Media: Sitcom

1. What does the word "sitcom" stand for?

It doesn't stand for anything Situational Comet Situation Comedy Sitting Comedy

2. What is the word used in media meaning "the type of category something is"?

Genre Sort Kind Variety

3. Which one of the TV shows below is a sitcom?

Coronation Street Everybody Loves Raymond Little Britain Glee

4. Which one of these is a code/convention of sitcoms?

Jokes in most lines Unusual setting Having famous actors Unrealistic plot

5. In which sitcom does the character Del Trotter appear?

Porrige Faulty Towers Open All Hours Only Fools and Horses

6. What does the term "hyper-reality" mean?

When characters in a sitcom are overly active When events in real life are exaggerated to make them funny It's a made-up word A kind of camera angle to make the shot look real

7. What is "ideology" in sitcoms?

The central theme of an episode and the driving force of storylines A set of ideas on how something should be The study of origin and nature of ideas A system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation.

8. What is one way of making a sitcom episode more entertaining?

By adding lots of laugh tracks By making it longer By creating tension in the ideology of the sitcom By giving funny costumes for actors to wear

9. Which language does the term "mise en scene" come from?

German Spanish French Portuguese

10. What does creators of TV shows use to make a detailed plan on the filming of individual shots?

Storyboards Computers Scripts Notebooks

11. Which set of the words below best describes the stereotypical male character?

Caring, stressy, shopaholic Lazy, scruffy, over-confident Nerdy, studious, bespectacled Mischievous, rebellious, fashionable

12. What is the name of the shot that is used to show the setting or location of the sitcom?

Long Shot Panning High Angle Establishing Shot

13. What does "self-contained" mean in sitcoms?

That a plot continues throughout the series That the audience must watch all the episodes for them to understand the plot of one of them The problem which arises at the start of an episode must be solved in the end of it Describes a sitcom character who is independent and reserved

14. Why are stereotypes used in sitcoms?

To strengthen the audience's prejudice on a social group To prove that everybody which belong in the same social group are identical To make the characters easier to comprehend for audience Because the writer can't be bothered to create more original characters

15. What is the purpose of using low angle shots in sitcom?

It has no purpose; cameras are randomly placed To give the character a sense of power To let the audience see the character's expression clearly To show that the action happens in a low place

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  <h1 style="color: #376e93;">Media: Sitcom </h1>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">1.
      <strong>What does the word &quot;sitcom&quot; stand for?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21867]" value="A" /> It doesn&#039;t stand for anything</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21867]" value="B" /> Situational Comet</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21867]" value="C" /> Situation Comedy</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21867]" value="D" /> Sitting Comedy</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">2.
      <strong>What is the word used in media meaning &quot;the type of category something is&quot;?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21868]" value="A" /> Genre</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21868]" value="B" /> Sort</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21868]" value="C" /> Kind</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21868]" value="D" /> Variety</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">3.
      <strong>Which one of the TV shows below is a sitcom?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21869]" value="A" /> Coronation Street</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21869]" value="B" /> Everybody Loves Raymond</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21869]" value="C" /> Little Britain</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21869]" value="D" /> Glee</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">4.
      <strong>Which one of these is a code/convention of sitcoms?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21870]" value="A" /> Jokes in most lines</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21870]" value="B" /> Unusual setting</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21870]" value="C" /> Having famous actors</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21870]" value="D" /> Unrealistic plot</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">5.
      <strong>In which sitcom does the character Del Trotter appear?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21871]" value="A" /> Porrige</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21871]" value="B" /> Faulty Towers</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21871]" value="C" /> Open All Hours</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21871]" value="D" /> Only Fools and Horses</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">6.
      <strong>What does the term &quot;hyper-reality&quot; mean?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21872]" value="A" /> When characters in a sitcom are overly active</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21872]" value="B" /> When events in real life are exaggerated to make them funny</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21872]" value="C" /> It&#039;s a made-up word</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21872]" value="D" /> A kind of camera angle to make the shot look real</label>
      <br />        
      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">7.
      <strong>What is &quot;ideology&quot; in sitcoms?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21873]" value="A" /> The central theme of an episode and the driving force of storylines</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21873]" value="B" /> A set of ideas on how something should be</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21873]" value="C" /> The study of origin and nature of ideas</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21873]" value="D" /> A system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation.</label>
      <br />        
      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">8.
      <strong>What is one way of making a sitcom episode more entertaining?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21874]" value="A" /> By adding lots of laugh tracks</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21874]" value="B" /> By making it longer</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21874]" value="C" /> By creating tension in the ideology of the sitcom</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21874]" value="D" /> By giving funny costumes for actors to wear</label>
      <br />        
      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">9.
      <strong>Which language does the term &quot;mise en scene&quot; come from?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21875]" value="A" /> German</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21875]" value="B" /> Spanish</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21875]" value="C" /> French</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21875]" value="D" /> Portuguese</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">10.
      <strong>What does creators of TV shows use to make a detailed plan on the filming of individual shots?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21876]" value="A" /> Storyboards</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21876]" value="B" /> Computers</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21876]" value="C" /> Scripts</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21876]" value="D" /> Notebooks</label>
      <br />        
      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">11.
      <strong>Which set of the words below best describes the stereotypical male character?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21877]" value="A" /> Caring, stressy, shopaholic</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21877]" value="B" /> Lazy, scruffy, over-confident</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21877]" value="C" /> Nerdy, studious, bespectacled</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21877]" value="D" /> Mischievous, rebellious, fashionable</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">12.
      <strong>What is the name of the shot that is used to show the setting or location of the sitcom?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21878]" value="A" /> Long Shot</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21878]" value="B" /> Panning</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21878]" value="C" /> High Angle</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21878]" value="D" /> Establishing Shot</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">13.
      <strong>What does &quot;self-contained&quot; mean in sitcoms?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21879]" value="A" /> That a plot continues throughout the series</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21879]" value="B" /> That the audience must watch all the episodes for them to understand the plot of one of them</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21879]" value="C" /> The problem which arises at the start of an episode must be solved in the end of it</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21879]" value="D" /> Describes a sitcom character who is independent and reserved</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">14.
      <strong>Why are stereotypes used in sitcoms?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21880]" value="A" /> To strengthen the audience&#039;s prejudice on a social group</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21880]" value="B" /> To prove that everybody which belong in the same social group are identical</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21880]" value="C" /> To make the characters easier to comprehend for audience</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21880]" value="D" /> Because the writer can&#039;t be bothered to create more original characters</label>
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      <div style="padding: 5px 0;">15.
      <strong>What is the purpose of using low angle shots in sitcom?</strong>  
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                <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21881]" value="A" /> It has no purpose; cameras are randomly placed</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21881]" value="B" /> To give the character a sense of power</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21881]" value="C" /> To let the audience see the character&#039;s expression clearly</label>
                  <label style="display: block; margin: 3px 0;"><input type="radio" name="correctAnswer[21881]" value="D" /> To show that the action happens in a low place</label>
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