CSS Journalism and Mass Communication chapter 2: History and media in Pakistan MCQs with answers

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54 exam-style questions on History and media in Pakistan, each with the answer and a short explanation. Ten of them are below to try. The chapter test draws ten fresh questions each time and is marked the moment you finish, with your score by topic.

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Ten History and media in Pakistan questions with answers

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. The Daily Courant, which appeared in London in 1702, was the first

  1. A
    English-language news agency
  2. B
    English-language illustrated weekly
  3. C
    English-language daily newspaper
  4. D
    English-language trade journal
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Answer: C. It is generally accepted as the first daily newspaper published in English.

5. In the 1940s, which newspaper became the principal English-language voice of the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan?

  1. A
    The Statesman
  2. B
    The Hindu
  3. C
    Dawn
  4. D
    Amrita Bazar Patrika
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Answer: C. Jinnah founded Dawn in Delhi in 1941 to put the League's case. The other three were not League papers: The Statesman was British-owned and the other two were closer to Indian nationalist opinion.

6. The Lahore daily Inqilab was begun in 1927 by Ghulam Rasul Mehr and

  1. A
    Hamid Nizami
  2. B
    Abdul Majid Salik
  3. C
    Mir Khalilur Rahman
  4. D
    Maulana Zafar Ali Khan
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Answer: B. Mehr and Salik were the two writers who started Inqilab. Nizami, Rahman and Zafar Ali Khan are linked with Nawa-i-Waqt, Jang and Zamindar.

7. After Independence the English daily Dawn moved its publication from Delhi to

  1. A
    Karachi
  2. B
    Lahore
  3. C
    Dhaka
  4. D
    Rawalpindi
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Answer: A. Dawn, founded in Delhi in 1941, was published from Karachi after 1947.

8. The English daily Pakistan Times and the Urdu daily Imroze, with Faiz Ahmad Faiz among their editors, belonged to which publishing house, taken over by the government in 1959?

  1. A
    The Jang Group
  2. B
    Progressive Papers Limited
  3. C
    The Nawa-i-Waqt Group
  4. D
    Pakistan Herald Publications
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Answer: B. Mian Iftikharuddin's Progressive Papers Limited published them until the government took the company over in 1959. Pakistan Herald Publications published Dawn.

9. Which of the following is regarded as a forerunner of the newspaper, a daily record of public events displayed in public places in ancient Rome?

  1. A
    Domesday Book
  2. B
    Areopagitica
  3. C
    Acta Diurna
  4. D
    Magna Carta
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Answer: C. The Acta Diurna ('daily acts') recorded events and decisions and were posted for public reading. The other three are a survey, a pamphlet on press freedom and a charter.

10. Why did the colonial authorities act against James Augustus Hicky and his Gazette?

  1. A
    It was written only in Persian
  2. B
    It carried advertisements for rival traders
  3. C
    It called for a Mughal restoration
  4. D
    It attacked senior Company officials in print
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Answer: D. Hicky printed sharp attacks and scandal about senior Company officials, including the Governor-General, and was prosecuted and eventually lost his press.

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54, each with the answer and a short explanation, across 3 topics: History of the press and broadcasting, Role of the press in the freedom movement, Media laws and ethics in Pakistan. Every chapter test draws ten of them, so you can take it many times.

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