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16 of 25

Which of the following words is the most concrete?

	Sailing
	Competition
	Sport
	Activity

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17 of 25

Bill was visiting his friend Carol's parents in Chicago. They offered him some tea; he was very thirsty, so he said he would love some. He was very surprised when they brought him a cup of hot tea. In Arkansas, where he was from, the word tea always meant iced tea. If you wanted a cup of hot tea, you asked for hot tea. Which of the following characteristics of language best describes this situation?

	Words reflect abstract and concrete meanings.
	Words are culture-bound.
	Words have denotative and connotative meanings.
	Words are powerful.

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18 of 25

Select the phrase below that uses the least biased language.

	When greeting your new boss, be sure and shake his hand.
	The linguists received their training at Oxford.
	Mankind should celebrate this invention.
	Due to the bravery of the fireman, the young child was rescued.

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19 of 25

What type of listening would be used if Jim was trying to determine his employees' opinions on new healthcare coverage?

	Listening for enjoyment
	Listening for information
	Empathetic listening
	Precision listening

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20 of 25

Critical listening is about making an evaluation or judgment, whereas precision listening is about listening

	passively for one's own pleasure.
	to acquire data for recall.
	to interview a potential employee.
	with attention to gain clues to the speaker's emotion or state of mind.

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21 of 25

A learned system of knowledge, behavior, attitudes, beliefs, values, rules, and norms that a group of people shares and one generation to the next shapes is known as a

	group of people.
	happy circle.
	xyz generation.
	culture.

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22 of 25

Roberto comes running into the house visibly agitated. Between Roberto's sobs, his dad picks out "bike," "sledgehammer," "Miguel," and "hate." After some coaxing, Roberto tells his dad that Miguel was kicked out of the game because he wasn't playing fair, and Miguel later came back with a sledgehammer and hit Roberto's bike. Roberto's dad says, "You must have really been mad when he broke the rules and a little bit afraid when he hit your bike with the sledgehammer." Which skill for responding with empathy is Roberto's father using?

	Ask questions about the situation
	Evaluate the emotions of the message
	Select content that is important
	Reflect content and feelings by paraphrasing

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23 of 25

Listening involves which of the following processes?

	Selecting, acknowledging, attending, comprehending, and responding
	Attending, sorting, interpreting, filtering, and rehearsing
	Awareness, rejecting, decoding, remembering, and reacting
	Selecting, attending, understanding, remembering, and responding

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24 of 25

According to the dictionary, "An apartment is a room or suite of rooms used as a residence." This is an example of which of the following?

	Connotation
	Conscious definition
	Denotation
	Metacommunication

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25 of 25

"Your roommate has just returned from giving her speech. She is visibly upset and begins to criticize the instructor as an incompetent old fuddy-duddy. You sit patiently while she continues her tirade against the instructor's criticism of her performance. When she is done, you say, ""It must be really frustrating to have something you worked so hard on evaluated so harshly." This response indicates you are listening for what purpose?

	Learning
	Evaluation
	Empathy
	Enjoyment

Answer 1

Question 16: Sailing

Question 17: Words are culture-bound.

Question 18: The linguists received their training at Oxford

Question 19: Empathetic listening

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