Department
of English
Bishop
Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
II MA
English - JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION
Question
Bank – Multiple Choice Questions
Unit IV
The profile of a Reporter
Reporting: crime, court, election, legislature, sports,
development, investigative, interpretive, Interviewing.
1. What is “Nose for News”?
a. News
engagement b. Sound news judgement c. News story d.
Sniff like a dog
2. Who is the
foundation of a newspaper?
a. editor b. reporter c. sub-editor d.
office
3. Who is a cub journalist?
A) The young of a certain
animal B) A junior reporter C) pet animal D) An experienced
reporter
4. Assault is a
crime against ___________.
a) a person b)
property c)
public welfare d) legal authority
5. Kidnapping is a
crime against ___________.
a) a person b)
property c)
public welfare d) legal authority
6. Forgery is a
crime against ____________.
a) a
person b) property c)
public welfare d) legal authority
7. Riot and strikes
are crime against ______________.
a) a
person b)property c) public
welfare d) legal authority
8. Bigamy is a
crime against _____________.
a) a person b)property c) public
welfare d) legal authority
9. Obstructing
government officers from performing their duties is a crime against ____.
a) a
person b)property c)
public welfare d) legal authority
10. Bribing
government officials is a crime against
a) a
person b)property c)
public welfare d) legal authority
11._______is the place where the accused stands
in the court.
a. Dock b. Stage c. Pulpit d. Podium
12._______
is the conditional release of a defendant with the promise to appear in
court when required.
a. Bail b.
Bailiff c. Bribe d. Adjourn
13. _____ is a man
or woman who abets or aids the commission of offence.
a. Accomplice b.
Accord c. Abused d. Aiden
14. Wilful
disobedience to any court judgement is called _____________.
a) civil
contempt b) court disdain c)
criminal contempt d) legal
contempt
15. Publication of
any matters which scandalises/lowers the authority of any court is called
___________.
a) civil
contempt b) court
disdain c) criminal
contempt d)
legal contempt
16. What is the
‘application form’ used for requesting more time for finding witnesses?
a) habeas
corpus b) adjournment c)
parole d)
None
17. What is
‘Parole’?
a) producing a
person in the
court b)
requesting time for finding witness
c) requesting for
change of court c) release
on promise of reappearance
18. What is ‘writ’?
a) court
order b) rules of a game c)
quality of a reporter d) a
crime
19. In
_________officials take the reporters to selected polling stations.
a) party
coverage b)
media coverage
c) conducted
coverage d)
independent coverage
20. In __________,
the reporter selects the polling stations.
a) party
coverage b)
media
coverage
c) independent
coverage d)
conducted coverage
21. What are the
two Peoples Acts that act as a guideline for conducting an election?
a) Representation
of Peoples Act of 1950 and 1951
b) Representation
of Peoples Act of 1950 and 1952
c) Representation
of Peoples Act of 1951 and
1952
d) Representation
of Peoples Act of 1951 and 1953
22. Who decides to
hold the General Election?
a) Central
Cabinet b) Supreme/High
Court
c) Election
Commission d)
Political Party
23. Who is
in-charge of conducting elections?
a) Supreme Court b)
a team of retired High Court Judges
c) Election
Commission d) Central/State Government
24. What is
‘Curtain Raiser’?
a) crime
news b) a scandal c) human
interest stories d) final round of poll news
25. Scrutiny of
nomination for public election is done by the ______.
a) Election
Commission b) Returning Officer
c) Central/State
Government d) the Collector
26._______is one to
which a member desires an oral answer from the Minister in the House.
a) A
Starred Question b) an Unstarred
Question
c) A Short Notice
Question d) One Minute Question
27. During ______the
members of various parties can raise questions and argue on various issues.
a) Legislative
Hour b) Business
Hour c) Zero Hour d)
Question Hour
28.___ is
the one to which an oral answer is not called for and on which no supplementary
questions can be asked.
a) An
Unstarred Question b)
A Starred
Question
c) A Short Notice
Question d)
One Minute Question
29. _________ is
one which relates to a matter of urgent public importance, and can be asked
with the consent of the minister concerned
a) A Short
Notice b) An Unstarred
Question
c) A Starred
Question d) One Minute Question
30.The first hour of every legislature sitting is normally devoted to
_______.
a) Question Hour b)
Papers to be laid c) Zero Hour d) Legislative Business
31. Which is the
most challenging task for a Legislature Reporter?
a) Question Hour b) Papers to be
laid c) Zero
Hour d)
Legislative Business
32. Sports
Reporters must remind cool and ________ in reviewing performances.
a) Partial b) impartial c)
subjective d)
prejudice
33. Sports news is
called ______ department.
a) ‘normal’ b)
‘easy’ c)
‘play’ d) ‘toy’
34. The featured
sports story helps reporters to develop ____________ stories.
a) overnight b)
overwrought c)
undeveloped d)
copied
35. Compared to the
past the sports news has __________________ readers.
a) tremendous b)
apathetic c)
sluggish d)
slothful
a. Intuition b. back c. A type
of play d. A type of reporting
37. Who probed the
Watergate story?
a) Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan b) William Edward
c) Woodward
and
Bernstein d) Pierce Brosnan
38. Which reporting is
also called ‘depth reporting’?
a) election
reporting b) court
reporting
c) crime reporting d) investigative reporting
39. Investigating
reporting became famous after the famous _______ scandal in the 1970’s.
a) Watergate b)
Teapot Dome c) The Wilbur Mills d) The Hamilton – Burr
40. Which reporting
demands more patience, determination, hard and sustained work?
a) Investigative
Reporting b) Interpretative
Reporting
c) Sports
Reporting d) all
the above
41. Which reporting
helps in creating awareness about the various plans, programmes, schemes and
projects drawn up by the government and government agencies?
a) Interpretative
Reporting b)
Sports Reporting
c) Development
Reporting d)
Court Reporting
42. Why does a Development
Reporter take a long time to cover a news story?
a. the
development of a new scheme is slow b. slow reporters are appointed c. It
is wrong to so d. Full time is not devoted
43. Which reporting combines facts with interpretation?
a) election
reporting b)
court reporting
c) crime
reporting d) interpretative
reporting
44. Interpretative
reporting is not the recital of bare facts but reporting news with ____.
a. background
material b. jokes c. anecdotes d. coolness
45. Why does
interpretative reporting depend on background material?
a. to make
it comprehensive and meaningful. b. to make it interesting c. to make it
beautiful c. to make it readable
46. _______ is an effective way of
featuring controversial personalities.
a. Interview b.
Story c. Crime report d. Interpretation
47. ______ brings out
a person’s background.
a. Press
conference b. Factual news interview c. Opinion news interview
d. Profile interview
48. ________ is
meeting a top minister in order to get him to talk about new plans and
projects.
a. Press
conference b. Factual news interview c. Opinion news
interview d. Profile interview
49. Impromptu press
meetings held in places like the airport can be called ______.
a. Press
conference b. Factual news interview c. Opinion news interview
d. Profile interview
50. _______ is a news story that forms the basis for a feature
story.
a. A news peg b. A
news spark c. A news click d. A news nail
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. National Blue metal Company d. National Broadcasting Company
13.Expand CBS –
a. Columbia
Broadcasting System b. Cricket Board of Sri Lanka
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 Broadcasting?
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 is
the father of 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 of 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 a 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. Blueprint d. Dupe
39. Give an example of Print Advertising.
a. Newspapers b. Billboards c. Radio d. Movies
40. Give an example of Outdoor Advertising.
a. Newspapers b. Billboards c. Radio d. Movies
41. Give an example of Broadcast Advertising.
a. Newspapers b. Television c. Kiosks d.
Movies
42. Which advertisement gives importance to a secret or is hidden behind
another media?
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. newspaper
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
