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Long Quiz #2 in Language of the Internet

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The main misconception about blogs is that they are only

(a)   diaries Weblogs.

2.

(a)   was the first online social

networking site in 2002.

3.

A (a)   is someone who writes a blog.

4.

(a)   is a word used to describe the online

community of bloggers and their writings

5.

(a)   is the distribution of multimedia files, such as

audio and video, over the Internet for playback on mobile

devices and/or personal computers

6.

Nowadays, the way web users are getting information has

drastically changed.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The relationship between blogging and journalism can be

characterized as symbiotic rather than competitive.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Web 1.0 is a catch all term used to describe a variety of

developments on the Web and a perceived shift in the way

it is used.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Social networking websites may also serve as

a vehicle for meeting in person.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Podcast is a social space for sharing video content

as well as for discussing the content posted there.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Blogging and microblogging websites have a

huge difference in a number of words or characters

allowed to publish the message.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

The most

popular microblogging service today is called (a)   .

13.

(a)   is most notable in online communication, specifically in

instant messaging conversations and on social media sites like

Twitter and Facebook.

14.

People have a tendency to lose their rationality and

become unfriendly when they use digital communication.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

The internet has become one of the influences of the English

language in recent times.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

It is essentially a database for creating, browsing, and

searching through information.

a)

ePortfolio

b)

YouTube

c)

Wiki

d)

Podcast

17.

Digital media has become so crucial to our communication that it

has created an old type of language.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

One of the most notable ways that social media has influenced the

English language, is through the appropriation of existing (a)   .

19.

(a)   is a rich playground for experimenting,

creating new words and repurposing old ones.

20.

Web 1.0 websites allow users to do more than just

retrieve information.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

ePortfolios are digital versions of (a)   portfolios.

22.

Microblogging encompasses technologies

which enable users to write (a)   messages.

23.

Digital communication encourages people, especially

younger people, to use hasty or abbreviated language

patterns, which prevents them from being able to use

or develop important language skills.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Language is, and always has been ever evolving.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Formal language usage

throughout social communities are creating a generational

language gap.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Social networking Websites provide a (a)  

for people interested in a particular subject or just to

"hang out" together.

27.

Most podcasts are shared using the RSS

format - Real Simple (a)   .

28.

Some bloggers have

readership numbers approaching that of big media and

are able to earn income from their popularity.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

A (a)   is a list of blogs and bloggers that any particular

blog author finds influential or interesting.

30.

A Podcast is basically just an (a)   (or video) file