Chapter #1.
▪ Key Term Quiz
1. Multimedia is any combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video delivered to
you by computer or other electronic means.
2. Interactive multimedia allows an end user to control what and when the elements are
delivered.
3. Hypermedia is a structure of linked elements through which the user can navigate.
4. A linear multimedia project allows users to sit back and watch it just as they do a movie or
the television.
5. Authoring tools are software tools designed to manage individual multimedia elements and
provide user interaction.
6. The sum of what gets played back and how it is presented to the viewer on a monitor is the
GUI.
7. The hardware and software that govern the limits of what can happen are the multimedia
platform.
8. The information that makes up a multimedia presentation is referred to as content .
9. CD and DVD burners are used for reading and making discs.
10. HTML and DHTML web pages or sites are generally viewed using a browser.
▪ 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
2. A browser is used to view:
a. program code
b. storyboards
c. fonts
d. Web-based pages and documents
e. videodiscs
3. The “ROM” in “CD-ROM” stands for:
a. random-order memory
b. real-object memory
c. read-only memory
d. raster-output memory
e. red-orange memory
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4. The software vehicle, the messages, and the content presented on a computer or television
screen together make up:
a. a multimedia project
b. a CD-ROM
c. a web site
d. a multimedia title
e. an authoring tool
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
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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
11. PDA stands for:
a. primary digital asset
b. processor digital application
c. personal digital assistant
d. practical digital accessory
e. portable digital armor
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
13. DVD stands for:
a. Digital Versatile Disc
b. Digital Video Disc
c. Duplicated Virtual Disc
d. Density-Variable Disc
e. Double-View Disc
14. Genealogy software is used to
a. Study benthic sediments
b. Organize class reunions
c. Display family trees
d. Compute shortest routes for ambulances
e. Open e-mail
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
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Chapter #2.
▪ Key Term Quiz
1. Type sizes are usually expressed in points .
2. When a password must be entered in upper- or lowercase in order to match the original
password, it is said to be case sensitive .
3. Symbolic representations of objects and processes common to the graphical user interfaces
of many computer operating systems are called icons .
4. Special HTML characters, always prefixed by an ampersand (escape) and followed by a
semicolon, are called html entities .
5. “What you see is what you get” is spoken as WYSIWYG.
6. Translating or designing multimedia (or any computer-based material) into a language
other than the one in which it was originally written is called localization .
7. The little decoration at the end of a letter stroke is a serif .
8. Designers call roomy blank areas white space.
9. Anti-aliasing blends the colors along the edges of the letters (called dithering) to create a
soft transition between the letter and its background.
10. Conceptual elements consisting of text, graphics, sounds, or related information in the
knowledge base are called nodes .
▪ 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
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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
6. In the URL http://www.timestream.com/info/people/biotay/biotay1.html, which part is case
sensitive?
a. the record type: “http://”
b. the domain name:“timestream.com”
c. the subdomain “www”
d. the document path: “info/people/biotay/biotay1.html”
e. all are case sensitive
7. Multimedia becomes interactive multimedia when:
a. the user has some control over what information is viewed and when it is viewed
b. the information is displayed by a computer with a touchscreen or other input device
c. the information is available on the Web—either the Internet or a local area network
d. quizzes and tests with evaluations and scoring are included
e. the user can change such attributes as volume and type size
8. Interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia when:
a. the information is available on the Web—either the Internet or a local area network
b. quizzes and tests with evaluations and scoring are included
b. it includes a structure of linked elements through which a user can navigate and interact
c. the user can change such attributes as volume and type size
d. the content formatting complies with the American Standard Code for Information
Interchange
9. Web pages are coded using:
a. Unicode
b. American Standard Code for Information Interchange
c. File Transfer Protocol
d. Hypertext Markup Language
e. encapsulated PostScript
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10. Which of the following provides a system for dynamically displaying a font?
a. Apache
b. PostScript
c. HTTPD
d. serif
e. WYSIWYG
11. A printed page might be presented in which of these orientations?
a. newsscape
b. portrait
c. flat-file
d. x-height
e. node
12. Which of the following is a character encoding system?
a. FontTab
b. HTML
c. CSS
d. WYSIWYG
e. Unicode
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
14. Which of the following is a problem that might apply to hypermedia?
a. Users’ eye movements affect their ability to link.
b. Users will be turned off by excessive animation.
c. Hypermedia software might create inappropriate links.
d. Current hyperlinking technology far exceeds what today’s desktop computers can
handle.
e. Search results generally are too granular to be useful.
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
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Chapter #3.
▪ Key Term Quiz
1. The working area of a computer display is sometimes called real estate.
2. The type of image used for photo-realistic images and for complex drawings requiring fine
detail is the bitmap .
3. The type of image used for lines, boxes, circles, polygons, and other graphic shapes that can
be mathematically expressed in angles, coordinates, and distances is the vector-drawn .
4. The picture elements that make up a bitmap are called pixels.
5. Morphing allows you to smoothly blend two images so that one image seems to melt into
the next.
6. The process that computes the bounds of the shapes of colors within a bitmap image and
then derives the polygon object that describes that image is called auto-tracing .
7. Rendering is when the computer uses intricate algorithms to apply the effects you have
specified on the objects you have created for a final 3-D image.
8. Pixilation is the blocky, jagged look resulting from too little information in a bitmapped
image.
9. A collection of color values available for display is called a palette .
10. Dithering is a process whereby the color value of each pixel is changed to the closest
matching color value in the target palette, using a mathematical algorithm.
▪ 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
2. Which image file type is best for photographs?
a. vector
b. encapsulated PostScript
c. bitmap
d. Shockwave
e. Laser
3. A 24-bit image is capable of representing how many different colors?
a. 2
b. 16
c. 256
d. 65,536
e. 16,772,216
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4. Vector-drawn objects are used for all of the following except:
a. lines
b. circles
c. polygons
d. photographs
e. boxes
5. “Unlimited use” of stock photography may actually impose a limitation on:
a. the number of units you can distribute without paying more.
b. the number of changes you can make to the image.
c. converting the image to another file format.
d. the filters you may use to alter the image.
e. the price you can charge for your product.
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
8. When an image created on a Macintosh is viewed on a PC:
a. it appears darker and richer because the values have changed
b. it appears lighter and less saturated because the values have changed
c. it appears darker and richer even though the values have not changed
d. it appears lighter and less saturated even though the values have not changed
e. it appears exactly the same
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
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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
11. A GIF image may contain:
a. 8 bits of color information per pixel
b. 16 bits of color information per pixel
c. 24 bits of color information per pixel
d. 32 bits of color information per pixel
e. 48 bits of color information per pixel
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”>
13. Which of the following is not a color specification format?
a. RGB
b. HSB
c. GIF
d. CMYK
e. CIE
14. Which of the following is not a native Windows graphics file format?
a. BMP
b. RIFF
c. TIFF
d. PCX
e. PICT
15. TIFF stands for:
a. Transitional Image File Format
b. Total Inclusion File Format
c. Tagged Interchange File Format
d. Temporary Instruction File Format
e. Table Index File Format
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