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Harrower:The Newspaper Designer's Handbook
The Newspaper Designer's Handbook, 5/e
Tim Harrower

Fundamentals

Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

How many picas are there to an inch?
A)Fifteen.
B)Three.
C)Six.
2

Which of the following is used to measure the length of a story?
A)Picas.
B)Points.
C)Inches.
3

A proportion wheel would be most useful in which of the following tasks:
A)Enlarging a photograph.
B)Computing line lengths.
C)Calculating text width.
4

Newsrooms using digital cameras can entirely dispense with darkrooms.
A)False.
B)True.
5

Floppy disks are better than CDs for storing big photo, video, or music files.
A)False.
B)True.
6

Which best describes the photographs you see in your daily paper?
A)Line art images.
B)Grayscale images.
C)Low-resolution images.
7

A grayscale image uses
A)Up to 1500 different shades of gray.
B)Up to 18 different shades of gray.
C)Up to 256 different shades of gray.
8

Which format for saving and printing scans is more commonly used?
A)TIFF (Tagged Image File Format).
B)EPS (Encapsulated PostScript).
9

Fair resolution images are best used in
A)Magazines or books.
B)Web images.
C)Newspapers.
10

A page-layout program will show you the actual scan of an image on your screen.
A)False.
B)True.
11

Process colors can print as either solid tones or screens.
A)False.
B)True.
12

The four process colors used in a printing press are
A)Aquamarine, crimson, yellow, and black.
B)Cyan, magenta, mustard, and burnt umber.
C)Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
13

Sans serif type has tiny strokes, or serifs, at the tip of each letter.
A)False
B)True
14

A fifteen-point typeface is never exactly 15 points tall.
A)False.
B)True.
15

Which of the following is the vertical space between lines of type?
A)Leading.
B)Tracking.
C)Kerning.
16

The four basic elements of newspaper design are
A)Headlines, text, photos, cutlines.
B)Text, image, frame, cutlines.
C)Header, flag, photos, and color.
17

Headlines serve to prioritize stories.
A)False.
B)True.
18

Which is not true of contemporary newspaper headlines?
A)They are usually wide rather than narrow.
B)They are centered horizontally.
C)They use decks optionally.
19

Small headlines range from 24-48 point.
A)False.
B)True.
20

If a headline is three columns wide, it should be 1-2 lines deep.
A)False.
B)True.
21

Brainstorming page design on a computer is just as effective as drawing a dummy.
A)False.
B)True.