A radio button is a small white circle. When you click on it it turns black. Radio buttons allow only one choice from the set of possible answers; therefore, when you click on one button it clears any other checked button in that set. These are sample radio buttons:

A check box is a small white square. When you click on it you get a check mark in the box. You may click any, all, or none of the check boxes. You check all check boxes that apply. These are sample check boxes:

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Long text answers use a text box. A text box is a long white box with scroll buttons on it. Type your answer in the box. There is essentially no limit to the amount of space, but remember that Shakespeare said "brevity is the soul of wit". This is a sample text area

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Question 1

There are three websites.

Website A has the following keywords for it's site: Foxglove Trillium Digitalis flowers shrubs

Website B has the following keywords for it's site: Trillium database websites Filemaker

Website C has the following keywords for it's site: Loosestrife Poinsetta flowers shrubs

which sites will be retrieved by the following queries?

Trillium and flowers:	A B C
flowers:	A B C
database:	A B C

Question 2

Give definitions for the following terms and acronyms:

HTML    : 
URL     : 
Gopher  : 
WWW     : 
FTP     : 
FAQ     : 
HTTP    : 
Emoticon: 

Question 3

The Internet was first developed as a project of (check one):

ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency)
U.S. Army
NASA
UCLA
MIT

Question 4

Which were the first sites of the Internet?.
Harvard, MIT, and NYU
BB&N, Rand, and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories
UC Santa Barbara, U of Utah, Stanford, UCLA
 

Question 5

Using MLA style, which of the following is a correct bibliographic citation for an article from an electronic magazine on the Web?.

Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 2 May 1997 <http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/Economics.asp>.
Steven Landsburg, "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate <http://www.slate.com/Economics/97-05-01/Economics.asp>
Landsburg, Steven E. "Who Shall Inherit the Earth?" Slate 1 May 1997. 2 May 1997 www.slate.com

Question 6

A USENET newsgroup:

sends you email of discussions
lets you browse postings on a given topic
publicizes Internet activities and events

Question 7

A LISTSERV

sends you email from other people about a topic
sends you summaries of discussions
sends you lists of web sites on a given topic

Question 8

Which of the following is a tcp/ip address?:

elipchus@trilsys.com
www.trilsys.com
199.108.25.80

Question 9

The Domain Name Service was established in 1984. What did it do?

 Question 10

At ERIC (try ericse.org) there is a publication called "Perspectives of Hands-On Science Teaching". In one sentence, what does the author mean by "hands-on learning"?

Question 11

Match the definitions with the computer parasite

	Trojan Horse	Virus	Worm
installs with another program
installs over a network
installs when a program runs

Question 12

On April 21, 1999, in the Congressional Record, U.S. Representative William Lipinski made some comments about Airbus - the European airplane manufacturer. What percent of Airbus does Mr. Lipinski think is privately owned?

20%

40%

60%

Question 13

Does the Brookline Public Library have a book called "Dinosaur" by Sandy Damashek?
If not, what town does? The Minuteman library system covers Boston and west. The NOBLE library system covers north of Boston.

Question 14

THOMAS, ERIC, & CARL are:
the 3 Stooges
Congressional proceedings, US Dep't of Education, Colorado Library delivery system
The first names of the developers of the Internet at BB&N

 Question 15

In script of the movie "Blade Runner", at the end of the movie, the character Roy Batty says the following lines:

I've.. seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire offshore of Orion.
I watched C-beams glittering in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate.
All those.. moments will be lost in time..like.. tears.. in rain.

Time to die.

Who was he talking to?

Deckard
Pris
Stella

Question 16

KOVACS is

a 1960's comedian

a directory of scholarly Internet conferences

the first web-based search engine

 Here is a partial screen shot of a web site in a browser.

Question 17

What happens if you click View>Source on the menu bar?

Question 18

Somewhere as part of this page is a secret phrase. It is very obviously the secret phrase. You don't have to leave this page to find it. What is the secret phrase?

Question 19

Given the basic HTML elements of:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
<BODY>

...construct a working web page with title text and a line of text in the body.

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