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Chapter 13 Quiz 2

Question 1

The version of the Constitution ratified in 1788 ___________.

included freedom of the press

required licensing for newspapers

did not include protections for free speech

None of the above

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 436.

Question 2

Criticism of government and public dissent are not tolerated in which freedom of expression model?

State

Social responsibility

Authoritarian

Libertarian

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 437.

Question 3

In an important censorship case, the Nixon administration tried to restrain publication of _____.

the Pentagon Papers

“The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It, Why We’re Telling It”

the Progressive magazine

the Milwaukee Sentinel

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 439.

Question 4

The Espionage Acts of 1917 and 1918 made what a crime?

Obscenity

Seditious statements

All of the above

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 440-441.

Question 5

Laws that protect reporters from revealing the sources they have used in news stories are called _______________.

gag orders

the Privacy Act

shield laws

the USA PATRIOT Act

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 449.

Question 6

Members of movie review boards that screened films in the 1920s were made up of _______.

vice-squad officers

politicians

citizens

All of the above

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on pages 450-451.

Question 7

In 1915, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the film industry to be ________.

a circus

capable of “improving moral character”

entertainment with “a special capacity for evil”

Both a and c

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 451.

Question 8

Which popular silent-film actor was involved in a scandal in the early 1920s?

Mary Pickford

Douglas Fairbanks

Fatty Arbuckle

Clark Gable

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 451.

Question 9

Why did the MPPDA establish a movie-rating system in the late 1960s?

A ratings system was mandated by the Burstyn v. Wilson case.

The MPPDA wanted to support the public’s opinion that movies were an important vehicle for public opinion.

Members of the public expressed renewed discontent over sexual language and imagery in movies

All of the above

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on pages 451-452.

Question 10

The _______ rating has not proved commercially viable and distributors avoid releasing films with the rating.

PG-13

NC-17

XXX

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 453.

Question 11

What Supreme Court case sided against broadcasters in 1969?

Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo

Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC

Mutual v. Ohio

Burstyn v. Wilson

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on pages 454-455.

Question 12

_____ mandated that radio broadcasters operate in “the public interest, convenience, and necessity.”

The FCC

The communist witch-hunt

Section 315

The Communications Act of 1934

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 456.

Question 13

Which of the following media is affected by Section 315 of the 1934 Communications Act?

Newspapers

TV networks

Magazines

Radio broadcasters

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 456.

Question 14

_____ required stations to air controversial-issue programs and provide competing points of view.

The Communications Act of 1934

Section 315

The Fairness Doctrine

The Telecommunications Act of 1996

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on page 456.

Question 15

By the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, traditional journalists were having difficulty covering stories about ________.

media ownership

business practices in general

media regulation

All of the above

Your answer has been submitted. The answer can be found on pages 460-461.