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COMM 422 Midterm PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: In several recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that state or federal
limits on campaign spending ______.
a. directly advance the Constitution's express protection of free and fair elections
b. are essential to protect elections from corruption
c. advance the core purpose of the First Amendment
d. unconstitutionally restrict the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: The legal protection of anonymous speakers online and offline is ______.
a. determined in the United States by balancing the rights of anonymous speakers against other
important values
b. absolute and certain
c. consistent around the world
d. the most protected form of speech in the United States - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
Question: In the area of government speech, the U.S. Supreme Court has ______.
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a. said the First Amendment clearly establishes absolute protection of the freedom of speech of
individual government speakers
b. found the First Amendment does not deal expressly with government speech or speakers
c. held that the government has unlimited control over all the speech of its agencies and
employees
d. established clear and consistent precedents when regulation of government speech and
speakers is constitutional - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B
Question: Traditional public forums include ______.
a. all online spaces (such as chat rooms) and all public properties
b. any government property that is not involved with national security
c. public property designed and historically used for public gathering and association
d. public property designed for other purposes but available for public use - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔C
Q:Laws that indirectly limit the freedom of speech while achieving other substantial
government objectives are called ______.
a. content-based restrictions
b. time, place, and manner restrictions
c. both content-based restrictions and content-neutral restrictions
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d. both content-neutral restrictions and time, place, and manner restrictions - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔D
Question: Courts find content-based restrictions of speech constitutional if they ______.
a. pass intermediate scrutiny
b. are both rational and reasonable
c. are a form of symbolic speech
d. pass strict scrutiny - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: The First Amendment prohibits abridgements of the freedom of speech and the
press by ______.
a. Congress only
b. the federal executive branch only
c. federal, state, and local legislatures only
d. all levels and branches of government - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: Instrumentalists argue that the First Amendment advances all of the following goals
except _.
a. truth
b. checking government abuse
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c. obscenity
d. Self-governance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C
Question: Prior restraints on speech are ______.
a. the least intrusive means to regulate speech
b. presumptively unconstitutional
c. rarely constitutional
d. presumptively unconstitutional and rarely constitutional - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: Content-neutral regulations are also called ______ regulations.
a. time, place, and manner
b. majoritarian
c. balancing
d. Purposive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
Question: Under strict scrutiny, a law is constitutional only if it ______.
a. is reasonable and rational
b. is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest
c. advances an important public interest and falls within the powers of government
COMM 422 Midterm PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: In several recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that state or federal
limits on campaign spending ______.
a. directly advance the Constitution's express protection of free and fair elections
b. are essential to protect elections from corruption
c. advance the core purpose of the First Amendment
d. unconstitutionally restrict the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: The legal protection of anonymous speakers online and offline is ______.
a. determined in the United States by balancing the rights of anonymous speakers against other
important values
b. absolute and certain
c. consistent around the world
d. the most protected form of speech in the United States - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
Question: In the area of government speech, the U.S. Supreme Court has ______.
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a. said the First Amendment clearly establishes absolute protection of the freedom of speech of
individual government speakers
b. found the First Amendment does not deal expressly with government speech or speakers
c. held that the government has unlimited control over all the speech of its agencies and
employees
d. established clear and consistent precedents when regulation of government speech and
speakers is constitutional - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B
Question: Traditional public forums include ______.
a. all online spaces (such as chat rooms) and all public properties
b. any government property that is not involved with national security
c. public property designed and historically used for public gathering and association
d. public property designed for other purposes but available for public use - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔C
Q:Laws that indirectly limit the freedom of speech while achieving other substantial
government objectives are called ______.
a. content-based restrictions
b. time, place, and manner restrictions
c. both content-based restrictions and content-neutral restrictions
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d. both content-neutral restrictions and time, place, and manner restrictions - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔D
Question: Courts find content-based restrictions of speech constitutional if they ______.
a. pass intermediate scrutiny
b. are both rational and reasonable
c. are a form of symbolic speech
d. pass strict scrutiny - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: The First Amendment prohibits abridgements of the freedom of speech and the
press by ______.
a. Congress only
b. the federal executive branch only
c. federal, state, and local legislatures only
d. all levels and branches of government - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: Instrumentalists argue that the First Amendment advances all of the following goals
except _.
a. truth
b. checking government abuse
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c. obscenity
d. Self-governance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C
Question: Prior restraints on speech are ______.
a. the least intrusive means to regulate speech
b. presumptively unconstitutional
c. rarely constitutional
d. presumptively unconstitutional and rarely constitutional - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D
Question: Content-neutral regulations are also called ______ regulations.
a. time, place, and manner
b. majoritarian
c. balancing
d. Purposive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
Question: Under strict scrutiny, a law is constitutional only if it ______.
a. is reasonable and rational
b. is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest
c. advances an important public interest and falls within the powers of government
