History Of Journalism Final Pt 1
2009 history of journalism final quiz
- 1.The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case determined that
- A.
All registered voters have a right to vote
- B.
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and, therefore, unlawful
- C.
Hiring in school’s must guarantee that no teacher will be discriminated against by race
- D.
All residents have a right to a college education
- 2.Rodger streitmatter, as do many historians, cites the Civil Rights Movement as
- A.
Ill-timed, and would have been less violent if activists had waited a few years
- B.
A political movement that was spurred by extensive newspaper
- C.
The first great television news story
- D.
A political movement that was spurred by effective public relations techniques
- 3.The most dramatic image that emerged from the Central High School desegregation effort was
- A.
The lynching by a mob of two of the nine students
- B.
The relative calm that greeted a young black male student as he approached local police at the school
- C.
The fire bomb that exploded on the school bus as the students entered the school
- D.
The brutal treatment of a petite, 15-year-old black girl by redneck segregationists
- 4.NBC correspondent John Chancellor said that with respect to the Civil Rights Movement, journalism does not initiate social change, but journalism
- A.
Can destroy movements by overexposure
- B.
Can amplify social change
- C.
Can exaggerate the impact of social activists
- D.
Can set the record straight on who did what to whom
- 5.In the summer of 1957, african-american leaders targeted central high shool for desegregation with the enrollment of 9 black students. this took place in
- A.
New orleans
- B.
Tupelo
- C.
Little rock
- D.
Birmingham
- 6.The above action is regarded as the first chapter of TVs epic coverage of the movement because
- A.
It was the first news story presented in full color, not just black and white
- B.
It gave MLK a forum for his beliefs
- C.
It turned what otherwise would have been a local story to a national news story
- D.
It lead to a rapid change in school district policy on segregation
- 7.The first time that charlayne hunter gault, later of the new york times and a public broadcasting service correspondent, made the news was when
- A.
She defied a court order to leave a lunch counter in a segregated cafe
- B.
She refused to ride in the back of a bus
- C.
She was one of 2 african americans first admitted to Univ. of Georgia
- D.
She shot a white Southerner who tried to assault her
- 8.Police commissioner "bull" connor held great influence over the town considered the nost segregated city in amerca in the early 1960s. this city was
- A.
Little rock
- B.
Birmingham
- C.
Tupelo
- D.
New orleans
- 9.The racially mixed group of college students and civil rights activists who rode buses from the north into segregated southern communities was known as
- A.
Freedom riders
- B.
Carpet baggers
- C.
Justice journeyers
- D.
Abolitionists
- 10.Birmingham became the target in 1963 for what one activist hoped would be a series of supposed nonviolent protests. this person was
- A.
Thurgood marshall
- B.
Martin luther king
- C.
Andrew young
- D.
Jesse jackson
- 11.A massive demonstration and march took place in august 1963 with some 200,000 protestors whose actions were televised by all three networks. that event took place
- A.
In NYC
- B.
In Slma
- C.
Near camp david
- D.
In the nations capital
- 12.Media images of bull conors use of police dogs and high pressure fire hoses to subdue protestors, many of them children, led to a reaction from the public elsewhere. they reacted by
- A.
Organizing public marches of support in 40 cities around the country
- B.
Flooding the white house with phone calls for action
- C.
Calling their congressional representatives asking for intervention
- D.
Expressing embarrassment, but doing little else
- 13.It was during this same massive march that rev. martin luther king delivered his
- A.
I have been on a mountaintop speech
- B.
I have a dream speech
- C.
Last speech
- D.
First televised speech
- 14.In the DVD we viewed, the edmund pettis bridge that MLK and his demonstrators crossed was in
- A.
Athens
- B.
Jacksonville
- C.
Selma
- D.
Knoxville
- 15.In that same dvd, we saw the president sign into law the civil rights act of 1964. that president was
- A.
Kennedy
- B.
Nixon
- C.
Carter
- D.
Johnson
- 16.The other key piece of legislation that followed the civil rights act was the
- A.
Faith family and freedom act
- B.
Equal protection act
- C.
Voting rights act
- D.
Equal protection act
- 17.The united states initial involvement in vietnam began
- A.
In the early 1950s with truman
- B.
In the late 1950s with eisenhower
- C.
In the early 1960s with kennedy
- D.
In the late 1960s with johnson
- 18.In 1954, vietnam was divided in half. the north was
- A.
Communist controlled and based in saigon
- B.
Democratically controlled and based in saigon
- C.
Communist controlled and based in hanoi
- D.
Democratically controlled and based in hanoi
- 19.In 1964, north vietnamese patrol boats fired on US destroyers in a Vietnamese gulf location. this attack led to a congressional action known as
- A.
The gulf of tonkin resolution
- B.
The viet cong retaliation resolution
- C.
The port of hanoi resolution
- D.
The resolution of vietnamese sovereignty
- 20.By wars end after more than 10 years, how many US men and women died in the war?
- A.
8000
- B.
58000
- C.
1-3 million
- D.
5000
- 21.By wars end after more than 10 years, how many estimated southeast asians died in the war?
- A.
5000
- B.
8000
- C.
58000
- D.
1-3 million
- 22.By 1972, two out of three us citizens named which medium as their main source of news
- A.
Newspapers
- B.
Magazines
- C.
TV
- D.
Radio
- 23.Through 1967, most news coverage of the war was favorable. however, what event in 1968 turned the coverage into one that was more critical
- A.
The tet offensive
- B.
The tonkin offensive
- C.
The cu chi firefight
- D.
The hanoi bombing
- 24.The most controversial story of the early years of the war was by morley safer of CBS who covered events in the village of cam ne. that story showed
- A.
American soldiers in full retreat after an ambush
- B.
American soldiers being shot at by vietnamese children
- C.
American soldiers burning down 150 hourses by using their zippo lighters
- D.
Bombers strafing rice paddies in the mekong delta
- 25.The viet cong offensive during their lunar new year holiday in 1958 was
- A.
A military failure by north vietnam
- B.
A military failure by US troops
- C.
A military failure by south vietnamese troops
- D.
A military success for the viet cong
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