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Yellow Journalism

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the 1st newspaper which Hearst owned and operated?

a)

New York World

b)

San Francisco Examiner

c)

New York Morning Journal

d)

New York Times

2.

This person, along with Hearst, created the New York Newspaper Wars of the 1890s.

a)

Joseph Pulitzer

b)

Nellie Bly

c)

Charles Foster Kane

d)

William Henderson

3.

Where was Joseph Pulitzer born?

a)

Hungary

b)

St. Louis

c)

New York

d)

New Bedford

4.

What event in U.S. history is synonymous with William Randolph Hearst and Yellow Journalism?

a)

The Spanish-American War

b)

The War on Terror

c)

The New York Mafia Wars

d)

World War I

5.

Who is responsible for spawning the field of investigative journalism?

a)

Outcault

b)

Bly

c)

Hearst

d)

Pulitzer

6.

Which of the following jobs did Pulitzer hold before working in journalism?

a)

operator

b)

mercenary

c)

salesman

d)

porter

7.

What is the name of the cartoonist which Hearst and Pulitzer fought over?

a)

Bly

b)

Outcault

c)

Twain

d)

London

8.

Choose all of the following qualities that constitute yellow journalism.

a)

color supplementation

b)

scare headlines

c)

sensationalized stories

d)

deceiving information

9.

What is the name of the film loosely based on Hearst's life?

a)

Citizen Kane

b)

The Grapes of Wrath

c)

Fight Club

d)

Gone with the Wind

10.

What was the name of Pulitzer's newspaper which he ran in New York?

a)

New York Daily

b)

New York Times

c)

New York World

d)

New York Day

11.

Before being expelled, where did William Randolph Hearst attend college?

a)

Harvard

b)

Stanford

c)

Yale

d)

Brown

12.

In what industry did the Hearst family gain their wealth from?

a)

gold mining

b)

journalism

c)

gambling

d)

newspapers

13.

What public office did Hearst serve later in his life?

a)

U.S. Senator

b)

Vice President

c)

House of Commons

d)

director of sales

14.

What is the name of the newspaper that Pulitzer created in St. Louis?

a)

The Post-Dispatch

b)

The Post

c)

The Dispatch

d)

The News

15.

How much money did Pulitzer earn from selling his handkerchief when he arrived in St. Louis?

a)

75 cents

b)

a dollar

c)

0

d)

$200

16.

What pen name did Bly use in her response to "What Women are Good For"?

a)

The Mad Woman

b)

Lonley Orphan Girl

c)

Little Orphan Allie

d)

The Yellow Kid

17.

Which newspaper did Bly first appear in?

a)

The New York Times

b)

The Morning Herald

c)

The Westliche Post

d)

The Pittsburgh Gazette

18.

Where did Pulitzer move to after leaving Boston?

a)

St. Louis

b)

Boston

c)

New Jersey

d)

Budapest

19.

What career did Bly first enter into before becoming a journalist?

a)

manufacturing

b)

engineer

c)

medicine

d)

education

20.

What novel inspired Bly's attempt at the world record?

a)

The Awakening

b)

Around the World in 80 Days

c)

Black Beauty

d)

The Turn of the Screw