Multiple Choice Quiz on “Do Ask Do Tell” content
(books and websites)
(This is a work-in-progress.
The intention is to come up with multiple-choice questions that actually
might be of value to students preparing for various academic proficiency exams,
whether SAT’s, standard of learning in
various states, and the like. The questions are intended to stimulate critical
thinking and correlation of materials in different courses.)
(These are original questions by me. )
- Which
statement is not true of retroviruses?
- They
occur in other mammals besides man.
- They
are known to be spread through the air by person-to-person contact
- They
may be spread from mother to unborn child
- They
may be spread by heterosexual sexual intercourse.
- There
is more than one retrovirus and it can cause several kinds of disease
- None
of the above.
- Which
statement best characterizes the provisions of the “don’t ask, don’t tell”
policy regarding homosexuals in the military?
- A servicemember may be discharged for any statement
made to anyone, civilian or military, that he or she is homosexual.
- A servicemember may be discharged if he or she
intentionally draws attention to his or her sexual orientation in the
media.
- A servicemember may be discharged for homosexual acts
with other servicemembers
- A servicemember may be discharged for going to gay bars
or marching anonymously in gay parades.
- A servicemember may intentionally get discharged by
pretending to be homosexual.
- Which
statement is not a legally legitimate goal of a government-funded abstinence
education policy during the current Bush administration?
- Public
acceptance of sexual abstinence except in legal marriage encourages most
adults to seek stable marriages and promotes public respect for the
institution of marriage as a shared ideal.
- Sexual
abstinence is the most certain way to prevent unwanted pregnancy and
sexually transmitted diseases.
- Sexual
abstinence encourages someone to become self-sufficient before starting
sexual activity.
- Sexual
abstinence is a calculated choice for individual self-interest.
- Which
of the following is not an aim of a politician proposing resuming the
draft (military conscription) in 2003?
- To
make the sacrifices of war be shared more equitably among economic and
racial classes.
- To
reduce the pressure on Reserve and Guard units serving in Iraq.
- To
lift the military ban on gays.
- To
make the nation better able to respond to multiple military threats.
- A
minister begins a sermon with a parable and then builds his speech “inside
out” to make his moral point. He is using which of the following
intellectual processes?
- Deductive
reasoning.
- Inductive
reasoning.
- Subjunctive
mood.
- Subjectivity.
- What
is the purpose of the subjunctive mood in many languages?
- To
separate the familiar and formal elements of the second person.
- To
provide a past tense perfect.
- To
provide a clear way to distinguish between fact and conjecture.
- To
simplify conjugation of verbs.
- Which
of the following are complaints by Osama bin Laden against America?
- Support
of Israel.
- Occupation
of Muslim lands.
- Proliferation
of commercial and permissive culture around the world through the media
and Internet.
- None
of these.
- All
of these.
- Which
statement best explains why Saudi Arabia
is such an important country for American interests?
- It
is a leading source of reasonably-priced crude oil and its government is
vulnerable to terrorist overthrow.
- It
is a leading source of reasonably-priced crude oil and its government is
a stable theocracy.
- It
was the source of 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11, 2001.
- It
contains the two holiest sites for Islam.
- According
to modern standards of business ethics, which kind of employee probably
should not have a blog on the Internet under his
own name that he or she maintains outside of his or her employment?
- Computer
programmer
- Manager
with direct reports or teacher who gives grades
- Sales
assistant in a department store.
- Repair
person who makes service calls.
- According
to the latest Supreme Court rulings, which of the following characterizes
the current state of affirmative action?
- Racial
preferences are never acceptable in educational admission policies.
- Racial
preferences may be acceptable in a limited way in some circumstances
- Racial
preferences are always required to maintain racial balance
- Forced
bussing is never allowed today in school systems.
- In the
Child Online Protection Act (COPA), the term “harmful to minors” is
supposed to mean which of the following?
- Legally
obscene.
- Child
pornography.
- Obscene
with respect to minors.
- Indecent.
- Which
of the following is not true of mercantilism?
- It
developed during the decay of feudalism.
- Mother
country uses its colonies to improve its economic prosperity and balance
of trade.
- Mother
country sends political or religious dissidents to overseas colonies.
- Mother
country may tax profits of colonists.
- Which
of these authors is known for his or her interest and accomplishments in
special education?
- Elinor Burkett
- Denish D’Souza
- Clay
Aiken
- Barbara
Ehrenreich
- Paul
Rosenfels
- Sebastian
Junger
- In
law, “rebuttable presumption” means
- That
a statement from a person can lead one to conclude that the person has
probably behaved in some particular way, and the person has a chance to
challenge that conclusion.
- That
a statement from a person can lead one to conclude that a person has
behaved in some particular way, and the person cannot challenge the
conclusion.
- That
the statement proves that the person has behaved in some particular way.
- The
same thing as conclusive presumption.
- Which
writer believes that American society is unfair to childless adults?
- Elinor Burkett
- Denish D’Souza
- Clay
Aiken
- Barbara
Ehrenreich
- Paul
Rosenfels
- Sebastian
Junger
- In
federal law or in the laws of some states, child pornography includes
- visual
images showing minors in actual sexual acts
- visual
images simulating minors in sexual acts
- visual
images of apparent minors in sexual acts
- written
words that attempt to engage minors in the commission of sexual acts
- one
deleted image of a minor in a sexual act on a home computer
- all
of these
- none
of these
- A successful
door-to-door salesman would, according to Rosenfels,
probably fit the following personality polarity type:
- Feminine
subjective, unbalanced
- Masculine
subjective, balanced
- Masculine
subjective, unbalanced
- Feminine
objective, balanced
- Masculine
object, unbalanced
- A
parent leaves a will that stipulates a child gets a portion of the will
only if he is married at the time of the parent’s death. This is an example of
- dead
hand
- probate
- intestate
- joint
tenancy
- tenants
in common
- Which
of the following best describes the legal status of downloading music by
file sharing?
- It
is illegal without permission because of copyright law
- It
is legal because file sharing is a broadcast medium
- It
is illegal because file sharing is patented.
- It
is legal because copyright law considers downloading to be fair use.
- It
is legal for your own use only
- Which
of these authors is most concerned about the falling birth date in richer
societies?
- Barbara
Ehrenreich
- Sebastian
Junger
- Phillip
Longman
- Paul
Rosenfels
- Jennifer
Roback Morse
- Which
of the following is (or was) not an unethical practice?
- Simony
- Churning
- Twisting
- Fair
use
- Selling
of indulgences
- Use
of pseudonyms
- The
“plaintiff’s bar” probably relates the most to
- military
cost overruns
- medical
malpractice insurance rates
- copyright
infringement
- file-sharing
- piracy
- The
author who wrote about how peace facilitates democracy is
- Patricia
Warren
- Caroline
Kennedy
- Mark
Pietrzyk
- Paul
Rosenfels
- Sebastian
Junger
- Which
religious tradition most relates to “salvation through Grace”?
- Roman
Catholicism
- Protestantism
- Islam
- Eastern
Orthodox Church
- Judaism
- Mormonism
- A
person who is very determined to follow goals chosen by himself
has which personality type?
- Masculine
- Feminine
- Balanced
- Unbalanced
- Objective
- Subjective
- Which
concept probably relates the least to the notion that God intends some
people to be “better” than others regardless of their works?
- Calvinism
- Meritocracy
- Mainstream
Protestantism
- Islam
- Objectivism
probably comports most closely with which other political philosophies?
- Socialist
democracy
- Individualism
and libertarianism
- Communism
- Fascism
- Classical
liberalism
- The
new telemarketing law (as of Oct 2003) would allow practices:
- Non-profits
organizations seeking donations without using the do-not-call list
- Non-profits
seeking donations and selling subscriptions without using the do-not-call
list
- Non-profits
calling past a set time period to seek donations
- Non
profits calling cell phones to seek donations
- When
could a web domain owner incur downstream liability?
- If his
server is hijacked to send illegal spam
- If
his email name is spoofed in spam
- If
someone commits a crime after reading his content and his content is not
illegal
- None
of these
- In
ancient Rome
- Strict
sexual morality was practiced
- Fathers
sometimes had the legal right to sell their children or kill them
- Government
was always a republic
- All
classes had equal political rights.
- Which
European Romance language has significant vocabulary borrowed from Arabic?
- French
- English
- Italian
- Basque
- Spanish
- Latin
- Russian
- Which
of the following capabilities is protected now by the First Amendment?
- Immunity
of ISPs from downstream liability for crimes committed by their customers
in most cases.
- The
capability of a speaker with modest means to become known on the World
Wide Web for his views on sexually controversial topics, even though
immature minors may find his material.
- The
capability of a unmarried and childless speaker
to embarrass his family through the World Wide Web.
- The
ability of a private organization to discriminate against a group
- All
of these
- None
of these
- Which
of the following concepts are well established in American copyright law?
- Moral
rights
- Fair
use
- The
ability to copyright a book title
- Media
perils insurance
- Trademark
- Patent
- If you
make a low-budget movie and show an image of Justin Timberlake without his
consent in the movie and then exhibit the movie to the public, you may
have violated Mr. Timberlake’s
- Right
to privacy
- Right
of publicity
- Copyright
ownership
- Trademark
- None
of these
- Which
of the following is likely to discriminate on the basis of marital status?
- Employers
in mainstream jobs
- Landlords
of commercially owned apartment houses
- Automobile
insurance companies
- None
of these
- Which
of these concepts would contradict the goal of ending gender
discrimination?
- ENDA
- The
family wage
- Collective
bargaining
- Aesthetic
realism
- None
of these
- Which
of these sentences explains differences in skin color among different
human races?
- Close
to the Equator, where the Sun’s ultraviolet light is most direct, people
need more pigment to protect them from runaway burns and cancer.
- Far
from the Equator, where the Sun’s ultraviolet light is much less intense
because of low sun angle, people should not have too much pigment so
their skin can make Vitamin D
- Both
of these
- None
of these
- In
which community were public schools closed in the early 1960s to avoid
school desegregation?
- Washington,
DC
- Richmond,
VA
- Arlington,
VA
- Farmville,
VA
- Cumberland,
MD
- Which
of these facts about gram-negative bacteria is true?
- Their
cell walls may be thicker or have extra material
- They
may be more resistant to antibiotics
- They
are often anaerobic
- All
of these
- None
of these
- Which
of these planets or satellites have atmospheres as thick as Earth’s?
- Triton,
Titan and Venus
- Titan,
Venus and Neptune
- Venus,
Mars, Jupiter
- Mars,
Titan, Mercury
- Europa, Titan, Venus
- “With
all deliberate speed” refers to which social issue?
- affirmative action.
- Gender
discrimination.
- Segregated
schools.
- Forced
bussing.
- Gays
in the military.
- Gay
marriage.
- When
an “if… then…” statement is true, then which other statement is always
true?
- Inverse
- Converse
- Contrapositive.
- None of these.
- All
of these.
- Betty Friedan is best known for which social change?
- Advancement
of women in the workplace
- Advancement
of lesbians in the military
- School
integration
- Ending
age discrimination
- Fair
labor standards
- The Amistad is associated with which social issue?
- Segregation
- The
military gay ban
- Slavery
- Polygamy
- Separation
of church and state
- A debt
collector reaches the mother of an adult debtor. The mother says the son
is disabled and that she is taking care of him. According to the FDCPA
(Fair Debt Collection Practices Act) the collector may talk to the mother
- never
- only
if she is a legal guardian
- always,
because she is providing custodial care and he is disabled
- only
if he is mentally incompetent
- If two
lines on a graph are perpendicular, what is the product of their slopes?
- 0
- 1
- -1
- ½
- -1/2
- 2
- -2
- If you
are told the slope and one point on a graph of a linear equation, how do
you find the y-intercept?
- Compute
the x-intercept first.
- Plug
in the points and slope and solve y=mx+b
- Plug
in the points and slope and apply the quadratic formula
- None
of these
- Which
of these statements about the Axiom of Choice is not true?
- It
says that for set of mutually exclusive non-empty sets, there is at least
one set that contains one element form each of these sets.
- It
is equivalent to Zorn’s Lemma, the Trichotomy
Law, and the Well-Ordering Principle in combination
- It
is equivalent to Associative and Commutative properties in algebra
- It
is normally considered a postulate in topology, analysis, and algebra
courses.
- A
collection agency collecting medical debts would normally have to comply
principally with
- HIPAA
and FDCPA
- HIPAA
and FCRA
- FLSA
and FDCPA
- HIPAA
and FSLA
- Which
political issue probably would have motivated the phrase “do ask do tell”
the most?
- The
military gay ban.
- The
AIDS epidemic
- Abstinence
education
- No
Child Left Behind
- Which
of these examples would not demonstrate osmosis or at least diffusion?
- Fresh
water moves into a paramecium.
- Fluids
are given intravenously to revive a dehydrated person after heat stroke.
- An
amoeba engulfs its food.
- You
smell chocolate chip cookies baking
- The
relevance of the “Smallville effect” to the
legal problems with the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) is
- The
fact that COPA defines “harmful to minors”
- The
fact that COPA has a “serious value” clause that could be applied to all
minors
- The
fact that COPA has a “serious value” clause and that some minors, even of
a given age, are much more mature than other minors.
- The
fact that material under COPA is illegal only when it appeals to the
prurient interest.
- In the
opinion of the author of the “do ask do tell” books, gay rights is a
disturbing notion to a significant percentage of Americans because
- Gays
might be perceived as second-class citizens.
- Gays
are perceived as not sharing family responsibility equitably.
- Gays
are biologically different and therefore a threat.
- Homosexuality
is a personal choice.
- Which
of these cities is not on the Fall Line?
- Trenton,
NJ
- Baltimore,
MD
- Richmond,
VA
- Washington,
DC
- Williamsburg,
VA
- Which
of these examples would demonstrate active transport?
- Fresh
water moves into a paramecium.
- Fluids
are given intravenously to revive a dehydrated person after heat stroke.
- You
smell chocolate chip cookies baking.
- A
sodium ion moves out of an axon.
- A
purported right to health care would be
- a
fundamental right
- a
social right
- an
expressive right
- an
original right
- a fundamental
right and a social right
- President
Bush’s 2005 inaugural claim that the public interest depends on private
character is commensurate with which of these concepts?
- libertarianism
- aesthetic
realism
- conservatism
- all
of these
- none
of these
- President
Franklin Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” would invoke
- fundamental
rights only
- both
fundamental and social rights
- expressive
rights
- collective
rights and social rights
- Which
of these is not a statement that would have to be proved?
- lemma
- theorem
- corollary
- postulate
- What
base is used for arithmetic on IBM
mainframe computers?
- 10
- 16
- 8
- 12
- Which
kind of angle would have a measure greater than pi?
- acute
- obtuse
- reflex
- scalene
- right
- straight
- A
philosophy that says people should learn to get interested in that which
makes them needed by others is best named as:
- utilitarianism
- Darwinism
- Aesthetic
realism
- Libertarianism
- Epistemology
- During
which war could men buy their way out of the draft?
- War
Between the States (Union soldiers)
- World
War I
- World
War II
- Revolutionary
War
- Vietnam
War
- Korean
War
- Which
mathematical concept was particularly frightening during the first three
years of the AIDS epidemic?
- arithmetic
progression
- geometric
progression
- geometric
mean
- arithmetic
mean
- median
- box
and whiskers
- Which
statement is not true about most proposals for Universal National Service?
- It
would provide alternatives to military service
- It
would exclude open gays and lesbians
- It
would be limited to men
- It
would include opportunities both overseas and domestic
- Fundamental
rights can be found in
- The
Bill of Rights only
- The
Constitution and the Bill of Rights only
- The
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, some other amendments, and court
opinions
- The
Constitution, the Bill of Rights, some other amendments, and legislated
entitlements.
- In the
Dred Scott decision
- The
Supreme Court ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to set a slave free
- The
Supreme Court ruled that slavery was unconstitutional
- The
Supreme Court ruled that slavery was constitutional
- The
Supreme Court ruled that secession was unconstitutional
- The
Supreme Court ruled that secession was constitutional
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Upheld
the separate but equal concept but that concept would be overturned later
by another ruling
- Upheld
the separate but equal concept for racial segregation and that holds
today
- Held
that slavery as unconstitutional
- Held
that the Reconstruction was unconstitutional
- Which
of the following is probably not an example of involuntary servitude?
- impressment
- segregation
- conscription
- slavery
- Which
early settlement did novelist/screenplay-writer Stephen King refer to in Storm of the Century?
- Jamestown,
VA
- Roanoke
Island, NC
- Williamsburg,
VA
- Plymouth,
MA
- Bar
Harbor, ME
- When a
publisher pulls an author’s book for poor sales, this is an example of
- accountability
- authentication
- conflict
of interest
- none
of these
- L’Hopital’s rule is a direct corollary of
- The
Mean Value Theorem
- Rolle’s Theorem
- The
Chain Rule for Differentiation
- Integration
by parts
- The
Axiom of Choice
- Minimax rational function approximation would most
likely be studied in a course on
- Algebra
- Advanced
calculus
- Numerical
analysis
- Number
theory
- “Good
Will Hunting” by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck is an example of what literary
form?
- Novel
- Non-fiction
- Short
story
- Fairy
tale
- Screenplay
- Among
the numbers on the list (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 21)
which are not primes?
- 2,
3, 11
- 6,
8, 21
- 2,
6, 8, 21
- 2,
6, 7, 13, 21
- If the
Supreme Court upholds the 1993 “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” law, it most likely
would invoke which concept?
- Explicit
powers of Congress and the Executive
- Fundamental
rights
- The
right to privacy
- The
Penumbra Clause
- Which
kinds of cells have mitochondria?
- bacteria
cells, plant cells, and animal cells
- animal
cells
- animal
cells and plant cells
- bacteria
cells and animal cells
- bacteria
cells and plant cells
- When
is a function f(x) that is differentiable at x=c convex at c?
- When
the first derivative at c is 0.
- When
the second derivative at c is 0
- When
the second derivative at c > 0
- When
the second derivative at c < 0
- None
of these
- For
the function (x - 2) ** 1/3 * (2x – 2) ** 2/3
- The
point (1, 0) is a cusp
- The
graph has a vertical tangent at x = 2
- None
of these
- Both
of these
- Which
of these cells have a cell wall?
- Plant
cells and all bacteria cells
- Plant
cells and many bacteria cells
- Plant
cells only
- Plant
cells and animal cells
- Animal
cells only
- Which
writer advanced the idea of survival of the fittest when applied to
economic policy?
- Charles
Darwin
- Herbert
Spencer
- Rene
Descartes
- Voltaire
- Galileo
- Rosicrucianism is
- a
religious faith
- a
cultural fraternity
- a
social organization
- a
Christian denomination
- the
same thing as freemasonry
- A
theory that says that a divine or omnipresent being guided the development
of life as we know it on earth is called
- creationism
- scientific
creationism
- evolution
- intelligent
design
- The
most middle of the road approach to teaching about homosexuality in a
public high school biology or health class would be
- sexual
orientation is probably immutable but sexual behaviors can be chosen or
rejected
- sexual
orientation is chosen and sexual behaviors can be chosen or rejected
- sexual
orientation is immutable and sexual behaviors are not chosen
- most
wild animals exhibit homosexuality
- Which
combination of services would be the least
logical when offered by a web hosting company for a shared hosting
service?
- Windows
2003, ASP.NET, ADO.NET,
MS SQL, Access, java
- Windows
2000, Access, Foxpro
- Unix,
ASP.NET, ADO.NET,
MS SQL, java, c#
- Unix,
php, java, Mysql
- What
would the number 21 look like when written in Octal?
- 17
- 1E
- 21
- 10
- 8
- Which
theorem or concept connects the antiderivative
of a function to the definite integral?
- Riemann
sums
- Mean
Value Theorm
- Rolles Theorem
- The
Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
- Axiom
of Choice
- Which
kingdom would have prokaryotic cells?
- Protista
- Monera
- Fungi
- Plants
- Animals
- The
paramecium belongs to which kingdom?
- Protista
- Monera
- Fungi
- Plants
- Animals
- Which
organism belongs to phylum Chordata but is
sessile as an adult?
- Sea
anemone
- Tunicate
or Sea squirt
- Lancet
- Lamprey
- Eel
- A
Chinook wind in the upper Great Plains often
removes snow quickly. This illustrates
- Boyle’s
Law
- Charles’s
Law
- Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle
- Pauli Exclusion Principle
- Which
scientific principle most affects the Periodic Table?
- Boyles’s
Law
- Charles’s
Law
- Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle
- Pauli Exclusion Principle
- On the
television program “Numbers” Charlie notes that when the police record
information about bank robberies they may be affecting future robberies.
This illustrates which principle?
- Boyles’s
Law
- Charles’s
Law
- Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle
- Pauli Exclusion Principle
- Approximately
how old is the (U.S.,
federal) Bill of Rights?
- 165
years
- 170
years
- 205
years
- 230
years
- 105
years
- The
Euler number e belongs to which sets of numbers?
- Reals, rationals
- Reals
- Reals, complex
- Reals, comples, rational
- You
want to demonstrate how to find the area of an isosceles right triangle,
with hypotenuse = 1, with calculus. The right way to do this is:
- Find
the definite integral of x dx from 0 to 1
- Find
the definite integral of x dx from 0 to 2
- Find
the derivative of f(x) = x**2 and evaluate from 0 to 1
- Find
the derivative of f(x) = x**2 and evaluate from 0 to 2
- The
number pi can be calculated as
- The
indefinite integral of 1 / (1 + x**2)
- The
improper integral of 1 / (1 + x**2) from – infinity to + infinity
- The
improper integral of 1 / (1 + x**2) from 0 to + infinity
- The
indefinite integral of 1 / (1 + x**2) from – infinity to + infinity
- What
is the most logical way to derive the area of a circle with radius 1?
- Integrate
2 * pi * r dr
from 0 to 1
- Build
a sequence of triangles to the center out to polygons inscribed with the
circle and take the limit as the number of polygons increases
- Neither
of these
- Both
of these
- If the
graph of y = f(x) is symmetric about the y axis, what can you say about
the graph of the inverse x = f(y)?
- It
is a function and is symmetric about the x axis.
- It
is a relation and it is symmetric about the x axis.
- It
is a function and it is symmetric about the y axis.
- It
is a relation and it is symmetric about the y axis.
- “Washington
played .400 ball this season.” This sentence is an example of
- prolepsis
- metonymy
- irony
- hyperbole
101. Given the function y = 5 sin (3x + 6) the number 2
would represent
a. amplitude
b. phase angle
c. period
d. frequency
102. The domain -1
<=x <= 1 would apply to
a. arcsin x only
b. arcsin x and arctan x
c. arcsin x and arcos x
d. arcsin x, arcos x, sin -1 x cos -1 x
e. arctan
x and arccot x
103. Which are transcendental functions?
a. trigonometric functions
b. natural logarithms
c. exponential functions
d. all of these
e. none of these
104. The statement y = tan -1 (3 ** ½ )
is equivalent to
a. y = arctan (sqrt
3)
b. tan y = sqrt 3
c. tan y = 1.7321
d. all of these
e. none of these
105. For y = x ** 3
between x = -1 and x = 2
a. The area
under the curve is 17/4 and the definite integral between these points is 15/4
b. The area
under the curve is 17/4 and the definite integral between these points is also
17/4
c. The area
under the curve us 15/4 and the definite integral between these points is also
15/4
d. The area
under the curve is 15/4 and the definite integral between these points is 17/4.
106. The notion of a
well-ordered set of real numbers is expressed by
a. transitive property
b. trichotomy property
c. associative property
d. identity property
e. multiplicative property
107. A filial responsibility law
a. Can only
be invoked upon an adult child when a parent has given away assets to qualify
for Medicaid
b. May be
invoked upon an adult child if the parent has become indigent
c. Can only
be invoked on an adult child living in the same state
d. Is invalid because Medicare programs exist
108. The relationship between an inscribed angle and central
angle (inside a circle) is
a. ratio of .5
b. equal
c. ratio of 2
d. not known from the information
109. When a person publishes information about his own
family
a. legal requirements include permission of the head of the
family
b. normal intellectual property law (privacy, publicity,
copyright) applies
c. permission must be obtained from all family members
d. permission is included in filial responsibility laws
110
Which of these is the least consonant with tribalism?
a. family values
b. a patriarchal society
c. most religious practice
d. individualism
111. The reference
angle for a standard position angle of 300 degrees is
a. 30 degrees
b. 60 degrees
c. 90 degrees
d. 270 degrees
e. 300 degrees
112. Consider the
points A=(0,0), B=(3,4), C=(0,4). What is the dot
product of the vectors AB and AC?
a. 12
b. 20
c. 16
d. 8
e. 24
113. Which matrix
corresponds to the complex number I (or sqrt of -1)?
a. 0 -1
1 0
b. 0 1
1 0
c. 0 -1
-1 0
d. 0 -1
-1 -1
114. In which list do
all functions have inverses for all real numbers?
a. y=x. y=x**2,
y=x**3
b. y=x. y = sin
x y = x ** 3
c. y = sqrt x y = x y = sin
x
d. y = x y = x ** 3
y = x ** 5
115
If a slakeboarder travels 5 mph with
wheels 2 inches in diameter, what is the angular velocity of each wheel?
a. 5280
revolutions per min
b. 5280
radians per min
c. 1681 revolutions
per min
d. 10560
revolutions per minute
116, Let p = the number pi.
If an alternating current is given by I = 20 sin (120 pt – p) where t =
time in seconds, what is the frequency per second?
a. 30
b. 60
c. 120
d. 240
e. not known
117. A particle moves along a unit circle at the origin. Let
t be the angle it forms
a. When the
vertical distance of the particle from the origin is sin t, the velocity is cos t.
b. When the vertical
distance of the particle from the origin is cos t the
velocity is sin t
c. neither or these
d. both of these
118. Which of these
is an asymptote of y
= csc x ?
a. x = 0 x = 2 л
b. x = л
c. y = 0 and y =
2л
d. y = л
119. Which of these
relations are not functions?
a. y = csc x y = sec x
y = tan x y = cot x
b. y = sin x y = cos x
c. y = csc x y = sin x
d. y = cos c y
= cot x
120
Regarding the symbol ρ in spherical coordinates, which of
these is true?
a. It is
measured from the origin
b. It is
measured from the Z-axis
c. It is
always measured in degrees
d. It is
sin Φ where Φ measures the angle from the Z-azis
121. What is the most important comparison of a screenplay
and novel?
a. They
both follow a three-part structure
b. The screenplay
often abbreviates dialogue and allows a story to be told visually whereas a
novel has descriptions and often more complete dialogue
c. The
screenplay has an omniscient observer
d.
Screenwriters are more concerned with whether a story will sell
122. Which of these triangle
pairs is congruent?
a. triangles with the same angles
b. two right triangles with the same hypotenuse and one other
side
c. two triangles with two angles equal and one side other than
those between the angles
d. two equilateral triangles (1) inscribed inside a circle and
(2) with sides tangent to a circle.
123. If you take y = x **2 and move the graph 2 units to the
left what is the equation
a. y = x **2 - 4x + 4
b. y = x ** 2 + 4x +
4
c. y = x ** 2 – 2
d. y = x ** 2 + 2
124. A city has a
population of 1000000 people of race A and 500000 people of race B. race A is
declining in population at 1% a year and race B increases at 5 % a year. What
expression shows when the populations will be equal?
a. ln (1/2) = x ln (.99/1.05), solve for x
b. log (1/2) = x log
(.99/1.05) solve for x
c. log 2 = x log (.99/1.05) solve for x
d. all of these
e. a and b
f. none of these
125. Which proposal or concept would logically combined
liberal and conservative approaches to social justice?
a. loyalty to blood
b. a “pay your dues” moral philosophy emphasizing public
service and ability to support another person
c. gay marriage
d. socialism
e. individualism
126. Let z = x + iy be a complex number and let F(z)
= (abs (z), x, i).
Let q belong
to the collection of all such F(z). Let q(a) > a (b) iff
Abs (a) > Abs (b) or x (a) > x (b) or y (a) > y (b).
Consider
these statements
(1) F is a function
(2) F is
measurable
(3) F is
well-ordered
(4) F is antisymmertirc, transitive, and reflexive
Which of
these is right?
a. 1, 3, 4
b. 1, 2, 3,
4
c. 1, 2, 3
d. 1, 3, 4
127. Given two
vectors, which will increase more if the angle between the vectors increases?
a. dot product
b. vector product
c. scalar product
d. all are the same
128. The graph of the
parameter equations x = 2 cos t and y = 4 sin t
is
a. An
ellipse taller than it is wide
b. an ellipse wider than it is tall
c. a circle
d. a hyperbola
129. Gabriel’s Horn
a. Has
finite volume but infinite surface area
b. Has
finite surface area but infinite volume
c. Has finite volume and surface area
d. Has infinite volume and surface area
130. How do hyperbolic functions compare to trigonometric
functions
a. hyperbolic functions are real and trig are comples
b. trig are real and hyperbolic are complex
c. hyperbolic functions cannot be developed with a Taylor
series
d. trigonometric functions cannot be developed with a Taylor
series
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Answers so far 1 b
2 a 3 d 4
c 5 b 6
c 7
e 8 a 9
b 10 b
11 c 12 c 13 c 14 a 15 a 16 f 17 b
18 a 19 a 20 c 21
d 22 b 23 c 24
b 25 d
26 c 27 b 28 a 29a 30b 31 e 32 e
33 b 34 b 35 c
36 b 37 c (simpler animals will
change their outward appearance very quickly to survive in changed
environments) 38 d 39 d 40 b
41 c 42 c 43 a
44 c 45 b 46 c 47 b
48 c 49 a
50 a 51 c 52 c
53 b 54 e 55 d 56
b 57 d
58 b 59 d 60 b 61 c
62 c 63 a 64 b 65 c 66 c 67 a 68
a 69 b
70 b 71 b 72 a 73 c 74 e
75 b 76 a 77 c 78 d
79 a 80 b 81 b 82
b 83 d
84 a 85 c 86 a
87 d 88 b 89 a 90
b 91 b 92 d 93 c 94 c 95
b 96 a 98 d (b
is acceptable) 99 b 100 b 101 b 102 d 103 d 104 d 105 a
More questions will be added over time. 106 b
107 b 108 a 109 b
110 d 111 b 112 a 113 a
114 d 115 b 116 b 117 a 118 a
119 a 120 a 121 b 122 b
123 b 124 e 125 b 126 a
127 b 128 b 129 a
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