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Student Journalism

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What makes a good story from a bad story?






2. What is the most read part of a newspaper?






3. Prohibits the Congress from making laws 'respecting an establishment of religion' - prohibiting the free exercise of religion - infringing on the freedom of speech and infringing on the freedom of the press.






4. How do I make sure the image size is correct in PhotoShop?






5. Should you use a question in a lead?






6. What is the biggest mistake when writing a lead?






7. Who should lead a high school paper?






8. Supreme Court case that stated that students do not lose their freedom of speech rights in high school. Mary Beth tinker wore black arm bands to protest the Vietnam War.






9. What is the first question of an interview?






10. When designing a page what element comes first?






11. How do you size a photo in InDesign?






12. Where do you go for help in legal situations?






13. What is a nut graph?






14. Which one of the following is the AP Style for time?






15. Every single story in a high school newspaper must have what?






16. Quotes should contain?






17. Which one of the following is the AP Style for age?






18. What is a Twitter feed?






19. Every quote needs what before it?






20. What type of questions should you avoid in an interview?






21. What obvious words should be avoided in a school newspaper?

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22. Is a student's choice of dress protected by the First Amendment?

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23. Terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words.






24. How many pixels does a yearbook or magazine?






25. Why is journalism the best elective to take next year?






26. How many pixels per inch does a newspaper need not to be pixelated?






27. Where do commas go when using quotes?

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28. If my image is blurred how can I fix it on a digital SLR camera?






29. What does CNTRL B do in InDesign?






30. Are facts or stories more important?






31. What is the journalist's code?

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32. What should be used in place of adjectives?






33. What words that are not very specific should never be used in transitions?

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34. How can you get thrown off The Little Hawk staff?






35. What is the number one goal of great high school papers?






36. How is something determined to be slander or libel - as opposed to the exercising of freedom of speech?

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37. Why are many high school papers not read?






38. Should you use the name of the school or current year?






39. What are techniques a good photographer uses when taking photos?






40. What does the T tool do in InDesign?






41. How long should a paragraph be in journalism?






42. How do you get text to wrap around an object?






43. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier - the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decision - gave public high school officials greater authority to censor some school-sponsored student publications if they chose to do so. But the ruling doesn't apply to publicati






44. What are the ways that going out for journalism could improve your life?






45. Feedback should be...






46. What literary techniques should you use to tell a story?






47. Each quote should begin...






48. What are the four codes for journalists?






49. What is an infographic?






50. A student publication is a public forum for student expression when school officials have given student editors the authority to make their own content decisions. A school can do that either through an official policy or by allowing a publication to