Name: _____________________________________________ Date: ____________________

QUIZ #1
Oral Communication in Context

I. ANALOGY. Complete the sets of ideas. Write your answer in blank provided before each number. (5 points)
___________________1. Content : ___________ ; Channel : medium
___________________2. Sender and receiver : communicators ; ___________ :
___________________3. Aristotelian Model; ___________ ; Whites Model: Transactional Model
___________________4. Whites Model: ___________ stages ; Shannon-Weaver Model: five elements
___________________5. Whites Model: cyclical ; Schramms Model : ___________

II. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter that corresponds to your answer. Write CAPITAL letters only. (10 points)
___________________1. Robb was talking with Cynthia about a project they have due in class. They were in a crowded restaurant
and were surrounded by parties that were talking loudly. Robb was having a difficult time hearing what Cynthia was saying. What
barrier of communication is manifested in this situation?
A. Perceptual Barrier C. Physical Barrier
B. Emotional Barrier D. Language Barrier
___________________2. What do we call the interaction between a limited number of people, usually two, for the purpose of sharing
information, achieving a goal or maintaining a relationship is known?
A. Intrapersonal Communication C. Public Communication
B. Interpersonal Communication D. Mass Communication
___________________3. Simon decided to run for public office. He scheduled an interview with a local news reporter to discuss his
platform in an attempt to reach the largest audience possible. His interview was aired on the 6pm news and broadcast on the television
station's web channel. The aired interview is known as what type of communication?
A. Intrapersonal Communication C. Public Communication
B. Interpersonal Communication D. Mass Communication
___________________4. Maria was invited as a speaker in a certain school. Her transmitted message became understandable or
meaningful because of her innate or old knowledge about her message or speech. What characteristic of communication is shown in
this situation?
A. Always result into something C. Contextual
B. Progressive or developmental D. Schemata-driven
___________________5. What Joana knows and feels about her environment stays inside herself. Communication will exist when she
decides to convey these to people around her. What characteristic of communication is manifested in this scenario?
A. Active, powerful, or forceful C. Contextual
B. Does not guarantee an automatic link D. Ethical

III. IDENTIFICATION. Identify what barrier is presented in each of the situations below. Write your answer in blank provided
before each number. (5 points)
___________________1. If you go into a situation thinking that the person you are talking to isnt going to understand or be interested
in what you have to say, you may end up subconsciously sabotaging your effort to make your point. You will employ language that is
sarcastic, dismissive, or even obtuse, thereby alienating your conversational partner.
___________________2. Men and women tend to form their thoughts differently, and this must be taken into account when
communicating. This difference has to do with how the brain of each sex is formed during gestation. In general, men are better at
spatial visualization and abstract concepts such as math, while women excel at language-based thinking and emotional identification.
___________________3. Some people spend their entire lives attempting to overcome a poor self-image or a series of deeply rooted
prejudices about their place in the world. They are unable to form genuine connections with people because they have too many false
perceptions blocking the way.
___________________4. People hardly communicate with others because of their differences in the cumulative deposit of knowledge,
experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe,
and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.
___________________5. Because of the obscurity of language there is always a possibility of wrong interpretation of the messages.
This barrier is created because of the wrong choice of words, in civil words, the wrong sequence of sentences and frequent repetitions.

IV. APPLICATION. Using the seven (7) elements of communication, illustrate your own model. Explain how your model works.
Utilize the back part of your paper. (15 points)