MAC214

Category: MAC214

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Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.

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MAC214

1 / 50

The liberal press is a
misnomer

A) FALSE

B) Falsity

C) Untrue

D) TRUE

2 / 50

The letter “S” in news
represents

A) Service

B) Source

C) Selection

D) Simplicity

3 / 50

Search engines are also
called
__spiders or robots

4 / 50

For a journalist to be a
watch dog, he must
engaged in ________

A) Investigative work

B) Feature writing

C) None of the options

D) Entertainment story

5 / 50

According to Brady (1977)
interviews are based on two
major aims for the journalist
and these are trust and
_______

A) Judgement

B) Objectivity

C) Information

D) Balance

6 / 50

Mass media act as the
middle man between the
policy formulators and
_______

A) Media consumers

B) Nine of the options

C) The journalists

D) The government

7 / 50

Categories of limitations to
interpretative journalism
include all except_____?

A) Economic

B) Ownership

C) Domestic

D) Political

8 / 50

Proprietorial interference,
which is one of the
limitations to investigative
reporting means_______

A) Media owners influence

B) Reporters decision on what to cover

C) Public influence

D) All of the options

9 / 50

The letter “E” in news
represents

A) Embargo

B) Emphasis

C) Encourage

D) Empathy

10 / 50

10)

Media owners influence is a
type of _______ limitations
to investigative reporting

A) Public influence

B) Reporters decision on what to cover

C) All of the options

D) Proprietorial interference

11 / 50

11)

Investigative reporting also
involves uncovering social,
economic or cultural
developments

A) Doubtful

B) TRUE

C) FALSE

D) All the options

12 / 50

12)

Investigative journalism
involves getting the news
behind the

13 / 50

13)

The
__or title is an important
part of the entire piece
because it is the first centre
of attraction for the reader.

14 / 50

14)

The
__or caption is an important
part of the entire piece
because it is the first centre
of attraction for the reader

15 / 50

15)

Investigative Journalists
should always engage in
undercover reporting.

A) Untrue

B) FALSE

C) None of the options

D) TRUE

16 / 50

16)

Anglo-African newspaper
reigned between?
,

17 / 50

17)

James Bright Davies
founded ______ in 1910

A) West African pilot

B) Nigerian Times

C) Lagos daily News

D) Lagos Weekly Record

18 / 50

18)

Captions may be in
question format e.g. Who
killed Dele Giwa? . True OR
False?

19 / 50

19)

What is the major
difference between
investigative journalism and
hard news reportage?

A) The former is more in-depth

B) The latter is more factual

C) The latter is more in-depth

D) All of the options

20 / 50

20)

The first centre of attraction
to the readers in an
investigative story is the

21 / 50

21)

_is defamation by spoken
words or gesture?

22 / 50

22)

Straight news or hard news
is a_______ report of news
that is current and
important

A) Factual

B) Important

C) None of the options

D) All the options

23 / 50

23)

Defamation is made up
of______

A) Slander and libel

B) Written words and libel

C) Spoken words and slander

D) Publication and injury

24 / 50

24)

What does the
governments use most
often, to justify illegal,
dangerous or unethical acts
and to restrict or discourage
journalists from reporting on
a real problem?

A) National interest

B) National sovereignty

C) international interest

D) Public interest

25 / 50

25)

When was The “5Ws & H”
communication model
propounded?

A) 1984

B) 1994

C) 1949

D) 1948

26 / 50

26)

Which of these is not
among the characteristics
of news

A) Currency

B) Compatibility

C) Novelty

D) Proximity

27 / 50

27)

Anglo-African newspaper
reigned between – and - ?

A) 1863 and 1865

B) 1865 and 1890

C) 1890 and 1899

D) 1880 and 1885

28 / 50

28)

To know your audience
properly you must embark
on
to find out more about them

29 / 50

29)

If a media house is
influenced by the publisher
to carry out investigative
reporting, such media
house is limited by

30 / 50

30)

What is the consequence of
the inaccurate estimates of
the journalist’s audience?

A) They make a great breakthrough in their professional functions

B) They will fail to interpret the news accurately and effectively to the society

C) They will step aside of the professional functions

D) Their Sources will dry up

31 / 50

31)

Which of these is not
among the elements of
investigative reporting?

A) It’s about digging deeply into an issue or topic

B) The issue or topic has to be of public interest

C) It’s a process, not an event

D) It is always in favour of the news source

32 / 50

32)

Letter ‘S’ in the acronym,
NEWS stand for

33 / 50

33)

All reporters are
investigators

A) None of the options

B) FALSE

C) Not sure

D) TRUE

34 / 50

34)

If journalist underestimates
or overestimates their
audience, there is a
tendency that

A) They resign

B) They will fail to interpret the news accurately and effectively to the society

C) They step aside of the professional functions

D) They will stop buying newspapers

35 / 50

35)

Nigeria’s press laws are
based on British and
traditions?

36 / 50

36)

Determinants of
interpretative journalism
includes all but one

A) Gender

B) Qualification

C) Age

D) Training

37 / 50

37)

A good
_draws the readers’
attention into the body of
the story

38 / 50

38)

News is not an isolated
incident but one inevitable
linked to a chain of
important events.

A) FALSE

B) TRUE

C) Not sure

D) None of the options

39 / 50

39)

When was West Africa Pilot
founded?

A) 1939

B) 1936

C) 1938

D) 1937

40 / 50

40)

Is defamation a civil or
criminal offence ?

41 / 50

41)

If a media house lacks
required media gadget to
carry out the investigative
reporting, such media
house is limited _______

A) Technologically

B) Politically

C) By skill man power

D) Economically

42 / 50

42)

The purpose of in-depth
investigative stories is
generally to
something. True or False?

43 / 50

43)

Who formulated Categorical
Imperative
__?

44 / 50

44)

Interpretative journalism is
a SINE QUA NON for every
journalist

A) FALSE

B) TRUE

C) All the options

D) Untrue

45 / 50

45) The beginning of journalism in Nigeria started with the __newspaper

46 / 50

46)

First person narrator is
allowed in breaking news.
True or false
_?

47 / 50

47)

Many newspapers were
shut down during military
regime because they
engaged in_____

A) Investigative journalism

B) Obscenity

C) Religious activities

D) Fraud

48 / 50

48)

Inequalities in capitalist
dominated societies lead to

A) Unification

B) Representation

C) Social stratification

D) Pressure orientation

49 / 50

49)

Most investigative stories
are presented in feature
format. True OR False?

50 / 50

50)

Mass media act as the
middle man between the
policy formulators and
_______

A) Media consumers

B) None of the options1

C) The government

D) The journalists

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