Information Literacy Assessment Trivia Questions
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- 1.You need to access the library databases but you are not on campus. What username and password do you use?
- A.
Your library barcode and pin
- B.
Your social security number and birthdate.
- C.
Your last name and first name
- D.
The username and password provided by the library staff
- 2.What steps should you follow in the research process?
- A.
Refine your topic, determine your sources of information, locate your information, use your information, write your paper, evaluate your work.
- B.
Determine your sources of information, refine your topic, locate your information, use your information,evaluate your work, write your paper.
- C.
Refine your topic, locate your information, determine your sources of information, use your information, write your paper, evaluate your work
- D.
Determine your sources of information, locate your information, use your information, refine your topic,write your paper, evaluate your work
- 3.Your search resulted in too few hits. To broaden your search terms you:
- A.
Use the Boolean operator AND
- B.
Add dates to your search
- C.
Add additional terms to you search
- D.
Use the Boolean operator OR
- 4.The Journal of Wildlife Management is
- A.
Targeted toward hunters.
- B.
For zoo keepers
- C.
A business journal
- D.
A professional journal for researchers in the field of biology.
- 5.You have been given a research assignment on topic you know little to nothing about. The best place to begin is
- A.
Google.
- B.
Your instructor.
- C.
An encyclopedia.
- D.
Wikipedia.
- 6.A list of sources used in writing a paper is called
- A.
An abstract.
- B.
A bibliography.
- C.
A footnote.
- D.
The catalog.
- 7.You have found a great source, but your library doesn't have it in their collection. You
- A.
Give up on it and try to find something else.
- B.
request the material through interlibrary loan.
- C.
Go to a bookstore and try to find it there.
- D.
Ask your instructor if they have it.
- 8.What is an abstract?
- A.
Information in an encyclopedia.
- B.
A book lover.
- C.
The information found in a bibliography.
- D.
A summary of an article.
- 9.The article in the database is not full text. You may be able to find it full text in another database by using
- A.
Wikipedia.
- B.
A Style Manual.
- C.
Citation Machine.
- D.
Article Linker.
- 10.Which of the following is an example of the most reliable source of information?
- A.
Wikipedia article on epilepsy.
- B.
My aunt Betty - she had an epileptic dog
- C.
Canine Epilepsy Foundation.
- D.
A neighbor who has had dogs forever.
- 11.Style manuals, such as the APA and MLA refer to
- A.
A call number system used in libraries.
- B.
Guides for writing papers and citing sources used.
- C.
Fashion databases.
- D.
High fashion shoe designers.
- 12.One of your sources had in it a great statement. You
- A.
Use quotation marks around it and cite it properly.
- B.
Go ahead and include it in your paper. No one will know the difference.
- C.
Go ahead and include it and just make up a citation. No one will know.
- D.
Just rearrange the words and hope no one finds out.
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