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Mastering Interview Techniques Quiz

Test your knowledge of interviewing concepts with our engaging quiz designed for aspiring journalists and interviewers. This quiz covers important aspects such as sources, quotations, and effective questioning techniques.

10 thought-provoking questions
Multiple-choice and checkbox formats
Ideal for beginners and seasoned professionals alike

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by InterviewingPro27

What is a deadline

The day the story was assigned.

The time the the story is due.

The time of the interview.

The day of the interview.

The person who can give you the most thorough or best information?

Secondary Souce

Primary Source

Unnamed Source

First Souce

What are Quotations?

Words a source says during an interview

Something you give the source credit for.

Must be the exact words spoken by source.

All of the above

What are Secondary Sources?

The first person you talk to.

Could be eyewitnesses or directly affected by the event.

Are not relevant to the story.

All of the above.

The sources who ask that their names not be used in the story.

Regular Sources

Unnamed sources

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

What does Off the Record mean?

The information goes in your notebook.

The information goes in the story.

Is not written down in your notebook.

Anything goes

One way to make an interview more revealing is collecting short personal stories

Anecdotes

Antonyms

Reverse questions

New questions

What is an open-ended question?

Questions that encourage the subject to talk.

Questins that require more than a yes or no

Helps avoid one word answers

All of the above

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