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- 1. Multiple Choice
What can you do to improve your reading skills?
Take notes as you read.
Move your lips as you read.
Skim through all of your assignments.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why does everyone need to develop good test-taking skills?
Media-literate people are all good test takers.
You can only achieve your long-term goals by scoring well on tests.
It often takes more than knowing the material to get the correct answer on a test.
- 3. Multiple Choice
How can you tell when you need to improve your note-taking skills?
You don't know what to write down in class.
No one else can understand the notes you take.
Your notes are messy because you write too quickly.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Why is it important to improve your reading skills?
You'll be able to put off your reading until the night before a test.
You'll know how to balance your reading time with your study and social time.
You'll have an easier time picking out the important parts of a reading assignment.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What are media?
Avenues for sending out images
Tools for manipulating an audience
Methods of conveying information
- 6. Multiple Choice
The various forms of media are all intended to do what?
Entertain people
Convey information
Teach media literacy
- 7. Multiple Choice
What does media literacy enable you to do?
Figure out what products to buy
Use the tools of media production
Analyze and evaluate media messages
- 8. Multiple Choice
What can you do to improve your media literacy?
Look for unfamiliar signals and symbols around you
Ignore the information you get through the mass media
Engage in a conversation with the media that surround you
- 9. Multiple Choice
What happens when you evaluate the information you receive through the media?
You figure out how to avoid the mass media.
You prevent hidden messages from getting through.
You gain control over your experience and opinions.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of these is a form of mass media?
Writing an e-mail
Sending an instant message
Making a documentary movie
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of these forms of media is most common in daily life?
Signs or billboards
Smoke signals
Oil paintings
- 12. Multiple Choice
What do you need to remember about the media in order to be media literate?
Media messages are usually personal.
Media messages rarely have a purpose.
Media messages are produced for a purpose.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What does a media-literate person understand about media messages?
They're all manipulative.
They're all created for a purpose.
They're all a mixture of words and images.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Why is it important to be as media literate as possible?
Media access is very expensive.
You can only get the news through visual media.
Many media messages have a hidden agenda.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Why is it important to critically evaluate the information you get through the media?
Information that comes through media sources is always sent in code.
The producers of media must manipulate the audience in order to make money.
Media messages always present only part of the truth about the world around you.
- 16. Multiple Choice
What does being a media-literate person require?
Evaluating everything you read, hear, and see in the media
Understanding how to use the tools of media production
Rejecting emotional appeals from advertisers
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