MAHA SET 2018 Question Paper 2 Journalism And Mass Communication

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Journalism and Mass Communication
Paper II

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Time Allowed : 75 Minutes] [Maximum Marks : 100
Note : This paper contains Fifty (50) multiple choice questions, each carrying
Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
(50) (2)

1. In which of the following languages 1.

‘Harijan’ edited by Mahatma

Gandhi was not published ?
(A)
(A) Urdu
(B)
(B) Tamil

(C) Punjabi (C)

(D) English (D)

2. The Chameli Devi Jain Award is 2.
given annually to an outstanding

woman from which field ?

(A) Advertising (A)

(B) Theatre (B)

(C) Journalism (C)

(D) Music (D)
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3. With which decade would you 3.

associate the beginning of public

access to internet in India ?
(A)

(A) 1980s

(B)
(B) 1990s

(C)
(C) 2000s

(D) 2010s (D)

4. What is the main aim of the social 4.

service advertising ?

(A) Product Selling (A)

(B) Public Education (B)

(C) Economic benefit (C)

(D) New marketing technique (D)

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5. Counterhegemony’ in cultural 5.

studies refers to :

(A) Audience resisting the messages (A)

of the dominant group

(B) Resistance phase of elites (B)

(C) Theatre of struggle (C)

(D) Social struggle by Bourgiose
(D)

6. What does the term ‘Typo’ mean ? 6.

(A) Typing machine (A)

(B) Short for typographical error (B)

(C) Typically political (C)

(D) Printing text (D)

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7. Who was appointed as the 7.

chairperson of the Film and

Television Institute of India (FTII)

on 9th June 2015 ?
(A)
(A) Gajendra Chauhan

(B)
(B) Sharmila Tagore

(C) Alka Sirohi (C)

(D) Jawhar Sircar (D)

8. Which of the following is not the 8.

name of a tabloid ?
(A)

(A) Blitz

(B)
(B) The Tribune

(C)
(C) Mumbai Mirror

(D) Mid-Day (D)

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9. In research, the hypothesis which 9.

predicts that there is no relationship

or no significant difference between

two variables is called :
(A)
(A) Positive hypothesis

(B)
(B) Null hypothesis

(C)
(C) Non-directional hypothesis

(D) Integrated hypothesis (D)

10. In the context of Indian television, 10.

which decade marks the era of

satellite invasion ?

(A) 1990s (A)

(B) 1960s (B)

(C) 1900s (C)

(D) 1970s (D)

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11. The weekly women’s supplement of 11.
the Marathi newspaper ‘Divya

Marathi’ is called by what name ?

(A) Stree (A)

(B) Madhurima (B)

(C)
(C) Tiche Vishwa

(D) Manthan (D)

12. In a news story what is a source ? 12.

(A) The reporter (A)

(B) News Agency (B)

(C) A person interviewed by the (C)

reporter

(D) The newspaper (D)

13. What are the names of the Phogat 13.

sisters ?
(A)
(A) Manjula, Seeta
(B)
(B) Babita, Geeta
(C)
(C) Radha, Seeta

(D) Madhu, Geeta (D)

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14. What is the name of the film 14.

production company of Ram Gopal

Verma ?
(A)
(A) Factory

(B)
(B) Phantom

(C) RGV film factory (C)

(D) Arihant (D)

15. All India Radio recently launched 15.

a 24 hours classical music

channel. What in the name of this

channel ?
(A)
(A) Sargam

(B)
(B) Ragam

(C)
(C) Sur Sanjeevan

(D)
(D) Bharatiya Shastriya Sangeet

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16. What is the minimum period for 16.

which President’s Rule under Article

356 remains valid ?

(A)
(A) Three months

(B)
(B) Four months

(C) Five months (C)

(D) Six months (D)

17. Who is the director of the film 17.

‘Bahubali’ ?
(A)

(A) S.S. Rajamouli
(B)
(B) Srikanta Addala

(C)
(C) Anish Kuruvilla

(D) Kovelamudi Bapayya (D)

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18. Indian Government radio reaches to 18.
audiences in how many countries in
how many foreign languages ?
(A) More than 120 countries in 16
(A)
foreign languages
(B) More than 100 countries in 16
(B)
foreign languages
(C) More than 100 countries in 18 (C)
languages
(D) Less than 100 countries in 23
(D)
languages
19. The 2016 Best Actor Oscar went to 19.
Leonardo Dicaprio for which film ?
(A) Titanic (A)
(B) The Revenant (B)
(C)
(C) The Wolf
(D) Inception (D)

20. What does an ‘Ambush’ interview 20.
mean ?
(A)
(A) An unfair deceptive journalism
practise (B)
(B) Television interview with
strong technical skills
(C)
(C) Internship Interview for BBC
(D) An interview where you are
(D)
asked to give details of personal
finanical transactions
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21. A qualitative strategy in which the 21.
researcher derives an abstract

theory of process, action or

Interaction grounded in the views

of participants in the study is called

as :
(A)

(A) Ethnography (B)

(B) Experimental research design

(C) Grounded theory (C)

(D) Triangulation method (D)

22. When India attained independence, 22.

there were six radio stations in

India. Which one of the following

cities was not equipped with a

station ? (A)

(A) Delhi
(B)
(B) Bombay
(C)
(C) Cochin

(D) Tiruchirapalli (D)

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23. In the year of Independence in 23.

which Pakistani cities was not AIR

broadcasting ?

(A) Peshawar (A)

(B) Islamabad (B)

(C) Lahore (C)

(D) Dhaka (D)

24. The National Film Award 2016 for 24.

best actress was bagged by Kangana

Ranaut for her role in which film ?

(A) Fashion (A)

(B) Tanu Weds Manu Returns (B)

(C) Queen (C)

(D) Krrish 3 (D)

25. Which of the following is not a 25.
Script ?
(A)
(A) Brahmi
(B)
(B) Pali
(C)
(C) Devanagari

(D) Kharoshti (D)

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26. Which of the following is not a
26.
concept implied in the theory of
Sadharanikaran ?

(A) Sahahriday (A)

(B) Rasa (B)

(C) Sthai Bhav (C)

(D) Nirvana (D)

27. Which one among the following 27.
boycotted the Ramnath Goenka
Excellence in Journalism Awards
to protect rising in tolerance in
India ? (A)
(A) Aamir Khan
(B)
(B) Akshaya Mukul
(C)
(C) Kishan Chopra

(D) Sreenivasan Jain (D)

28. I & B Minister of India as in Nov. 28.
2016 was :

(A) Prakash Javadekar (A)

(B) Venkaiah Naidu (B)

(C) Suresh Prabhu (C)

(D) Smriti Irani (D)

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29. What is attribution ? 29.

(A) Giving a source audit for a quote (A)

(B) The description of what a photo

is about (B)

(C) A mistake by a Reporter (C)

(D) An accusation (D)

30. What is the term used for those 30.

people or organizations which are

vital to the success or failure of an

organization, a communication

initiative, or a project to reach its

goals ?
(A)

(A) Journalists
(B)
(B) Stakeholders

(C)
(C) Cheerleaders

(D) Gamers (D)

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31. Which ministry of the government 31.
of India is associated with the
Digital India programme ?

(A) Ministry of Electronics and (A)
Information Technology

(B) Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting (B)
(C) Ministry of Culture
(C)
(D) Ministry of Youth Affairs and
Sports (D)

32. What is soft news ? 32.
(A) News that is based on opinions,
(A)
not facts

(B) News that is entertaining or (B)
interesting

(C) News that’s circulated on the (C)
Internet, not on paper

(D) Advice columns (D)

33. Which of the following is not an 33.
internet browser software ?

(A) Opera (A)
(B) Mozilla firefox (B)
(C) Safari (C)
(D) Google Internet (D)

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34. Which article of the Indian 34.

constitution imposes reasonable

restrictions on the right to freedom

of speech and expression ?
(A)
(A) Article 19(1) (a)
(B)
(B) Article 19(2)

(C) Article 20(1) (a) (C)

(D) Article 20(2) (D)

35. What does a direct quotation look 35.

like ?
(A)
(A) The Prime Minister roared

about “taking India forward”

(B)
(B) The Prime Minister said “we

will take India forward”

(C) The Prime Minister said he (C)
would take India forward

(D) It was reported that the Prime
(D)
Minister said he would take

India forward
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36. According to Marshall McLuhan, 36.

which of the following is a ‘cool’

medium ?
(A)
(A) Print

(B)
(B) Books

(C)
(C) Movies

(D) Television (D)

37. Popular entertainment, loss of 37.

touch with reality or irrationality of

Audiences is perceived in a

phenomenon called :
(A)
(A) Paparazzi

(B)
(B) Framing

(C)
(C) Empathy

(D) Fandom (D)

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38. Who is the author of the book
38.
‘Headlines from the Heartland :
Reinventing the Hindi Public
Sphere’ ?
(A)
(A) Vanita Kohli
(B)
(B) Sevanti Ninan
(C)
(C) Robin Jeffery
(D)
(D) Nalini Singh

39. The mobile operating system 39.
Android was developed by Android
Inc and then bought over by whom
in 2005 ?
(A)
(A) Microsoft

(B) Apple (B)

(C) Google (C)

(D) Linux (D)

40. “Whose News, Whose Freedom” is a 40.
book written by whom ?

(A) D.R. Mankekar (A)

(B) Deelip Padgaonkar (B)

(C)
(C) B.G. Verghese

(D) Patanjali Sethi (D)

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41. Who wrote the book “The Third 41.

Wave” ?
(A)

(A) Alvin Toffler
(B)
(B) Bill Kovanik

(C)
(C) Aravind Singhal

(D) Jan Van Dijk (D)

42. A technique where a series of short 42.

shots are edited into a sequence to

condense, space, time and

information is called what ?
(A)
(A) Kuleshov effect

(B)
(B) Parallel edit

(C)
(C) Montage

(D) McGuffin effect (D)

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43. The abbreviations RGB and CMYK 43.
are related to what aspect of
media ?

(A) Sound (A)

(B)
(B) Light
(C)
(C) Colour
(D)
(D) Noise

44. In a Television script, SFX stands 44.

for :
(A)
(A) An extreme close shot
(B)
(B) A standard shot
(C)
(C) Special effects

(D) A stationary shot (D)

45. Which was the first bank to allow 45.
their users to send money to their
facebook friends without knowing
their account numbers ?

(A) Axis Bank (A)

(B) Kotak Mahindra Bank (B)

(C) HDFC Bank (C)

(D) Andhra Bank (D)

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46. Which of the following is not an 46.
Android version ?
(A)
(A) Froyo
(B)
(B) Eclair
(C)
(C) Jelly Been

(D) Orange (D)

47. ‘Piyo-Sar Uthake’ was the slogan of 47.

which brand ?

(A) Coca-Cola (A)

(B) Mirinda (B)

(C) Thums-up (C)

(D) Pepsi (D)

48. Name the series with which the 48.

Indian actors Priyanka Chopra has

made her debut in American TV ?

(A) Quantico (A)

(B) Castle (B)

(C) Friends (C)

(D) Big Bang Theory (D)

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49. What term is used to the 49.

transmission of video and audio

signal from earth station to a

(A)
satellite .................. .

(A) Broadcast
(B)

(B) Upload
(C)
(C) Uplink

(D) Transmission (D)

50. Which of the following is not a 50.

source of data which is appropriate

for qualitative research ?
(A)
(A) Historical records

(B)
(B) Experiments

(C)
(C) Biographies

(D) Participant observation (D)

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