12th Class English Chapter - 08 How Free is the Press Objective Question Answer

How Free is the Press - Dorothy Leigh Sayers :- Bihar Board 12th Class English Chapter - 08 How Free is the Press Objective Question Answer || 12th Class English Chapter - 08 How Free is the Press- Dorothy L. Sayers  Objective Question Answer and summary [ 47 Question ]

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It is a very thought provoking and informative essay on the freedom of the press by the famous British writer, Dorothy. L. Sayers. She has propounded that the so-called freedom of the press is a misnomer. The press is free in a very restricted and technical sense. The British Press in this sense is singularly free in normal times. Only during war-time, some sort of censorship is imposed on the Press in England.

The writer asserts that there can be no free people without a free press. It is the backbone of democracy. However, the press is not as free as it is supposed to be. The editorial policy of a popular daily is governed by two chief factors-the interests of the advertisers and the interest of its owners. No newspaper can harm their interest. The Press works on the premise that general people are not intelligent enough to distinguish truth from falsehood.

So, the press exists not so much to express a public opinion as to manufacture it. The press often distorts facts by garbling, miracle, mongering, gratuitous inventions, inaccurate, reporting and sensational headlines. So, we must be on our guard and not take everything reported by the press and newspapers as real and sacrosanct.

How Free is the Press

 8. How Free is the Press

[Dorothy Leigh Sayers]

1. Dorothy L. Sayers says that press is free......... [Arts 2019A]
(A) everyone
(B) somewhere
(C) nowhere
(D) at most places
Answer - (B) somewhere

2. Dorothy was born in ........ 
(A) 1883 

(B) 1863
(C) 1873
(D) 1893
Answer - (D) 1893

3. Restrictions are normally placed upon the press in time of
(A) flood 

(B) peace

(C) war
(D) famine 

Answer - (C) war

4. Dorothy died in -------
(A) 1967 (B) 1978 (C) 1956 (D) 1957
Answer - (D) 1957

5. Fact is a deity invoked by the ----------

(A) people (B) animal (C) bird (D) Govt.
Answer - (A) people

6. Full freedom is restored when it comes-
(A) war (B) famine (C) peace (D) blood 

Answer - (C) peace

7. When did Dorothy Sayers become one of the first women to graduate from Oxford University ?
(A) 1951 (B) 1915 
(C) 1918 (D) 1919
Answer -  (B) 1915 

8. Who is the master of the state?
(A) government
(B) pressed
(C) courteous
(D) people
Answer - (D) people

9. What do free people take for granted?
(A) free home
(B) free schools
(C) free press 

(D) free office
Answer - (C) free press 

10. A free and fair press is the true watchdog of
(A) state
(B) family
(C) court
(D) democracy
Answer - (D) democracy

11. The essay ' How Free Is the Press' is written by
(A) Pearl S. Buck
(B) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(C) Aurobindo Ghosh 

(D) Dorothy L. Sayers
Answer - (D) Dorothy L. Sayers

12. Without a free press there can be no 
(A) peace

(B) free people
(C) humanity
(D) society
Answer - (B) free people

13. How Free is the Press is written by
(A) H. E. Bates
(B) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(C) Dorothy L Sayers 

(D) Bertrand Russell 

Answer - (C) Dorothy L Sayers 

14. How free is the press is.
(A) an essay 
(B) a short story

(C) a drama
(D) a fiction
Answer - (A) an essay 

15. Who was an essayist, playwright, poet?
(A) Shiga Naoya
(B) Dorothy L Sayers
(C) H.E. Bates
(D) Anton Chekhov
Answer - (B) Dorothy L Sayers

16. Every lives in a perpetual precarious balance
(A) book
(B) story
(C) newspaper
(D) man
Answer - (C) newspaper

17. are careful not to antagonize the press.
(A) Politicians
(B) Teachers
(C) Doctors
(D) Traders
Answer - (A) Politicians

18. The common has a. in parliament.
(A) scat (C) vote
(B) place (D) standard
Answer - (C) vote

19. are careful not to antagonize the press.
(A) Politicians (C) Doctors
(B) Teachers (D) Traders

Answer - (A) Politicians

20. Every newspaper is shackled to its own set of
(A) landlords
(B) overloads
(C) overlords
(D) editors
Answer - (C) overlords

21. Proprietor of the newspaper has.
(A) national interest
(B) interest of the people 
(C) social interest

(D) personal interest
Answer - (D) personal interest

22. The press can make or break 
(A) statue (B) people (C) reputation (D) garbling
Answer - (C) reputation 

23. This is the special accomplishment of the press inter- viewer
(A) Marbling 
(B) Garbling
(C) Titillating 

(D) Allusion
Answer - (B) Garbling

24. The... Press is, under ordinary conditions, singularly free.
(A) Indian
(B) European
(C) Chinese

(D) British
Answer - (D) British

25. In the following essay How Free Is The Press', the author makes a strong case against. 
(A) press

(B) misuse of the freedom of the press
(C) slavery of press
(D) editors
Answer - (B) misuse of the freedom of the press

26. Miss Sayers said she would write no more plays, except on
(A) commission (C) culture
(B) politics (D) sports
Answer - (A) commission

27. Freedom of Press works to secure and sustain the central doctrine of
(A) State
(B) Democracy 
(C) Public

(D) Personally

Answer - (B) Democracy 

28. A big circulation spells bankruptcy if the paper has to depend on its sales for its....
(A) advertisement (C) ethics
(B) honesty (D) revenue
Answer - (D) revenue

29. Under ordinary conditions, which press is singularly free,
as mentioned in the essay- 

(A) European Press
(B) American Press
(C) British Press
(D) Indian Press
Answer - (C) British Press

30. The word used in the essay for the uncontrolled freedom of one man, or one gang, to impose its will on the world is
(A) fertility
(B) coerce
(C) dictatorship
(D) tyranny

Answer - (B) coerce

31. Free people must see to it that when peace comes.......... is restored.
(A) sanity
(B) relationship
(C) full freedom
(D) press

Answer - (C) full freedom

32. When we speak of the freedom of the press', we usually mean freedom in a........ sense. [20214]
(A) broad (B) legal
(C) technical (D) social 

Answer - (C) technical

33. are careful not to antagonize the press..
(A) Traders (B) Teachers
(C) Politicians (D) Doctors

Answer - (C) Politicians

34. How free is the press is
(A) an essay (B) a short story (C) a drama (D) a fiction 

Answer - (A) an essay

35. How Free is the Press is written
(A) H.E. Bates (B) Dr. Zakir Hussain
(C) Dorothy L. Sayers
(D) Bertrand Russell 

Answer - (C) Dorothy L. Sayers

36. The newspapers can be convicted
(A) Garbling
(B) Reversal of the facts
(C) Random inventions 

(D) All of the above

Answer - (D) All of the above

37. Books which venture to criticise the Press are ............
(A) plenty
(B) numbered 
(C) rare 

(D) none

Answer - (C) rare 

38. Censorship is imposed during
(A) peaceful times (B) emergency
(C) election (D) Traders 

Answer -  (B) emergency

39. Every newspaper is shakled to its own set of .... 

(A) Landlords (B) Overlords
(C) Nightmare (D) None 

Answer - (B) Overlords

40. The Press is, under ordinary conditions, singularly free.
(A) Indian
(B) European
(C) Chinese 

(D) British 

Answer - (D) British 

41. Miss Sayers said she would write no more plays, except on ....... 

(A) commission
(B) politics 

(C) culture
(D) sports

Answer - (A) commission

42. Without a free ...... there can be no free people. [2021BM]

(A) press 

(B) locality
(C) mind
(D) village

Answer - (A) press 

43. ........... is the chief source of revenue of a newspaper.
(A) Advertisement 

(B) Donation
(C) Government
(D) Companies

Answer - (A) Advertisement 

44. The editorial policy is controlled by
(A) Advertisement and circulation
(B) Bankruptcy
(C) Hesitation and discontent
(D) Independent mind

Answer - (A) Advertisement and circulation

45. Who assume that readers can be made to believe anything?
(A) Hitler and Northcliffe
(B) Mussolini and Southclife
(C) John & Mohan
(D) Rakesh and Abdullah

Answer - (A) Hitler and Northcliffe

46. Fact is a deity invoked by the .........only in the last.
(A) people
(B) animal
(C) bird
(D) Govt

Answer - (A) people

47. Proprietor of the newspaper has
(A) interest of the people
(B) national interest
(C) social interest
(D) personal interest
Answer - (D) personal interest

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