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Q U ESTIO N 1
1. The 1940s and 1950s are considered the Golden Age of television. During this time,
which genre was popular with early adopters of television but no longer as popular as ratings
expanded?
a highbrow drama anthologies
.
b
comedic variety shows
.
c
m
usic and theater productions that were aired with no commercial
. interruptions
d
c
rime programs that actively involved the viewer in the action of
.
the story
Q U ESTIO N 2
1. Government regulation has not played a significant role in the evolution of television.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 3
1. The FCC's temporary freeze on new television stations instituted between 1948 and 1952
contributed to NBC, ABC, and CBS becoming the Big Three dominant broadcast networks.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 4
1. What is the current status of the Fairness Doctrine, which at one time required television
to cover controversial issues or give advocates of opposing views the right to reply?
a The television industry has voluntarily adopted it.
.
b The Federal Communications Commission abolished it in 1996.
.
c The U.S. Supreme Court struck it down in 2000.
.
d Congress reinstated it in 2003.
.
Q U ESTIO N 5
1. Must carry is the policy that requires cable companies to carry local broadcast signals.
True
False
3 points
3 points
3 points
3 points
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Q U ESTIO N 6
1. Which of the following was the first pay TV network?
a
Home Box Office
.
(HBO)
b
Dish Network
.
c
Showtime Networks
.
d Direct TV
.
Q U ESTIO N 7
1. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
(CPB) to finance programming from federal tax funds.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 8
1. In the 1970s, Time Warner experimented and succeeded in developing the first interactive
cable system called Qube.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 9
1. The Nielsen Company determines television ratings using randomly selected households
so every home has an equal chance of being included.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 10
1. PBS now follows a centralized programming decision-making model, similar to
commercial networks.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N
11
3 points
3 points
3 points
3 points
3 points
3 points
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1. are the jumbles of letters and punctuation marks that indicate the network
addresses of content stored on Web servers.
a Portals
.
b HTML
.
c Uniform resource locators (URLs)
.
d Phishing
.
Q U ESTIO N 12
1. Web 2.0 is used when a message is written in a secret code.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 13
1. Originally called ARPANET, and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Internet
was developed to continue weapons research at laboratories including in the event of a nuclear
war.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 14
1.
What law requires libraries and schools to filter out inappropriate
content on their computers?
a
the Communications Decency
. Act
b
the CANSPAM law
.
c
the Child Online Privacy
. Protection Act
d
the Children’s Internet
. Protection Act
Q U ESTIO N 15
1. is used when a message is written in a secret code to protect its content.
a Protocol
.
b Symbolism
.
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3 points
3 points
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c Encryption
.
d Technology
.
3 points
Q U ESTIO N 16
1.
Web pages that users launch when they first log on to the Web are called:
a portals
.
b URLs
.
c protocols
.
d I P addresses
.
3 points
Q U ESTIO N 17
1. Facing threats by sites such as Google that can offer easily accessible news stories about
current events, most legacy media such as newspapers are now trying to .
a
advocate for government subsidies to support legacy media
.
b
team up with international newspapers to build a larger
.
consumer base
c
advocate for tighter restrictions on online content
.
d
move into online-only publications
.
Q U ESTIO N 18
1. Transmission-control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) is used to format pages on
the Web.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 19
1. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was formed as a
nonprofit private corporation to oversee the assignment of Internet addresses (called domain
names) and to develop new ones.
True
False
Q U ESTIO N 20
3 points
3 points
3 points
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1. Wide area networks (WANs) connect computers that are miles apart.
True
False
