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OSAT Speech Drama Debate Practice Test

Unofficial questions for Oklahoma's OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate test, field 116: public speaking, argument and debate, then drama from script to stage.

A speaker prepares and practices a speech but does not memorize it. Which delivery style is this?

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Subarea I: Public speaking and debate 25

  • A coach enters a student in Original Oratory. Who writes the speech, and how is it delivered? Wikipedia, Original Oratory, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0006
  • A Lincoln–Douglas debater builds a case on Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan. What does that book argue for? Wikipedia, Leviathan (Hobbes book), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0004
  • A principal gives a speech of praise at a teacher's retirement ceremony. Which of the three branches of rhetoric in Aristotle's Rhetoric is the oratory of praise and blame at ceremonies? Wikipedia, Epideictic, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0002
  • A recording of a student's speech is crowded with "um" and "you know." What do linguists call a sound or word that signals a pause to think? Wikipedia, Filler (linguistics), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0003
  • A speaker asking for a crosswalk opens with her fifteen years as the school's crossing guard so the audience will trust what follows. Which rhetorical appeal is she using? Wikipedia, Modes of persuasion, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0002
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Subarea I: Public speaking and debate, continued

  • A speaker ends four clauses in a row with the words "for the people." Which rhetorical device is this? Wikipedia, Anaphora (rhetoric), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0002
  • A speaker prepares and practices a speech but does not memorize it. Which delivery style is this? Wikipedia, Extemporaneous speaking, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0003
  • A student council settles fast on a weak plan because nobody wants to disturb the group's harmony. Which term names this failure of group decision making? Wikipedia, Groupthink, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0001
  • A student wants to use part of a copyrighted film in a speech. Which of these is one of the factors the fair use section of U.S. copyright law tells a court to consider? Wikipedia, Fair use, U.S. fair use factors. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0005
  • A student's hands shake before every class presentation. What is the fear of public speaking called? Wikipedia, Glossophobia, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0003
  • An ad says only that a truck stands for "freedom, family and the American way." Which persuasive technique is an emotionally appealing phrase tied to highly valued concepts, with no supporting reason? Wikipedia, Glittering generality, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0005
  • An editor decides which of the day's forty stories reach the evening broadcast. What is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination called? Wikipedia, Gatekeeping (communication), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0005
  • By changing pitch, volume and intonation a speaker gives the same sentence three different meanings. Which term covers these vocal cues? Wikipedia, Paralanguage, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0003
  • In a meeting run by parliamentary procedure, a member makes a motion and another calls out "Second." What does the second show? Wikipedia, Second (parliamentary procedure), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0001
  • In an extemporaneous speech competition, how long do participants prepare, and on what? Wikipedia, Extemporaneous speaking, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0006
  • In the Shannon–Weaver model a caller speaks into a telephone. Which component turns the message into a signal that can be sent over the channel? Wikipedia, Shannon–Weaver model, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0001
  • In Toulmin's layout of an argument, which part authorizes the move from the ground, the evidence, to the claim? Wikipedia, Stephen Toulmin, Argumentation. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0004
  • The largest interscholastic speech and debate organization for middle and high school students in the United States was formed in 1925 under another name. Which name? Wikipedia, National Speech and Debate Association, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0006
  • Listeners lean back when a speaker stands too close to them. Which branch of nonverbal communication studies people's use of space? Wikipedia, Proxemics, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0001
  • One debater proposes starting school an hour later. Her opponent attacks a plan to cancel morning classes altogether, which nobody proposed. Which fallacy is this? Wikipedia, Straw man, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0004
  • The phases of developing a persuasive speech were first codified in classical Rome as the five canons of rhetoric. Which list names them? Wikipedia, Rhetoric, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0002
  • Policy debate is also called cross-examination debate. What follows each constructive speech in a round? Wikipedia, Policy debate, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0004
  • Which airing is one of the exceptions to the equal-time rule for broadcast stations? Wikipedia, Equal-time rule, Details. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0005
  • Which competitive debate format is one-on-one and is sometimes called values debate? Wikipedia, Lincoln–Douglas debate format, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0004
  • Which organization runs secondary school athletics and activities competitions in Oklahoma and belongs to the National Federation of State High School Associations? Wikipedia, Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0006

Subarea II: Drama 25

  • A lighting designer wants a wide, soft-edged wash of light over one area of the stage. Which instrument is made for that? Wikipedia, Fresnel lantern, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0011
  • A performance space is a square room with black walls and a flat black floor, simple enough to host many stage configurations. What is it called? Wikipedia, Black box theater, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0011
  • An actor says "Stay as long as you like" while everything in the scene shows the character wants the guest gone. What is the unstated meaning under the line called? Wikipedia, Subtext, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0009
  • Aristotle's Poetics names the parts of tragedy. Which part, the visual apparatus of the play, did he call the least artistic? Wikipedia, Poetics (Aristotle), Synopsis. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0008
  • At an audition, actors read aloud from a script with little or no rehearsal or study in advance. What is this called? Wikipedia, Cold reading (theatrical), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0010
  • In a 1960 essay the critic Martin Esslin gave a name to the work of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco. Which name? Wikipedia, Theatre of the absurd, Origin. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0007
  • In modern productions, who generally maintains and keeps the prompt book? Wikipedia, Prompt book, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0010
  • In process drama, how do the teacher and the students work? Wikipedia, Process drama, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0012
  • In Stanislavski's system, what is a "task"? Wikipedia, Stanislavski's system, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0009
  • In which style of theater do actors present dramatic readings of narrative material, using only scripts and vocal expression, without costumes, props or scenery? Wikipedia, Readers theater, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0008
  • Lynn Riggs was born on a farm near Claremore, in what was then Indian Territory. Which 1931 play of his was adapted into the musical Oklahoma!? Wikipedia, Lynn Riggs, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0007
  • Most ancient Greek cities lay on or near hills. What was the theatron of a Greek theatre? Wikipedia, Theatre of ancient Greece, Architecture. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0007
  • Oklahoma's fine arts standards pair the words drama and theatre. How do they define drama? Oklahoma Academic Standards for Fine Arts (Oklahoma State Department of Education, February 2023), Drama/Theatre Overview. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0012
  • Oklahoma's high school Drama/Theatre standards are written at three proficiency levels. Which list gives them in order? Oklahoma Academic Standards for Fine Arts (Oklahoma State Department of Education, February 2023), Reading the Standards. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0012
  • On a kabuki stage, what is the hanamichi? Wikipedia, Kabuki, Elements. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0007
  • Two students prepare a Duo Interpretation of a short story. Which constraint belongs to that event? Wikipedia, Duo Interpretation, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0008
  • Uta Hagen wrote Respect for Acting. On whose work did her series of object exercises build? Wikipedia, Uta Hagen, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0009
  • What does a gobo do in theatrical lighting? Wikipedia, Gobo (lighting), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0011
  • What happens in a technical rehearsal that is run cue-to-cue? Wikipedia, Technical rehearsal, Types. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0010
  • What is a cyclorama in a theater? Wikipedia, Cyclorama (theater), lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0011
  • Which early form of professional theatre, popular across Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, used masked stock characters and performances improvised from scenarios? Wikipedia, Commedia dell'arte, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0007
  • Which honor society for high school and middle school theatre students is a division of the Educational Theatre Association? Wikipedia, International Thespian Society, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0012
  • Who in a theatre company researches, selects, adapts and edits scripts and acts as its literary adviser? Wikipedia, Dramaturge, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0008
  • Why are some exercises of the Meisner technique rooted in repetition? Wikipedia, Meisner technique, lead. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0009
  • Why is the rear of a stage, farthest from the audience, called upstage? Wikipedia, Blocking (stage), Stage directions. Written to the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) framework, competency 0010

How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the test design and framework of Oklahoma Subject Area Tests field 116, Speech/Drama/Debate, in the study guide on the Certification Examinations for Oklahoma Educators website (https://www.ceoe.nesinc.com/Content/StudyGuide/OK_SG_OBJ_116.htm, copyright 2019 Office of Educational Quality and Accountability and Pearson Education, Inc.; test page https://www.ceoe.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/OK116_TestPage.html, read 2026-10-15): 80 selected-response questions and 1 constructed-response assignment in 4 hours, passing score 240; selected response weighs Public Speaking and Debate (competencies 0001 to 0006) 43% and Drama (0007 to 0012) 42%, and the constructed response (0013) 15%. The bank holds 50: 25 and 25. Every fact was read on the public page named under its question: the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Fine Arts and the named Wikipedia articles. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.

How it works

Free and unofficial: this OSAT Speech Drama Debate practice test asks 50 questions of our own on Speech/Drama/Debate, field 116. This site has no affiliation with Oklahoma's Office of Educational Quality and Accountability or with Pearson.

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OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116): two selected-response subareas

The framework on the CEOE site, read October 15, 2026, weighs Public Speaking and Debate at 43% of the test and Drama at 42%, six competencies apiece. This bank holds 25 questions on each.

The written assignment

A constructed-response assignment on pedagogical content knowledge makes up the last 15%: the candidate analyzes objectives, activity plans, student work and assessment in speech, drama and debate education. This bank has no practice for that writing.

  • The framework names debate formats by name, Lincoln-Douglas, policy and public forum among them. Two questions ask what sets a format apart.
  • Competency 0012 asks for state standards, so two drama questions rest on the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Fine Arts.

Questions and answers

How many questions are on the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate test?

Field 116 has 80 selected-response questions and one constructed-response assignment, by its test page. The appointment runs 4 hours 15 minutes, the first 15 for a tutorial and nondisclosure agreement.

What is the passing score for OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate?

The test page gives 240 for field 116. Since the written assignment is part of that score, right answers counted on this page do not add up to it, and the result names no pass or fail.

What is on the OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate (116) test?

The communication process, speech planning and delivery, argumentation and debate, mass media, and speech instruction; then dramatic literature, script work, acting, directing, design and production, and drama instruction. No reference materials are provided, by the test page.

Is this OSAT Speech/Drama/Debate practice test free?

It is free and asks for no account. None of its questions is taken from the real test, the study guide's sample questions or the official practice test, in their words or in others.

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