Chapter 1 1. Learning to speak effectively can enhance one's personal and professional goals. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 2. Oral communication skills are ranked as the number one job skill employers seek MOST in college graduates. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 3. Preparing speeches can help students develop skills needed in other college courses. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 4. The practice of giving speeches was originally known as persuasion. a. True b. False ANSWER: b 5. The practice of rhetoric, or oratory, emerged full force in Greece in the fifth-century B.C.E. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 6. In the Roman republic, citizens met in public spaces called marketplaces to engage in oral discourse. a. True b. False ANSWER: b 7. What the Greeks called the agora exists today in the form of town halls. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 8. The Internet is today's global public forum or agora. a. True b. False ANSWER: a 9. The Greeks referred to advocating or legal speech as epideictic oratory.