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ProQuest Newspapers Quiz

Submission Information and Quiz

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS:

Students who have been told by their instructor that they can use this tutorial to earn extra credit or as a required part of their course must submit the quiz electronically. Please make sure to fill out all of the required elements and the quiz will automatically be graded and sent to your instructor.

Please note: an asterisk * denotes a required element.

I. Submission Information:
 
A. *Your Last Name:
  *Your First Name:
  If you want to receive the results of this quiz,
please include your e-mail address:
 
B. Please provide the following:
  Course (e.g., EN):
  Course Number (e.g., 102):
  *Instructor's Last Name:
  *Instructor's First Name:
  *Instructor's E-mail:
 
C. *On what campus are you taking this course?
  If you take courses at more than one campus or are a Distance Education student, choose the campus with which you are associated.
  Germantown Rockville Takoma Park/Silver Spring
 
D. Have you taken this tutorial before?
  Yes No
 
E. This tutorial was:
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F. Please give us feedback on the tutorial or anything else you want to tell us.
 


II. Quiz:
1. To "search on a keyword" means that you want the computer to return all of the articles that have that string of letters, that word, somewhere in the title or description of an article.
  a. True
  b. False
 
2. Select the best answer: A keyword can be a phrase, like global warming or gun control.
  a. True
  b. True, but you have to put quotation marks around it
  c. False
 
3. Fill in the blank: To find digitized newspaper articles, you will have to look in a ____________________ called ProQuest Newspapers.
  a. Catalog
  b. Collection
  c. Database
  d. Newspaper
 
4. Select the best answer: An abstract is a type of:
  a. Conclusion
  b. Introduction
  c. Database article
  d. Summary
 
5. The default arrangement of the results list is "by date" (chronological order). This cannot be changed.
  a. True
  b. False
 



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