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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impact of Horizon is considered briefly at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Its understated impact.
(b) Its continuing impact.
(c) Its impact on state media.
(d) Its impact on contemporary journalistic style.

2. What type of magazine was Horizon?
(a) A popular periodical.
(b) A political magazine.
(c) A news journal.
(d) A literary journal.

3. Why were did the most enduring war novels come out of a certain time period?
(a) Novels were not censored at that time.
(b) More writers were available.
(c) The mood of that time captured the total war effort.
(d) A wider range of expression was tolerated.

4. Why did mainstream media outlets adopt the strategy of accentuating the positive?
(a) To control the flow of information.
(b) To stir up hatred for the enemy.
(c) To bolster morale.
(d) To keep military secrets away from the public.

5. How did the media handle the worst aspects of the war?
(a) By attributing them to the enemy.
(b) By ignoring them.
(c) By covering them up.
(d) By using euphemisms.

6. The deprivation that the title of Chapter 14 refers to is a deprivation of what resource?
(a) Free trade.
(b) Freedoms.
(c) Material goods.
(d) Information.

7. What was a soldier's primary source of information?
(a) Stateside media.
(b) Hand bills and flyers.
(c) Word of mouth.
(d) Official military publications.

8. Which of the following is NOT one of the resources that the author cites specifically as being scarce during the war?
(a) Binding boards.
(b) Paper.
(c) Ink.
(d) Glue.

9. The term "Chad" originated where?
(a) Occupied Germany.
(b) Free France.
(c) England.
(d) America.

10. Censorship usually consisted of what?
(a) Condemning certain publishers.
(b) Editing out sections of books before printing.
(c) Not printing certain books.
(d) Burning subversive books.

11. How did advertisers and other companies think of the war?
(a) As a cost of doing business.
(b) As a tragedy.
(c) As a sales device.
(d) As a waste.

12. Idioms were often adapted to what medium?
(a) Song.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Journalism.
(d) Advertising jingles.

13. How closely did the official and public media outlets coordinate their coverage?
(a) They had no coordination.
(b) They communicated only occasionally.
(c) They colluded closely together.
(d) They competed with each other.

14. Most of the efforts discussed in America and Britain were aimed at which of the following?
(a) Creating new products.
(b) Increasing the resiliency of industry.
(c) Getting citizens to manufacture products in their space time.
(d) Reducing use of products.

15. Many idioms originating in the war might be described as which of the following?
(a) Serious.
(b) Illogical.
(c) Ham-handed.
(d) Crude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Overall, the media coverage of the war would best be described as which of the following?

2. What was the public reaction to censorship?

3. Chapter 10 centers around the common soldier's perception of what characteristic of the war?

4. How was God related to the war in the political and media interpretation in America?

5. Later in the war, the media presented most allied victories as triumphs over what forces?

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