Web Research Quiz Question 1:  [1 mark] The World Wide Web (WWW) is: 1. another term for the Internet. 2. the part of the Internet accessible by web browsers, e-mail, and FTP (file transfer protocol). 3. the part of the Internet that is publicly accessible. 4. the part of the Internet accessible by web browsers. 5. 3 and 4 above. Question 2:  [1 mark] If you attempt to reaccess an URL or web address but find that the web page is not located there, which of the following strategies may help you to relocate the web page: 1. check that you entered the URL correctly. 2. backtrack on the URL and see if (subject) links lead to the web page at a new location on the website. 3. do an advanced search in Google with detailed keywords for the web page, and see if it appears at a new URL or is in a Google cache. 4. search for the web page in RefWorks. 5. 1, 2 and 3 above. 6. 1, 2, 3 and 4 above. Question 3:  [1 mark] Failure to give credit to your sources of information, or failure to provide citations to the source material is called 1. Copyright Law 2. Plagiarism 3. Summarising 4. Partial Citation Question 4:  [1 mark] When writing a term paper or other research report, you must provide citations for which of the following resources: (select the best answer) 1. Ideas from a book 2. Ideas from a web site 3. Quotations from an encyclopedia 4. All of the above 5. None of the above Question 5:  [1 mark] Conducting a link search to see who is linking to a page is helpful because: 1. it gives you an idea about what other sites think of the page 2. it may lead to other pages on similar topics 3. both of the above 4. it verifies whether the information on the page is trustworthy 5. it shows other pages that the author has created 6. all of the above Question 6:  [1 mark] If you're interested in finding information on the role that poverty plays in crime levels in urban areas, a good search using Boolean logic might be: 1. poverty causes crime to go up in urban areas 2. poverty or crime or urban 3. role that poverty plays in crime levels in urban areas 4. poverty and crime and (urban or cities) Question 7:  [1 mark] Wikipedia, MySpace, Blogger and FlickR are examples of: 1. the publicly accessible web 2. the subscription based web 3. things to be avoided for research at all costs Question 8:  [1 mark] When you use a search engine such as Google or Yahoo Search! to search the web, you are searching: 1. a database of web pages that the search engine you are using has indexed 2. every page on the world wide web that has been indexed by at least one search tool 3. all publicly accessible web content 4. pages from the subscription accessible web Question 9:  [1 mark] If you are looking for an overview of or introduction to a topic, a good place to start on the web is: 1. a general search engine such as Google 2. a subject directory such as Infomine or Canadian Information by Subject 3. a meta-search engine such as Dogpile Question 10:  [1 mark] What can you ascertain from the following URL: http://www.torontotourism.com/Visitor/WhatToSeeAndDo/Neighbourhoods/Greektown.htm? 1. The file is called Visitor and it is located in Canada. 2. The information found on this page should not be trusted because it is a .com site. 3. The file is called Greektown and it is located on a server called torontotourism.