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Critical Literacy and the Media

What is Critical Literacy?

This quiz is intended to serve as an assessment of how well you understood the concepts in the articles on the topic of critical literacy. This quiz is ungraded.

Question #1

Which of the following skills is NOT included in critical literacy?

a) Looking at the meaning in a text

b) Examining the author's purpose and motives

c) Understanding that a text presents one point of view and silences other points of view

d) Asking students to take a comprehension quiz on the text read

e) Analyzing the power of language

Question #2

Why is critical literacy important?

a) We need to know how to read well

b) To pass exams

c) To make sense of the great amount of information that comes to us from many sources

d) So we can author websites, create images, and make music

e) Because the world is very high-tech

Question #3

According to Morgan (1996), critical literacy attempts to develop:

a) the way texts and their discourses represent reality and define what is necessary for us

b) a sympathetic understanding of the people who are affected (shaped) by those discourses

c) ways we can engage with those texts and their debates

d) none of the above

e) all of the above

Question #4

True or False: In a critical literacy approach we look for how, why, and to whom a text was written.

a) True

b) False

Question #5

True or False: In a critical literacy approach, we look at to whom the text was not written.

a) True

b) False

Question #6

In the pedagogy of spectacle, the media tries to:

a) make us envious of how celebrities live.

b) encourage us to judge how others live.

c) make us hate celebrities.

d) answers a and b.

e) answers b and c.

Question #7

In the pedagogy of the sports metaphor:

a) only the winners should be applauded.

b) hard work and practice is valued.

c) only famous athletes deserve to win.

d) loosers should be ignored.

Question #8

True or False: Celebrities are fun to read about.

a) Always True

b) Always False

c) True to some people

Question #9

If we want to push past the surface meaning of what we read, see, hear, we should:

a) ignore the media.

b) be a celebrity.

c) engage in critical reading.

d) practice pedagogy.

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