Presentation Skills
Master Your Presentation Skills
Take this comprehensive quiz designed to enhance your presentation skills and ensure your success in delivering impactful speeches. Challenge yourself with 49 carefully crafted questions that cover a range of essential topics.
- Improve your knowledge of audience engagement
- Learn effective design principles for visuals
- Understand the importance of body language and communication techniques
What is the best way to keep an audience engaged when giving a speech?
By presenting information the audience disagrees with
By presenting information the audience already knows
By presenting new information about the topic
By presenting information the audience agrees with
Hani is speaking on a complex and detailed topic. He wants to create visuals that will help the audience understand his subject more clearly. How might Hani achieve this goal?
Including full sentences on each poster
Using bullet points covering key information
Writing complete paragraphs on his visuals
Using low-contrast ink
What does it mean for a presentation to be audience-centered?
The presenter assumes what the audience wants to hear.
The presentation is centered on the topic.
The presentation starts off with audience questions.
The presenter researches the audience's demographics, needs, motivations and characteristics.
The presenter lets the audience members ask questions at the end.
According to design principles, what color font goes well on a black background?
White
Black
Grey
Navy
What is NOT a way to make a message stick?
Focus on limited number of key points
Use humor
Repeat Key ideas
Use Videos
Talk loudly
The outline of a presentation is a
List of technologies that will be used to deliver the presentation
List of external sources used in the presentation
List of requirements and purpose of the presentation
List of major headings or topics to be covered in the presentation
To prevent a graph or chart from showing a misleading trend on presentation materials, it is important to
Use stacked graphs or charts
Use complete scales for axes instead of partial scales
Use colors for graphs and charts
Use 3-D charts or graphs
When rehearsing a presentation, it is helpful to recognize and prevent
Possible questions from the audience
Possible gestures
Fillers such as umm and ahh
Criticism from friends in the room
Proper eye contact with the audience when delivering a presentation involves
Staring at each audience member
Making a sweeping glance of the audience from left to right in the front row of the room
Making a sweeping glance of the audience from the left to the right and front to back of the room
Looking above the audience’s heads
Important considerations in rehearsing a presentation are
Timing and pace
Attire
Audience
Food and beverages
What is NOT a good strategy if you are unable to answer a question from an audience member during your presentation?
Acknowledge you don’t know the answer and say the question was irrelevant to the topic of the presentation
Acknowledge you don’t know the answer and would think and get back to the questioner
Ask others in the audience if they could answer the question
Ask the audience member to see you after the presentation so you can understand the question better and answer it
The possible order of points for describing the steps for doing something in sequence is known as
Topical order
Topical order
Causal order
Chronological order
The outline of a presentation should include
Possible questions from the audience
A beginning, middle and an end of the presentation
References
Acknowledgments
When using content from external sources in presentation materials, it is necessary to include
Acknowledgments
Copyright disclaimer
Trademark symbol
Citations and references
When an audience member without a microphone in a large audience asks a question during or after your presentation, it is important for the presenter to
Ask the audience member to come to the front of the room and ask the question
Repeat the question for the benefit of others in the audience who might not have heard it
Ask others in the audience to shout the question
Respond to the question immediately
In selecting presentation technologies, it is important to select technologies that are
Freely available to download and use
Commonly used by presenters
The state-of-the-art in presentation technologies
Available and can be used at the presentation location
It is generally NOT a good practice to deliver a presentation by
Elaborating each bullet point on the presentation materials
Reading the entire presentation line by line
Paraphrasing what is on the presentation materials
Mentioning the highlights of what is on the screen
To contrast text on a presentation slide for better viewing, it is preferable to use
Light text on a light background
Dark text on light background
Light text on a dark background
Dark text on a dark background
The purpose of a presentation intended to sell a service to a potential client is to
Educate
Entertain
Persuade
Inform
Which of the following is a requirement that a presenter should know to prepare effectively for a presentation?
Foods the presenter can eat during the presentation
Available attire
Presentation duration
Number of bullet points allowed per slide
One advance preparation you can do to overcome initial nervousness when delivering a presentation is to
Ask the audience write down their questions and give them to you in advance
Hydrate yourself by drinking a lot of water before the presentation
Introduce yourself to the audience before the presentation and get to know them
Walk into the room just before the presentation
For better readability, the number of bullet points on a slide should be
Less than 7
Any number
7 to 10
More than 7
Font size of the bullet points on presentation materials should be large enough
For the audience in the first few rows of the presentation to view the presentation clearly
For your team members to be able to view the presentation clearly
For the audience in the last row of the presentation room to view the presentation clearly
For you to be able to read from the screen during the presentation
For better readability, it is preferable that bullet points are:
Long sentences
Page of text
Short phrases or partial sentences
Complete paragraphs
When delivering a presentation as part of a team it is important to
Coordinate your portion with others in the team and not duplicate their presentations
Coordinate your portion with others in the team so you can present first
Make sure all the team members have the same duration to present their portion
Make sure all the team members’ names are listed in order on all the presentation materials
Which of the following is positive body language to use when speaking?
Fold your arms or cross your legs
Stand behind a lectern and keep your body hidden
Keep arms open and use open gestures
Don't make eye contact
You're giving someone verbal feedback about some work they have completed that isn't up to standard: what should you do?
Point out everything that they did wrong
Base your feedback on what you have heard from others
Criticise them for their poor work
Suggest where improvements can be made and agree on a plan
Which of these is the best way to ask a question?
Only offer a yes/no response
Use open questions that encourage a full response
Use leading words to suggest the response you require
Ask something that you wouldn't want to answer yourself
You disagree with what someone has said: how should you react?
Ask questions to learn more about their opinion
Be unreasonable and refuse to listen
Get emotionally involved and have a heated discussion
Stick with your one-sided view on the situation
Which of the following will NOT help you to be more persuasive?
Mirror body language and tone
Use words that the other person agrees with
Talk about your own interests and goals
Make your aims appear to put the other person at an advantage
Which of these is a communication skill?
Talking clearly
Chewing gum
Looking bored
Which of these is a communication skill?
Talking at the same time as someone else
Listening to what people say
Putting your fingers in your ears
Which of these is not a communication skill?
Running
Texting
Chatting to people
What body language shows you are listening?
Turning away from the speaker
Nodding and making eye contact
Looking out of the window
Which of these is not a communication skill?
Laughing
swimming
Asking questions
Someone is telling you about an accident they've had. How would you react?
Look pleased
Look behind you
Look concerned
Which of these is a communication skill?
Checking the weather forecast
Checking the time
Checking that you've understood someone
Which of these is a communication skill?
Saying the same thing over and over
Saying why you believe something
Saying what people want to hear
If you don't agree with someone else, what would you say?
You are wrong.
I don't agree
Stop talking rubbish.
If you have to ring the doctor's surgery what information might you need to have ready?
Your National Insurance number
Your shoe size
Your name and date of birth
If you want to complain, what's the best way to behave?
Stay calm but stick to your point
Get very angry
Get ready to cry
Which of these is not a form of communication?
Talking
washing
Body language
Listening
What is Communication?
Exchanging thoughts, ideas, and messages through speech, writing, signals, and body language
Imparting information
A system, such as mail, telephone, or television for sending and receiving messages
All of the above
__________ is the ability to understand, analyze, respect, and respond to the meaning of another person's spoken and nonverbal messages. (Correct)
Feedback
Listening
Self-centered listening
The Golden Listening Rule
Working memory
Remember these three rules at the beginning of your conversation:
Know,Relate,Understand
Relate,interrupt,end call
Understand,interrupt,pass on call
Day dream,whistle,hang up
WHEN LISTNEING TO SOMEONE WHAT SHOULD YOU BE DOING?
SLOUCHING
TALKING
PAYING ATTENTION AND ASKING QUESTIONS
Which of these are the external sounds present in the channels of communication?
Noise
Semantic problems
Cultural barriers
Over communication
Being tactful means to
Be honest
Do the right thing at the right time
Do the right thing at the right time
Both b and c
Which of the following is a type of non-verbal communication?
Letter
Body language
Telephone calls
Emails
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