Daily Mass Communication Quiz (DMCQ) boost your concepts through day wise solved quiz from the entire course of Journalism and Mass communication (JMC) with detail explanations.
Journalism and Mass Communication Objective Questions (DMCQ)
Q 1. Who founded the newspaper ‘National Herald’?
(A) Madan Mohan Malviya
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Annie Besant
(D) Tilak
Correct Answer: (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
Explanation: The National Herald is an Indian newspaper published by The Associated Journals Ltd and owned by Young India Limited a company by Indian National Congress. It was founded by India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1938 as a tool to win independence.
Q 2. ‘Yugantar’ was started by ………….
(A) Madan Mohan Malviya
(B) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Patel
Correct Answer: (B) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
Explanation: Jugantar Patrika was a Bengali revolutionary newspaper founded in 1906 in Calcutta by Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Abhinash Bhattacharya and Bhupendranath Dutt.
Q 3. ………………….started publication of the journal ‘Ghadar’.
(A) Madan Mohan Malviya
(B) Lala Hardayal
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Annie Besant
Correct Answer: (B) Lala Hardayal
Explanation: In 1913, Pacific Coast Hindustan Association was founded by Lala Hardayal with Sohan Singh Bhakna as its president, which was called Ghadar Party. The members of this party were the immigrant sikhs of US and Canada. The first issue of The Ghadar, was published from San Francisco on November 1, 1913.
Q 4. To choose the news items for the newspaper and to correct the language, spelling and remove all the unimportant sentences are the functions of
(A) Reporter
(B) Editor
(C) Writer
(D) None of the above
Correct Answer: (B) Editor
Explanation: Editors are responsible for monitoring and ensuring the fairness, timeliness, thoroughness, and civility of the peer-review editorial process. Peer review by external referees with the proper expertise is the most common method to ensure manuscript quality.
Q 5. Headlines are generally given by
(A) Photographers
(B) reporters
(C) Editors
(D) page designers
Correct Answer: (C) Editors
Explanation: A headline’s purpose is to quickly and briefly draw attention to the story. It is generally written by a copy editor, but may also be written by the writer, the page layout designer, or other editors.
Q 6. Find the odd one out of the following:
(A) Cable TV
(B) Television
(C) Radio
(D) Newspaper
Correct Answer: (D) Newspaper
Explanation: Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.
Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves.
Q 7. Find the odd one out of the following:
(A) Audio communication
(B) Aural communication
(C) Verbal communication
(D) Visual communication
Correct Answer: (D) Visual communication
Explanation: Aural communication can be defined as a method of transmitting information through the auditory sensory system i.e. speaking and hearing. It can used to transmit information either individually or along with visual communication.
Audio communication is any form of transmission that is based on hearing. Audio communicative forms are found in such platforms as audio books, television, movie soundtracks and music records.
The Verbal Communication is a type of oral communication wherein the message is transmitted through the spoken words.
By definition, visual communication is the practice of graphically representing information to efficiently, effectively create meaning.
Q 8. To keep only the essential parts in the picture is called
(A) Cropping
(B) editing
(C) Edging
(D) None of the above
Correct Answer: (A) Cropping
Explanation: In photography industries, cropping means to remove unwanted areas from an image. This process is one of the most basic photo manipulation processes.
Q 9. Which composing method is also called as cold type setting?
(A) Machine setting
(B) Phototype setting
(C) Hand setting
(D) None of the above
Correct Answer: (B) Phototype setting
Explanation: Phototypesetting is a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper.
Q 10. Which media would be ideal to attract the attention of children to sell chocolates to them?
(A) TV (advertisements)
(B) Leaflets
(C) Radio
(D) Newspapers
Correct Answer: (A) TV (advertisements)
Explanation: Advertisers always aim to make their products look good. TV ad attracts our attention through well designed graphics which always included a picture of the product, sometimes side on and sometimes front on as well as the headlines and the logo of the product or company also attracts the customers.
