MCQ Bank
Which of the following is used for titles immediately before and after proper names?
- A) Standard abbreviations
- B) The Hyphen
- C) Parenthesis
- D) Colon
A __________________ is a newspaper industry term,which refers to a smaller newspaper format per spread.
- A) Pamphlet
- B) Magazine
- C) Tabloid
- D) Broadsheet
Which of the following is not TRUE about the features in a newspaper?
- A) It explores an issue thoroughly
- B) Writer shouldn’t include his opinions in a feature
- C) They need plenty of research
- D) It depicts the policy of the newspaper
Obituary is a part of newspaper which gives the:
- A) List of persons who recently got job and promoted
- B) List of people who recently died, or death anniversaries.
- C) List of people who recently enrolled in university and passed semester.
- D) List of people who recently admitted to hospital and operated.
Which one of the following options is an introductory headline below the headline?
- A) Sidebar
- B) Tag
- C) Strap line
- D) Spread
The ________________ is a group of people, usually the top editors, who decide on a plan for each editorial that will appear in a newspaper.
- A) Federal board of revenue
- B) Editorial board
- C) Intermediate board of editors
- D) Parliamentary board
Timeliness indicates_____________.
- A) Boldness
- B) Audacity
- C) Freshness
- D) Oldness
On the editorial page, the masthead is also termed as __________.
- A) Staff Box
- B) Out of box
- C) Tool Box
- D) Box office
Personality profiles are type of:
- A) Column
- B) Feature
- C) Report
- D) Press Release
When reader reads every word and works to learn from the text, he is involved in the process of ________________.
- A) Impromptu speech
- B) Detailed Reading
- C) Skimming
- D) Scanning
Tabloid newspaper is usually characterized _______________.
- A) Scandalous
- B) Literary
- C) Poetic
- D) Critical
Which of the following is usually an inside page that is not folded vertically and just includes a front and back?
- A) Full broadsheet
- B) Full and half broadsheet
- C) Half broadsheet
- D) Tabloid
When reader is looking up for a name in the phone book: he/she moves his/her eye quickly over the page to find particular words or phrases that are relevant to the task he/she is doing. This statement explains which of the following method of educated reading?
- A) Detailed Reading
- B) Informal speech
- C) Scanning
- D) Skimming
SVO<24 stands for which of the following?
- A) Subject-verb-object sentences of generally above 24 words.
- B) Subject-verb-omission sentences of generally above 24 words.
- C) All of the given options
- D) Subject-verb-object sentences of generally less than 24 words.
KISS stands for which of the following?
- A) Keep it small and sensitive.
- B) Keep it simple and smoky.
- C) Keep it simple and systematic.
- D) Keep it simple, stupid.
An effective formula for editorial writing is SPECS. It stands for which of the following options?
- A) Society, Pertinent, Evidence, Confidence, Solutions
- B) Section, Paragraph, Effective, Conclusions, Systematically
- C) Statement, Posture, Evidence, Conclusions, Solutions
- D) State, Position, Evidence, Conclusions, Solutions
______________is a great way to generate your own overview of the story you want to write.
- A) Storyboarding
- B) Reading
- C) Story mapping
- D) Brainstorming
The newspapers can be divided into _________________ general categories.
- A) Seven
- B) Two
- C) Six
- D) Ten
ABC in news writing stands for:
- A) Accuracy, brevity and consideration
- B) Accuracy, brevity and clarity
- C) Actuality, brevity and critical
- D) Accuracy, boldness and compactness
"I want stories to startle and engage me within the first few sentences, and in their middle to widen or deepen or sharpen my knowledge of human activity, and to end by giving me a sensation of completed statement." This quote belongs to _____________.
- A) John Updike
- B) Bill Gates
- C) Marshal McLuhan
- D) William Shakespeare