1. All of the following are conceptualized zones related to an individual€™s personal space except:
a. Public zone
b. Personal zone
c. Intimate zone
d. Preferential zone

2. Stress is often created when the interviewer respects and honors an interviewee€™s personal space.
a. True
b. False

3. Effective interviewing requires each of the following except:
a. Active listening
b. Planning
c. Staging
d. Execution
e. Each of the above is required in an effective interview

4. An interview is a purposeful dialogue through which information is sought and exchanged.
a. True
b. False

5. A formal interview is an unsystematic method in which the interviewer decides on questions as the interview progresses.
a. True
b. False

6. Which of the following statements describing formal and informal interview methods is not correct?

7. Interrogation is an interview technique commonly employed by a forensic accountant in a fraud investigation.
a. True
b. False

8. Which of the following is not a fundamental component of the planning stage of an interview?
a. Determining how to establish rapport with the interviewee
b. Developing a question bank
c. Considering how to intimidate a witness
d. Developing an interview schedule

9. In the actual conduct of an interview, forensic ­accountants generally start with introductory questions and move to informational questions.
a. True
b. False

10. Memorializing an interview involves which of the following actions?
a. Asking detailed questions
b. Tape recording the interview discreetly
c. Transcribing notes into a memorandum of interview
d. All of the above are aspects of memorializing aninterview

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Formal Informal a. Primarily uses open-ended questions b. Primarily uses closed-ended questions c. Reles on the spontaneous generation of questions d. Controlled by a specific set of de- talled questions