cbsenet.nic.in NET Mass Communication & Journalism Model Question : Central Board Of Secondary Education
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Exam : National Eligibility Test (NET)
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Subject : Mass Communication And Journalism
Date/Year : 10.07.2016 & 28.08.2016
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Time : 2 1/2 hours
Maximum Marks : 150
Paper – III :
Note :
** This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.
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1. Name the English daily which was derisively called as “The old lady of Boribunder”.
(1) Free Press Journal
(2) Indian Express
(3) The Times of India
(4) The Statesman
2. The crusading journalists of the United States in the early twentieth century were identified as
(1) new journalists
(2) muckrakers
(3) gatekeepers
(4) stingers
3. Immersive journalism is based on
(1) first person narration
(2) second person narration
(3) third person narration
(4) impersonal narration
4. Identify the writer who belonged to new journalism in 1960s and 1970s.
(1) Tom Wolfe
(2) Gerard Goggin
(3) Upton Sinclair
(4) J. Tuchman
5. Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton proposed ______ function of the mass media.
(1) Agenda setting
(2) National integration
(3) Status conferral
(4) Surveillance
6. The two-step flow theory emerged from the field of
(1) Linguistics
(2) Economics
(3) Politics
(4) Legal Studies
7. The psychoanalytic theories of media were advocated by
(1) Claude Levi-Strauss
(2) Jacques Lacan
(3) Ernesto Laclau
(4) Louis Althusser
8. The communication component of the dependency paradigm is most often referred to as
(1) modernization
(2) cultivation
(3) development
(4) cultural imperialism
9. In a priori approach, a person assumes that something is true as it is
(1) intuitive
(2) creative
(3) self-evident
(4) effective
10. The power of media is described as
(1) harsh
(2) hard
(3) oppositional
(4) soft
11. The most familiar of the ‘passive transmitter’ is the one which uses the metaphor of
(1) relativity
(2) normative prescription
(3) mirror
(4) institutional autonomy
12. For Marxists, mass media operate in
(1) professional arena
(2) religious arena
(3) ideological arena
(4) arena of plural values
13. The liberal model of media and politics, according to Hallin and Mancini, is located in
(1) Sri Lanka
(2) Mauritius
(3) Canada
(4) Brazil
14. Semiotic analysis regards media texts as a collection of
(1) alphabets
(2) words
(3) questions
(4) paradigms
15. The traditional scientific research is
(1) inductive
(2) deductive
(3) non-hypothetical
(4) non-theoretical
16. Yate’s correction is used in
(1) factor analysis
(2) discriminant analysis
(3) chi-square test
(4) ANOVA
17. The value necessary to reject a null hypothesis is identified as
(1) rejection value
(2) cut-off value
(3) critical value
(4) matrix value
18. Research questions and hypotheses are investigated with the help of statistical procedures called
(1) internal tests
(2) external speculations
(3) arbitration
(4) algorithm
19. The probability of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is true, means
(1) Type I error
(2) Type II error
(3) Type III error
(4) Type IV error
20. Discourse analysis is the analysis of a text through the identification of
(1) repetitiveness
(2) opinions
(3) language
(4) objects
21. For summarisation, the positivist researchers prefer
(1) specific individuals
(2) general categories
(3) unique explanations
(4) special categories
22. Social control in media organizations are normally exercised through
(1) legal procedures
(2) formal channels
(3) informal channels
(4) religious codes
23. Which country included free expression as part of the Human Rights Act ?
(1) USA
(2) Sweden
(3) Denmark
(4) The UK
24. The problem of hyphenated identities is related to _____ in international communication.
(1) Copyright issues
(2) Trade and Commerce
(3) Alienated Economy
(4) Contra-flows of information
25. If some media houses have controlling shares in non-media companies, it is known as _____.
(1) Horizontal ownership
(2) Cross-media ownership
(3) Vertical ownership
(4) Conglomerate media ownership
26. Free market processes, it is argued, have given rise to _____ ownership of newspapers.
(1) trust
(2) plutocratic
(3) co-operative
(4) idealistic
27. Official sources are used in media because of their ____ on the subject.
(1) expertise
(2) fairness
(3) emotional attachment
(4) bias
28. The importance of an event in relation to other potential news stories is labelled as
(1) Message clarity
(2) Message parity
(3) Message intensity
(4) Message relativity
29. Gatekeeping in newspapers is usually associated with
(1) views
(2) news
(3) features
(4) advertisements
30. The news ingredients of balance and fairness are used to understand the concept of ____ reporting.
(1) investigative
(2) interpretative
(3) impersonal
(4) embedded
31. Who among the following rulers were concerned about water resource management in Saurashtra ?
(a) Chandragupta Maurya (b) Chandragupta Vikramaditya
(c) Kumaragupta I (d) Skandagupta
Codes :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
32. The examples of early Chalukyan temple-architecture have been found at the following :
(a) Aihole
(b) Mamallapuram
(c) Kanheri
(d) Pattadakal
Code :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
33. Which of the following Harappan sites have revealed late Harappan remains ?
(a) Amri
(b) Kalibanga
(c) Siswal
(d) Banawali
Code :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (a) and (d)
34. Which Indo-Greek kings have used the Brahmi script for their coin-legends ?
(a) Antialcides
(b) Demitrius
(c) Menander
(d) Pantaleon
Codes :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a) and (d)
(4) (c) and (d)
35. Which among the following Ajanta caves are Chaitya-grihas?
(a) Cave No. 8
(b) Cave No. 9
(c) Cave No. 10
(d) Cave No. 12
Code :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (b) and (c)
(3) (a), (b) and (c)
(4) (b), (c) and (d)