Quiz #1
33 Questions
Take this self-test. Give yourself 1 point for taking the test. Give yourself 3 points for each correct answer.
1) In what book would you find the character, Atticus Finch?
2) What are the three categories of verbs?
3) What was likely to bring trouble to River City?
4) In C, what operator has the lowest precedence?
5) Who, in the 1962 film, The Miracle Worker, won academy awards?
6) In the movie Hoosiers, what is the name of the play the boys run when they are told to
“ … not get caught watching the paint dry?
7) In a standard Little League diamond for 12 year olds, what is the distance between home plate and the
pitching rubber?
8) In the space below, write the preamble to the US Constitution.
9) In C and on our UML mercury machine, how much space is reserved by the following declarator:
char *p[5] ;
10) At the end of Lyddie, what school does she plan on attending?
11) In Casey at the Bat, two players die at first. Who are they?
12) Complete the phrase. “Who’s the tall dark stranger there. _______________________________”
13) In what TV series would you find the character known as Festus? _________________________
14) What specific five Aprils is Irene Hunt going across? ____________________________________
15) What reappears in George Bailey’s pants pocket? _______________________________________
16) What game does Rip Van Winkle observe the creatures playing in the woods?
17) 9 years, 9 months, 9 days. What does this phrase represent? __________________________________
18) What book does Lyddie read while she is working in the mill? ________________________________
19) What does it mean for a matrix to be orthogonal?
20) Where would you find the Jets battling the Sharks?
21) What happens when you give a Mouse a Cookie?
22) What is the occupation of the protagonist in Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions?
23) In the book, Charlotte’s web, what is the pig’s name? _______________________
24) In the movie, Sandlot, what is the dog’s name? _________________________________
25) In what state does Antonia Shimerda spend most of her life? __________________________
26) Who is the current dean of the College of Arts and Science, Science Division at UMass Lowell?
27) Who sang the song “In the year 2525? ________________________________________
28) Quick Draw McGraw turns into what heroic character when a damsel is in distress?
29) How many home runs did Mel Ott hit? __________________
30) How is it possible for a pitcher to record 4 strike outs in a single ½ inning?
31) In what computer language would you find a car, a cdr, and a cons? ____________________________
32) When would you use the word which rather than the word that? and vice versa.
33) Who told us to omit needless words? __________________________________
How did you do?
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