Chapter 6 Test Select only one answer for each question 1. What is a backgrounde

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Chapter 6 Test

Select only one answer for each question

1. What is a backgrounder?

a. A story about a famous, unusual or heroic person

b. A tragic, funny, odd or inspirational story about real people

c. A flavor or mood story in which the writer describes sights and sounds

d. A story that explains how an issue or event in the news happened

2. Who is Tom Wolfe?

a. A feature writer turned novelist who helped create the New Journalism

b. The editor who said that when a dog bites a man, that's news

c. The editor who created the Maestro concept

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter

3. 1. What is a bio box?

a. A short-form alternative that highlights the who, what, where, when and why, the key facts, into a concise package.

b. A short-form graphic that distills a person's biographical data into a box, usually to supplement a profile story

c. A short-form alternative that provides an inventory of activities.

d. A short-form alternative that tells readers what's the biggest, richest, fastest or best

4. 1. Feature stories differ from news stories in that they:

a. Represent the factual reporting of serious events

b. Involve the reporting of non-essential, entertainment fluff

c. Focus on timely, public events

d. Focus on personal events, such as advice, relationships and ideas

5. What popular type of feature story keeps readers aware of the people, places, and things affecting today's culture?

a. Trend

b. Reaction

c. Flashback

d. How-to

6. Bouncing story ideas around with your colleagues, usually in a meeting, to generate story ideas is known as:

a. Creating an idea map

b. Brainstorming

c. Creating a "tickler" file

d. Kicking it around

7. What is an "interior monologue"?

a. Realistic dialogue

b. A vivid reconstruction of scenes

c. The thoughts of people in a story, written after extensive interviews

d. Scenes viewed through the eyes and minds of the characters in a story

8. . What is a "slice of life" column?

a. An opinion piece that reacts with insight, outrage or humor to political events or social controversies

b. An opinion piece in which the writer mines his or her personal life for universal truths

c. An opinion piece in which the writer roams the streets and eavesdrops on ordinary folks

d. An opinion piece that focuses on advice, answering readers' questions about relationships

9. What is a "tickler"?

a. A story idea file containing your publication's archives

b. A story idea file consisting of ideas from your publication's competitors

c. A story idea file of press releases

d. A file that contains story ideas for weeks, months and years in the future

10. What short-form graphic helps readers interact by providing an inventory of activities that they can mark as they complete the tasks?

a. Checklist

b. Factual index

c. Diagram

d. List

11. Which is an example of soft news?

a. Crime story

b. Disaster story

c. Government story

d. Personality profile

12. Which term refers to stories that expose the misconduct of government and business?

a. Enterprise projects

b. Investigative reporting

c. Analysis pieces

Personal narrative

13. According to professional journalists, which of the following is a journalist and not a commentator?

a. Rush Limbaugh

b. Jon Stewart

c. Bill O'Reilly

d. Bob Woodward

14. What are callouts?

a. Short explanations of information at the end of pointers; used to highlight a document

b. Editorials

c. Topical commentaries that harshly criticize or "call out" a decision maker

d. Reviews of music, including concerts and new releases

15. What short-form graphic treatment shows readers parts of a document?

a. Timeline

b. Fast-facts box

c. List

d. Diagram

16. What term do journalists use to describe a problem to be overcome or a mystery to be solved in stories?

a. Focus

b. Movement

c. Tension

d. Fresh

17. What short-form graphic treatment allows readers to answer questions and participate in stories?

a. Step-by-step guide

b. Quiz

c. Factual index

d. Quote collection

18. Who was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize?

a. Gene Siskel

b. Richard Roeper

c. Roger Ebert

d. Gene Shalit

19. Which term refers to a visual journalist who orchestrates the interplay of the key staff members involved in planning a story package?

a. Package planner

b. Maestro

c. Photo editor

d. Graphic designer

20. What short-form graphic treatment simplifies a complex process by breaking it down into a logical series?

a. Timeline

b. Fast-facts box

c. List

d. Step-by-step guide

21. What feature story combines quotes, facts and descriptions to reveal a subject?

a. Personality profile

b. Human-interest story

c. Color story

d. Reaction piece

22. Artwork combined with commentary that makes a statement about events in graphic form is known as:

a. An idea map

b. A factual index

c. An editorial cartoon

d. A column logo

23. Reviews that reveal surprise plot twists or story endings are called:

a. Twisters

b. Revealers

c. Plotters

d. Spoilers

24. Which is not one of the common feature categories?

a. Health

b. Science and technology

c. Entertainment

d. Agriculture

25. What are two ways to organize great feature ideas?

a. Detail and description

b. Voice and tense

c. Topic and treatment

d. Syntax and phrasing

Explanation / Answer

1. D is Correct, Backgrounder is a way to portray a story about an issue or event, how it happened in a detailed manner.

2. A is Correct, Tom Wolfie is a writer turned Novelist who wrote best selling books like The Elctric Kool- Aid Acid Test. He is also known for his New Journalism Literarymovement.

3. B is Correct, Bio Box contains graphics that helps in portraying one's biographical data into a box

4. D is Correct, Feature stories talk about human beings, it conveyas ideas and importance of relationship in humans.

5. A is Correct, Current Trend, Rest three are aftermaths events

6. B is Correct, Brainstorming is the process in which group members are given different ideas and the reactions are recorded for analysis.

7. D is Correct, is a narrative expression of character's thoughts, feel.ng and expressions

8. B is Correct, Slice of life portrays oridnary details of real life in which author shares thought from his own life.

9. D is Correct, it contains ideas from the past and what to be done in future.

10. A is Correct, Checklist had these features.

11. C is Correct, Includes news about government, political foreign affairs, education etc.

12. B is Correct, it is tool that expose misconduct of an event

13. D is Correct, He is Investigative Jounalist and not a commentator rest all are commentator.

14. A is Correct, Call Outs are pop up images which contains text.

15. D is Correct, Diagram with pointers showing significant parts.

16. A is Correct, To highlight a problem or to solve a mystery focus is needed it acts as light for the public.

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