MAC113 EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

At times, most of the mass media users are the captive_____

a) Population

b) People

c) Society

d) Audience

 the term_____simply translates to the modern means

of giving news, opinion, education, entertainment and agenda-setting to

large numbers of people

a. Modern media

b. mass media

c. Social media

d. Media communication

Communicating through radio, television, newspapers, magazines and films is known as

a) Modern media

b) mass media

c) Social media

d) Media communication

 According to Joseph Dominick (2009:36), a_____is the channel through which a message travels from the source to the receiver

a. medium

b. Channel

c. Station

d. All of the above

Medium” as singular, Media” is plural

a) Yes

b) Maybe

c) No

d) No option

_____ are the channels used for mass communication.

a) Radio media

b) Social media

c) mass media

d) Newspapper

_____is a single component of the mass media, such as a newspaper, radio station, television network, or magazine

a. Media Vehicle

b. Media car

c. Media class

d. Media lab

There are  different mass media except

a) radio,

b) television,

c) film,

d) eletricity

talking on the phone is not a form of mass communication because the audience is not large and diverse;

a. True

b. Faulse

c. Somehow

d. I don’t know

there is only one person at each end of the line of a phone

a) True

b) Faulse

c) Somehow

d) I don’t know

 advertisements on cigarettes remind smokers that they were liable to die. 

a. True

b. Faulse

c. Somehow

d. I don’t know

At 18 years he or she will have spent more time watching television than any single activity except sleep.”

a) True

b) Faulse

c) Somehow

d) I don’t know

The ——— do not exist or operate in isolation.

a. Scoial media

b. mass media

c. Communication

d. Information

 The modern mass media evolved from the content of the public traditional communication.

a) Community

b) Society

c) Religion

d) public

The media in this group operate through_____contact betweenindividuals and persons

a) Formal

b) Semi-fomal

c) informal

d) Semi-informal

the most common of these indigenous officials was the_____or bellman.

a) Radio

b) Television

c) town crier

d) All of the above

_____functions include announcing the

“promulgation” of laws and regulations, meetings etc

a. Radio

b. Television

c. town crier

d. All of the above

booming of gun, to announce deaths of village personalities and to warn

of imminent_____

a) Danger

b) Meeting

c) Regulation

d) Potest

Yoruba Gbedu, the Isekiri Oji, the Edo Okha, which were used to summon special___

a. Greeting

b. People

c. meetings,

d. occations

The word adjunct originated from a_____ word “adjungere” which

means “to join”.

a) Latin

b) Greek

c) China

d) nigeria

Therefore, adjunct simply means_____

a. something joined

b. Somting disjoined

c. Something connected

d. Something direct

In other words, adjunct means some____to the main thing being discussed.

a) Mutiplecation

b) Division

c) additions

d) Equal to

_____are organisations that gather and process news, which they disseminate to their various subscribers such as the mass media

a. Media

b. Government agencies

c. Press

d. News agencies

In Africa, we have the Pan_____News Agency (PANA)

a) American

b) African

c) Asia

d) Europe

Pan -African has its headquarters in Dakar_____

a. Nigeria

b. Ghana

c. South africa

d. Senegal.