Quiz Bank 4

1. T/F According to Herman and Chomsky when the media gives an empathetic, detailed account
of a victim who was killed by an unfriendly government, that is called an unworthy victim.
2. T/F Sally Reed and James Loewen agree that the school curricula shape children's values and
worldviews
3. The media makes money by connecting advertisers with readers, especially with wealthy
readers. That business model can influence news reporting. which hypothetical news stories
might get filtered out of that model?
(a) "Stock markets tumble"
(b) "Women seen as filling more management positions"
(c) "Luxury resorts catering to African American travelers"
(d) "Food stamp programs to add new services"
4. T/F: according to Sally Reed, schools should teach children values that go beyond those of their
community
5. T/F According to Loewen, high school history texts are especially reluctant to discuss recent
history (events that parents and teachers experienced firsthand)
6. T/F Helen Keller' supported the adoption of a soviet style healthcare system (universal access to
healthcare) in the U.S.
7. T/F The number of articles on a story is a qualitative measure while the fullness and reiteration
of details is a quantitative measure.
8. T/F: High school textbooks portray President Woodrow Wilson as a leader who championed
peace and democracy. Yet Loewen identifies three policy areas, often neglected in the
textbooks, where Wilson's decisions were quite at odds with this portrait
9. T/F According to Loewen, when Woodrow Wilson imposed racial segregation in the federal
postal service, he was simply continuing practices that began with the Civil War
10. T/F The thesis of Herman and Chomsky's book is "the media serve on behalf of, the masses that
pay for its content"
11. What is, according to Loewen, one of the reasons history is simplified in primary education (K-
12)
A. It imbues a sense of nationalism in the minds of children
B. Children don’t have the cognitive ability to fully understand it.
C. It makes it easier to test.
D. Teachers are too liberal and suppress it.
12. Select the five techniques of propaganda described in Herman & Chomsky's Propaganda Model
1) tell few lies
2) lie when possible
3) omit inconvenient facts
4) emphasize the bad
5) emotion
6) repetition
7) location
13. T/F Loewen's analysis of the history of Abraham Lincoln illustrates that ideas can stir men to
action and lead to social change true
14. T/F In their work covering the news, many journalists write stories that tell advertisers and
readers "what they want to hear." In contrast, college students writing papers for their
classwork can produce honest stories, as there are no comparable forces in the university
setting
15. T/F Few history text books report that Helen Keller was an advocate of universal healthcare
16. T/F According to Herman and Chomsky, propaganda is easy to detect because it contains many
false statements false
17. T/F Media's dependence on advertising means that news coverage will tend to emphasize
topics relevant to the wealthy people that advertisers need to reach
18. T/F Herman and Chomsky's model can be compared to a market model, in which the cost
and accessibility of information influence news content
19. T/F The history of Abraham Lincoln illustrates that ideas can stir men to action and lead
to social change
20. T/F In their college assignments many students write papers that "tell the professor what he
wants to hear." Fortunately, there are no comparable forces acting on journalists when they
write the news.
21. T/F: According to Loewen, high school history texts are especially reluctant to discuss recent
history, i.e. events that parents and teachers experienced firsthand
22. T/F: As discussed in class, close study of the media shows that news reporting contains a
shocking number of outright falsehoods.
23. Select 2 quantitative measures of media attention to an issue mentioned in Manufacturing
Consent.
1. number of articles
2. number of countries distributed to.
3. number of copies printed
4. number of column inches
24. T/F According to Herman and Chomsky, If the victim had perpetuated the agenda of a friendly
government the US media would treat the victim as unworthy.
25. What method does Loewen use to detect falsehoods in textbooks, i.e. how does he go about in
detecting that the texts contain distortions and significant silences?
A) Comparisons to authoritative history texts
B) Compares different textbooks
C) Examines the year of publication
D) All of the above
26. High school textbooks portray President Woodrow Wilson as a leader who championed peace
and democracy. Yet Loewen identifies three policy areas, often neglected in the textbooks,
where Wilson’s decisions were quite at odds with this portrait. Select two of the three policy
areas where Wilson’s decisions were decidedly undemocratic and bellicose (“warlike”):
1. Invasion of Haiti
2. Withdrawing from the League of Nations
3. Denying Vietnam’s self-determination
27. In chapters 1, 2, & 9 of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen focuses on three historical figures to
illustrate "heroification" - the process of turning people, with their "conflicts, pain, credibility, or
human interest," into "pious, perfect" heroes
 1. Helen Keller
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Christopher Columbus
28. T/F The "paired case study method" requires identifying two news events that are similar in all
respects except one the amount of media coverage they receive.
29. What was the first North American colony to legalize slavery?
A) Massachusetts
B) Georgia
C) South Carolina
D) Virginia
30. According to Loewen, when school students learn about Helen Keller, they are being taught
A) Heroification
B) Her ties to the Soviet Union
C) A and B