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

49 Questions12 MinutesCreated by PresentingMaster24

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.

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

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

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 at the same time as someone else

Listening to what people say

Putting your fingers in your ears

What body language shows you are listening?

Turning away from the speaker

Nodding and making eye contact

Looking out of the window

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

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)

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

Both b and c

Which of the following is a type of non-verbal communication?

Letter

Body language

Telephone calls

Emails

Unlock and Upgrade

Remove all limits from your Quizzes

Presentation Skills

Master Your Presentation Skills

More Quizzes