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1. The core purpose of the mass media as an institution is writing and disseminating____
a. Solution
b. Communication
c. Information
d. notification
2. Characteristically, the mass media are naturally open to ______
a) public service
b) Control service
c) Fire service
d) Government service
3. _____ this is a straight, formal, objective, balanced, accurate, and timely account of a factual event.
a. News Stories
b. Fock tails
c. Moon light stories
d. recoding
4. _____ can be described as a less objective assessment of the issues in the news.
a) Information
b) Communication
c) description
d) News Analysis
5. ______ comment is the official stand of a media organization concerning a typical issue.
a. Pannel
b. editorial
c. Journal
d. Non of the above
6. _____ are materials that must be paid for before they are printed or aired.
a) Newspapper
b) Magazine
c) Advertising
d) memorandom
7. The word advertisement is more in use in _____ just as commercials are popular among broadcast media.
a. Social media
b. Televsion media
c. Broacast media
d. print media
8. _____ are less time conscious presentations of the mass media.
a) Advertising
b) Feature Article
c) broacasting
d) writting
9. ______articles are subjective opinion of the individual writer.
a. Opinion
b. Discussion
c. Commentry
d. talk
10. The writer is at liberty to express himself on any issue as long as it confines to the laws of the ______
a) People
b) Government
c) land.
d) institution
11. _____ is a presentation of the broadcast media.
a. Article
b. Advertising
c. Media
d. Discussion
12. Talk is equally a ____ affair.
a) Social media
b) Televsion media
c) Broacasting
d) print media
13. ______ are one of the popular presentations in broadcasting
a. Talk
b. Editing
c. reading
d. Drama/musicals
14. Drama production is a basic function of the ____ department.
a) Art
b) Sociology
c) programmes
d) accounting
15. Cartoons are aspect of reporting that comes in ____
a. Drawing
b. artworks.
c. Painting
d. creating
16. They are caricatures that go above amusement and laughter.
Cartoons are presented by both _____ and broadcast media.
a) print
b) Advertising
c) Social
d) Newspapper
17. The mass media are a writing profession and all media ____ are expected to write.
a. Readers
b. Writers
c. Givers
d. Broadcasters
18. Writing is the ability to put pen and paper in order to express an idea or share a meaning with your readers.
a) False
b) True
c) Non of the above
d) I don’t know
19. The media deals with ____
a. Posting
b. documentation
c. Collection
d. engagement
20. A professional ____ writer must master the language and the peculiarity of all the
a) media
b) People
c) Message
d) writter
21. You have to consider the kind of _____ you are presenting and write
accordingly.
a. media
b. People
c. Message
d. writter
22. A straight news report is not written in quite the same way
as an in-depth _____
a) Discussion
b) Intrerview
c) analysis
d) information
23. One of the virtues that help a _____ fulfil all these obligations
and still remain above board is honesty.
a. Student
b. Teacher
c. Media writer
d. Maneger
24. _____ means representing the reality of a situation as accurately as the language will allow.
a) Trust
b) Obedience
c) pried
d) Honesty
25. A report is a statement of fact. It refers to something that can be observed and verified by checking reliable _____
a. Information
b. records
c. Solution
d. writing
26. _______are logical conclusions.
a) Philosophy
b) Experiment
c) Inferences
d) All of the above
27. Media writers owe their _____ three major considerations
a. People
b. Individual
c. Group
d. Audience
28. Careless construction had created enormous and potentially libellous ____
a) Errors.
b) Conclusion
c) Format
d) situation
29. Although copy editors are supposed to catch the errors before they are _____
a. Writing
b. Published
c. Printed
d. All of the above
30. The writer who understands grammar and _____ and who makes the effort to use words precisely stands a good chance of getting the intended message across to the readers.
a) Language
b) English
c) Error
d) Punctuation’s
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1. Even an error as slight as a single comma that is out of place can cause ____
a. Disruption
b. confusion.
c. Mistake
d. Non of the above
2. _____ are the palm oil with which journalism is packaged and consumed.
ANS. Words
3. Good media writing tries to ____ the gap by making sure the words have obvious referents. The referent is the thing a word stands for.
ANS. Narrow
4. The virtue of the _____ experiment is that it has made writers think more of their writing.
ANS. Flesch’s
5. During the ______ when the Allies for the first time bombed Hitler’s strong holds, the news was such sensational when reporters interviewed the successful Combat pilots.
ANS. Second World War
6. Writing is a highly _____ exercise fundamental to journalism as a profession.
ANS. Mental
7. An ____ is a word used to exclaim or express a strong emotion. It has no grammatical connection with its sentence. Some of the most common interjections are, Oh, Ah, Ugh, Ouch
ANS. Interjection
8. _____ has to do with the meanings your readers are likely to associate with the various words you used in your story.
ANS. Connotations
9. A _____ is a word used to connect sentences or sentence parts. It can be in form of coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions.
ANS. Conjunction
10. An ______ is a word which modifies a noun or pronoun. Certain adjectives are irregular at comparative and superlative form. E.g., good, better, best, bad, worse, worst.
ANS. Adjective
11. Good _____ promotes healthy language growth and without language, journalism is impossibility.
ANS. Journalism
12. In fact journalists are literally known as writers in ____ language.
ANS. Igbo
13. To be a media writer is to be a user of ____.
ANS. Words
14. The challenges of media writing are the challenge of the _____ – decoding process.
ANS. Encoding
15. A _____ pronoun is a pronoun ending in self and indicating that the subject acts upon itself. E.g., The butcher
cut himself.
ANS. Reflexive
16. _____ writing do appear as part and parcel of the mass media presentations although most of it is done for specialized media, such as a trade, association, employer and audio-visual production.
ANS. Public relations
17. In writing a news release for the mass media, the public relations person is going to present the information in a way that serves the organization.
ANS. News
18. _____ relations writing, like Advertising writing, is new to media writing.
ANS. Public
19. ______ pronoun is a word used to point out: this, that, those, these.
ANS. Demonstrative
20. Public relations is aimed at establishing and sustaining mutual relationship between an organization or a person and its ______.
ANS. Publics
21. The congressional hearings of ______ in America popularized many expressions and new usages that dictionaries have incorporated into use.
ANS. 1974
22. A ____ is a word or a group of words expressing action, being, or state of being. Example, The man killed the goat. E.g. 2. What is man? The fire has been built.
ANS. Verb
23. A _____ is a connective which joins a noun or a pronoun to the rest of the sentence. A prepositional phrase maybe used as either an adjective or an adverb. E.g., Dan wore a coat of many colors.
AND. Preposition
24. _____ is one of the professions that have symbolic relationship with language.
ANS. Journalism
25. _____ deals with word choice and usage in write ups.
ANS. Semantics
26. A _____ is a word which stands for a noun. It can be in the form of a personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun, reflexive pronoun, interrogative pronoun, indefinite pronoun, and relative pronoun, e.t.c.
ANS. Pronoun
27. A ______ is a word that names and has gender, number, and case. There are proper nouns, which name particular people, places, or things. E.g., Benson Idahosa, Benin, Moat,
ANS. Noun
28. An Adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. E.g., The surrendering General very humbly handed the Captain his rather rusty pistol.
ANS. Adverb
29. Identify the wrong option. Guides to Effective Lead Writing
a. Lead Foster
b. Be Brief
c. Be Specific
d. Identify the News
60. The broadcast media have the glamour that has made many people in society to depend on it for information and ______.
ANS. Entertainment
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