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Higher Education

Communication in Everyday Life: Chapter 7

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) Morse code
b) semaphore
c) communication that does not include language
d) sign languages

Question 2:


a) communicate personal attractiveness
b) control the flow of conversation
c) enhance self-esteem
d) replace or substitute verbal messages

Question 3:


a) relieve tension
b) control the flow of conversation
c) accent or work in unison with what is said verbally
d) tell others about our emotional state

Question 4:


a) nonverbal leakage
b) immediacy
c) contradictory
d) polychromic

Question 5:


a) Aristotelian model
b) expectancy violation theory
c) study of chronemics
d) open access theory

Question 6:


a) 10–15 per cent
b) 20–29 per cent
c) 30–35 per cent
d) 40–45 per cent

Question 7:


a) nonverbal leakage
b) self-grooming
c) shunning
d) haptics

Question 8:


a) five
b) ten
c) six
d) four

Question 9:


a) Chronemics
b) Proxemics
c) Haptics
d) Spatial arrangement

Question 10:


a) sociofugal
b) formal
c) sociopetal
d) polychromic

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False