Chapter 4 and 6 Quiz

A  Disney

B  Fox News

C  ESPN

D  the New York Times

A  sound bites.

B  framing.

C  adversarial journalism.

D  agenda-setting.

A  Federal Communications Commission

B  Department of Commerce

C  Federal Bureau of Investigation

D  Public Broadcast System

A  people intentionally expose themselves to perspectives that challenge what they already believe to be true about the political world.

B  journalists choose to cover only those stories that are acceptable to advertisers.

C  search engines automatically screen out information that might challenge or broaden a person’s worldview.

D  news aggregation sites include content from a wide variety of sources and give no preference to American media organizations.

A  a first branch.

B  a watchdog.

C  a judge and jury.

D  a first estate.

A  adversarial

B  niche

C  nonprofit

D  protest

A  niche journalism.

B  yellow journalism.

C  fake news.

D  adversarial journalism.

A  equal time rule

B  Fairness Doctrine

C  Diversity in Media Doctrine

D  Communications Decency Act

A  95

B  75

C  66

D  50

A  the internet

B  newspapers

C  television

D  radio

A  exclusionary

B  Miranda

C  ex post facto

D  warrant

A  A smaller percentage of African Americans registered to vote in southern states after passage of the Voting Rights Act.

B  A much larger percentage of whites registered to vote in southern states after passage of the Voting Rights Act.

C  The percentage of African Americans registering to vote did not change after passage of the Voting Rights Act.

D  The gap between the percentage of whites registering to vote and the percentage of African Americans registering to vote declined significantly after passage of the Voting Rights Act.

A  It won approval in the Senate but not in the House.

B  It was vetoed by President Ronald Reagan.

C  It won approval in the House but not in the Senate.

D  It was not ratified by the necessary 38 states.

A  Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

B  Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

C  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

D  Near v. Minnesota (1931)

A  The Court legalized same-sex marriage.

B  There is a constitutional right to privacy for consensual homosexual activity.

C  There is no constitutional right to privacy for consensual homosexual activity.

D  The Court extended civil rights protection to gays and lesbians as a class.

A  Holt v. Hobbs.

B  McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.

C  Van Orden v. Perry.

D  Cantwell v. Connecticut.

A  Nine

B  Eighteen

C  Twenty-seven

D  Thirty-four

A  allowed the use of tax-supported vouchers for religious schools.

B  established a constitutional right to privacy.

C  endorsed the free exercise of religion even when it was offensive to the beliefs of the majority.

D  banned prayers in public schools.

A  expand the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment to recent Asian immigrants.

B  protect former slaves from discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and theaters.

C  protect African Americans against disenfranchisement in the voting booth.

D  protect women against disenfranchisement in the voting booth.

A  state-imposed desegregation could only be brought about by busing children across school districts.

B  public school policies that assigned students to a school on the basis of race were unconstitutional because they discriminated against whites.

C  public school policies that assigned students to a school on the basis of race were constitutional.

D  public school policies that assigned students to a school on the basis of race were unconstitutional because they discriminated against African Americans.