________ Grade & Section: __________________

Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the answer sheet provided by
shading the letter corresponds to your answer.
1. All of the following define communication,
EXCEPT? 8. Complete the analogy:
A. Communication involves a transaction. Listener: receiver of the message:: ____:is a
B. Communication is sharing of ideas means by which the message is sent
among a group of people. A. Speaker
C. Communication is a confusion of ideas in B. Channel
the mind of another. C. Response
D. Communication is a transfer of D. Feedback
messages from one person to another. 9. If your seat mate is talking to you while your
2. Oral communication is the interchange of teacher is explaining the lesson, then you
________ between the sender and the have experienced what type of noise?
receiver. A. physical
A. Signs and gestures B. physiological
B. Cues and clues C. psychological
C. Verbal messages D. mental
D. Written messages 10. Which comparison of verbal and nonverbal
3. Body talk is also known as _____________ communication is accurate?
A. Overflow A. Both verbal and nonverbal
B. Physical communication communication are formally taught
C. Leakage B. The sender has more control over verbal
D. noise communication
4. Oral communication is better than written C. More channels are used for verbal
communication for ________________ communication
A. saving time D. The setting is more restricted in
B. conveying facts and opinion nonverbal communication
C. providing opportunity to refer back 11. Which of the following models of
D. conveying feelings and emotions communication asserts that communication
5. In oral communication, what matters most can take place if and only if there is an
is_______ overlap between the field of experience of
A. Where you say it the speaker and of the listener?
B. How you say it A. Shannon-Weaver’s model
C. When you say it B. Schramm’s
D. What you say it C. Aristotle’s
6. The limitation of oral communication is that: D. White’s
A. It is not affected by the speaker’s 12. Based on Eugene White’s model of
feelings or stress or excitement levels communication, which of the following is
B. It is easy to be aware of our body NOT true?
language A. Feedback is the perception by the
C. It does not require on-the-spot thinking Speaker about the response of the
D. It is irreversible – what is said cannot be listener.
taken back B. It is impossible for communication to be
7. Can communication still take place even actually observed from any point in the c
without the Speaker? C. The speaker can only receive feedback if
A. Yes, if there’s a written source of the Speaker is monitoring the listener.
information. D. The Speaker will know what the
B. Yes, if the Speaker decides to be the Listener’s Response is only if he/she is
listener. paying attention.
C. No, the Speaker is always a must in 13. The content of the communication is called
the communication process. a:
D. No, communication fails if the A. Message
speaker is missing. B. Noise
 C. Media richness B. Receiver
D. Jargon C. Decoding
14. To convert a message into groups of words, D. None of the above (noise is a problem at
symbols, gestures, or sounds that present all stages)
ideas or concept is called ________. 22. It shows how time is viewed differently in
A. Encoding various countries.
B. Feedback A. Chronemics
C. Noise B. Haptics
D. Media richness C. Proxemics
15. Any communication that conveys a message D. Gestures
consisting of words is called: 23. The use of space provides us with ideas
A. Verbal communication about how close or how far people are from
B. Oral communication the center of power or where a person is in
C. Written communication the social ladder.
D. Nonverbal communication A. Chronemics
16. Due to insufficiency of available classrooms, B. Haptics
the covered court of Katipunan NHS is now C. Proxemics
being used to hold classes temporarily. This D. Gestures
real scenario is an example of which 24. It is a type of nonverbal communication that
element of communication? assists the listener in understanding the
A. Message message better which serves as the
B. Physical location of communicative listener’s gauge as to whether the speaker
situation treats the listener with affective or with
C. Channel contempt.
D. Psychological setting of A. Posture
communicative situation B. Facial expression
17. A politician says that he is a man of people, C. Gesture
but many observe that he refuses to shake D. Chronemics
hands with the poor. What dimension of 25. These are deliberate movement and signals
communication is violated in this case? to communicate meaning without words.
A. Verbal/Non-Verbal A. Eye gaze
B. Oral/Written B. Gesture
C. Formal/Informal C. Facial expression
D. Intentional/Unintentional D. Appearance
18. A certain look or gaze is an example of: 26. These are the means by which the message
A. Verbal communication is sent.
B. Oral communication A. Channels
C. Written communication B. Feedback
D. Nonverbal communication C. Response
19. It is the process by which the receiver D. noise
interprets the symbols used y the source of 27. It is a communication through touch and is
the message by converting them into considered as one of the most powerful of the
concepts and ideas. types of nonverbal communication.
A. Decoding A. Haptics
B. Listing B. Gesture
C. Encoding C. Chronemics
D. Feedback D. Proxemics
20. The _____________ is the individual or 28. He made the cyclical model that tells us that
group that develops the message to be communication is circular and continuous,
communicated to internal and external without beginning or end.
parties. A. Wilbur Schramm
A. Source B. Eugene White
B. Encoder C. Aristotle
C. Decoder D. Claude Shannon
D. Jargon 29. This model gave us the concept of noise and
21. Noise is NOT a problem at which stage of this is often called the TELEPHONE MODEL.
the communication? A. Aristotelian Model of Communication
A. Source B. Schramm Model of Communication
 C. Shannon- Weaver Model of 31. This involves only two participants
Communication exchanging thoughts, ideas, opinions, and
D. Eugene White Model of Communication information.
30. He was considered the father of Mass a. Intrapersonal communication
Communication. b. Dyadic communication
A. Wilbur Schramm c. Public communication
B. Eugene White d. Small group communication
C. Aristotle
D. Claude Shannon
32. When talking to one’s self (Intrapersonal), which of the following is most used?
a. Skill at remembering
b. Capability to analyze
c. Ability to summarize
d. Awareness of the topic
33. When communicating with other person (Dyad), which speech style can be used?
a. Intimate – uses private vocabulary and shares meaning due to long relationship
b. Casual – used among friends because there is no need for background information
c. Formal – only for imparting information: well- organized and correct in grammar and diction
d. Frozen – style whose quality is static, ritualistic, and may even be archaic
34. When making and delivering speech, which speech style works best?
a. Intimate
b. Casual
c. Formal
d. Frozen
35. Communication break down or miscommunication is brought about by the lack of awareness of the
________.
a. dimensions of communication
b. elements of communication
c. nonverbal communication
d. models of communication
There is always a reason why people
communicate. For numbers 37 – 50, choose
what is being used in the following instances of
communication from the given five functions of
communication.

A. REGULATION/ CONTROL
B. SOCIAL INTERACTION
C. MOTIVATION
D. INFORMATION
E. EMOTIONAL EPRESSION
F. EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
36. The father looks sharply at his children who are quarrelling.
37. The boys calling out to a friend to come over and joined them.
38. A candidate for Brgy. Councilor conducts a house-to-house campaign for election.
39. The school dentist tells the kindergarten class on how to brush one’s teeth properly.
40. Kuya Kim provides information about the weather update.
41. People sympathizing with the bereaved family.
42. Friends are talking with each other and exchanging ideas.
43. Talking with the family during dinner.
44. A customer plead for a price cut or discount of his purchased goods
45. The police officer warns the people not to smoke in any public places.
46. A friend hugs you when you are down and troubled.
47. The girls are discussing what happened at the party they all attended last night.
48. The doctor is giving instructions to the patient in taking his medicine.
49. The mother hugs the crying baby.
50. The father tells his children not to go out with their friends
“The most important thing in communication is
to hear what isn’t being said”. - Peter F. Drucker