Dr.G.R.

Damodaran College of Science

(Autonomous, affiliated to the Bharathiar University, recognized by the UGC)Re-accredited at the
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II BSC VISUAL COMMUNICATION [2018 - 2021]

SEMESTER IV
ELECTIVE I:- MULTIMEDIA 2D ANIMATION AND WEB GRAPHICS - 411U1
Multiple Choice Questions.

1. Most graphic programs can open ____________.

A. TIFF files
B. both TIFF and JPEG files
C. JPEG files
D. PSD Files
ANSWER: B

2. Every animation needs a starting and ending point. _______________ are used to set these.
A. Scenes
B. Key frames
C. Blank frames
D. Graphic symbols
ANSWER: B

3. This is a way to take a word and animate each letter separately.

A. Distribute to layers
B. Break apart
C. Frame-by-frame
D. Convert to symbol
ANSWER: A

4. A smaller version of an image is called____________.

A. clipart
B. bitmap
C. portable network graphic
D. thumbnail
ANSWER: D

5. ____________ is a way to partially hide an image in the layer immediately below another layer. The 2 layers get locked
together to produce the effect.
A. Morphing
B. Tweening
C. Stacking
D. Masking
ANSWER: D

6. Designed to be an interactive object. You create these so that action scripts can be used to control other objects or
events in the movie.
A. Layer
B. Mask
C. Button
D. Tween
ANSWER: C
7. These are objects that have been converted so that you can use the same image a number of times in a movie. You can
also use this to do fade effects, rotation effects, and flip effects.
A. Layer
B. Symbols
C. Clip art
D. Tween
ANSWER: B

8. _______________ control the movement for how data appears when a chart is animated.
A. Slide Show effects
B. Effect options
C. Speed
D. Wipe effects
ANSWER: B

9. In the Clip Art task pane, the standard extension of an "event" sound such as a door closing sound is
_______________.
A. .mp3
B. .wav
C. .midi
D. .ram
ANSWER: B

10. Effect options for chart animation can add movement to all except _____________.
A. Add movement to the whole chart as one object
B. Make the chart appear and then the related text
C. Make the chart appear by series data
D. Make the chart appear by category data
ANSWER: B

11. Identify the concept of blending colors along the edges of letters to create gentle effect is___________.
A. Anti-aliasing
B. Morphing
C. Kerning
D. Leading
ANSWER: A

12. Acronym for VRML:

A. Virtual Reality Modeling Level
B. Virtual Reality Modulation Language
C. Virtual Rate Modeling Language
D. Virtual Reality Modeling Language
ANSWER: D

13. This area is much like a theatre stage. The white area displays what will be shown on the screenThis area is much like
a theatre stage. The white area displays what will be shown on the screen
A. Dashboard
B. Flash Stage
C. Tools Palette
D. Layers Panel
ANSWER: B

14. What does the abbreviation, FPS means?

A. Flick Per Scene
B. Frames Per Second
C. Frames Per Scene
D. Flick Per Second
ANSWER: B
15. ______________is a shorthand representation of music stored in numeric form.
A. Digital Audio
B. MIDI
C. Audio Resolution
D. Mono files
ANSWER: B

16. Converting bitmaps to drawn object is more difficult and is called:

A. Dithering
B. Morphing
C. auto tracing
D. Leading
ANSWER: C

17. What is the quicktime embedded HTML command?

A. HFS
B. Hues
C. HREF
D. HYPERLINK
ANSWER: C

18. Identify the Test Release, which is typically for internal circulation only.
A. Beta Release
B. Gamma Release
C. Polishing
D. Alpha Release
ANSWER: D

19. Which of the following is not the style for the font?
A. Shadow
B. Outline
C. Carve
D. Bold
ANSWER: C

20. Which of these is not likely to be the responsibility of a multimedia project?

A. Create interfaces
B. Ensure the visual consistency of the project
C. Structure content
D. Create budgets and timelines for the project
ANSWER: D

21. MIDI stands for:

A. Musical Instrument Digital Interface
B. Musical Instrument Digital Instruction
C. MP3 Instrument Digital Interface
D. ) Musical Instrument Design Interface
ANSWER: A

22. Any item placed on a frame that has not been converted to a graphic, button, or movie clip. This includes shapes you
draw as well as images you insert/import (jpg, bitmaps, etc.). Use this to do a shape tween or mask effect.
A. Object
B. Layer
C. Vector
D. Bitmap
ANSWER: A
23. ____________when used appropriately, adds to the viewer experience, making for a much richer and enjoyable
activity.
A. Advertisments
B. Sound
C. Commericals
D. Tweens
ANSWER: B

24. Space between lines:

A. Leading
B. Kerning
C. Extrude
D. Expanded
ANSWER: A

25. The visual representation of a project that includes a table of contents as well as a chart of the logical flow of the
interactive interface is often called ?
A. A master layout
B. A navigation map
C. A workflow diagram
D. A prototype
ANSWER: B

26. ITC Franklin Gothic specifies:

A. Style
B. Visual Effect
C. Color
D. Font
ANSWER: D

27. Hardware that creates sound from a mathematical representation ___________.

A. Sound Synthesizer
B. Stampers
C. Speaker
D. Sons
ANSWER: A

28. Specify the keyboard shortcut used to hide all panels simultaneously?
A. F4
B. F12
C. Shift+F4
D. Shift+F4
ANSWER: A

29. The ___________________ is a holding place for all symbols and imported images and sounds within a single Flash
file.
A. Library
B. Timeline
C. Properties
D. Tools panel
ANSWER: A

30. Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding multimedia on the web?
A. The MPEG, AIFF and WAV are cross-platform formats
B. The MPEG, AU and MIDI are cross-platform formats
C. The SND format has a relatively low fidelity
D. VRML can be used to model and display 3D interactive graphics
ANSWER: A
31. What would be the colors of the RGB where the hexadecimal values are #FF0000, #00FF00 and #0000FF
respectively?
A. Blue, Green, Red
B. Red, Green, Blue
C. Green, Blue, Red
D. Green, Red, Blue
ANSWER: B

32. . In the Photoshop file format, layers are NOT__________.

A. independent of the other layers
B. dependent on the other layers
C. able to be edited separately without effecting the other layers
D. easy to convert
ANSWER: B

33. The ___________ panel contains the basic tools needed to draw and modify objects.
A. Actions
B. Properties
C. Tools
D. Layers
ANSWER: C

34. This ideals with the rotation and movement of the object from one point to another in specific frames.
A. Tweening
B. Shape Tween
C. Motion Tween
D. Transition
ANSWER: A

35. Pixels are primarily controlled by the:

A. user
B. hardware
C. software.
D. operating system
ANSWER: C

36. Software that allows a user to paint pixels on the screen using a pointing device is known as:
A. painting software.
B. palette software.
C. bitmapped software.
D. raster graphics software.
ANSWER: A

37. Simple pictures or maps are created by:

A. Bitmapped graphics programs
B. Painting programs
C. Vector graphics programs
D. Resolution programs
ANSWER: A

38. The density of pixels on a screen is known as:

A. Resolution
B. Pixility
C. Pixel depth
D. screen clarity
ANSWER: A
39. A digital photograph is a
A. Resolution graphic
B. Raster graphic
C. Bitmapped image
D. Raster image
ANSWER: C

40. Programs such as Apple iPhoto and Microsoft PictureIt! are examples of:
A. Photo database software
B. Resolution software
C. Photo management software
D. Gray-scale graphics software
ANSWER: C

41. Bitmapped files are usually:

A. Small in size
B. Large in size
C. Zipped for convenience
D. Very fast to attach and transfer through the Internet
ANSWER: B

42. Software that stores lines and shapes rather than individual pixels is known as:
A. Vector graphics software
B. Raster graphics software
C. Photo database software
D. Resolution software
ANSWER: A

43. Empty key frames are indicated by a _________________ circle on the timeline
A. Hollow
B. Black
C. Open eye
D. Closed eye
ANSWER: A

44. Previously drawn images that artists can legally use in their own work are known as:
A. Copyart
B. Clip art
C. Free art
D. Shareware
ANSWER: B

45. Software that can create art that a designer can rotate, view from a variety of angles, and take two-dimensional
"snapshots" of the best views is known as:
A. 3-D modeling software
B. Photo database software
C. Photo management software
D. Gray-scale graphics software
ANSWER: A

46. The creation of motion from still pictures is called:

A. A presentation
B. 3-D modeling
C. Transition
D. Animation
ANSWER: D

47. The step in production is performed to add more detailed to your scene.
 A. Improvement of design
B. Action Scripting
C. Polishing
D. Create a storyboard
ANSWER: B

48. Usually, ___________ video is transferred through FireWire.

A. analog
B. digital
C. bit-mapped
D. digitized
ANSWER: B

49. When something is displayed at the same time as it is created, accessed, or imported, it is known as:
A. Digital time
B. Real time
C. Online time
D. Batch time
ANSWER: B

50. A video project usually starts with an outline and a ____________ that describes the action.
A. story edit
B. flow chart
C. storyboard
D. line chart
ANSWER: C

51. This action allows you to save the object in the library panel for future use.
A. Importing
B. Exporting
C. Convert to text
D. Convert to Symbol
ANSWER: D

52. This is, by far, the most tedious way to create animations.
A. Shape Tween
B. Motion Tween
C. Mask
D. Frame-by-Frame
ANSWER: D

53. The process of copying files to a CD is known as:

A. Burning
B. Copying
C. Storing
D. Pasting
ANSWER: A

54. This panel indicates what settings are being used for objects and allows you to change those settings.
A. Tools
B. Actions
C. Frames
D. Properties
ANSWER: D

55. Music that plays on a computer, such as a radio station, but is never downloaded is known as:
A. P2P
B. Streaming
 C. MP3
D. Real time
ANSWER: B

56. A standard interface that is used to send commands to instruments and sound sources is:
A. Downloading
B. RealAudio
C. MIDI
D. AAC
ANSWER: C

57. This is used to change an object from a circle to a square.

A. Mask
B. Shape tween
C. Motion tween
D. Morphing
ANSWER: B

58. When a document or media is to be accessed and read from beginning to end, it is known as:
A. Sequential
B. Real time
C. Nonsequential
D. Linear
ANSWER: A

59. The term ____________ generally means using some combination of text, graphics, animation, video, music, voice,
and sound effects to communicate.
A. MIDI
B. Hyperlinking
C. WYSIWYG
D. Multimedia
ANSWER: D

60. Computer-generated worlds that created the illusion of immersion are known as:
A. Virtual worlds
B. Hypermedia
C. Hyperlinks
D. Real time
ANSWER: A

61. ____________ combines virtual worlds with networking, placing multiple participants in a virtual space.
A. Virtual reality
B. Hypermedia
C. Hyper reality
D. Real timeReal time
ANSWER: A

62. A musical composition is typically made up of numerous:

A. Sectors
B. Tracks
C. Files
D. Directories
ANSWER: B

63. A key frame that contains objects will be represented by a ___________ circle.
A. Hollow
B. Black
C. Blue
 D. Gray
ANSWER: B

64. The __________ shows the frames in the movie.

A. Toolbar
B. Properties pane
C. Timeline
D. Scene
ANSWER: C

65. Domain name is_________.

A. case sensitive
B. not case sensitive
C. not always case sensitive
D. not always case insensitive
ANSWER: B

66. People who go to a web sites are referred to as _______________.

A. guests
B. tourists
C. visitors
D. audience
ANSWER: C

67. ____________ are used to identify the contents of a table.

A. tags
B. titles
C. captions
D. labels
ANSWER: A

68. _______________ contains rules that create a consistent look to web elements across an entire web site.
A. Technique panes
B. Design pieces
C. Style sheets
D. Method pages
ANSWER: C

69. ________ is a bitmap image file format for pictures and animations that use 256 distinct colors.
A. PSD
B. GIF
C. TIFF
D. PDF
ANSWER: B

70. ____________ are the colors or pictures under your web text.
A. Backdrops
B. Framesets
C. Backgrounds
D. Environments
ANSWER: C

71. The _____________ dialog box enables you to create custom bullet points and number styles.
A. auto format
B. list properties
C. bullets and numbering
D. bulleted list
ANSWER: C
72. Before you can enter data into a table, you must disable the __________ command.
A. draw table
B. create table
C. build table
D. produce table
ANSWER: B

73. The ________ enables you to apply the same formatting to other text.
A. format Painter
B. format Artist
C. design Painter
D. apply Changes
ANSWER: A

74. Which of the following is not a tab in the Picture Properties dialog box?
A. Appearance
B. Image
C. Video
D. General
ANSWER: C

75. The ________ is the page that's displayed after you click on a link.
A. target page
B. object page
C. link page
D. HTML page
ANSWER: C

76. Which of the following not correctly describe the features of Flash?
A. Vector-graphic based animation
B. Browser independent
C. Can do 3D animation
D. Requires client side plug-ins
ANSWER: C

77. In Dream Weaver Chad can change the Default Text in the Status Bar of his web page by changing its properties
through the what?
A. Objects Palette
B. Properties Palette
C. Layers Inspector
D. Behaviors Inspector
ANSWER: D

78. It allows you to insert text within your flash stage.

A. Text Box
B. Text Tool
C. HTML
D. Key frames
ANSWER: B

79. Changing this can sometimes make an animation look smoother.

A. Frame rate
B. Key frame
C. Mask
D. Layer
ANSWER: A
80. Which of the following HTML tag can the ALT tag are used with?
A. <table>
B. <td>
C. <img>
D. <p>
ANSWER: C

81. File format that is a commonly used standard method of lossy compression for photographic images is ________.
A. PSD
B. JPEG
C. PDF
D. PNG
ANSWER: B

82. File format that is capable of describing grayscale and full color image data in several color spaces is __________.
A. GIF
B. PDF
C. TIFF
D. PSD
ANSWER: C

83. Anti-aliasing can be selected on the _________.

A. tool options bar
B. menu bar
C. toolbox
D. edit Option
ANSWER: A

84. The PDF file format stands for_________.

A. PostScript Durable File
B. Portable Document Format
C. Photographic Design Format
D. Portable Data File
ANSWER: B

85. Use this to make a symbol disappear from view (great for changing pictures). You would use motion tween for this
method. You have to change the alpha setting of the symbol. Alpha represents transparency.
A. Zoom
B. Masking
C. Fade Effect
D. Morphing
ANSWER: C

86. A What does AIFF stand for?

A. Audio Interchange File Format
B. Audio Interchange File Folder
C. ASCII Interchange File Format
D. Audio Internet File Format
ANSWER: A

87. File format used on the web for photographic images.

A. PSD
B. PDF
C. JPEG
D. GIF
ANSWER: C

88. Which of the following tags cannot be used to include audio on a Web page?
 A. BGSOUND
B. EMBED
C. MUSIC
D. OBJECT
ANSWER: C

89. By default, this panel is located below the flash environment.

A. Library Panel
B. Property Inspector Panel
C. Layers Panel
D. All of the above
ANSWER: C

90. An audio repository is which of the following?

A. A Web presentation that warehouses audio files
B. A library cataloging all MIDI music
C. A Web site that provides tutorials on sound
D. A Web server capable of playing audio files
ANSWER: A

91. This type of drawing is a grouped shape; it has a rectangular surrounding in it when selected.
A. Merge Drawing
B. Flash Tool
C. Oval Tool
D. Object Drawing
ANSWER: D

92. A pixel is an individual dot of _________ that is the basic unit to create digital images.
A. color
B. tone
C. shade
D. light
ANSWER: A

93. Smoothing the border adjusts the _________at the inner corners of the border.
A. radius of the pixels
B. circumference of the pixels
C. light/dark ratio of the pixels
D. colors
ANSWER: C

94. _______ image file format used on the web for graphics.
A. PDF
B. PSD
C. GIF
D. JPEG
ANSWER: C

95. The range of unique colors that can be created for a given color model such as RGB or CMYK ______________.
A. Color model
B. Color space
C. Resolution
D. Pixel
ANSWER: B

96. The TIFF image file format stands for__________.

A. True Image Font File
B. Tagged Image File Format
 C. Typical Image File Format
D. Types in File Format
ANSWER: B

97. The JPEG file format stands for_____________.

A. Joint Photo Exempted Grade
B. Junior Photographic Export Group
C. Joint Photographic Experts Group
D. Joint Photoshop Extract Grouping
ANSWER: C

98. _________ are the ways in which pixels in an image are affected by color.
A. Color modes
B. Blending modes
C. Pixel modes
D. Fill modes
ANSWER: A

99. Most graphic programs can open ____________.

A. TIFF files
B. both TIFF and JPEG files
C. JPEG files
D. PSD Files
ANSWER: B

100. __________is a popular effect in which one image transforms into another a.Inverse kinematics .
A. Tweaking
B. Morphing
C. Tweening
D. Inverse kinematics
ANSWER: B

101. ______ is a file format that is a simplified version of PostScript allowing for files containing multiple pages and
links.
A. JPEG
B. PDF
C. GIF
D. TARGA
ANSWER: B

102. Multimedia can contain_________.

A. graphics, animation, video, music, and voice .
B. only numeric-type data
C. numeric, text, and picture data
D. databases that, in turn, contain other databases, creating a massive data collection
ANSWER: A

103. Primary uses of business interactive multimedia include all of the following except ___________.
A. product demonstrations
B. Web page development
C. entertainment
D. high-quality presentations
ANSWER: C

104. The connection between a multimedia presentation and a file containing a song to be played is called a(n)
__________.
A. link
B. chain
 C. pointer
D. tie
ANSWER: A

105. This type of animation is usually full-screen and highly dynamic and interactive. a. storyboard.
A. applet
B. java
C. Flash
D. storyboard
ANSWER: C

106. ___________ is the study of movement and motion structures that have joints
A. Cel-animation
B. Kinematics
C. Morphing
D. Tweaking
ANSWER: B

107. The first graphical client was_________.

A. NCSA Mosaic
B. IE
C. Mozilla
D. Opera
ANSWER: A

108. Which features allows you to create, manage and view multiple layers for your canvas within a single file in Adobe
Photoshop?
A. Layer commands
B. Layer comps
C. History palette
D. Alpha channels
ANSWER: A

109. Which of the following is the MIME type for a VRML file?
A. model/vrml
B. audio/vrml
C. midi/vrml
D. 3d/vrml
ANSWER: A

110. ____________ are the colors or pictures under your web text.
A. Backdrops
B. Framesets
C. Backgrounds
D. Environments
ANSWER: A

111. W3C was created by Tim Berners-Lee in_________.

A. December 1994
B. October 1995
C. October 1993
D. October 1994
ANSWER: D

112. This is the shortcut key for adding a key frame.

A. .FLA
B. .Doc
C. .FLV
 D. .ASF
ANSWER: A

113. Who is now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ?
A. W3C
B. AOL
C. Microsoft
D. Tim Berners-Lee
ANSWER: D

114. Most Web sites have moving graphics called ____________.

A. animations
B. vectors
C. links
D. morphs
ANSWER: A

115. Which of these is not a web browser?

A. NETSCAPE
B. MOZILLA
C. FIREFOX
D. TELNET
ANSWER: D

116. Popular multimedia authoring programs include the following except for?
A. Macromedia Director
B. Toolbox
C. Authorware
D. QuarkXPress
ANSWER: D

117. An __________ is a design tool that shows the overall flow of a multimedia presentation.
A. link.
B. Graphical map
C. chart
D. storyboard
ANSWER: D

118. Before building a presentation with a multimedia authoring system, the designer would use a __________.
A. storyboard
B. hypermedia database
C. button file
D. flowchart
ANSWER: A

119. Errors are identified and the presentation is evaluated in terms of effectiveness in the __________ step.
A. planning
B. designing
C. creating
D. supporting
ANSWER: D

120. The creation of a storyboard is essential to the development of the project. This is the __________ step of
development.
A. planning
B. designing
C. creating
D. supporting
 ANSWER: B

121. Google Crome browser is a browser with excellent __________ features.

A. plugin support
B. application store
C. inbuilt Search Engine
D. all of the above
ANSWER: B

122. When determining the overall objective of the project, the resources required and the persons or team who will work
on the project, you are in the __________ step of developing a multimedia presentation.
A. planning
B. designing
C. creating
D. supporting
ANSWER: A

123. Clicking on special areas called __________ activates the various features of a multimedia presentation.
A. activators
B. starters
C. pages
D. buttons
ANSWER: D

124. The tool that allows you to create a polygon and a star.
A. StarPoly tool
B. PolyStar
C. Custom shape tool
D. Polygon tool
ANSWER: B

125. What does DHTML stand for?

A. Digital Hyperlinks and Text Markup Language.
B. Data Home Tool Markup Language.
C. Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language.
D. Home Text Markup Language.
ANSWER: C

126. ____________ is a way to partially hide an image in the layer immediately below another layer. The 2 layers get
locked together to produce the effect.
A. Morphing
B. Tweening
C. Stacking
D. Masking
ANSWER: D

127. What is the correct HTML tag for inserting an horizontal line?
A. <hr>
B. <line>
C. <horizontal line>.
D. <tr>
ANSWER: A

128. This tool allows you to modify the gradient in three ways.
A. Merge Drawing
B. Flash Tool
C. Gradient Transform Tool
D. Object Drawing
 ANSWER: C

129. Tags and text that do not show directly on the page are placed where?
A. Head
B. Body
C. Tables
D. Title
ANSWER: A

130. The Internet service that provides a multimedia interface to available resources is called_____________.
A. FTP
B. World Wide Web
C. Telnet
D. Gopher
ANSWER: B

131. The <p> tag makes text_________.

A. bold
B. inline
C. underlined
D. Paragraph
ANSWER: D

132. Besides <B>, another way to make text bold is what?

A. <fat>
B. <strong>
C. <dark>
D. <emp>
ANSWER: B

133. To separate single list items use?

A. <ol> and </ol>
B. <ul> and </ul>
C. <li> and </li>
D. <th> and </th>
ANSWER: C

134. To create a bulleted list use?

A. <ol>
B. <il>
C. <bullet>
D. <ul>
ANSWER: D

135. CSS can be added to a page on how many levels?

A. 2 - Head and External file
B. 4 - Tag, Head, External file and Meta tag
C. 3 - Tag, Head and External file
D. 4 - Head and External file
ANSWER: C

136. In CSS, A:link defines the style for?

A. Active links
B. Visited links
C. Virtual links
D. Normal Unvisited links
ANSWER: D
137. You can change the look of the entire site at once when CSS is defined where?
A. On your computer
B. In the database
C. In an external file
D. With each block of text
ANSWER: C

138. In CSS, the font-style property can make text what?

A. Different colors
B. Bigger
C. Italic
D. Bold
ANSWER: B

139. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of CSS?

A. Define the look of your pages in one place
B. Works on version 4 browsers or newer
C. Easily change the look
D. Easily change the background
ANSWER: B

140. Which of the following browsers has most limited support for CSS Layers?
A. Netscape 6
B. Internet Explorer 4 or newer
C. Netscape 4
D. IE 5
ANSWER: C

141. In CSS, what is a definition of fonts, colors, etc. called?

A. Font-family
B. ID tag
C. Style
D. Form
ANSWER: C

142. What was Adobe Fireworks written in?

A. GTK
B. C++
C. C
D. ASP
ANSWER: C

143. Which of the following is NOT a valid CSS selector?

A. ID selectors
B. TAG selectors
C. Title selectors
D. HEAD selectors
ANSWER: D

144. In CSS, you have the following options for changing text color?
A. Common name and Hexcolor only
B. Common name, RBG value, Hexcolor
C. RBG value, Hexcolor
D. Hexcolor only
ANSWER: B

145. Netscape and Internet Explorer support CSS in which way?

A. Exact same, since CSS is a cross browser standard by W3C
 B. Very different on older browsers, closer to the same on newer
C. Completely different, nothing is cross browser safe
D. by giving instructions
ANSWER: B

146. CSS can be defined for entire sites by simply writing the CSS definitions where ?
A. Plain Text document with file extension as .css
B. Head section of each page
C. Body section of each page
D. End section of each page
ANSWER: A

147. Which attribute specify where to send a form?

A. Method
B. Input
C. Output
D. Action
ANSWER: D

148. You can add names to each frame window using which setting?
A. Src
B. Ur
C. Name
D. Insert
ANSWER: C

149. To make an object transparent, the ______ should be set in the Property Inspector panel.
A. Alpha Value Settings
B. Transparency Settings
C. Color Settings
D. Object Settings
ANSWER: A

150. Which colors consist of equal amounts of all basic colors?

A. Purple, green, and red
B. White, black and gray
C. White, red, blue
D. Black, blue, and gray
ANSWER: B

Staff Name
Arunkumarran.