ILR 260 Test

1. What did the Russian geneticist Dimitry Belyaev discover about the star mutation?

2. How much would one Eurodollar approximately be worth in Bulgarian Leva?

3.What is the name of the tool in Photoshop that allows you to draw an outline around any object?

4. Why should a "merge visible layers" command be one of the last things you do to your open Photoshop image?

5. What do members of the Fresno Polyamory Christian Felllowship find upsetting about Club Paradise in Squaw Valley?

6. In Powerpoint, what is the name of the view where transitions between slides can be selected?

7. Write an equation for Excel that would take the average of a range of cells between line 2 and line 25 in the E column.

8. How much would it cost to place a 3 line ad in The Sacramento Bee for 5 days, including an online ad on cars.com?

9.What is the first line of Book IX of Plato's Republic as translated by Benjamin Jowett?

10. How would one write an APA-style Works Cited (bibliography) entry for the e-book entitled Samba: Resistance in Motion?

11.Which databases that National has access to via ProQuest are not a part of either the Proquest Newspapers database or the ProQuest Research Library database?

12. In Contentious Traditions: The Debate on the Sati in Colonial India by Lata Mani, on what page can one find information in the text about "Michel Foucault"?

13. In ProQuest how far do the archives go back for Ploughshares?

14.In Russell Frank's article "Folklore in a Hurry: The Community Experience Narrative in Newspaper Coverage of the Loma Prieta Earthquake" in the Journal of American Folklore, what does the author say is the most dominant form of American folklore in terms of frequency of occurrence?

15. How many grants are issued with Sacramento as the sponsor city according to the Dialog Grants database?

16. How far does the archive go back for full text articles for Electronic Engineering Times?

17. According to Nicole Chardenet and Jeff Schult, how do furries define the term "yiffy"?

18. What are the choices for where the next International Furries Meetup Day on November 4, 2003 (8:00 PM) should be held in Sacramento?

19. According to Google, how many "alt.surfing" groups are there?

20. When one does a clustering engine search on Vivisimo for the term "troll magic," what is the first entry under the "dance" subcategory?


Extra Credit (up to 5 points): What one movie would you recommend for a person to watch who had very limited time to live? Why? [Points will be awarded based on the reasoning and support that is provided]

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