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Tutorial Five:
Information Resources on the Web

Chapter 5 Quiz Masters:

John Taylor (jtaylor@hccfl.edu) [Consultant]


Multiple Choice [One Answer Only]

Question 1

Which of the following offers news search engines to promote their subscription-based custom news services?

a) Google
b) Northern Light
c) Tahoo!
d) All of the above


Question 2

One of the most popular Web sites providing maps and driving directions is _____.

a) AlltheWeb
b) Northern Light
c) MapQuest
d) Moreover


Question 3

Many ____ let you search for individual's names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

a) white page directories
b) yellow page directories
c) switchboards
d) blogs


Question 4

You can make a rough assessment about who owns a specific Web server or provides the space for the Web page by examining the ___ identifier in the URL.

a) domain
b) organization
c) host
d) protocol


Question 5

Which of the following suggest a low-quality resource?

a) Graphics that serve no purpose
b) Loud colors
c) Flashing text
d) All of the above


Question 6

Which of the following domains typically indicates a not-for-profit organization?

a) .net
b) .org
c) .edu
d) .mil


Question 7

Which of the following can you access from LibrarySpot Web site?

a) reference materials
b) electronic texts
c) other Library Web sites
d) all of the above


Question 8

The ___ hyperlink of the U.S. Library of Congress Web Site leads you to archived photographs, sound, and video recordings, maps, and collections of many other kinds.

a) Thomas
b) American Memory
c) NDIIPP
d) Global Gateway


Question 9

Which of the following U.S. Library of Congress Web sites contain legislative information?

a) Thomas
b) American Memory
c) America's Library
d) Global gateway


Question 10

Which of the following is a well-known Web site for full text storagew of works no longer protected by copyright?

a) Thomas
b) American Memory
c) Project Gutenberg
d) The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine


Question 11

In APA and MLA style, you enclose a URL in ___ in a citation.

a) single quotation marks
b) chevron symbols
c) ampersands
d) double quotation marks


Question 12

Graphics files that are in the ___ domain do not present a copyright violation.

a) open
b) distributed
c) public
d) trademark


Question 13

Which of the following citations for a Web page with a title and an author is acceptably formatted?

a) Ethics Updates. Hinman. L.M. University of San Diego. Retrieved 12 Feb. 2003 <http://ethics.sandiego.edu>.

b) Hinman. L.M. Ethics Updates. Retrieved 12 Feb. 2003 <http://ethics.sandiego.edu>. University of San Diego.

c) Hinman. L.M. Ethics Updates. University of San Diego. Retrieved 12 Feb. 2003 <http://ethics.sandiego.edu>.

d) Hinman. L.M. University of San Diego. Retrieved 12 Feb. 2003 Ethics Updates. http://ethics.sandiego.edu.


Question 14

Most images on the web are in one of two formats: ___.

a) GIF or TIFF
b) GIF or JPEG
c) TIFF or BMP
d) BMP or JPEG


Question 15

When you use your Web browser to ___, your Web browser downloads the multimedia element from the Web server and stores it in a temporary file on your computer's hard drive.

a) view a video clip
b) see a graphic image
c) listen to a sound
d) All of the above


Question 16

The GIF file format can store ___ different colors.

a) 8
b) 24
c) 256
d) 16.7 million


Question 17

The ___ format is particularly useful for photographs on the web.

a) GIF
b) TIFF
c) BMP
d) JPEG


Question 18

The ___ format is widely used on the Internet for images that have only a distinct colors.

a) JPEG
b) GIF
c) TIFF
d) BMP


Question 19

____ is a file format for the Web that stores many more colors than the GIF format.

a) JPEG
b) TIFF
c) BMP
d) WAV


Question 20

The ___ format can handle continuous-tone art on the Web.

a) JPEG
b) GIF
c) BMP
d) Both A and B


Question 21

Which of the following are uncompressed graphics formats?

a) GIF and PNG
b) BMP and TIFF
c) PNG and BMP
d) PNG and TIFF


Question 22

The ___ format is a new format that the World Wide Web Consortium has approved as a standard.

a) TIFF
b) BMP
c) PNG
d) MIDI


Question 23

____ files digitize audio waveform information at a user-specified sampling rate and can be played on any Windows computer that supports sound.

a) WAV
b) CDA
c) AU
d) MIDI


Question 24

The ___format is a standard adopted by the music industry for controlling devices that create and read musical information.

a) CDA
b) MIDI
c) AU
d) WAV


Question 25

The ___ format does not digitize the sound waveform; instead, it records information about each element of the sound.

a) CDA
b) WAV
c) MIDI
d) AU


Question 26

___transmission allows you to access very large audio or video files in much less time that the download-then-play procedure requires because you start playing the file before you finish downloading.

a) Streaming
b) Cached
c) Pre-downloaded
d) Interleaved


Question 27

One minute of video and sound recorded in QuickTime or AVI formats results in a file that is about ____megabytes.

a) 2
b) 3
c) 6
d) 15


Question 28

Files in the MP3 format are ___percent smaller than WAV format files

a) 20
b) 40
c) 60
d) 90


Question 29

What is Microsoft's video file format?

a) MPEG
b) Real
c) AVI
d) WAV


Question 30

Which compression technique delets information from a file and can deteriorate quality?

a) AVI
b) MPEG
c) QickTime
d) PNG



True/False Questions

Question 31

Web pages that purport to be resarch resources should provide author contact information, so that you can contact that author or consult information directories to verify the addresses or telephone numbers.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 32

The APA and MLA's recommendation that a URL be enclosed with chevron symbols in a citation is univerally accepted.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 33

Because computer files are even easier to copy than a picture in a book, the potential for Web copyright violations is much greater.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 34

Scanning a copy of a cartoon from a newspaper and placing it on a Web page does not violate the owner's copyright.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 35

Although most not-for-profit organizations use the .org domain, some perfectly legitimate not-for-profit organizations have URLs with a .net domain.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 36

Making a photocopy of a picture that appears in a book can be copyright violation.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 37

Many of the best resources on the Web require you to pay a subscription fee.

b) The statement above is TRUE.
a) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 38

The LibrarySpot Web Site is a collection of hyperlinks organized in the same general way that a physical library might arrange it collections..

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 39

Information on the Web is increasing subjected to the review and editing processes that have become a standard practice in print publishing.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Question 40

Some web sites make unpublished and unlisted telephone numbers available for public use.

a) The statement above is TRUE.
b) The statement above is FALSE.



Fill-in-the-Blank


Fill in the Blank with the word(s) that best fits the definition:

(hint: use vocabulary from the checkboxes below)

Question 41. Web sites that store information about businesses only are often called (two words) directories.



Question 42. Failure to cite the source material you use is called and can be a serious violation of your school's academic honesty policy.



Question 43. GIF is an acronym for (three words)



Question 44. A(n) GIF file combines several images into a single GIF file.



Question 45. JPEG is an acronym for (four words)



Question 46. A(n) compression procedure erases some elements of a graphic so that when it is displayed, it will not resemble the original image.



Question 47. In a(n) transmission, the Web server sends the first part of the file to the web browser, which begins playing the file.



Question 48. Sound and video files usually require that you add software extensions, called , to your browser.



Question 49. MIDI is an acronym for (four words)



Question 50. MPEG is an acronym for (four words)





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