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Chapter #1: Key Term Quiz
Chapter #1: Key Term Quiz
▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. LAN stands for:
a. logical access node
b. link/asset navigator
c. local area network
d. list authoring number
e. low-angle noise
5. A project that is shipped or sold to consumers or end users, typically in a box or sleeve or
on the Internet, with or without instructions, is:
a. a CD-ROM
b. an authoring tool
c. a multimedia project
d. a multimedia title
6. The 19th-century Russian composer who used an orchestra, a piano, a chorus, and a
special color organ to synthesize music and color in his Fifth Symphony, Prometheus was:
a. Rachmaninoff
b. Tchaikovsky
c. Scriabin
d. Rimsky-Korsakoff
e. Shostakovich
7. Which one of the following is not/are not typically part of a multimedia specification?
a. text
b. odors
c. sound
d. video
e. pictures
8. VR stands for:
a. virtual reality
b. visual response
c. video raster
d. variable rate
e. valid registry
9. According to one source, in interactive multimedia presentations where you are really
involved, the retention rate is as high as:
a. 20 percent
b. 40 percent
c. 80 percent
d. 60 percent
e. 100 percent
10. Which of the following is displayable on a web page after installation of a browser plug-in?
a. Windows 7
b. Adobe Flash
c. Mozilla
d. Internet Explorer
e. Firefox
12. The glass fiber cables that make up much of the physical backbone of the data highway are, in
many cases, owned by:
a. local governments
b. Howard Johnson
c. television networks
d. railroads and pipeline companies
e. book publishers
15. Which of the following is not a technology likely to prevail as a delivery means for interactive
multimedia files?
a. copper wire
b. glass fiber
c. radio/cellular
d. floppy disk
e. CD-ROM
Chapter #2.
▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. A family of graphic characters that usually includes many type sizes and styles is called a:
a. typeface
b. font
c. point
d. link
e. node
2. Which of the following is a term that applies to the spacing between characters of text?
a. leading
b. kerning
c. tracking
d. points
e. dithering
3. Intercepting, the practice of placing a capital in the middle of a word, is a trend that emerged
from the computer programming community because:
a. it looks cool
b. they wanted to copy marketing practices in the electronics industry
c. they found they could see the words used for variables and commands better
d. one of the first computer programmers had a faulty shift key on his keyboard
e. it increases security in case-sensitive passwords
4. Dynamic HTML uses _______ to define choices ranging from line height to margin width to
font face.
a. Cascading Style Sheets
b. font mapping
c. font substitution
d. software robots
e. encapsulated PostScript
5. 5. If a DHTML document includes a font face that is not installed on the user’s computer, a
browser will:
a. Automatically download the correct font
b. refuse to load the page
c. leave a blank space where that text is
d. crash
e. try to substitute the font with a similar looking font
13. The reference from one document to another document, image, sound, or file on the Web
is a(n):
a. sweetspot
b. anchor
c. node
d. tag
e. button
15. Which of the following is a typical method for word searching in a hypermedia system?
a. best fit
b. adjacency
c. popularity
d. tracking
e. localization
Chapter #3.
▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. What is the best way to start creating your project’s interface?
a. Start with pencil, eraser, and paper.
b. Outline your project and graphic ideas.
c. Storyboard using stick figures.
d. Use three-by-five index cards and shuffle them.
e. All of the above
6. Name the area of memory where data such as text and images is temporarily stored when you
cut or copy within an application.
a. scrapbook
b. notepad
c. junkyard
d. filedump
e. clipboard
7. Perhaps the single most significant advance in computer image processing during the late
1980s was the development of:
a. digital cameras
b. 3-D modeling programs
c. image-editing programs
d. scanners
e. electronic crayons
9. Graphic artists designing for print media use vector-drawn objects because:
a. they can contain more subtle variations in shading than bitmap graphics
b. printing inks respond better to them
c. they can be converted across platforms more easily
d. they can be scaled to print at any size
e. they can be viewed directly in Web browsers
10. The 3-D process of extending a plane surface some distance, either perpendicular to the
shape’s outline or along a defined path, is called:
a. lathing
b. rendering
c. modeling
d. extruding
e. skinning
12. Which of these is the correct HTML hexadecimal representation of magenta (red + blue)?
a. 00GGHH
b. #FF00FF
c. 255,0,255
d. %R100-%G0-%B100
e. <color = “magenta”>
14. Which of the following is not a native Windows graphics file format?
a. BMP
b. RIFF
c. TIFF
d. PCX
e. PICT
▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. The file format that uses a shorthand representation of musical notes and durations stored in
numeric form is:
a. AIFF
b. CD-ROM/XA
c. DSP
d. MIDI
e. QuickTime
2. Which of these statements regarding the MIDI audio format is not true?
a. The sound can easily be changed by changing instruments.
b. Spoken audio can easily be included.
c. Sound tracks can be created using sequencing software.
d. Files are generally smaller than the same digital audio sound.
e. Sounds can be stretched and timing changed with no distortion of the quality.
3. The primary benefit of the General MIDI over the previous MIDI specification is that:
a. the file sizes are much smaller due to the compression scheme
b. users can easily edit and adjust the data structures
c. it can be easily converted into the CDROM/XA format
d. MIDI files can be easily integrated into the computer’s operating system as
system sounds
e. the instruments are the same regardless of the playback source
4. What happens when an audio signal exceeds the recording device’s maximum recording level?
a. The signal is compressed to an appropriate level.
b. “Clipping” of the signal occurs, introducing distortion.
c. The audio clip is extended to accommodate the extra data.
d. The entire clip’s volume is reduced correspondingly.
e. The extra bits go into a buffer for later use.
5. As one story goes, the criterion used to set the length of the sectors and ultimately the
physical size of the compact disc format was based on the length of:
a. the Beatles’ “White Album”
b. Handel’s Messiah
c. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
d. Bach’s St. John’s Passion
e. Iron Butterfly’s live rendition of “Innagaddadavida”
7. The file size of a five-second recording sampled at 22 kHz, 16-bit stereo (two tracks) would be
about:
a. 110,000 bytes
b. 220,000 bytes
c. 440,000 bytes
d. 550,000 bytes
e. 880,000 bytes
8. Which of the following sound file characteristics does not directly affect the size of a digital
audio file?
a. sample rate
b. sample size
c. tracks (stereo vs. mono)
d. volume
e. compression
11. Removing blank space or “dead air” at the beginning or end of a recording is sometimes
called:
a. quieting
b. pre-rolling
c. quantizing
d. trimming
e. flashing
14. The slower a user’s connection, the longer he must wait for enough of the sound to download
so that the entire file will have downloaded by the time the sound reaches the end. This effect
is called:
a. streaming latency
b. post-processing
c. compression
d. digital signal processing
e. multitap delay
▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. Most authoring packages include visual effects such as:
a. panning, zooming, and tilting
b. wipes, fades, zooms, and dissolves
c. morphing
d. tweening
e. inverse kinematics
5. The clear sheets that were used for drawing each frame of animation have been
replaced today by:
a. acetate or plastic
b. titanium
c. fiberglass
d. epoxy resin
e. digital paper
7. The technical limitation you are likely to encounter in creating animations is:
a. the monitor’s refresh rate
b. the computer’s processing capability
c. the ability to accurately calculate physical actions
d. the “persistence of vision” phenomenon
e. the monitor’s color gamut
8. In general, the animation may appear jerky and slow if each frame is displayed for more than
about:
a. 1/30 of a second
b. 1/15 of a second
c. 1/4 of a second
d. 1/2 of a second
e. 1 second
9. The process in which you link objects such as hands to arms and define their relationships and
limits (for example, elbows cannot bend backward), then drag these parts around and let the
computer calculate the result is called:
a. rotoscoping
b. de-morphing
c. meta-articulation
d. cyber-motion
e. inverse kinematics
10. To create a smooth transition between two images when morphing, it’s important to
set numerous:
a. layers
b. keyframes
c. key points
d. anchor tags
e. splines
12. Today, the most widely used tool for creating vector-based animations is:
a. Adobe’s Flash
b. Adobe’s GoLive
c. Corel’s CorelDraw
d. Microsoft’s KineMatix
e. Activa’s InterStudio
14. The file format that is most widely supported for web animations is:
a. PICT
b. .DCR
c. GIF89a
d. JPEG
e. AIFF
15. To keep the post-compression file size at absolute minimums, Flash makes extensive use of:
a. inverse kinematics
b. cel-type animation
c. vector graphics
d. inks
e. NURBS
Chapter #6.
▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. In a video camera, the sensor that picks up light is called a CCD. CCD stands for:
a. color-coding data
b. custom color descriptor
c. chroma-calculation daemon
d. charge-coupled device
e. carbon crystal digitizer
3. Removing a residual magnetic field that distorts the colors on a television screen is called:
a. tracking
b. dubbing
c. streaming
d. flattening
e. degaussing
4. A video signal transmitted with all the signals mixed together and carried on a single cable is
called:
a. RGB video
b. composite video
c. component video
d. multiformat video
e. chroma-key video
6. Computer displays draw the lines of an entire frame in a single pass; this technique is called:
a. streaming
b. progressive-scan
c. packing
d. flattening
e. overscan
7. The video technique that allows you to choose a color or range of colors that become
transparent, allowing the video image to be visible behind those colors in the overlying image,
is known by all of the following except:
a. blue screen
b. Ultimatte
c. chroma key
d. interlacing
e. green screen
15. Which of the following HTML5 tags is used in the display of multimedia video?
a. <LOAD>
b. <ANIMATE>
c. <FORWARD>
d. <PLAY>
e. None of the above