This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Communication > Mass Communication – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Mass Communication Quiz 1 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Knowingly publishing untrue or misleading words, pictures or symbols ..... that harms another person's reputation or harms an organization's ability to conduct its affairs in a community. A) Press credentials. B) Press package. C) Libel. D) Liability. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Libel. 2. Name the powerful tool used to fight the British? A) Silk. B) Khadi. C) Jute. D) Cotton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Khadi. 3. Legal responsibility. The idea that any person who could have and should have prevented an injury can be held responsible for it. A) Fair use. B) Liability. C) Freedom of information laws. D) Intellectual property. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liability. 4. Which word means a short film of news? A) Entertainment. B) Newsreel. C) Audience. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Newsreel. 5. Which technology laid the groundwork for telephonic and mass communication? A) Semiconductor. B) Orbiting Satellites. C) Back to Wires. D) Internet Originals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semiconductor. 6. According to Marshall McLuhan's Media Map of History, whose invention ushered in the Print Age? A) Irving Fang. B) Johannes Gutenberg. C) Confucius. D) Lumiere Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Johannes Gutenberg. 7. The invention of the printing press happened in ..... A) 5000 BCE. B) 1800s-1900s. C) 1450. D) 3000 BCE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1450. 8. The communication that involves two until three persons without using any media is called ..... A) Intrapersonal Communication. B) Organization Communication. C) Group Communication. D) Interpersonal Communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interpersonal Communication. 9. The culture that seems to hold sway with the majority of a given people is the A) Bounded culture. B) Dominant culture. C) Primary culture. D) Transformed culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dominant culture. 10. To examine an idea or object by breaking it into smaller parts. A) Media literacy. B) Analyze. C) Microscope. D) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analyze. 11. Which of these groups is least likely to be influenced by mass media in their economic decisions? A) Consumers. B) Producers. C) Policymakers. D) Each of these groups is equally likely to be influenced by mass media. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumers. 12. The sociological field current or "limited effects" : A) It has a branch that investigates media consumption models according to audiences. B) Perform laboratory experiments with small groups of people. C) It takes place in the United States during the 70s. D) Study communication in normal life situations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It has a branch that investigates media consumption models according to audiences. 13. ..... Baird invented the television in 1926. A) Charles Babbage. B) My mark. C) John Logie. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Logie. 14. What was the first newspaper printed? A) New York Times. B) Publick Occurrences. C) Boston Herald. D) Boston Globe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Publick Occurrences. 15. Television in India began as (a) A) A an experiment. B) A tool for development. C) A source of infotainment. D) A medium of entertainment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A an experiment. 16. According to basis of direction in Types of Communication. The command from the upline to the downline can be included into ..... A) Oral. B) Diagonal. C) Vertical. D) Horizontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertical. 17. The stage at which inventors try to determine a marketable use for a device is known as the ..... stage. A) Mass medium. B) Entrepreneurial. C) Developmental. D) Marketing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Entrepreneurial. 18. True or false, the media are rarely the direct cause of our social problems. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 19. The newspapers played an important role in India's struggle for freedom A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. If a newspaper is publishing any fake news its ..... will be gone. A) Objectivity. B) Crucial. C) Fairness. D) Credibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Credibility. 21. In ..... communication, generally many people receive messages from one person. A) Group. B) Intrapersonal. C) Interpersonal. D) Public. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Public. 22. Can moral values be conveyed through traditional media? A) Yes. B) May be. C) No. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 23. Under RTI Act, Information means A) Documents. B) Advices. C) Contracts. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 24. The ownership of several U.S. media corporations by foreign companies is an example of A) Concentration of media ownership. B) Globalization of media. C) Audience fragmentation. D) Erosion of distinctions among media. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Globalization of media. 25. A general direction in which something is developing or changing is best described as a ..... ? A) Trend. B) Inertia. C) Graphic Design. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trend. 26. What is Mass Media? A) Is a process of making movies. B) Is a communication process. C) Is a receiver of information. D) Is technology (channels) of mass communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is technology (channels) of mass communication. 27. Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Shri Kalimekolam Sreenivas Reddy committee was appointed for? A) MEDIA TRIAL. B) PAID NEWS. C) ANTI-TRUST ISSUES. D) CONTEMPT OF COURT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PAID NEWS. 28. The media tend to report ..... news stories to attract more readers. A) Shock. B) Surprised. C) Sensational. D) Sensationalize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensational. 29. Radio was invented in the ..... A) 1950s. B) 1970s. C) 1920s. D) 1900s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1920s. 30. The four types of Mass Communications are ..... A) Print, Posters, Newspapers, & Comics. B) Print, Movies, Outside, & TV. C) Print, Broadcast, Outdoor/Transit, & Digital. D) Print, Movies, Television, & Cell Phones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Print, Broadcast, Outdoor/Transit, & Digital. Next →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesMass Communication Quiz 2Mass Communication Quiz 3Mass Communication Quiz 4Mass Communication Quiz 5Mass Communication Quiz 6Mass Communication Quiz 7Mass Communication Quiz 8Mass Communication Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books