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| 1 | Leigh H. Edwards, who believes that family values are shaped by the mass media, points out that the nuclear model of the family that reached its full expression in the context of Victorian-era industrialization and peaked in the postwar 1950s is known to sociologists by the term |
 | A) | modern family. |
| B) | postindustrial family. |
| C) | traditional family. |
| D) | postmodern family. |
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| 2 | Karen Sternheimer, who does not believe family values are shaped by the mass media, cites the sentiments of film critic Michael Medved, who in 1992 wrote that celebrities who have children outside marriage promote |
| A) | an honest reflection of society. |
| B) | illegitimacy chic. |
| C) | dysfunction as the “new function.” |
| D) | part-time parenting. |
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| 3 | Drew Chappell, who believes that media representations of minorities have improved, notes that the most obvious evidence of Dora's multiculturalism is that she: |
| A) | is an illegal immigrant in the United States. |
| B) | eats foods from different ethnic cuisines. |
| C) | speaks both English and Spanish. |
| D) | has homes in both Mexico and the United States. |
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| 4 | Elizabeth Monk-Turner et al., who do not believe that media representations of minorities have improved, examined the content during one week of: |
| A) | day-time programming, especially syndicated drama shows. |
| B) | prime-time programming on the four major networks. |
| C) | cable-network programming at different times of the day. |
| D) | made-for-television movies and miniseries. |
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| 5 | Wajahat Ali and his colleagues, who believe the media distort representations of Islam and Arab cultures, report that David Yerushalmi in Middle East Quarterly misinforms America that more than 80 percent of |
| A) | U.S. mosques advocate or promote violence. |
| B) | U.S. Christians fear Muslims in general. |
| C) | Americans would support a ban on the construction of new mosques in the United States. |
| D) | Muslims in the United States are illegal aliens. |
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| 6 | Gal Beckerman, who does not believe the media distort representations of Islam and Arab cultures, points out that the blogging revolution that first began to spread through America in the late 1990s began with an entry created by a Swarthmore student in January 1994, when what became known as a “blog” was then known as |
| A) | an online diary. |
| B) | a bilateral log. |
| C) | a personal posting. |
| D) | an Internet journal. |
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| 7 | June Deery, who believes that media cause individuals to develop negative body images, points out that people who were previously unmediated become fulfilled not by being mediated but by being mediatized, meaning: |
| A) | featured in widely available media. |
| B) | traumatized by media. |
| C) | addicted to media. |
| D) | conforming to media images. |
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| 8 | Michael P. Levine and Sarah K. Murnen, who do not believe that media cause individuals to develop negative body images, say the idea that “women are ‘naturally’ invested in their beauty assets and thus beauty is a woman’s principal project in life” is one of the themes that make up a female’s: |
| A) | thinness schema. |
| B) | confidence matrix. |
| C) | identification structure. |
| D) | looking-glass image. |
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| 9 | Craig A. Anderson, who believes that video games encourage violent behavior, points out that converging evidence of media violence effects have been provided for several decades through four types of media violence studies, including all of the following, except |
| A) | latitudinal studies. |
| B) | field experiments. |
| C) | laboratory experiments. |
| D) | cross-sectional correlation studies. |
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| 10 | Henry Jenkins, who does not believe that video games encourage violent behavior, tells us that on April 19, 2002, U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr., ruled that video games do not convey ideas and thus |
| A) | are neither harmful nor harmless. |
| B) | enjoy no constitutional protection. |
| C) | are simply entertainment. |
| D) | have no relevance in a courtroom proceeding. |
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| 11 | Kaylene Williams et al., who believe that product placement is an effective form of advertising, note that the ideal product placement occurs when people do not notice the integration of the product, but they: |
| A) | view it repeatedly. |
| B) | subconsciously associate it with the program or star. |
| C) | remember it. |
| D) | buy the product. |
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| 12 | Elizabeth Cowley and Chris Barron, who do not believe that product placement is an effective form of advertising, note that a downside of prominent product placement may be: |
| A) | critical reviews of the movie or show may be poor, leading to fewer viewers. |
| B) | an increase in counter-arguing and irritation by the viewer. |
| C) | the insistence by other advertisers of equally prominent
placement. |
| D) | less time during the program for important plot development. |
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| 13 | Paul Starr, who believes that a partisan press polarizes society, notes that a basic rule of communication is that abundance brings: |
| A) | objectivity. |
| B) | scarcity of attention. |
| C) | fierce competition. |
| D) | choices all along the political spectrum. |
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| 14 | Kevin Arceneaux and Martin Johnson, who do not believe that a partisan press polarizes society, say that a far greater problem in contemporary political communication than ideological polarization or political distrust is: |
| A) | lack of access to top governmental officials, both in the White House and Congress. |
| B) | misinformation spread by news outlets in other countries seeking to undermine U.S. policies. |
| C) | the inequitable distribution of news among the mass public because of a vast expansion of viewer choice. |
| D) | irresponsible reporting by unqualified bloggers on the internet. |
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| 15 | The Economist, which believes that evolving forms of journalism will be an improvement, suggests that the “horizontal media” that makes it quick and easy for anyone to share links to news stories means that people collectively can act as: |
| A) | journalists. |
| B) | a broadcast network. |
| C) | arbiters of truth. |
| D) | the audience. |
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| 16 | James Fallows, who does not believe that evolving forms of journalism will be an improvement, states that the news business has never been: |
| A) | profitable. |
| B) | unbiased. |
| C) | stable. |
| D) | inclusive. |
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| 17 | Thomas R. Eddlem, who holds that Citizens United is breaking up corporate dominance of elections, believes that elections in the United States have been dominated by: |
| A) | SuperPACs. |
| B) | old-money conservatives. |
| C) | media empires. |
| D) | foreign oil elites. |
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| 18 | David Earley and Ian Vandewalker, who do not believe that Citizens United is breaking up corporate dominance of elections, noted that the Citizens United decision endorsed but did not mandate: |
| A) | caps on individual political donations. |
| B) | disclosure requirements. |
| C) | equal time for opposing viewpoints on television. |
| D) | a constitutional amendment confirming the Supreme Court’s decision. |
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| 19 | Jeremy Waldron, who believes that we should ban hate speech on college campuses, states that his "modest intention" with his argument is to: |
| A) | argue for a modification of the First Amendment. |
| B) | promote the passage of hate-speech laws in the United States. |
| C) | encourage readers to understand arguments in favor of hate-speech laws. |
| D) | demonstrate the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in putting the First Amendment in place. |
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| 20 | The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which does not believe that we should ban hate speech from college campuses, notes that it has had 100 percent success in: |
| A) | forcing universities to rehire unfairly dismissed professors who have violated speech codes. |
| B) | court challenges to university red-light speech codes. |
| C) | upholding the right of universities to enact restrictive speech codes. |
| D) | generating extensive press coverage of universities that violate free speech rights. |
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| 21 | Daniel J. Solove, who believes that technology does invade our privacy, discusses the requirement for judicial oversight of warrants for such activities as searches and wiretapping as required by the U.S. Constitution's: |
| A) | First Amendment. |
| B) | Second Amendment. |
| C) | Fourth Amendment. |
| D) | Eighth Amendment. |
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| 22 | Stewart Baker, who does not believe that technology invades our privacy, ascribes the desire for privacy to a reaction against the effects of: |
| A) | terrorism. |
| B) | new technology. |
| C) | economic downturns. |
| D) | the release of embarrassing personal information. |
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| 23 | Brian R. Day, who believes that copyright laws are effective in curbing piracy, relates that the U.S. Copyright Office has stated that the purpose of copyright is to: |
| A) | foster the growth of learning and culture for the public welfare. |
| B) | protect the products of creative artists and the companies that produce them. |
| C) | protect intellectual property produced in the United States against illegal use in other countries. |
| D) | ensure the continuation of the entertainment industry and its contribution to the economy. |
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| 24 | Alex Sayf Cummings, who does not believe that copyright laws are effective in curbing piracy, compares the futility of the war on piracy to the similarly futile war on: |
| A) | Afghanistan. |
| B) | speeding and traffic violations. |
| C) | drugs. |
| D) | domestic violence. |
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| 25 | The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reports that as of 2011, the majority of music-industry revenue comes from: |
| A) | digital radio. |
| B) | digital downloads. |
| C) | physical-format sales. |
| D) | concert tours. |
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| 26 | Panos Panay, who does not believe that consolidation of the music industry hurt music distribution, argues that the music industry is not so much imploding as: |
| A) | consolidating. |
| B) | exploding. |
| C) | retrenching. |
| D) | evolving. |
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| 27 | Clay Shirky, who believes that newspapers should shut down their presses, points to a core, but flawed, assumption throughout the 1990s that the organizational form of the newspaper was basically sound and that all it needed was: |
| A) | an aggressive readership campaign. |
| B) | a digital facelift. |
| C) | new-age journalism. |
| D) | fresh commercial sponsorship. |
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| 28 | Cary Spivak quotes Alan Mutter, who states that the "sweet spot of the newspaper business today" consists of: |
| A) | smaller community papers. |
| B) | weekly specialty papers. |
| C) | large city daily papers. |
| D) | national newsmagazines. |
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| 29 | The proposed merger of Comcast with NBC Universal will first require the approval of the Federal Communications Commission and the: |
| A) | Treasury Department. |
| B) | Commerce Department. |
| C) | Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| D) | Department of Justice. |
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| 30 | Comcast’s early growth was based on: |
| A) | entering markets that had lacked cable-television service. |
| B) | the acquisition of other cable operators. |
| C) | developing new channels for premium service. |
| D) | acquiring network broadcast stations. |
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| 31 | David T. Z. Mindich, who believes that youth are indifferent to news and politics, cites in support of his view that only about nine percent of Americans 18 to 34 years old knew which presidential candidate |
| A) | sponsored campaign-finance reform. |
| B) | had served in the military. |
| C) | picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. |
| D) | supported same-sex marriage. |
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| 32 | The Pew Internet and American Life Project, which does not believe that youth are indifferent to news and politics, states that among those under 30, those most likely to make political use of a social networking cite are |
| A) | blue-collar workers. |
| B) | from two-parent households. |
| C) | students. |
| D) | female. |
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| 33 | Penny A. Leisring, who believes that online services are responsible for an increase in bullying and harassment, claims that cyberstalking is common, especially: |
| A) | in the workplace. |
| B) | through the home computers of high school students. |
| C) | via Facebook.. |
| D) | among college students. |
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| 34 | Amanda Lenhart et al., who do not believe that online services are responsible for an increase in bullying and harassment, report that the majority of teens who use social media, or 69 percent, say that their peers are: |
| A) | neither particularly cruel nor particularly kind to each other. |
| B) | mostly kind to each other. |
| C) | kind to opposite-sex peers but cruel to same-sex peers. |
| D) | mostly cruel to each other. |
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| 35 | Ben Adler, who believes that millennials are more "tech-savvy" than other generations, concludes his examination of millennials and the news with a quote from Danah Boyd, who says that all roles in the news process are being disrupted, including the role of the: |
| A) | reporter. |
| B) | editor. |
| C) | audience. |
| D) | publisher. |
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| 36 | Siva Vaidhyanathan, who does not believe that millennials are more "tech-savvy" than other generations, states at the beginning of his article that there is no such thing as a: |
| A) | technological revolution. |
| B) | digital generation. |
| C) | truly world-wide Web. |
| D) | information age. |