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CFPT PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS 2025
The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that promote a particular
problem definition, interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation is
known in the media as:
a) agenda setting
b) cultivation
c) framing
d) priming - c) framing
Which of the following is a daily newspaper published in the UK?
a) The Independent
b) Time Out
c) The Daily Herald
d) The Observer - a) The Independent
Which of these mandated that media broadcasters present a diversity of perspectives on
contentious or controversial issues in order to prevent domination by a single viewpoint,
was repealed by Congress in 1987?
a) Communications Decency Act
b) Equal Time Rule
c) Media Bias Rule
d) Fairness Doctrine - Fairness Doctrine
Weber Shandwick, Fleishmen-Hillard, Hill anad Knowlton and Ketchum Inc. are among
the largest US-based:
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a) Newspaper Chains
b) media conglomerates
c) public relations agencies
d) media research firms - c) public relations agencies
Operates independently of the State dept and reports directly to congress:
a) educational and cultural affairs bureau
b) public affair bureau
c) international information programs bureau
d) the broadcasting board of governors - d) the broadcasting board of gov
The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (or the Smith-Mundt Act)
prohibits the US gov from: - disseminating information intended for foreign audiences
within the US borders
US citizens are unlikely to be able to listen to or rea\d US public diplomacy outreach
materials because of which act of Congress? - Smith-Mundt
Which of the following is an official organ of the US govt public diplomacy efforts?
a) national endowment for democracy
b) international visitors program
c) business for diplomatic action - international visitors program
1960s and 1970s writers such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Tales, and Joan Didion often wrote
from the POV of their sources, one of the techniques that defined a form of reporting
known as:
a) civic jounrlism
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b) investigative reporting
c) muckraaking
d) new jounralism - new journalism
term commonly used to reflect the contribution that the attractiveness of a nation's culture
and values can make to its international standing?
a) national branding
b) CNN effect
c) psychological operations
d) soft power - d) soft power
type of speech used when advocating a solution to a societal problem or arguing for
action on leg matter? - persuasive
Relationships between the US and Lapatria are at an all time low. In order to best engage
with the local press, the embassy should:
a) avoid face to face contact with the press until diplomatic relations stabilize
b) invite influential journalists to the embassy for one-on-one interviews to explain the
US position
c) hold a press conference to explain the US position on the tensions
d) set up a Web page explaining the US position on the matter - b) invite influential
journalists to the embassy for one-on-one interviews to explain the US position
What is the most effective way to counter criticisms from the Lapatrian press about the
lack of donor aid from the US govt?
a) lobby for the expansion of US Agency for International Development (USAID)
support for development in Lapatria
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b) publish booklets and disseminate press releases that stress the importance of private as
well as public US philanthropic activities in Lapatria
c)host a press conference denouncing US crticisms as unjust
d) contact the State dept home office regarding the expansion of donor aid to Lapatria - b)
publish booklets and disseminate press releases that stress the importance of private as
well as public US philanthropic activities in Lapatria
Which is an international broadcasting service funded by the US govt and directed to
audiences in the middle east?
a) al Jazeera
b) Al-Arabiya
c) Radio Farda
d) Radio Dijla - Radio Farda
As part of US public dipolomacy outreach efforts, the US State Dept Bureau of
Educational and CUltural Affairs brings non-US citizens to the US for graudate study in
which of the following programs?
a) Herbert Hoover Fellows Program
b) Hubert H. HUmpreys Fellows Program
c) HEnry M. Catto Fellowships
d) E. Eugene Pell Fellows Program - Hubert H. Humpreys Fellows Program
Which is the best way to engage the local Lapatrian journalism community when it is
notoriously biased an do not adhere to internationally recognized standards of
professional journalism?
a) create an exchange program for Lapatrian and US journalists
b) invite established US academics and journalists to hold a journalism training workshop
CFPT
CFPT PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS 2025
The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that promote a particular
problem definition, interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation is
known in the media as:
a) agenda setting
b) cultivation
c) framing
d) priming - c) framing
Which of the following is a daily newspaper published in the UK?
a) The Independent
b) Time Out
c) The Daily Herald
d) The Observer - a) The Independent
Which of these mandated that media broadcasters present a diversity of perspectives on
contentious or controversial issues in order to prevent domination by a single viewpoint,
was repealed by Congress in 1987?
a) Communications Decency Act
b) Equal Time Rule
c) Media Bias Rule
d) Fairness Doctrine - Fairness Doctrine
Weber Shandwick, Fleishmen-Hillard, Hill anad Knowlton and Ketchum Inc. are among
the largest US-based:
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a) Newspaper Chains
b) media conglomerates
c) public relations agencies
d) media research firms - c) public relations agencies
Operates independently of the State dept and reports directly to congress:
a) educational and cultural affairs bureau
b) public affair bureau
c) international information programs bureau
d) the broadcasting board of governors - d) the broadcasting board of gov
The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (or the Smith-Mundt Act)
prohibits the US gov from: - disseminating information intended for foreign audiences
within the US borders
US citizens are unlikely to be able to listen to or rea\d US public diplomacy outreach
materials because of which act of Congress? - Smith-Mundt
Which of the following is an official organ of the US govt public diplomacy efforts?
a) national endowment for democracy
b) international visitors program
c) business for diplomatic action - international visitors program
1960s and 1970s writers such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Tales, and Joan Didion often wrote
from the POV of their sources, one of the techniques that defined a form of reporting
known as:
a) civic jounrlism
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,CFPT
b) investigative reporting
c) muckraaking
d) new jounralism - new journalism
term commonly used to reflect the contribution that the attractiveness of a nation's culture
and values can make to its international standing?
a) national branding
b) CNN effect
c) psychological operations
d) soft power - d) soft power
type of speech used when advocating a solution to a societal problem or arguing for
action on leg matter? - persuasive
Relationships between the US and Lapatria are at an all time low. In order to best engage
with the local press, the embassy should:
a) avoid face to face contact with the press until diplomatic relations stabilize
b) invite influential journalists to the embassy for one-on-one interviews to explain the
US position
c) hold a press conference to explain the US position on the tensions
d) set up a Web page explaining the US position on the matter - b) invite influential
journalists to the embassy for one-on-one interviews to explain the US position
What is the most effective way to counter criticisms from the Lapatrian press about the
lack of donor aid from the US govt?
a) lobby for the expansion of US Agency for International Development (USAID)
support for development in Lapatria
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, CFPT
b) publish booklets and disseminate press releases that stress the importance of private as
well as public US philanthropic activities in Lapatria
c)host a press conference denouncing US crticisms as unjust
d) contact the State dept home office regarding the expansion of donor aid to Lapatria - b)
publish booklets and disseminate press releases that stress the importance of private as
well as public US philanthropic activities in Lapatria
Which is an international broadcasting service funded by the US govt and directed to
audiences in the middle east?
a) al Jazeera
b) Al-Arabiya
c) Radio Farda
d) Radio Dijla - Radio Farda
As part of US public dipolomacy outreach efforts, the US State Dept Bureau of
Educational and CUltural Affairs brings non-US citizens to the US for graudate study in
which of the following programs?
a) Herbert Hoover Fellows Program
b) Hubert H. HUmpreys Fellows Program
c) HEnry M. Catto Fellowships
d) E. Eugene Pell Fellows Program - Hubert H. Humpreys Fellows Program
Which is the best way to engage the local Lapatrian journalism community when it is
notoriously biased an do not adhere to internationally recognized standards of
professional journalism?
a) create an exchange program for Lapatrian and US journalists
b) invite established US academics and journalists to hold a journalism training workshop
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