Question

As part of planning for her class speech on the Patriot Act, Brenda passed around a brief questionnaire asking whether her classmates were for or against the Act, whether they thought parts or the entire Act should change, etc Was this a good idea, according to your text?

a. No; by doing the questionnaire, she revealed to the class what her speech topic was going to be.
b. Yes; this is a smart technique of analyzing the audience known as demographic audience analysis.
c. No; the class is a captive audience, so finding out their views ahead of time wasn't necessary.
d. Yes; this form of psychological audience analysis is a good thing to do for any kind of audience.

Answer 1

The answer is (b) "Yes; this is a smart technique of analyzing the audience known as demographic audience analysis".

Step-by-step explanation:

Since Brenda would deliver the speech to her classmates supervised by her lecturer, it is a good way to gauge their minds regarding if they support the Patriot Act or not so as to know the direction of her speech. The demographic audience analysis is a good way of communicating with the intended audience of some information before passing the information.

Since she only intend to distribute a questionnaire on the Patriot Act and not her main speech, then she is on the right track.