1) Thanatos, from Greek mythology, is generally understood as a response to the
A) invention of life and death.
B) reincarnation of deities.
C) personification of death.
D) God of the afterlife.
2) Deaths of the famous are likely to be announced on the newspaper's front page as well as
via feature-length
A) death notices.
B) narcocorridos.
C) elegies.
D) obituaries.
3) A feature length story on the death of someone famous is a/an
A) mediamac.
B) obituary.
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C) lossography.
D) journalist's life review.
4) Brief standardized printed statements following the death of an average citizen are called
A) obituaries.
B) death notices.
C) thanatographs.
D) death dirges.
5) Media experts say that the "reality violence" on TV news began with coverage of the
A) Kennedy assassination.
B) explosion of the space shuttle.
C) Vietnam War.
D) Los Angeles riots.
6) Depictions of death in the mass media, in which the symbolic use of death contributes to
an "irrational dread of dying and thus to a diminished vitality and self-direction in life" is
referred to as
A) mean world syndrome.
B) media overload.
C) communication depression syndrome.
D) secondary trauma.
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7) In Gerbner's "mean world syndrome", the symbolic use of death contributes to
1. an irrational dread of dying.
2. diminished vitality.
3. diminished self-direction in life.
4. an increased hoarding of weapons.
A) 1, 2, and 4
B) 2, 3, and 4
C) 1, 3, and 4
D) 1, 2, and 3
8) According to George Gerbner, the "mean world syndrome" describes depictions of death
in the mass media as embedded in a structure of violence that conveys
A) security and trust in the world.
B) an enhanced vitality and joy in life.
C) numbness and dismissal of death.
D) a heightened sense of danger.
9) What do some commentators call the new "porn star" of popular culture?
A) The TV medical examiner
B) Crisis text ‘hot' lines
C) The corpse
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D) Managed death
10) Avoiding words like dead or dying, instead using phrases in which loved ones "pass
away," the deceased is "laid to rest" and the corpse is "remains", is an example of
A) death porn.
B) euphemisms.
C) thanatos.
D) keenings.
11) Substitutions of vague words or phrases for ones considered harsh are
A) euphemisms.
B) death porn.
C) the indicative voice.
D) linguistic deliberations.
12) Snuffed, ate it, wasted, and croaked are examples of
A) death talk.
B) laments.
C) American language dirges.
D) monolithic variables.
13) After someone dies, conversations about that person move from present to past tense.
This form of speech is called the
A) death narrative.
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