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WorksheetsChapter 1 Quiz: The History of American Journalism
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
What scandal did Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward expose?
Teapot Dome
Watergate
Abscam
Irangate
What was Samuel Clemens’ pen name?
Ernest Hemingway
H.L. Mencken
Jon Franklin
Mark Twain
At what newspaper did the great novelist Ernest Hemingway develop his straightforward prose style?
The Kansas City Star
The Washington Post
The Miami Herald
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
What was the name of the movie that starred Robert Redford as Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein?
“Citizen Kane”
“Absence of Malice”
“Broadcast News”
“All the President’s Men”
America’s first newspaper was called:
Publick Occurrences both Foreign and Domestick
The Pennsylvania Gazette
The Pennsylvania Evening Post
The New York Sun
What is the name of the editor who was acquitted of libel after he argued in his defense that citizens have a right to criticize the government and that libel occurs only when printed words are “false, malicious and seditious.”
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Jeffereson
John Peter Zenger
A.J. Liebling
The first newspaper cartoon, published originally by Benjamin Franklin, became part of the nameplate of what influential newspaper?
Common Sense
Pennsylvania Gazette
Boston News-Letter
Massachusetts Spy
What was the name of the first successful penny paper published in the United States?
The New York Sun
The New York Journal
The Missouri Gazette
The New York Advertiser
Who published The North Star to fight slavery and bring news to Black Americans?
Horace Greeley
Henry Raymond
Benjamin Day
Frederick Douglass
What new technological device in the 1840s made possible long-distance reporting?
The telegraph
The “cylinder” press
Steam-powered presses
The typewriter
By the mid-1800s, why was James Gordon Bennett's the "New York Herald" the world’s biggest newspaper?
Bennett's paper was the number one source for political news and that is all it covered.
The paper included more innovative ideas, such as stories that featured interviews, society columns, finances, and sports.
The Herald offered less engaging stories, but included more comics that appealed to children.
The Herald was one of the papers that was involved in fabricating stories that led to the Spanish-American War.
When did reporters begin using the writing style known as “the inverted pyramid”?
During the Revolutionary War
During the rise of the Penny Press
During the Civil War
During World War I
The sensational reports in papers owned by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer led to what war?
World War I
The Civil War
World War II
The Spanish-American War
Who funded the first school of journalism, at Columbia University?
Walter Cronkite
Joseph Pulitzer
James Gordon Bennett
William Randolph Hearst
TV came of age with what significant event?
Kennedy Assassination
Watergate
9/11
Space Shuttle Challenger
In 1941, the largest radio audience in history listened to a broadcast depicting what news event?
The assassination of President Kennedy
The Hindenburg explosion
President Roosevelt declaring war on Japan
The first moon walk
Dramatic reporting by whom brought World War II into the living rooms of Americans?
Walter Cronkite
Leon Harris
Peter Jennings
Edward R. Murrow
From what medium do most Americans get their news today?
Newspapers
Radio
Television
Digital Devices
What president resigned following the investigation of the Watergate scandal?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
How did newspapers respond to the advent of television?
Tighter writing
Better formatting
Improved design
All of the answer choices provided are correct.
What was the impact of the 'Penny Press' on journalism?
It made journalism more accessible to the masses
It reduced the quality of journalism
It increased the cost of newspapers
It led to the decline of newspapers
This "yellow journalist" reformed and developed a Journalist Code of Ethics, a Prize for achievement in journalism, writing and music, and started the first journalism school at Columbia. He is also known as the "Father of Modern Journalism." Who is he?
Joseph Pulitzer
Benjamin Franklin
Ernest Hemingway
Samuel Clemens
Which journalist is credited with pioneering investigative journalism in the late 19th century by going undercover in a mental institution?
Nellie Bly
Ida B. Wells
Margaret Fuller
Dorothy Thompson
What invention in the 15th century greatly contributed to the spread of printed news and information?
The radio
The printing press
The typewriter
The telegraph
Which newspaper is known for its slogan, “All the News That’s Fit to Print”?
The New York Times
The Chicago Tribune
The Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal
Why were the penny press newspapers called "penny press"?
You could buy one for five pennies.
The first publisher was named Penny.
They all ran pictures of Abraham Lincoln, who was on the penny.
They cost 1 cent.
Journalists who investigated corruption, social institutions, and politics and promoted social responsibility were called ________________________.
yellow journalists
editors
muckrakers
newsies
The inverted pyramid style of journalism puts the ___________________ facts in the first paragraph.
first
names and dates of
most important
least important
The reporters, editors, photographers, producers and camera crews who sift through the many happenings of a day to tell you what's important or interesting are called ____________________.
journalists
staffers
sources
gaffers
Channels of communication that reach a large audience are called _______________________.
televisions
broadcasts
radios
mass media
