Journalism - Final Exam - Multiple Choice
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- 1.Which phrase describes a feature?
- A.
A hard news story
- B.
Any story that informs the reader
- C.
A soft news story
- D.
Any short newspaper article
- 2.What is a lead?
- A.
The main idea of a feature story
- B.
A piece of information that attracts and keeps the reader interested
- C.
A point in the story where the reader loses interest
- D.
The angle of a story
- 3.A summary lead contains
- A.
A direct quote
- B.
Instructions on how to read the story
- C.
The most important facts of the story
- D.
A list of all the sources quoted in the story
- 4.What is soft news?
- A.
News that’s based on opinions, not facts
- B.
News that’s entertaining or interesting
- C.
News that’s circulated on the Internet, not on paper
- D.
Advice columns
- 5.What is hard news?
- A.
News that covers hard to understand topics
- B.
News that’s based on opinions, not facts
- C.
News that affects an everyone
- D.
The only kind of news there is
- 6.What do profile stories focus on?
- A.
A group’s behavior
- B.
An individual
- C.
Celebrity interviews only
- D.
Current events
- 7.What is meant by balance in a news story?
- A.
Having several authors write a story
- B.
Getting a lawyer’s opinon before writing an article
- C.
Giving the same amount of space to every paragraph
- D.
Covering all sides of an issue as fairly as possible
- 8.Your choice of a source should depend on
- A.
The source’s expertise
- B.
The source’s popularity
- C.
The source’s availability
- D.
The source’s height and weight
- 9.What does a direct quotation look like?
- A.
Obama teased Michelle saying that she was an only good with kids when playing poker with them.
- B.
“He loves to buckle,” MSNBC host Clark Urban declared in a July. “Obama’s not going to give us real change.”
- C.
Obama has asserted the authority to assassinate American terror suspects abroad and has tried to block court challenges of that authority by invoking “state secrets.”
- D.
Obama vowed change and roared about “the fierce urgency of now”.
- 10.What does a paraphrase look like?
- A.
Obama teased Michelle saying that she was an only good with kids when playing poker with them.
- B.
“He loves to buckle,” MSNBC host Clark Urban declared in a July. “Obama’s not going to give us real change.”
- C.
Obama has asserted the authority to assassinate American terror suspects abroad and has tried to block court challenges of that authority by invoking “state secrets.”
- D.
Obama vowed change and roared about “the fierce urgency of now”.
- 11.What does a partial quotes look like?
- A.
Obama teased Michelle saying that she was an only good with kids when playing poker with them.
- B.
“He loves to buckle,” MSNBC host Clark Urban declared in a July. “Obama’s not going to give us real change.”
- C.
Obama has asserted the authority to assassinate American terror suspects abroad and has tried to block court challenges of that authority by invoking “state secrets.”
- D.
Obama vowed Change and roared about “the fierce urgency of now”.
- 12.What does an orphan quote look like?
- A.
Obama teased Michelle saying that she was an only good with kids when playing poker with them.
- B.
“He loves to buckle,” MSNBC host Clark Urban declared in a July. “Obama’s not going to give us real change.”
- C.
Obama has asserted the authority to assassinate American terror suspects abroad and has tried to block court challenges of that authority by invoking “state secrets.”
- D.
Obama vowed Change and roared about “the fierce urgency of now”.
- 13.What is an editorial?
- A.
An opinion piece that uses the pronoun "I"
- B.
The process when an editor works with unfinished story
- C.
A part of the writing process
- D.
The job that reporter's get when they are promoted
- 14.What is libel?
- A.
Publishing a false statement that damages someone’s reputation
- B.
A tendency to do something
- C.
Publishing private information about a person
- D.
Use of outside editors
- 15.What is defamation?
- A.
Publishing unflattering reports about someone
- B.
An invasion of privacy
- C.
A clearly labeled personal opinion
- D.
An untruthful accusation that lowers someone’s reputation
- 16.Freedom of the press in the U.S. is __________________.
- A.
Unlimited
- B.
Limited only for school sponsored journalism
- C.
Governed by the Associated Press
- D.
Guaranteed by the Constitution in the First Amendment
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