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CSS Journalism and Mass Communication MCQs with answers

Practise CSS Journalism and Mass Communication (Optional) with 234 exam-style MCQs, each with the answer and a short explanation. Every test is marked the moment you finish and shows your score chapter by chapter, so you know what to revise next. It is free and needs no sign-up.

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CSS Journalism and Mass Communication MCQs with answers

Practise CSS Journalism and Mass Communication (Optional) with 234 exam-style MCQs, each with the answer and a short explanation. Every test is marked the moment you finish and shows your score chapter by chapter, so you know what to revise next. It is free and needs no sign-up.

234 questions · 4 chapters

What each chapter covers 4 chapters

The questions follow the syllabus chapter by chapter. You can test the whole subject or one chapter at a time.

  1. Communication theory 51 questionsCommunication process and models, Mass communication theories and effects, Normative theories of the press
  2. History and media in Pakistan 54 questionsHistory of the press and broadcasting, Role of the press in the freedom movement, Media laws and ethics in Pakistan
  3. Journalism skills 73 questionsNews: values, sources and structure, Reporting, interviewing and writing, Editing, headlines, layout and photojournalism, Broadcast journalism
  4. Media and society 56 questionsPublic relations and advertising, Media and society, International communication and new media
Sample CSS Journalism and Mass Communication MCQs with answers 12 questions

12 questions from the test, one or two from each chapter. Try each one, then open the answer.

1. George Gerbner's cultivation research grew out of a long-running programme of television content analysis known as the

  1. A
    Cultural Indicators Project
  2. B
    Chapel Hill study
  3. C
    Payne Fund Studies
  4. D
    Hutchins Commission
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Answer: A. Gerbner began the Cultural Indicators Project in the 1960s to track what television showed over time. The Payne Fund Studies of the 1930s were about films and children.

2. Pakistan Television began its first transmission in which city?

  1. A
    Karachi
  2. B
    Peshawar
  3. C
    Rawalpindi
  4. D
    Lahore
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Answer: D. PTV began experimental transmission from Lahore in 1964, and stations in other cities followed.

3. A feature story often opens with

  1. A
    a descriptive lead
  2. B
    a summary of the five Ws
  3. C
    a list of sources
  4. D
    an apology
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Answer: A. Features commonly begin with a scene, anecdote or description that draws the reader in, unlike news stories, which begin with a summary lead.

4. Which of Grunig and Hunt's models is a one-way flow of accurate information, as in a government press office?

  1. A
    Public information
  2. B
    Press agentry
  3. C
    Two-way symmetric
  4. D
    Two-way asymmetric
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Answer: A. In the public information model the PR person acts as a journalist-in-residence, spreading accurate information in one direction. Press agentry seeks attention and publicity, and truth is not its main concern.

5. According to Noelle-Neumann, the main reason people stay silent about a minority opinion is

  1. A
    fear of social isolation
  2. B
    lack of information
  3. C
    respect for the media
  4. D
    shortage of time
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Answer: A. The spiral of silence rests on the human fear of being isolated from the group. The media's reports of what seems to be the majority view feed that fear.

6. Which Urdu weekly, published from Calcutta from 1912 and edited by Abul Kalam Azad, called on Muslims to take part in the freedom struggle?

  1. A
    Zamindar
  2. B
    Comrade
  3. C
    Dawn
  4. D
    Al-Hilal
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Answer: D. Al-Hilal made Azad famous and urged Muslims to join the national struggle. Comrade was an English weekly and Dawn was founded in 1941.

7. A report the next day on the number of injured in yesterday's train crash and on the inquiry ordered is a

  1. A
    follow-up story
  2. B
    feature
  3. C
    editorial
  4. D
    obituary
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Answer: A. A follow-up carries later developments of a story already published.

8. An organisation uses opinion surveys to find out how best to persuade the public to accept its policy, but does not expect to change the policy itself. This is the model of

  1. A
    two-way symmetric
  2. B
    public information
  3. C
    two-way asymmetric
  4. D
    press agentry
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Answer: C. Research is used to persuade, while the organisation stays unchanged. That is the mark of the asymmetric model.

9. A reader writes to the editor in reply to a news report. In the communication process this reply is

  1. A
    noise
  2. B
    feedback
  3. C
    encoding
  4. D
    the channel
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Answer: B. Feedback is the receiver's response, which returns to the sender and shows how the message was understood.

10. At the First Round Table Conference in London, Muhammad Ali Jauhar declared that he would not go back to India unless it was

  1. A
    a dominion
  2. B
    a federation
  3. C
    a republic
  4. D
    free
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Answer: D. He said that he would rather die abroad than return to a country that was not free. He died in London in January 1931.

11. The first paragraph of a news story, summarising its most important facts, is called the

  1. A
    byline
  2. B
    dateline
  3. C
    lead
  4. D
    slug
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Answer: C. The lead (intro) gives the essence of the story. A byline names the writer and a dateline gives place and date.

12. False information spread deliberately to deceive is called

  1. A
    misinformation
  2. B
    disinformation
  3. C
    verification
  4. D
    accreditation
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Answer: B. Disinformation is deliberate. Misinformation is false information shared without the intention to deceive.

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