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Question 1 of 104

1

Radio formats usually target special audiences according to

Select one of the following:

  • Age and income

  • Gender

  • Race or ethnicity

  • All of the options are correct

Explanation

Question 2 of 104

1

The aim of networks such as CBS and NBC was to serve the public interest.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 3 of 104

1

The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed after World War I to give the United States an early worldwide monopoly over radio broadcasting.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 4 of 104

1

Network radio helped give America "a national identity."

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 5 of 104

1

Payola is the illegal practice of record promoters paying deejays to play certain songs on the air.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 6 of 104

1

The telegraph was useless as a means of communicating between ships at sea or between ships and the shore because

Select one of the following:

  • Its signal was too weak to travel across bodies of water

  • The telegraph signal was distorted by the electromagnetic spectrum

  • Telegraph equipment was too cumbersome to be used aboard ship

  • The telegraph required a wired cable connecting the sending and receiving stations

Explanation

Question 7 of 104

1

Documentaries generally avoid controversial or unpopular subject matter.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 104

1

Birth of a Nation (1915) remains controversial today because it glorifies the Ku Klux Klan.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 9 of 104

1

Examples of genres include comedy, drama, romance, and action/adventure.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 10 of 104

1

Which of the following did not have an impact on Hollywood in the postwar era (late 1940s, 1950s)?

Select one of the following:

  • The rise of nickelodeons

  • The Paramount decision

  • The mass egress to the suburbs

  • Television

Explanation

Question 11 of 104

1

Through the 1940s, more than 80 percent of all film revenue was generated by

Select one of the following:

  • Small neighborhood theaters

  • Downtown first-run theaters

  • Multiplexes in shopping malls

  • Home video rentals

Explanation

Question 12 of 104

1

Block booking was

Select one of the following:

  • A studio production technique that doubled up on scripts

  • A studio distribution technique that “bundled” films together

  • A studio exhibition technique that used B roll schedules to limit lengths of films

  • A studio business ploy that “doctored” the accounting books

Explanation

Question 13 of 104

1

To gain access to popular movies, early theater owners and exhibitors had to agree to rent untested or marginal films with unknown actors. This distribution technique was called

Select one of the following:

  • International distribution

  • Block booking

  • Option time

  • Zukor’s law

Explanation

Question 14 of 104

1

A study by the Future of Music Coalition showed that

Select one of the following:

  • 10 parent companies dominate radio in the US.

  • oligopolies control almost every geographic market.

  • oligopolies control virtually every music format.

  • all of the above.

Explanation

Question 15 of 104

1

The Fairness Doctrine was a requirement by the FCC that stations be fair to their employees.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 16 of 104

1

The term "Fourth Estate" refers to the media's role to be a watchdog over the three branches of government.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 104

1

The script for Black Hawk Down (2002) was changed because the story's main hero had been found guilty of sexual abuse of a young boy.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 104

1

The Institute for Creative Technologies is a large company that hires entertainment professionals to create tools to train soldiers and provide battle simulation for the military.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 104

1

The Local Community Radio Act of 2010 (signed into law in 2011) was a bipartisan bill to restrict local community access to low power radio.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 104

1

The Local Community Radio Act of 2010 (signed into law in 2011) was a bipartisan bill to restrict local community access to low power radio.

Select one of the following:

  • results in only positive images of the military.

  • results in productions that show no civilian casualties.

  • contributes to the militaristic nature of our society.

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 21 of 104

1

The transistor made radio receivers

Select one of the following:

  • Portable

  • Expensive

  • Larger

  • Stereophonic

Explanation

Question 22 of 104

1

Most of the applicants for low-power FM radio licenses have been national retailers like Wal-Mart.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 23 of 104

1

The 1996 Telecommunications Act set off an unprecedented consolidation in radio station ownership.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 24 of 104

1

The invention of the transistor in the late 1940s made radio more accessible and portable.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 25 of 104

1

Early radio inventors like Marconi focused on ship-to-shore communication.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 26 of 104

1

What time period is considered the “golden age” of radio?

Select one of the following:

  • 1950s

  • Early 1950s

  • 1920s through 1940s

  • 1890s

Explanation

Question 27 of 104

1

__________________ demonstrated the Justice Department’s attempts at breaking up monopolies within the film industry.

Select one of the following:

  • Fin-syn

  • The Paramount decision

  • The Telecommunications Act of 1996

  • HUAC

  • None of the options are correct

Explanation

Question 28 of 104

1

Which of the following is not an element of vertical integration in the movie industry?

Select one of the following:

  • Production

  • Syndication

  • Distribution

  • Exhibition

  • All of the elements are correct

Explanation

Question 29 of 104

1

The first movie theaters were called nickelodeons, a name that indicated the cost of admission.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 104

1

After Edison, Adolph Zukor of Paramount tried to monopolize the film industry by controlling

Select one of the following:

  • Production

  • Distribution

  • Exhibition

  • All of the options are correct

Explanation

Question 31 of 104

1

The Paramount decision ended the dominance of the major studios over the commercial film industry.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 104

1

The film industry makes much more money today from first-run releases in movie theaters than from home DVD/video releases.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 33 of 104

1

Grouping films by genre allows the movie industry to achieve both product standardization and differentiation.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 34 of 104

1

LPFM was opposed by the NAB and media corporations who claimed that the LPFM stations would cause radio signal interference.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 35 of 104

1

An increase in radio format varieties has guaranteed greater programming diversity.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 36 of 104

1

A special bureau at the US State Department handles relations between the military and Hollywood.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 37 of 104

1

Low Power FM stations

Select one of the following:

  • are non-profit

  • are locally owned

  • are at least 500 watts

  • A & B

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 38 of 104

1

Top Gun was a great example of the refusal of filmmakers to make ideological pro-war arguments in order to win military cooperation on the film.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 39 of 104

1

The initial media reports that Jessica Lynch had been shot and stabbed later proved to be fabrications, among others, by the military and media.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 40 of 104

1

The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 resulted from the sinking of the Titanic.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 41 of 104

1

Which event led to the Radio Act of 1912 (which required most large ships to carry wireless technology)?

Select one of the following:

  • Fessenden’s 1906 Christmas Eve transmission

  • The sinking of the Titanic

  • David Sarnoff’s wedding

  • Lee De Forest’s Eiffel Tower broadcast

Explanation

Question 42 of 104

1

Group radio station owners prefer syndicated over locally produced programs.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 43 of 104

1

TV snatched radio’s

Select one of the following:

  • audiences

  • celebrities

  • program genres

  • place in the living room

  • All of the options are correct

Explanation

Question 44 of 104

1

The practice of payola affected 1950s radio, but does not occur today.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 45 of 104

1

Film studios have generally resisted making product placement deals for creative reasons.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 46 of 104

1

International box-office gross revenues are almost double the U.S. and Canadian box-office receipts.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 47 of 104

1

Because of high equipment and operating costs, digital technology is not expected to benefit independent filmmakers for many years.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 48 of 104

1

The existence of the Motion Picture Patents Company led some independent producers to make their pictures in faraway Hollywood.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 49 of 104

1

The Bechdel Test

Select one of the following:

  • was created by Harry Bechdel

  • measures the extent to which economics affect movie images

  • measures the extent to which women appear as significant characters in the movies

  • all of the above

  • A and B

Explanation

Question 50 of 104

1

Radio and music industry oligopolies tend to interact to control access by bands and musicians.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 51 of 104

1

The Fairness Doctrine

Select one of the following:

  • was abolished in 1949

  • required broadcast stations to air controversial issues and provide multiple viewpoints on these issues

  • was abolished in order to improve diversity of viewpoints on controversial issues

  • all of the above

  • A & C also unsure

Explanation

Question 52 of 104

1

The 90% rule is an informal agreement that the military will overlook the (10% of) small inaccuracies in Hollywood scripts they are asked to review as long as the general story makes the military look good and the message is positive.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 53 of 104

1

Critics of the relationship between the Pentagon and Hollywood argue that this relationship threatens the First Amendment's responsibility not to favor one form of speech over another.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 54 of 104

1

Act of Valor was different from other movies because it was initiated by Hollywood producers, not with the military itself.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 55 of 104

1

An FCC study released in 2003 proved that signal interference was a problem with the establishment of low power FM stations

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 56 of 104

1

Consolidation has not affected the music recording industry.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 57 of 104

1

Streaming service subscriptions have doubled in the first half of 2016.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 58 of 104

1

The 2005 Radio and Concert Disclosure and Competition Act came about as a result of payola scandals.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 59 of 104

1

Even though they have achieved mainstream success, some of Green Day's lyrics are very critical of US politics as well as the power of giant corporations.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 60 of 104

1

The fair use provision protects

Select one of the following:

  • commentary

  • reasonable educational purposes

  • parody

  • all of the above

Explanation

Question 61 of 104

1

Until very recently, revenues declined for the music industry for several years, due to...

Select one of the following:

  • the increased costs of production and distribution.

  • free or cheap online streaming

  • the new iTunes model in which you can buy just a single recording rather than the whole album.

  • all of the above.

  • B & C

Explanation

Question 62 of 104

1

Payola is the practice of radio stations paying money to record labels in order to be able to play their music.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 63 of 104

1

Payola is seen as a problem because it opens access to the mainstream through radio airplay for all sorts of independent music, whether it is good music or not.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 64 of 104

1

Approximately 190 radio stations were implicated in the payola scandal of the mid-2000s.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 65 of 104

1

YouTube...

Select one of the following:

  • is one of the biggest copyright infringers in the world

  • A & B

  • receives thousands of take-down notices

  • resists these take-down orders to protect its users First Amendment rights

Explanation

Question 66 of 104

1

Until the invention of digital recording, records were made using an analog recording process.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 67 of 104

1

Recording artists receive more than half of the price of a $1.29 iTunes download.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 68 of 104

1

Cleveland deejay Alan Freed helped popularize black music with white audiences.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 69 of 104

1

The music industry has successfully blocked systems which enable free music file sharing.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 70 of 104

1

In the 1920s, hundreds of radio stations went off the air because they couldn’t afford to pay for the rights to broadcast recorded music.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 71 of 104

1

Songwriters and publishers receive a mechanical royalty when they allow one of their copyrighted songs to be recorded.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 72 of 104

1

Which musical genre drew on features of urban culture including cutting (or sampling) by deejays, break dancing, poetry slams, and graffiti art?

Select one of the following:

  • grunge

  • hip-hop

  • punk rock

  • alternative

Explanation

Question 73 of 104

1

Artists receive a performance royalty when one of their songs is played on the radio.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 74 of 104

1

Bars, performance spaces, universities that use music at arenas or when callers are on hold, etc, all must pay a ___________.

Select one of the following:

  • performance royalty.

  • fair use fee.

  • mechanical royalty.

  • none of the above.

Explanation

Question 75 of 104

1

Alan Freed and Dick Clark...

Select one of the following:

  • were radio DJs in the early days of rock and roll.

  • were both investigated for payola.

  • were both found guilty of payola.

  • A & B

Explanation

Question 76 of 104

1

"Cost of entry," or the cost to make and distribute a music recording, is much more expensive these days than 10 or 20 years ago, given the high costs of production and digital distribution.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 77 of 104

1

Payola was under investigation during the mid 2000s by the New York Attorney General, Congress and the FCC.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 78 of 104

1

Green Day, compared with The Sex Pistols, achieved much less commercial success.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 79 of 104

1

In 2005 several recording companies, such as BMG and Warner Music, agreed to pay millions in settlement fees for their involvement in payola schemes.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 80 of 104

1

The two properties in a recorded song are

Select one of the following:

  • the rights to the melody and the lyrics.

  • the rights to the song itself and the recording.

  • the rights to the song title and the arrangement.

  • none of the above.

Explanation

Question 81 of 104

1

Both Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting, among others, were implicated in 2004 in a multi-million dollar payola scheme.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 82 of 104

1

Competition from TV in the 1950s helped the radio and recording industries become allies.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 83 of 104

1

In addition to sales royalties received by artists, two other kinds of royalty payments exist: mechanical and performance royalties. These are ____________.

Select one of the following:

  • royalties given to the engineers and backup musicians on a recording

  • royalties that go to the songwriters and music publishers

  • ways for recording labels to take more than the contracted share of widely sold CDs

  • royalties paid to “rack jobbers” and other distributors of retail music and radio stations that play the music

Explanation

Question 84 of 104

1

Popular music did not exist until the invention of phonographs.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 85 of 104

1

The invention of the _______________ paved the way for digital recording.

Select one of the following:

  • Audiotape

  • 33 1/3 rpm records

  • Flat disks

  • Lamp black

  • Wax cylinders

Explanation

Question 86 of 104

1

Folk is considered a more democratic and participatory form of music than other genres.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 87 of 104

1

Which key factor or factors contributed to the rise and growth of rock-and-roll music?

Select one of the following:

  • Youths with money were looking for escapism and a new music style to identify their generation.

  • Desegregation and the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement brought about a blending of black and white cultures in U.S. society.

  • All of the above

  • Radio sought a new audience after World War II.

Explanation

Question 88 of 104

1

An artist’s royalties make up only a small fraction of the sales price of a CD.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 89 of 104

1

Dick Clark was a radio DJ who challenged the norms of the day by playing both black and white artists, while Alan Freed was the clean cut, less threatening DJ of the two.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 90 of 104

1

The Sex Pistols...

Select one of the following:

  • were a "manufactured band" set up by Malcolm McLaren who masterminded the punk rock genre.

  • were infamous for public intoxication and swearing.

  • lasted about two and a half years before their breakup (prior to later comebacks by some of the group).

  • all of the above.

  • B & C

Explanation

Question 91 of 104

1

The biggest source of revenue in the music industry currently is from

Select one of the following:

  • CD and MP3 sales

  • touring and merchandising

  • endorsements

  • royalties

Explanation

Question 92 of 104

1

Green Day...

Select one of the following:

  • made a comeback with their 2004 album "American Idiot."

  • were much more polished and better promoted than the Sex Pistols.

  • exemplify how rebellion and critique, in this case, of US involvement in Iraq, can be commodified and commercialized by the mainstream.

  • all of the above.

  • none of the above.

Explanation

Question 93 of 104

1

The 2005 Radio and Concert Disclosure and Competition Act came about as a result of payola scandals.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 94 of 104

1

Approximately 190 radio stations were implicated in the payola scandal of the mid-2000s.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 95 of 104

1

Domestic US record sales

Select one of the following:

  • increased from less than 7 billion in 2002 to 14 billion in 2011.

  • decreased from 14 billion in 2002 to less than 7 billion in 2011.

  • stayed about the same due to the emergence of digital technologies.

  • none of the above.

Explanation

Question 96 of 104

1

Until very recently, revenues declined for the music industry for several years, due to...

Select one of the following:

  • the increased costs of production and distribution.

  • free or cheap online streaming.

  • the new iTunes model in which you can buy just a single recording rather than the whole album.

  • all of the above.

  • B & C.

Explanation

Question 97 of 104

1

Punk rock emerged in the 1970s partly to protest the commercialism of the recording industry.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 98 of 104

1

Songwriters and publishers receive a mechanical royalty when they allow one of their copyrighted songs to be recorded.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 99 of 104

1

Which of the following moral and cultural boundaries did rock and roll not blur in the 1950s?

Select one of the following:

  • White and black

  • Sacred and secular

  • Male and female

  • North and South

  • Old and young

Explanation

Question 100 of 104

1


Which of the following performers became convinced he was playing the “devil’s music”?

Select one of the following:

  • Buddy Holly

  • Sid Vicious

  • Elvis Presley

  • Little Richard??

Explanation

Question 101 of 104

1

An artist’s royalties make up only a small fraction of the sales price of a CD.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 102 of 104

1

In addition to sales royalties received by artists, two other kinds of royalty payments exist: mechanical and performance royalties. These are ____________.

Select one of the following:

  • royalties given to the engineers and backup musicians on a recording

  • royalties that go to the songwriters and music publishers

  • ways for recording labels to take more than the contracted share of widely sold CDs

Explanation

Question 103 of 104

1

Which key factor or factors contributed to the rise and growth of rock-and-roll music?

Select one of the following:

  • Radio sought a new audience after World War II.

  • Youths with money were looking for escapism and a new music style to identify their generation.

  • Desegregation and the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement brought about a blending of black and white cultures in U.S. society.

  • All of the above

Explanation

Question 104 of 104

1

Competition from TV in the 1950s helped the radio and recording industries become allies.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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