Media and Information Literacy

Quiz No. 2
I. Direction: Match the description from Column A to the word it describes in
Column B. Write the letter of your final answer. STRICTLY NO ERASURES.
A B
1.Used for long-distance communication by transmitting electrical signals over A. Pre-Industrial Age
a wire laid between stations.
2. Thought to be the first daily gazettes. B. Electronic Age
3. People in this age discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged C. Alexander Graham
weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. Bell
4. It is made from pith a plant. It is used in ancient times as writing surface to D. Television
designate documents written on its sheets, rolled up to scrolls.
5. He received patent from the U.S. Patent Office for ‘the method of, and E. Jonathan Abrams
apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically, by causing
electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of air accompanying the
said vocal or other sound.
6. Also known as film or movie, it is series of still photos on film, projected in F. Acta Diurna
rapid succession onto a screen by means of light.
7. In this age people harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor G. Backrub
radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers.
8. It is a machine with a screen. It receives broadcast signals and turn them into H. Mark Zuckerberg
pictures and sound.
9. Type of computer that generally are known for their large size, amount of I.Overhead Projector
storage, processing power and high level of reliability.
10. He founded the Mountain View, California-based social networking game J. Googol
Friendster, which debuted in March 2003
11. It is the original term or google K. Telegraph
12. He created facebook in 2004 L. Internet Explorer
13. It is used for showing prepared illustrations on a screen, but with the M. Mainframe
advantage over the projector that the illustrations can be manipulated while
they are being projected.
14. It is a computer designed to be easily moved from one place to another, as N. Papyrus
opposed to those designed to remain stationary at a single location such as
desktops and workstations.
15. It was the most popular browser from 1999 O. Motion Picture
P. Portable Laptop

II. Enumeration and strictly no erasures.

1-4. Four ages during the evolution of media
5-6. Examples of media during the New or Information Age
7-8. Examples of media during the Industrial Age
9-10. Reasons why it is important to study the history of media.
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2. F
3. A
4. N
5. C
6. O
7. B
8. D
9. M
10. E
11. G
12. H
13. I
14. P
15. L