Unit V II MA English JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

II MA English - JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

Unit V

1.What is the other name for iconoscope?

a. electric television tube b. TV c. picture tube d. telescope

2.What is the name of the first communication satellite?

a. Early Bird b. Flying Bird c. CS 1 d.SAT 1

3.When was the age of satellite communication dawned in India?

a. 1962 b. 1945 c. 1919 d. 2001

4.Which country succeeded in designing a computer–controlled network?

a. Germany b. Japan c. USA d. India

5. Which media socialist called the modern world as “a global village”?

a. John McNamara b. Marshall McLuhan c. Court Marshall d. Jim Reeves

6. Expand DTH:

a. Detach-to-home b. Direct-to-home c. Digital-to-home d. Drab-to-home

7. In which year “commercials” came to be telecasted in India?

a. 2001      b. 1925 c. 1976 d. 1965

8. What is the name of the second channel introduced by Doordarshan? 

a. Doordarshan Song channel b. Doordarshan Entertainment channel c. Metro Entertainment channel d. Metro Song channel.

9. Which is first soap opera telecasted in India?

a. Dynasty b. Buniyaad c. Hum Log  d. English

10. What is a “tag” in TV journalism?

a. A useless input b. A Pin used c. A tag used d. Additional information

11.Where were the first 3 radio stations started?

a. Pittsburgh, New York and Tokyo b. Pittsburgh, New York and London c. Pittsburgh, New York and New Delhi d. Pittsburgh, New York and Chicago

12.Expand NBC –

a. National Blogging Company  b. Nation Building Company  c. None d. National Broadcasting Company

13.Expand CBS –

a. Columbia Broadcasting System  b. Cricket Board of Srilanka  c. Common Balancing System d. Central Board for Scrutiny

14.Where was the first Radio Club started functioning in India?

a. Calcutta b. Trichinopoly c. New Delhi d.Bombay

15.Who is the first controller of Broad casting?

a. Lionel Trilling b. Lionel Fielden c. Lionel Richie d. Lionel Frederick

16.Who coined the name AIR (All India Radio)?

a. Lionel Trilling b. Lionel Fielden c. Lionel Richie d. Lionel Frederick

17.What is FM Broadcasting?

a. Frequency Mutation b. Frequency Modulation c. Full Modulation d. Full Mutation

18.What is DAB?

a. Dubbing Audio Broadcasting b. Direct Audio Broadcasting c. Digital Audio Broadcasting d. Dragon Audio Broadcasting

19.When was Vividh Bharath started?

a. 1926b. 2001 c. 1957 d.1976

20.The Vividh Bharath was started to compete with ________.

a. Radio USA b. BBC c. Radio Cylon d. Radio Nepal

21.Who was the first to coin the word “semiotics”?

a. Derrida b. Ferdinand de Saussure c. Raymond Bellour d. Charles Sanders Peirce

22. Whose lectures became the foundation for what he called “semiology”?

a. Raymond Bellour b. Charles Sanders Peirce c. Derrida d. Ferdinand de Saussure

23. Who argues that film is the “Unattainable Text”?

a. Charles Sanders Peirce b. Ferdinand de Saussure c. Derrida d. Raymond Bellour

24. The film-language concept was explored in depth by theorists like ______

 a. Christian Metz b. Ferdinand de Saussure c. Derrida d. Charles Sanders Peirce

25. The five tracks the film medium are image, dialogue, music, written materials and _____.

a. noise b. poise c. wave d. silence

26. Who are the pioneers in cinema?

a. The Lumiere Brothers b. The Wright Brothers c. The Philips Brothers d. The Sony Brothers

27. For _______, the image is characterized by Polysemy.

a. Umberto Eco b. Roland Barthes c. Pier Paolo Pasolini d. and Christian Metz

28. The paradigmatic study of films deals with _____

a. Signifying the whole b. visuals c. Speech d. words

29. A book review is description, critical analysis and _______.

a. retelling b. evaluation c. summarising d. synopsis

30. A book review should focus on  purpose, _______ and author.

a. pictures b. content c. pages d. fonts

31. Usually the length of a book review is _______.

a. 100 – 1500 words b. 50000 words c. 100 pages d.500 pages

32. A book review is _______ to the material analysed.

a. a reaction b. an acceptance c. a rejection d. a dissent

33. What is the expansion for ISBN?

a. International Standard Book Number b. International Book Number c. Indian Book Number d. Indian Standard Book Number

34. Film is a _____ medium.

a. actor’s b. director’s  c. audience’s d. people’s

35. The film reviewer should make a note on the ______, technique and words used in a film.

a. song b. form c. length d. review

36. Angles and shots are called _________.

a. set design b. camera work c. stock phrase d. review

37. Costumes and design are called_________.

a. set design b. stock phrase c. camera work d. review

38. What is a cliché?

a. Stock phrase b. New formula c. Blue print d. Dupe

39. Give an example for Print Advertising.

a. Newspapers b. Billboards c. Radio d. Movies

40. Give an example for Outdoor Advertising.

a. Newspapers b. Billboards c. Radio d. Movies

41. Give an example for Broadcast Advertising.

a. Newspapers b. Television c. Kiosks d. Movies

42. Which advertisement gives importance to secret or hidden?

a. Broadcast Advertising b. Covert Advertising c. Print Advertising d. Surrogate Advertising

43. In which medium Covert Advertising is mostly used?

a. Advertising in Movies b. Advertising in Newspapers c. Advertising in Kiosks d. Advertising in Billboards

44. What is Surrogate Advertising?

a. Advertising Indirectly b. Advertising directly c. Advertising using ethics d. No such advertising

45. Which type of advertising carries socially relevant messages?

a. Public Service Advertising b. Useful Advertising c. Celebrity Advertising d. Publicity Advertising

46. Which type of advertising gives importance to celebrities?

a. Public Service Advertising b. Celebrity Advertising c. Publicity Advertising d.Useful Advertising

47. “Bengal Gazette” was started by _______.

a. James Bond b. James Hicky c. James John d. James Hill

48. The origin of advertising is traceable to the _________

a. bill board   b. village drummer            c. advertising agency     d. news paper

49. _______advertising gives information in a dry matter-of-fact manner.

a. Celebrity b. Public Service c. Kiosks d. Classified

50. _______ has been called “the father of modern advertisement”.

a. Billy Joe Thomas b. Thomas Hardy c. Thomas Muller d. Thomas J. Barratt

Charles Lamb’s ‘Oxford in the Vacation’ I UG MCQs

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

I BA English - Prose - I

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

Course Code: U19EG102

Charles Lamb’s ‘Oxford in the Vacation’

1. Who is Elia?

a)     Charles Lamb       b) George Dyer    c) Mary Lamb     d) Clerk

2.  Who was the child of London?

a)     George Dyer        b) Charles Lamb   c) Dr. Johnson    d) E.V. Lucas

3.  He spent __________ years working as a clerk in the East India House

a)      43       b)  23         c)  33                     d) 13

4. Lamb was renowned for his warm sense of ________ and legendary social gatherings

a)      Tragedy               b) Wits                     c)  irony               d) humour

5. In 1807, Charles Lamb and Mary Anne Lamb was published ____________

a)     Tale from Shakespeare b)   Tale from Bible  c) Tale of Two cities     d) Tale of Canterbury.

6. Charles died in______.

a) 1833                     b)  1834                     c) 1835               d) 1836

7. Essays of Elia was published in ____.

a)     1803                   b) 1813                       c)  1823             d) 1823

8. Oxford in the Vacation was first published in the London Magazine on _______.

a)     Jul 1860             b)    Aug 1860             c) Sep. 1860   d) Oct. 1860

9. Oxford in the vacation is written by one who never was at ­­­_______ as a student.

a)     Oxford               b) Cambridge            c) Kingston      d) New college

10. Lamb used to spend his annual holidays in the ______ and other part of the Oxford

a)     Ground               b) library                  c)    Dining hall         d) Campus

11. Lamb use to write under the pen-name of ______.

a)      Charles               b)    Anne                     c)  Elia                        d) Dyer

12. He tried to amuse the reader with an account of a clerks working in the_____.

a)     East Sea House   b) North Sea House    c) South Sea House    d) West Sea House

13. He used to look forward for holidays to spend times in ________ at Oxford libraries.

a)    Sleeping                b) Chatting                    c) Surfing net          d) reading books

14.  _______ feels as if he inhaling learning while in them

a)     Lamb                   b)  Dyer                         c)  Some Menials     d) Mary

15. Dyer was busy with ______ manuscript at Oriel

a)     ancient                b) modern                    c)  postmodern       d) new

16. Who himself look like an old book badly needing a new cover?

a)     Charles Lamb      b) George Dyer           c) George Eliot        d) G.B. Shaw

17. Dyer doing research concerning the past _________ of the two universities.

a)       Civil                  b)  geography                 c)   history              d) record

18. Lamb cares more for Oxford and Cambridge than he does for fashionable resorts as_____

a)     New York           b)  Northampton              c) Sussex             d) Bath

19. Who hung in his uneasy posture in the old Baskett prayer book?

a)      St. Peter           b)  St. Thomas                c) St. Mathew         d) St.Paul

20. Where “it seems as though all the souls of all the writers”

a)      In  oxford         b) In old library       c) In new library         d) In Oxford campus

A.G. Gardiner ‘s “A Fellow Traveller” I UG MCQs

Department of English

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

I BA English - Prose - I

Question Bank – Multiple Choice Questions

Course Code: U19EG102

A.G. Gardiner ‘s “A Fellow Traveller”

1. “Alpha of the Plough” is the pseudonym of ________

         (a)  Robert Lynd                                            (b)  Francis Bacon

         (c)  A.G Gardiner                                         (d)  J.B Priestley

2. A.G Gardiner’s fellow-traveller was a ________

         (a)  bird                                                          (b)  man

         (c)  dog                                                           (d)  mosquito

3. A.G Gardiner accused his fellow- traveller as _________

         (a)  a vagrant                                                 (b)  a public nuisance

         (c)  travelling without a ticket                    (d)  all the above

1394. A.G Gardiner travelled in a ______

         (a)  bicycle                                                     (b)  train

         (c)  bus                                                            (d)  none

1405. A.G Gardiner and his fellow- traveller knew about each other’s journey.

         (a)  true                                                          (b)  false

         (c)  to some extent                                       (d)  none

1416. Name the writers who continually misquoted the poets they loved.

         (a)  Pope and Dryden                                   (b)  Bacon and Lamb

         (c)  Hazlitt and Swift                                    (d)  Lamb and Hazlitt

1427. A.G Gardiner’s fellow-traveller was a ________

         (a)  bird                                                          (b)  man

         (c)  dog                                                           (d)  mosquito

1438. According to Priestley to-er-is human, to ________ divine

         (a)  refuse                                                      (b)  forgive

         (c)  forget                                                       (d)  none

1449. Gardiner feels that he has interested in his fellow traveller and in return he has _________ him.

(a) insulted  (b) pleased (c) entertained (d) worried

10. How does Gardiner describe his sense of freedom?

          (a) pleasant (b) uneasy (c) boring (d) none of the above

11. How does Gardiner describe his sense of freedom?

          (a) pleasant (b) uneasy (c) boring (d) none of the above

12. When one is alone in the carriage what can he do?

         (a) sing and dance (b) open and close window (c) play golf and even stand on head    

         (d) all the above

13. How did the author responded to the behaviour of his fellow traveller?

          (a) kissed him   (b) flicked him off (c) prayed with him (d) danced and sung with      

him

14.How many times the author warns his fellow traveller?

          (a) dozen of times (b) a score of time (c) twice (d) often

15. Gardiner refers his fellow traveller as a __________

          (a) genius (b) almighty (c) vagrant (d) all the above

16. After attacking his fellow traveller with a blow what did the author do?

         (a) lunged him (b) jumped on the seat (c) adopted tactics of feline cunning (d) all   

the above

17. According to A.G. Gardiner  what are the noblest attributes of man?

         (a) pride and prejudice (b) anger and rage (c) magnanimity and mercy (d) fear and        

dilemma

18. Gardiner feels that __________ has made them  fellowtravelers

            (a) misfortune    (b) fortune  (c) fate  (d) all the above

19. Gardiner feels that he cannot kill his fellow traveller but ____________ him.

            (a) reprieve (b) discharge (c) dismantle  (d) none of the above

20. Gardiner was feeling ______________ to his fellow creature

            (a) equal (b) inferior (c) superior (d) guilty

21. Gardiner refers whom to have called the non-human beings a as brother?

  (a) St. Francis   (b) St.Augutus (c) St.Thomas   (d) none of the above

22. Gardiner feels that he has interested in his fellow traveller and in return he has _________ him.

(a) insulted  (b) pleased (c) entertained (d) worried

23. Gardiner heard a friendly voice in the window who is it?

  (a) Station master (b) engine driver (c) guard  (d) friendly porter

24.  A G Gardiner fully refers as

(a) Alwin Godwin Gardiner  (b) Abel Gonsalvez Gardiner (c) Alfred George Gardiner (d) none of the above

25. How did the fellow traveller behave with the author?

          (a) Made a menace (b) Spoke well and behaved gently (c) Ignored the author    

          (d) Sang and slept