Yellow Journalism

Yellow Journalism

12th Grade

15 Qs

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Yellow Journalism

Yellow Journalism

Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RI.11-12.10, RL.1.10, RI.6.10

+4

Standards-aligned

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

15 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Yellow journalism is considered a nuisance to missing persons cases. True or False?

True

False

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Outrageous headlines take part of magazines, newspapers or any other type of printed materials to attract readers. True or False?

True

False

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The popular cartoon that was published by Pulitzer’s New York World and his popularity accounted in a tremendous increase in sales of the World is known as?

Yellow spy

New World kid

Yellow World

Yellow kid

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Was the Spanish-American war, the first press driven war ?

True

False

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Who won the battle over the Yellow Kid ?

William Randolph Hearst

Bill Gates

No one knows

Charles Darwin

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 10 pts

Yellow journalism today would be called....

factual news

journalism

fake news

opinion journalism

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 10 pts

Publishing information just to get a reaction is called....

plagiarism

journalism

sensationalism

slander

Answer explanation

Sensationalism means publishing information just to get a reaction and to sell yur publication.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

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