Chapter 9

No. of Questions= 26 
 
1 Under which of the following marketing communications mix general categories would specialty advertising be found?
a) Personal selling 
b) Public relations 
c) Direct marketing 
d) Sales promotion 
2 Catalogs, telemarketing, fax, and the Internet are found under which of the following categories of the marketing communications mix?
a) Advertising 
b) Public relations 
c) Direct marketing 
d) Sales promotion 
3 A political campaign message on television asking you to vote for a specific proposal that identifies the sponsor is a form of:
a) advertising. 
b) direct marketing. 
c) personal selling. 
d) public relations. 
4 Showing a shopper how a new version of Doom (a computer game) works during an in-store visit is a form of:
a) advertising. 
b) direct marketing. 
c) personal selling. 
d) sales promotion. 
5 The sender decodes messages sent by the receiver and thereby overcomes and eliminates noise.
a) True 
b) False 
6 With respect to message content, emotional appeals are directed to the audience's sense of what is "right" and "proper."
a) True 
b) False 
7 The most logical method of establishing a promotional budget is the percentage-of-sales method.
a) True 
b) False 
8 The push strategy of promotion suggests a promotion strategy that calls for spending a lot (pushing) on advertising and consumer promotions to build up consumer demand.
a) True 
b) False 
9 If a company's objective were to reach masses of buyers that were geographically dispersed at a low cost per exposure, the ompany would likely choose which of the following promotion forms?
a) Advertising 
b) Personal selling 
c) Public relations 
d) Sales promotion 
10 Which of the following promotional tools is thought to be the most expensive to use?
a) Advertising 
b) Personal selling 
c) Public relations 
d) Sales promotion 
11 The promotion tool that may include coupons, contests, premiums, and other means of attracting consumer attention is best described as being which of the following?
a) Advertising 
b) Personal selling 
c) Public relations 
d) Sales promotion 
12 Which of the following promotional tools can reach many prospects who otherwise avoid salespeople and is received as news rather than as a sales-directed communication?
a) Advertising 
b) Personal selling 
c) Public relations 
d) Sales promotion 
13 __________________ is well suited to highly targeted marketing efforts and to building one-to-one customer relationships.
a) Advertising 
b) Public relations 
c) Sales promotion 
d) Direct marketing 
14 A __________________ is a promotion strategy that calls for spending a lot on advertising and consumer promotion to build up consumer demand. If the strategy is successful, consumer demand will move the product through the channel.
a) push strategy 
b) pull strategy 
c) blocking strategy 
d) integrated strategy 
15 Using sales promotion to encourage early product trial emphasizes which factor in setting the promotion mix?
a) The type of product/market. 
b) Push versus pull strategy. 
c) Buyer-readiness stage. 
d) Product life-cycle stage. 
16 _________________ is the concept under which a company carefully integrates and coordinates its many communications channels to deliver a clear, consistent, and compelling message about the organization and its products.
a) The promotion mix 
b) Integrated international affairs 
c) Integrated marketing communications 
d) Integrated demand characteristics 
17 A specific communication task to be accomplished with a specific target audience during a specific period of time is called an:
a) advertising campaign. 
b) advertising objective. 
c) advertising criterion. 
d) advertising evaluation. 
18. ___________________ is advertising used to inform consumers about a new product or feature and to build primary demand.
a) Persuasive advertising 
b) Inferential advertising 
c) Reminder advertising 
d) Informative advertising 
19 If Sony tries to convince consumers that its brand computer disks is the best quality for the money, it is using which of the following forms of advertising?
a) Informative advertising 
b) Psychological advertising 
c) Reminder advertising 
d) Persuasive advertising 
20 _________________ is advertising used to keep consumers thinking about a product.
a) Informative advertising 
b) Psychological advertising 
c) Reminder advertising 
d) Persuasive advertising 
21 Avis positioned itself against market-leading Hertz by claiming, "We're number two, so we try harder." This would be an example of which of the following advertising forms?
a) Context advertising 
b) Comprehensive advertising 
c) Comparison advertising 
d) Conjoint advertising 
22 After determining its promotional objectives, a company next sets its ______________ for each product.
a) promotional strategy 
b) promotional budget 
c) promotional goals 
d) promotional format 
23 The measure of how many times the average person in the target market is exposed to the message is called:
a) reach. 
b) frequency. 
c) impact. 
d) performance. 
24 Publicity is any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of ideas, products by an identified sponsor.
a) True 
b) False 
25 Advertising objectives have three primary purposes: to interest, to gain attention, and to remind.
a) True 
b) False 
26 Reach is a measure of how many times the average person in the target market is exposed to the message.
a) True 
b) False