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How many picas are there to an inch? |
| | A) | Fifteen. |
| | B) | Three. |
| | C) | Six. |
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Which of the following is used to measure the length of a story? |
| | A) | Picas. |
| | B) | Points. |
| | C) | Inches. |
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A proportion wheel would be most useful in which of the following tasks: |
| | A) | Enlarging a photograph. |
| | B) | Computing line lengths. |
| | C) | Calculating text width. |
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Newsrooms using digital cameras can entirely dispense with darkrooms. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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Floppy disks are better than CDs for storing big photo, video, or music files. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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Which best describes the photographs you see in your daily paper? |
| | A) | Line art images. |
| | B) | Grayscale images. |
| | C) | Low-resolution images. |
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A grayscale image uses |
| | A) | Up to 1500 different shades of gray. |
| | B) | Up to 18 different shades of gray. |
| | C) | Up to 256 different shades of gray. |
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Which format for saving and printing scans is more commonly used? |
| | A) | TIFF (Tagged Image File Format). |
| | B) | EPS (Encapsulated PostScript). |
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Fair resolution images are best used in |
| | A) | Magazines or books. |
| | B) | Web images. |
| | C) | Newspapers. |
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A page-layout program will show you the actual scan of an image on your screen. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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Process colors can print as either solid tones or screens. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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The four process colors used in a printing press are |
| | A) | Aquamarine, crimson, yellow, and black. |
| | B) | Cyan, magenta, mustard, and burnt umber. |
| | C) | Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. |
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Sans serif type has tiny strokes, or serifs, at the tip of each letter. |
| | A) | False |
| | B) | True |
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A fifteen-point typeface is never exactly 15 points tall. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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Which of the following is the vertical space between lines of type? |
| | A) | Leading. |
| | B) | Tracking. |
| | C) | Kerning. |
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The four basic elements of newspaper design are |
| | A) | Headlines, text, photos, cutlines. |
| | B) | Text, image, frame, cutlines. |
| | C) | Header, flag, photos, and color. |
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Headlines serve to prioritize stories. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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Which is not true of contemporary newspaper headlines? |
| | A) | They are usually wide rather than narrow. |
| | B) | They are centered horizontally. |
| | C) | They use decks optionally. |
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Small headlines range from 24-48 point. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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If a headline is three columns wide, it should be 1-2 lines deep. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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Brainstorming page design on a computer is just as effective as drawing a dummy. |
| | A) | False. |
| | B) | True. |
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