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1) Using the Google search engine, on what day was photojournalist Gordon Parks born?

A. December 17

B. April 14

C. October 10

D. November 30

E. January 16

Item 1 choose one A B C D E

2) You work for a company that provides Internet service to paying customers. You want to learn all you can about
new techniques for dealing with Internet viruses. What type of information will you need?

A. Historical and technical

B. Recent and non-technical

C. Current and technical

D. Historical and non-technical

Item 2 choose one A B C D

3) You are a college student preparing to write a paper on "academic freedom." What is commonly the first step to take
when starting your research?

A. Determine a preliminary thesis

B. Conduct preliminary research on your subject in order to refine it

C. Decide how much information is needed

D. Assemble a bibliography of important publications on the subject

Item 3 choose one A B C D

4) In your local newspaper, you see a public health alert about West Nile Virus. A friend tells you that the local health
department has a campaign to raise public awareness. You want to know more; for example, should you be using insect
repellant when you hike in the nearby woods?

Using your knowledge of various types of online resources available, which of the following would be the best approach
for finding the information you need?

A. Search several online library catalogs available on the Internet

B. Search health and medicine databases available through your local public library

C. Search the Web site of your community's public health department

D. Search for the Web site of a local hiking club

Item 4 choose one A B C D

5) You want to use phrase searching to search an online database for information about exotic native plants in
Southern California. Of the following, which would be the best to use?

A. exotic native plants in Southern California

B. "exotic native plants" "Southern California"

C. "exotic native plants" Southern California

D. "Southern California" exotic native plants

Item 5 choose one A B C D

6) Examine this citation:

Which one of the following is the source for this citation?

A. Book

B. Periodical article in an online database

C. Web page

D. Chapter in a book

Item 6 choose one A B C D

7) For an ethics class, you and another student are preparing a speech about plagiarism. While most students know
they shouldn't plagiarize, many students do anyway. Using ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center database
on the Web, you find information about an article by Jon Baggaley and Bob Spencer titled "The Mind of a Plagiarist,"
published in Learning, Media & Technology in March 2005.

The abstract of this article reads:

The ease with which material may be "copied and pasted" from the Internet into written work is raising concern
in educational institutions, and particularly in those disciplines that use online sources and methods in their
curriculum. A case of "serial plagiarism" is discussed, in the work of a graduate student in an online distance
education program.

Which of the following search combinations using descriptors provided by ERIC would be the easiest way of
identifying additional articles very similar to this one?

A. Student Attitudes OR Plagiarism

B. Plagiarism NOT Ethics

C. Student Attitudes NOT Plagiarism

D. Student Attitudes AND Plagiarism

Item 7 choose one A B C D

8) You are researching the topic "drug abuse in major league sports" in a periodicals database for a science project.
Titles of three articles you retrieve in your first search are:

• "Pilot Program Targets Health of Female Atheletes"
• "Effects of Anabolic Steroids on the Muscle Cells of Strength-Trained Athletes"
• "Sports Physicians and the Doping Crisis in Elite Sport"

Which of the following terms suggested by the words in these article titles would be useful for doing a new search that
would narrow your topic?

A. Female athletes

B. Anabolic steroids

C. Sports physicians

D. Doping crisis

Item 8 choose one A B C D

9) The percentage of Latinos in the high schools in your city is increasing, but many of these students drop out before
graduating. You and other school board members are planning a program for parents, the majority of whom are fieldworkers
who themselves did not finish high school. You are searching for information to present to these parents.

Which of the following would be appropriate for this audience? Select ALL that apply.

A. You will summarize what you found in an article by Candace Mitchell titled "English Only: The Creation and
Maintenance of an Academic Unclass," published in Journal of Latinos and Education in 2005.

B. The high school principal will attend. He gave a very informative talk recently about the high school dropout
problem to a statewide education conference, so he will present that talk again to this group.

C. You have found a video of a musical play called Los Desertores (The Dropouts) written by Radames Gave. The
Web site for Hispanic Magazine says "Gave wrote much more than a play about Latinos dropping out. The play is
art imitating Latino student reality across the United States. It is a haunting refrain of the plight Hispanic students
face in schools all across the country." You will play the video followed by a discussion with the parents.

D. You have found a clear, informative chart from the U.S. Department of Labor that shows that high school dropouts
earn much less than others over their lifetimes.

Item 9 choose one A and B B and D C and D A and D

10) You work for a United Nations official who wants to learn more about child soldiers in Africa. In Congo, over 30,000 children
have been recently used as soldiers. The official knows enough about the Congo situation but would now like information
about child soldiers in other African nations. He would like something substantial, like a book or a long report.

You use Labordoc, the online database of the International Labor Organization available on the Internet.

Of these four items on the results list, which one best meets the information need?

A.

B.

C.

D.

Item 10 choose one A B C D

11) After talking to your distressed sixth grade child and with other children and mothers in the neighborhood, you discover that
one boy in your child's class is a bully. You decide to talk about this situation at the next school board meeting, but first you will
need more information to support your arguments.

Using an online periodicals database, you search using the keyword "bully." You look at the first 10 results to find out that only two
are available with full text, but none were published within the last year. Wanting full text articles with very current information, which
one of the following would you do next?

A. Narrow the search by refining it to "bullies who are boys"

B. Change the search option from KEYWORD to TITLE and search for "bullies full text"

C. Find options to limit the search as presented on the current search screen, or by switching to an advanced search mode

D. Change the search to "bullies 2007+"

Item 11 choose one A B C D

12) Your town's City Council will hold hearings about possible development of some public lands. As a representative of a local
ecology group, you will attend and argue that, instead of a shopping center, the land should be turned into green space or parkland
to encourage healthier behavior by people in the neighborhood.

Which of the following passages would support your case? Select ALL that apply.

A. The amount of green space in a metropolitan area may largely determine the percentage of inhabitants who walk or
bicycle for their daily transportation needs, says a new study examining the role of urban design in physical fitness.
("Green Spaces Promote Walking, Cycling." Environment May 2005, p. 6)

B. Streets of the "green era" are now "skinny" streets designed to slow traffic and reduce the amount of impervious
paving needed: narrow lanes, no dead-ends, short blocks with grid-patterned streets. (J. Jeffrey Conroy. "How Green
Can You Go?" American School & University Mar. 2006, p. 31)

C. Living in areas with walkable green spaces influenced the longevity of urban senior citizens independent of their
age, sex, marital status, baseline functional status, and socioeconomic status. (T. Takano et al. "Urban Residential
Environments and Senior Citizens' Longevity in Meagecity Areas: The Importance of Walkable Green Spaces." Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health Dec. 2002, p. 913)

D. Incorporating wildlife habitat into residential areas is becoming increasingly common for homeowners and developers
and is touted as a way to reduce some of the impacts of residential development on wildlife populations. (C. E. Adams
et al. Urban Wildlife Management. CRC Press, 2005, p. 183.

Item 12 choose one A B and C A and C B and D D

13) You are a college student preparing to write a paper on Martin Luther King, Jr. You must use both primary and secondary
sources in your research. You consult a biographical dictionary for its background article on King.

Of these four sources listed in "further readings/sources," which TWO are primary sources?

D. Abernathy, Ralph. "My Last Letter to Martin." Ebony July 1968: 58-61.

Item 13 choose one A and B B and D A and C C and D

14) Go to ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center Web site, to search for the article "Talking with Children about
Natural Disasters," by Adele M. Brodkin.

What information do you need to write a full citation for this publication?

15) Give TWO valid reasons why you should cite sources used in a research paper.

16) You live in a city where a proposition to add fluoride to the water supply is on an upcoming ballot. You neighbor has told you
that this is a very controversial issue. You go to the Web and find many sites that have information. You select two to investigate
more closely. One is Fluoride Action Network at http://www.fluoridealert.org/ and the other is from the Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, whose main URL is http://www.chop.edu.

Below are screen shots of both Web sites.

Which of the following statements is true:

17) Go to the Web site Mammoth HD which offers high definition images

To save one of the pictures that is on the Web site you should:

Item 17 choose one A B C D

A. Use Google to search for the name of your town

B. Contact the City Council for minutes of the meeting

C. Check your city's Web page

D. Use your local law library's online catalog to see if they have copies of city ordinances adopted in the past

E. Call or email similar businesses in your town to see what they know

Item 18 choose one A and B and C B and D and E C and D and E B and C and E

19) Your neighbors own dogs, as do 40% of the people in your city. They are part of a movement to establish parks where
dogs can run leash free. San Francisco, they tell you, has 27 such dog parks; Chicago has 10. You think that having dogs
on leashes is important; for example, dogs not on leashes could hurt children. You do some searching and discover these two
resources:

• In an opinion piece in The New York Times published 27 August 2006, T. Kerasote writes that leash laws "have
  brought about the opposite of what we've hoped: dogs that are constantly leashed aren't as well socialized as dogs
  that get to meet other dogs off-leash; they display more behavioral problems. "
  
  
• At the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you find this: "Children, especially boys ages 5
  to 9, have the highest incidence rate for emergency department visits resulting from dog bites."

Which of the four answers represent where you are in your research. Select ALL that apply:

A. You should explore what the experience has been in some of the cities that have leash-free dog parks

B. The information that boys ages 5 to 9 have the highest incidence rate for dog bites is interesting, but neither
supports nor undermines your argument.

C. You have found solid information to support the position that the city should not establish dog parks

D. The premise of The New York Times piece is that having dogs on leashes affects their behavior. It is one person's
opinion. It doesn't support your argument, but, to be fair, you need to explore what others think about the effects of leash laws on dog behavior.

Item 19 choose one A and B and C A and B and D B and C and D

20) Your teenagers are into what are called energy drinks. All their friends drink them, they tell you, adding "they energize
you; you do better on tests." The only thing you've heard about energy drinks is that they are high in caffeine. Before you start
picking up Red Bull or RockStar or SoBe at the store for your family, you want to know more.

You locate Highwire Press, a database available from Stanford University. You bring up the search screen and type in the
words energy drinks to be searched Anywhere in Text, as shown:

Where on the screen do you click to make sure that the word energy is searched next to the word drinks?

21) In doing your search at HighWire Press, you find the Web site below. What is the original source for the information given
here?

Type in your email address:

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