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Quiz on Public relartions Multiple choice questions, created by matthewhart123 on 07/05/2015.
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Question 1

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The internet has changed public relations in what way?
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  • PR practitioners can put new on the Website for reporters to access anytime
  • Blogs provide an opportunity to communicate with publics and find target audience
  • Podcasting allows organizations to provide audio and video to the general public without the new media
  • All of these

Question 2

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YouTube, Flickr and Facebook are examples of what kind of collaborative media?
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  • Social
  • Interactive
  • Sharing
  • New

Question 3

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The definition of community relations as a public relations function includes
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  • The goal of benefiting the organization only
  • The goals of benefiting the community only
  • Unplanned, spontaneous participation with a community
  • Participation with a community to maintain and enhance its environment

Question 4

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Guerrilla tactics are which of the following?
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  • a wartime manoeuvres
  • Illegal
  • non-traditional communication vehicles
  • never successful

Question 5

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The first task of investor relations is to _______________________
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  • create and maintain investor confidence
  • obtain support from SEC members
  • file and distribute paperwork to various stock exchanges
  • meet with company financial offers to strategize

Question 6

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Social marketing involves
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  • organizing social events to benefit a non-profit agency
  • joining social groups to promote an organization
  • working on behalf of a social cause that benefits society as a whole
  • marketing an organization to specific social groups.

Question 7

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As part of its management function, public relations practioners might
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  • develop new products
  • layout new sales ads
  • determine employee salary ranges
  • assist in influencing or changing public policy

Question 8

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A public is defined as a group of individuals or organisations who
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  • work for the same company
  • have a relationship with an organisation
  • use the same product
  • are boycotting an corporation

Question 9

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a group can become one of an organizations________________ when it recognizes an issue related to an organization, understands its relevance to the groups members and begins to talk about or organize to take actions on the issue
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  • publics
  • problems
  • rivals
  • competitors

Question 10

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Public marketing, advertising and marketing are_______________________terms
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  • interchangeable
  • distinctly different
  • synonymous
  • all of the above

Question 11

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Decision making in an organisation should include PR practitioners because:
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  • they're the only ones who know how to communicate the decisions with appropriate publicises and audiences
  • they are in charge of the social responsibility of the organization
  • they are at the highest levels of organizational leadership within the organization
  • their ineraction with the organizations publics gives them insight into valid issues that may influence their decisions

Question 12

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Public relations practitioners should be involved in managements decision making ________________.
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  • only during crises
  • during the decision making process
  • only after decisions have been made
  • only if key publics will oppose the decision

Question 13

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Which of the following is secondary research?
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  • using company or public records and contacts
  • reviewing previously published or broadcast information
  • using focus groups or surveys
  • interviewing company officals

Question 14

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The process of researching, creating and refining a product or service and distributing that product or service to target customers is called________
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  • advertising
  • marketing
  • public relations
  • all of the above
  • none of the above

Question 15

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The execution phase of the public relations process is known as ______
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  • planning
  • propaganda
  • evaluation
  • research
  • communication

Question 16

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When public relations practitioners seek to maintan or improve relations with local special interest groups, they are engaged in_________
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  • investor relations
  • community relations
  • employee relations
  • media relations
  • consumer relations

Question 17

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a group that can directly influence your organizations abilities to achieve its goals is known as _______________
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  • a secondary public
  • a primary public
  • a latent public
  • an intervening public
  • an aware public

Question 18

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Most crises are ______
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  • unavoidable
  • time consuming
  • predictable
  • expensive
  • disastrous

Question 19

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A tactic in marketing public relations is
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  • billboards
  • advertising
  • blogs and interactive websites
  • all of the above
  • none of the above

Question 20

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What is lobbying
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  • directly interacting to influence elected officials or government regulators and agents
  • protesting in Washington D.C. about a particular course
  • the enhancement of communication between investor-owned companies and their shareholders

Question 21

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What is a focus group?
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  • small groups of a targeted public who are interviewed for research
  • a group of people chosen to be finalist for the next reality show
  • a group chosen as the 'best of the best'
  • a group of people who want to go into public relations

Question 22

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The practice of combining public relations, marketing, advertising, and promotion into a seamless campaign is known as
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  • viral marketing
  • integrated marketing communications
  • satellite-delivered media
  • video news conference

Question 23

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Which tool of the promotional mix is defined as any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods , or services by an identified sponsor?
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  • advertising
  • public relations
  • direct marketing
  • sales promotion

Question 24

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The___________________ is the specific mix of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, public relations, and direct marketing tools that the company uses to pursue its advertising and marketing objectives
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  • value mix
  • integrated dealer mix
  • marketing communications mix
  • marketing control mix

Question 25

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Two major factors are changing the face of today's communications. One of these factors is the fact that
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  • costs of promotion are rising
  • mass markets are fragmented and marketers are shifting away from mass marketing
  • global communications are not growing rapidly enough
  • marcom managers have achieved more power and control

Question 26

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____________ combine (s) sights, sound, and motion: appeals to the senses: and has a low cost per exposure as advantages
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  • Newspapers
  • Television
  • Direct mail
  • Radio

Question 27

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Factors leading to the need to manage crises well include all the following EXCEPT
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  • Round- the- clock cable news coverage
  • Tabloid journalism techniques used by various media outlets
  • Insensitivity of those not affected by the immediate crisis
  • Increase numbers and depth of crises affecting society

Question 28

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Elements of 'issues management' include all the following EXCEPT:
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  • Anticipated issues that are year or more away
  • Impact of external factors
  • Impact of internal factors
  • Bottom-line orientation

Question 29

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For a public relations function to gain acceptance for issues management, the must have approved from
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  • The director of human resources
  • Top management, particularly the CEO
  • The marketing director
  • The security director

Question 30

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For risk communication to be effective, public relations people need to:
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  • encourage management to be part of the communications loop
  • anticipate the needs of media by approaching them with solid information before they approach you
  • take the matter seriously
  • ensure the organizations deed match the words

Question 31

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You can expect to sense or see all the following when a crisis strikes EXCEPT:
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  • The element of surprise
  • Events escalate
  • Truly helpful politicians and observers
  • siege mentality

Question 32

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'Transparency' a term business people are prone to use as result of the fallout from many unethical business dealings in the early 21st century, refers to:
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  • Organizations, particularly their management, increasing their efforts to be more open to their various constituencies
  • making accounting procedure even more understandable to the SEC
  • CEOs committing to share profits with employees and shareowners
  • Renewed efforts to publish corporate codes of ethics

Question 33

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Corporate social responsibility boils down to;
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  • providing safe products that perform well and do not harm the environment
  • providing employees a safe, healthy work environment
  • Avoiding discrimination in hiring, promoting and retaining the best people for your organization
  • All of the above

Question 34

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Most publc relation analysis takes the informal form called:
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  • Primary research
  • Objective research
  • Abstract research
  • Secondary research

Question 35

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'Public relations' can be defined as
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  • A collection of techniques for persuading people to buy products they don't need.
  • a collection of techniques for persuading news organizations to give space or time to people or products that are not inherently newsworthy
  • Planned are continuous communication to provide information about an organisation, issue or product to the public
  • Planned and continuous communication to obscure the inadequacies of an organization or product

Question 36

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Public relations professionals often deal with earth internal or external communications. Which of the following best describes those two types of communications?
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  • Internal communications deal with investors, clients, customers or contributors, and external communications keep company employees informed about the company
  • Internal communications always flow from the top of the organization down, and external communications always flow from the bottom to the top.
  • Internal communications always are carious out by e-mail, and external communications always are carried out through the mass media
  • Internal communications keep company employees informed about the company, and external communications deal with investors, client, customers or contributors

Question 37

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Effective public relations practitioners first
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  • send as many press releases as possible to as many people
  • determine which media outlines best serve their purposes
  • ask editors to promise to use their press release
  • find out which media have been most friendly to their client in the past

Question 38

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Which of the following is Not among the reasons often cited by journalists for rejecting news
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  • news organisations move slowly and need plenty of time to rewrite the release
  • a release received close to a deadline is likely to be thrown away
  • a release received close to a deadline leaves news organisations with too little time to plan press coverage
  • a release received too close to a deadline is less likely to be published.

Question 39

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If a news release contains a statements such as ' parents are worried about the amount of violence in our society' that release is of questionable news value because it is
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  • probably one- side story
  • stating the obvious
  • full of puffery
  • reporting a contrived event

Question 40

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Public relations is defined as __________ with an organization
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  • media- communication function
  • consumer-community function
  • leadership - management function
  • management-media function

Question 41

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Public relations practitioners develop, execute and evaluate organizational programmes that promote the exchange of influences and understanding_____________________
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  • among an organisation constituent parts and publics
  • so that hostile publics can be silenced
  • in a attempt to make sure organizational secrets are not leaked

Question 42

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Which of the following is NOT among the reasons of often cited by journalists for rejecting news releases?
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  • They are not newsworthy
  • They are too well written
  • They are sent to the wrong person
  • They fail to include important informatio

Question 43

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Newspapers, television and radio stations are examples of what kind of media?
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  • Social
  • Interactive
  • Controlled
  • Uncontrolled

Question 44

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When selecting a company spokesperson, what matters most is that a person's ability to add ............ to the brand?
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  • Value
  • Credibility
  • Trust
  • Integrity

Question 45

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Public relations professionals interact with which groups?
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  • Employees
  • Stockholders
  • Customers
  • All of these are correct
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