Database Search Quiz
5 Questions
| Attempts: 296
This quiz will give you a chance to review the primary search techniques helpful in searching literature databases.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
Term or symbol used to tell the database to search two words as an exact phrase, not as separate words.
- A.
AND
- B.
OR
- C.
Quotation Marks
- D.
Asterisk
- E.
Parentheses
Correct Answer
C. Quotation Marks -
- 2.
If my topic has two concepts, use this to tell the database that search results must have both concepts.
- A.
AND
- B.
OR
- C.
Quotation marks
- D.
Asterisk
- E.
Parentheses
Correct Answer
A. AND -
- 3.
Some words have multiple different endings, such as assessment. I would use this to tell the database I want it to consider all variations of a word.
- A.
AND
- B.
OR
- C.
Quotation marks
- D.
Parentheses
- E.
Asterisk
Correct Answer
E. Asterisk -
- 4.
I’ve thought of some synonyms for one of my subject terms, I would use this to tell the database that my results can have any one of these terms, they don’t all have to be there.
- A.
AND
- B.
OR
- C.
Quotation marks
- D.
Parentheses
- E.
Asterisk
Correct Answer
B. OR -
- 5.
I would use this to group or cluster my synonyms as a single concept.
- A.
AND
- B.
OR
- C.
Parentheses
- D.
Asterisk
- E.
Quotation marks
Correct Answer
C. Parentheses -
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