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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Chapter #4.

▪ Key Term Quiz

1. The branch of physics that studies sound is acoustics .
2. Sound pressure levels (loudness or volume) are measured in decibels (dB) .
3. To adjust the level of a number of tracks to bring them all up to about the same level is to
lossy them.
4. When audio is measured in order to be digitally stored, the value of each measurement is
rounded off to the nearest integer in a process called quantization .
5. Reducing the number of separate measurements of an audio file is called down-sampling .
6. The standard file format for displaying digitized motion video on the Macintosh is
QuickTime .
7. The most common file format for editing sound on the Macintosh is AIFF .
8. The audio file format introduced by Microsoft and IBM with the introduction of Windows is
the WAV .
9. The process of playing a sound file while part of the file is still downloading is called
streaming .
10. Some software allows you to begin playing a downloading sound file as soon as enough of
the sound is cached in your computer’s buffer .

▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. The file format that uses a shorthand representation of musical notes and durations stored in
numeric form is:
a. AIFF
b. CD-ROM/XA
c. DSP
d. MIDI
e. QuickTime

2. Which of these statements regarding the MIDI audio format is not true?
a. The sound can easily be changed by changing instruments.
b. Spoken audio can easily be included.
c. Sound tracks can be created using sequencing software.
d. Files are generally smaller than the same digital audio sound.
e. Sounds can be stretched and timing changed with no distortion of the quality.

3. The primary benefit of the General MIDI over the previous MIDI specification is that:
a. the file sizes are much smaller due to the compression scheme
b. users can easily edit and adjust the data structures
c. it can be easily converted into the CDROM/XA format
d. MIDI files can be easily integrated into the computer’s operating system as system
sounds
e. the instruments are the same regardless of the playback source

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 4. What happens when an audio signal exceeds the recording device’s maximum recording level?
a. The signal is compressed to an appropriate level.
b. “Clipping” of the signal occurs, introducing distortion.
c. The audio clip is extended to accommodate the extra data.
d. The entire clip’s volume is reduced correspondingly.
e. The extra bits go into a buffer for later use.

5. As one story goes, the criterion used to set the length of the sectors and ultimately the
physical size of the compact disc format was based on the length of:
a. the Beatles’ “White Album”
b. Handel’s Messiah
c. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
d. Bach’s St. John’s Passion
e. Iron Butterfly’s live rendition of “Innagaddadavida”

6. The process of recording a sound, stored in the form of thousands of individual

measurements, each at a discrete point in time, is called:
a. sampling
b. synthesizing
c. sizing
d. quantizing
e. streaming

7. The file size of a five-second recording sampled at 22 kHz, 16-bit stereo (two tracks) would be
about:
a. 110,000 bytes
b. 220,000 bytes
c. 440,000 bytes
d. 550,000 bytes
e. 880,000 bytes

8. Which of the following sound file characteristics does not directly affect the size of a digital
audio file?
a. sample rate
b. sample size
c. tracks (stereo vs. mono)
d. volume
e. compression

9. Each individual measurement of a sound that is stored as digital information is called a:

a. buffer
b. stream
c. sample
d. capture
e. byte

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 10. Audio recorded at 44.1 kHz (kilohertz), 16-bit stereo is considered:
a. phone-quality
b. voice-quality
c. FM-quality
d. CD-quality
e. AM-quality

11. Removing blank space or “dead air” at the beginning or end of a recording is sometimes
called:
a. quieting
b. pre-rolling
c. quantizing
d. trimming
e. flashing

12. DSP stands for:

a. dynamic sound programming
b. data structuring parameters
c. direct splicing and partitioning
d. delayed streaming playback
e. digital signal processing

13. Sequencing software:

a. places audio clips in order in a soundtrack
b. records and edits MIDI data
c. applies filters to digital audio clips in a predetermined order
d. manages a project by creating a timeline of events
e. helps synchronize images with a sound track

14. The slower a user’s connection, the longer he must wait for enough of the sound to download
so that the entire file will have downloaded by the time the sound reaches the end. This effect
is called:
a. streaming latency
b. post-processing
c. compression
d. digital signal processing
e. multitap delay

15. The Red Book standard was so named because:

a. the standard was pioneered in the former Soviet Union
b. red is an acronym for “Registered Electronic Data”
c. the standard’s book jacket was red
d. it was so expensive to produce CDs early on that most producers were “in the red”
e. the dye in the first recordable CDs had a reddish tint

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Chapter #5.

▪ Key Term Quiz

1. An object seen by the human eye remains chemically mapped on the retina for a brief time
after viewing. This phenomenon is called persistence of vision .
2. The human mind needs to conceptually complete a perceived action. This phenomenon is
called phi .
3. To make an object travel across the screen while it changes its shape, just change the shape
and also move or translate it a few pixels for each frame.
4. The animation technique made famous by Disney involves showing a different image for
each frame. This technique is called cel animation.
5. The first and last frames of an action are called keyFrames.
6. The series of frames in between the first and last frames in an action are drawn in a process
called tweening .
7. In computer animation terminology, inks usually refers to special methods that allow
images to blend or otherwise mix their colors to produce special transparencies, inversions,
and effects.
8. The study of the movement and motion of structures that have joints is called kinematics .
9. The effect in which one image transforms into another is known as morphing .

▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. Most authoring packages include visual effects such as:
a. panning, zooming, and tilting
b. wipes, fades, zooms, and dissolves
c. morphing
d. tweening
e. inverse kinematics

2. The term cel derives from:

a. the concept of each action in a sequence being a separate element or “cell”
b. the fact that the inks used in early animations were based on extracts from celery plants
c. an abbreviation of the phrase “composite element”
d. the fact that the first animations were the work of communist dissidents who were
organized into cells
e. the clear celluloid sheets that were used for drawing each frame

3. Which of these is not a reason why animation is perceived as motion?

a. An image remains in the eye chemically for a brief time after viewing.
b. Our mind tries to “connect the dots” by completing perceived actions.
c. The use of darker colors for moving objects is interpreted by the mind as motion.
d. A sequence of images is read as continuous motion.
e. All of the above are valid reasons.

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 4. Movies on film are typically shot at a shutter rate of:
a. 15 frames per second
b. 24 frames per second
c. 29.97 frames per second
d. 30 frames per second
e. 48 frames per second

5. The clear sheets that were used for drawing each frame of animation have been replaced
today by:
a. acetate or plastic
b. titanium
c. fiberglass
d. epoxy resin
e. digital paper

6. Today’s computer animation programs most closely resemble:

a. film “rotoscoping” techniques
b. the “phi” phenomenon described by Carl Jung
c. neuro-kinetics techniques pioneered by NASA
d. traditional cel animation
e. none of the above

7. The technical limitation you are likely to encounter in creating animations is:
a. the monitor’s refresh rate
b. the computer’s processing capability
c. the ability to accurately calculate physical actions
d. the “persistence of vision” phenomenon
e. the monitor’s color gamut

8. In general, the animation may appear jerky and slow if each frame is displayed for more than
about:
a. 1/30 of a second
b. 1/15 of a second
c. 1/4 of a second
d. 1/2 of a second
e. 1 second

9. The process in which you link objects such as hands to arms and define their relationships and
limits (for example, elbows cannot bend backward), then drag these parts around and let the
computer calculate the result is called:
a. rotoscoping
b. de-morphing
c. meta-articulation
d. cyber-motion
e. inverse kinematics

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 10. To create a smooth transition between two images when morphing, it’s important to set
numerous:
a. layers
b. keyframes
c. key points
d. anchor tags
e. splines

11. The standard frame rate of computer animations is:

a. 10 frames per second
b. 15 frames per second
c. 24 frames per second
d. 30 frames per second
e. There is no standard; it depends on the file’s settings.

12. Today, the most widely used tool for creating vector-based animations is:
a. Adobe’s Flash
b. Adobe’s GoLive
c. Corel’s CorelDraw
d. Microsoft’s KineMatix
e. Activa’s InterStudio

13. The Director file format has which extension?

a. .dir and .dcr
b. .fli and .flc
c. .avi
d. .qt, .mov
e. .mpeg or .mpg

14. The file format that is most widely supported for web animations is:
a. PICT
b. .DCR
c. GIF89a
d. JPEG
e. AIFF

15. To keep the post-compression file size at absolute minimums, Flash makes extensive use of:
a. inverse kinematics
b. cel-type animation
c. vector graphics
d. inks
e. NURBS

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Chapter #6.

▪ Key Term Quiz

1. A redundant hard-disk system that will support high-speed data transfer rates is called a
RAID.
2. The television signal format used in the United States, Japan, and many other countries is
known as NTSC.
3. Television screens use a process of building a single frame from two fields to help prevent
flicker on CRTs in a technique called interlacing.
4. When creating graphics for conversion to video, do not place any critical information such
as text in the outside 15 percent of the image. Instead, keep it within the safe little area
(three words).
5. High-Definition Television (HDTV) is displayed in a(n) 16:9 aspect ratio.
6. The television signal format used in France, Russia, and a few other countries is known as
SECAM .
7. The digital video and audio compression schemes that compress a video for delivery and
then decode it during playback are called MPEG-4.
8. When reformatting a 4:3 aspect ratio video to fit in the center of a HDTV screen, leaving the
sides empty, the effect is called pillars .
9. The video compression/decompression scheme used in an Ogg container is called codec.
10. MPEG is an acronym for Moving Pictures Experts Group.

▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. In a video camera, the sensor that picks up light is called a CCD. CCD stands for:
a. color-coding data
b. custom color descriptor
c. chroma-calculation daemon
d. charge-coupled device
e. carbon crystal digitizer

2. A computer’s output on a CRT is calibrated to display an image:

a. smaller than the actual monitor’s capability
b. larger than the actual monitor’s capability
c. exactly the same size as the actual monitor’s capability
d. that adjusts automatically to the monitor’s capability
e. of a fixed size; whether it is larger or smaller than the monitor’s capability depends on
the monitor

3. Removing a residual magnetic field that distorts the colors on a television screen is called:
a. tracking
b. dubbing
c. streaming
d. flattening
e. degaussing

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 4. A video signal transmitted with all the signals mixed together and carried on a single cable is
called:
a. RGB video
b. composite video
c. component video
d. multiformat video
e. chroma-key video

5. Which of the following is not a television signal format?

a. MPEG
b. NTSC
c. PAL
d. SECAM
e. HDTV

6. Computer displays draw the lines of an entire frame in a single pass; this technique is called:
a. streaming
b. progressive-scan
c. packing
d. flattening
e. overscan

7. The video technique that allows you to choose a color or range of colors that become
transparent, allowing the video image to be visible behind those colors in the overlying image,
is known by all of the following except:
a. blue screen
b. Ultimatte
c. chroma key
d. interlacing
e. green screen

8. Which of the following is a multimedia container format?

a. JPEG
b. DVD-RW
c. ComponentY
d. Hi-8
e. Ogg

9. Red or green should be avoided as cue colors because:

a. they represent negative ideas in some cultures
b. they do not blend well with other colors
c. color-blind individuals cannot see them correctly
d. they are associated with “stop” and “go”
e. they remind people of Christmas

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 10. Which of the following is not a good idea when creating titles (text) to be used in video?
a. Fonts for titles should be plain, sans serif, and bold enough to be easily read.
b. When you are laying text onto a dark background, use white or a light color for the text.
c. Do not kern your letters too tightly.
d. If you use underlining or drawn graphics, make sure your lines are only one pixel wide.
e. Use a drop shadow to help separate the text from the background.

11. Which of the following is not a typical studio light?

a. rim light
b. fill light
c. key light
d. background light
e. focal light

12. Which of the following is not a codec?

a. H.264
b. Theora
c. NTSC
d. VP6
e. VP8

13. Generation loss occurs when:

a. an analog tape is copied to another analog tape
b. a digital file is copied to another hard disk
c. a digital file is copied to another hard drive
d. a digital file is compressed with a lossy codec
e. your teenage son gets his tongue pierced

14. MPEG stands for:

a. Multiformat Processed-Event Graphics
b. Multi-Phase Element Grid
c. Meta-Program Environment Graph
d. Moving Picture Experts Group
e. Micro-Phase Electronic Guidance

15. Which of the following HTML5 tags is used in the display of multimedia video?
a. <LOAD>
b. <ANIMATE>
c. <FORWARD>
d. <PLAY>
e. None of the above

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Chapter #7.

▪ Key Term Quiz

1. A(n) prototype is a simple, working example that demonstrates whether or not an idea is
feasible.
2. A(n) binary compatible file requires no cross-platform conversion.
3. FAQ stands for frequently asked questions .
4. A package of software applications that might include a spreadsheet, database, e-mail, web
browser, and presentation applications is called a(n) office suite (two words).
5. A program that changes an image from one type of graphics file to another is a(n) format
converter (two words).
6. A network of workstations located within a short distance of one another that allows direct
communication and sharing of peripheral resources such as file servers, printers, scanners,
and network modems is called a(n) LAN .
7. The type of memory used by a computer to run several programs at the same time is called
RAM .
8. The type of memory that is not erased when power is shut off to it is called ROM.
9. Elements and events are organized along a timeline in a(n) time-based (two words)
authoring system.
10. Each graphic scene in an animation is referred to as a(n) frame.

▪ Multiple-Choice Quiz
1. As you design and build a multimedia project, your most often used tool may be your:
a. word processor
b. authoring system
c. image processor
d. drawing program
e. format converter

2. Of all the multimedia elements in a project, the one that will likely have the greatest influence
on the end user is the:
a. video footage
b. sound effects
c. graphical impact
d. packaging
e. musical background

3. Painting software is dedicated to producing:

a. vector images
b. animations
c. 3-D images
d. bitmap images
e. video clips

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 4. DVD stands for:
a. Dynamically-Variable Disc
b. Distributed Video Disc
c. Data-Vision Disc
d. Double-Volume Disc
e. Digital Versatile Disc

5. When you turn off the power to this type of storage, any data stored in it is lost.
a. CD-ROM
b. ROM
c. OROM
d. EPROM
e. RAM

6. A barcode reader can:

a. scan graphics into a computer
b. read Universal Product Code patterns
c. provide pressure-sensitive input
d. recognize spoken words when trained
e. all of the above

7. Which of these is not a common platform for producing and delivering multimedia projects?
a. Macintosh OS X
b. Windows 98
c. Macintosh Classic
d. Windows XP
e. IBM VMS

8. A scripting language is considered:

a. a very low level language (VLLL)
b. an assembler language
c. a subset of HTML
d. a form of BASIC
e. a very high level language (VHLL)

9. For a project whose content consists of elements that can be viewed individually, this type of
authoring system is particularly useful during development.
a. card- or page-based tool
b. icon-based, event-driven tool
c. time-based tool
d. scripting language
e. All are equally useful.

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 10. Scripting languages operate by processing small blocks of code when certain events occur.
Such a block of code is called:
a. a function
b. a handler
c. a process
d. a script
e. a protocol

11. Most card-based programs have a layer that stays constant behind a layer above it that can be
different on all other cards. This layer is called the:
a. master layer
b. system layer
c. prime layer
d. background layer
e. static layer

12. In multimedia authoring systems, multimedia elements and events are often treated as
objects that exist in a hierarchical relationship. This relationship is often called:
a. servant and master
b. host and client
c. property and modifier
d. creator and creature
e. parent and child

13. Which of the following is not a stage of multimedia production?

a. testing
b. planning and costing
c. designing and producing
d. marketing
e. delivering

14. Which of these is not a problem you might encounter in porting a program from a Mac to the
PC (or from the PC to Mac)?
a. Bitmapped images are larger on a PC.
b. Font sizes and shapes are slightly different.
c. Special characters are not the same.
d. Graphics with 256 colors show different colors.
e. All are potential problems.

15. The most precious asset you can bring to the multimedia workshop is your:
a. creativity
b. programming skill
c. musical ability
d. film and video production talent
e. checking account

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