FSOT: 500 Test Prep Study Questions - Question List

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6. The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, popularly known as the Smith-Mundt Act, prohibits the U.S. government from:
  1. allocating domestic broadcast spectrum to international broadcasting platforms sponsored by foreign governments.
  2. participating in cultural or educational exchange programs with governments that are not signatories of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights
  3. disseminating information intended for foreign audiences within the U.S. borders
  4. intentionally releasing false or misleading information to foreign audiences
7. U.S. citizens are unlikely to be able to listen to or read U.S. public diplomacy outreach materials because of which of the following acts of Congress?
  1. Fulbright-Hayes
  2. McCain-Feingold
  3. Percy-Abzug
  4. Smith-Mundt
8. Which of the following entities/programs is an official organ of U.S. government public diplomacy efforts?
  1. The Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy
  2. The National Endowment for Democracy
  3. The International Visitors Program
  4. Business for Diplomatic Action
9. In the 1960s and '70s, writers such as Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and Joan Didion often wrote from the point of view of their sources, one of the techniques that defined a form of reporting known as:
  1. Civic Journalism
  2. Investigative reporting
  3. muckraking
  4. new journalism
10. Which of the following terms is commonly used to reflect the contribution that the attractiveness of a nation's culture and values can make to its international standing?
  1. National branding
  2. The CNN effect
  3. Psychological operations
  4. Soft power

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