Quizzical Quiz
Are You A Good Listener ?
ERE is a chance for you to test your listening ability. Assign yourself as many marks as you honestly think you deserve. A full score means that you are the Perfect Listener. If you score less than half, you should do something about it. There is no prize. (1) As you turn the radio knob in search of entertainment, do you: (a) Twirl it hopefully from station to station? (b) Stay on the one station for more than three consecutive seconds? (c) Give in after the first attempt and switch off viciously? (2) When you are listening in to good music, do you: : (a) Increase the volume so that it drowns the family conversation? (b) Reduce the. volume so that it provides a background to current argument? (c) Ignore the music and concentrate on the conversation? (3) When the announcer gives the name of the records, do you: (a) Listen intelligently and enlarge your repertoire? .(b) Forget what he says immediately, ahd wonder what tune you're whistling? s ‘(c) Wish he’d repeat the titles again at the end?
(4) If there is a record on which is beneath your musical contempt, should you: (a) Wait for something better to turn up? (b) Try to find a record you approve of at another station? (c) Block both ears? (5) When Parliament is on the air, do you: (a) Listen assiduously and feel stimulated to further discussion? (b) Consider yourself privileged? (c) Wish it wasn’t? | (6) When you mark the programmes that you intend to listen to, do you: (a) Forget which day it is? (b) Lose the programmes? (c) Remember half-an-hour too late. (7) In comparing radios, do you consider: (a) That your own radio has a better tone than anyone else’s? | (b) That your neighbour’s radio is always too loud? (c) That any noise is better than none at all? bd
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 15
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320Quizzical Quiz New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 15
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