CFPT Practice Questions (2025) comprehensive
questions and verified detailed solutions ( MULTIPLE
CHOICES) |100% CORRECT!!
The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that promote a particular
problem denition, interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation is
known in the media as:
a) agenda setting
b) cultivation
c) framing
d) priming
Correct answer: 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
Correct answer: 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was repealed by Congress in 1987?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
,Correct answer: Fairness Doctrine
Weber Shandwick, Fleishmen-Hillard, Hill anad Knowlton and Ketchum Inc. are among the
largest US-based:
a) Newspaper Chains
b) media conglomerates
c) public relations agencies
d) media research rms
Correct answer: c) public relations agencies
Operates independently of the State dept and reports directly to congress:
a) educational and cultural aairs bureau
b) public aair bureau
c) international information programs bureau
d) the broadcasting board of governors
Correct answer: 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:
Correct answer: 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?
Correct answer: Smith-Mundt
Which of the following is an oicial organ of the US govt public diplomacy eorts?
,a) national endowment for democracy
b) international visitors program
c) business for diplomatic action
Correct answer: 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 dened a form of reporting known as:
a) civic jounrlism
b) investigative reporting
c) muckraaking
d) new jounralism
Correct answer: new journalism
term commonly used to reect the contribution that the attractiveness of a nation's culture
and values can make to its international standing?
a) national branding
b) CNN eect
c) psychological operations
d) soft power
Correct answer: d) soft power
type of speech used when advocating a solution to a societal problem or arguing for action
on leg matter?
Correct answer: 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 inuential 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
Correct answer: b) invite inuential journalists to the embassy for one-on-one interviews
to explain the US position
What is the most eective 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
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 oice regarding the expansion of donor aid to Lapatria
Correct answer: 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
Correct answer: Radio Farda
questions and verified detailed solutions ( MULTIPLE
CHOICES) |100% CORRECT!!
The capacity of news media to select some aspects of a story that promote a particular
problem denition, interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation is
known in the media as:
a) agenda setting
b) cultivation
c) framing
d) priming
Correct answer: 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
Correct answer: 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
,Correct answer: Fairness Doctrine
Weber Shandwick, Fleishmen-Hillard, Hill anad Knowlton and Ketchum Inc. are among the
largest US-based:
a) Newspaper Chains
b) media conglomerates
c) public relations agencies
d) media research rms
Correct answer: c) public relations agencies
Operates independently of the State dept and reports directly to congress:
a) educational and cultural aairs bureau
b) public aair bureau
c) international information programs bureau
d) the broadcasting board of governors
Correct answer: 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:
Correct answer: 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?
Correct answer: Smith-Mundt
Which of the following is an oicial organ of the US govt public diplomacy eorts?
,a) national endowment for democracy
b) international visitors program
c) business for diplomatic action
Correct answer: 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 dened a form of reporting known as:
a) civic jounrlism
b) investigative reporting
c) muckraaking
d) new jounralism
Correct answer: new journalism
term commonly used to reect the contribution that the attractiveness of a nation's culture
and values can make to its international standing?
a) national branding
b) CNN eect
c) psychological operations
d) soft power
Correct answer: d) soft power
type of speech used when advocating a solution to a societal problem or arguing for action
on leg matter?
Correct answer: 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 inuential 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
Correct answer: b) invite inuential journalists to the embassy for one-on-one interviews
to explain the US position
What is the most eective 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
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 oice regarding the expansion of donor aid to Lapatria
Correct answer: 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
Correct answer: Radio Farda
