10th Grade Pre-Test 2012

Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability.

Tools

Name:

Two topics are listed below. Read the original topic and the revised topic. Is the revised topic broader or narrower than the original topic?

Initial Topic: What steps must public high schools take to establish on-site daycare for children of teenage parents attending school?

Revised Topic: How can public high schools help teenage parents stay in school?

Broader

Narrower

Situation: You need to write a 3 page paper and have decided that your topic is to explain the impact of the Internet on education.

This topic is:

a good topic

too broad

too narrow

If you wanted to search for a topic that has several parts, such as nutrition for pregnant women, which Boolean operator would you use?

adj

and

near

not

or

If you were using the Internet or a database, which of the following search phrases would find information on "hurricanes" in "Florida"?

Hurricanes not Florida

Hurricanes and Florida

Hurricane or Florida

Hurricanes but Florida

When doing an Internet search using the phrase "Vikings not Minnesota", how does using the word "not" affect the search?

	Limits the search by excluding the word Minnesota
	Finds antonyms for the word Minnesota
	Narrows the search by searching for both Vikings and Minnesota
	Broadens the search by searching for either Vikings or Minnesota

Using a symbol such as * at the end of a search term (example: racis*) so that variations of the term (examples: racism and racist) will be retrieved in your search is known as:

Annotation

Indexing

Paraphrasing

Truncation or using a wildcard

You are completing your research paper on the devastation of the Amazon rainforest caused by logging. You locate a statistic from a recent newsletter created by the Lumberjacks of the Great Northwest.
Which of the following best reflects the credibility of this source?

	This is a credible source because there is a clear author.
	This is a credible source because there are images and graphs.
	This may not a credible source because the author could be biased.
	This is not a credible source because there are misspellings.

You want to include the ideas from the following quotation from School Sports News in your research paper. Which of the following options below demonstrates the correct use of paraphrasing?
Citation: Krenkle, Cory M. "Soccer’s New Status." School Sports News 2 Feb. 2007: 16.MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 7 Feb. 2012.

“Soccer is quickly gaining popularity in America. More schools continue to add soccer to their list of competitive varsity sports. In fact, most high schools that offer varsity soccer have a feeder program in the elementary and intermediate grades so that players come to the sport with a good number of skills and knowledge of the rules of the game.”

	According to Krenkle, soccer has become very popular in America, partly due to the fact that there are elementary and middle school soccer teams that prepare children to play in high school.
	Soccer’s increasing popularity in America is seen in the increasing number of high schools that offer it as a varsity sport. In order to have participants with an understanding of the rules and basic skills, these school districts offer soccer to their younger students (Krenkle, par.1).
	Most high schools that offer varsity soccer have a feeder program in the elementary and intermediate grades so that players come to the sport with a good number of skills and knowledge of the rules of the game (Krenkle, par. 1).
	“Soccer is quickly gaining popularity in America. More schools continue to add soccer to their list of competitive varsity sports” (Krenkle).

Plagiarism means:

	Quoting someone else’s work and giving that person credit.
	Writing a play with a group of classmates.
	The use of another's original words or ideas as though they were your own.
	Developing a handbook on copyright laws.