This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Academic Writing > Research Vocabulary – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Research Vocabulary Quiz 35 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a safe database you can use for research? A) Google Safe Search. B) InfoBits. C) CoolMath. D) Wikipedia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) InfoBits. 2. To quote a passge, book, author, etc. as an authority A) Keyword. B) Plagiarism. C) Primary sources. D) Citing sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Citing sources. 3. A genre based on facts A) Fantasy. B) Fiction. C) Nonfiction. D) Horror. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonfiction. 4. What is the term for the following definition? Statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it. A) Demographics. B) Geography. C) Economics. D) Psychographics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demographics. 5. What do you call a reference book that has information on a wide variety of subjects? A) Encyclopedia. B) Textbook. C) Primary source. D) Artifact. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encyclopedia. 6. Naturalistic observation A) A research method involving controlled experiments in a lab setting. B) A technique where subjects are observed in their natural environment. C) A method that relies on self-reported data from participants. D) A strategy that uses surveys to gather information from a large group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A technique where subjects are observed in their natural environment. 7. Seeks to understand the world view of a cultural group A) Quantitative Data. B) Ethnography Research. C) Null Hypothesis (H0). D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethnography Research. 8. Transitions A) Can prove or disprove something. B) Words, phrases, or sentences that ties two ideas or paragraphs together. C) Spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar. D) Sometimes called a parenthetical reference, helps readers easily find the sources in the Works Cited page that correspond to your referenced passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words, phrases, or sentences that ties two ideas or paragraphs together. 9. To ..... is to give a valid reason or evidence to support an answer or conclusion. A) Central Idea. B) Prediction. C) Summarize. D) Justify. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Justify. 10. What does the term "diverse" mean? A) From many different places. B) Similar in nature. C) Limited to one place. D) Unchanging. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From many different places. 11. An article, book, website, etc. that you plan to quote in your paper A) Source. B) Paraphrase. C) Revision. D) Outline. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Source. 12. Imagine Luna and Sophia are on a detective mission in their science project. What does "Observation" involve in their research? A) The clues that help prove their hypothesis. B) The final answer after gathering all the evidence. C) Using their senses to gather information. D) The most important message in a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using their senses to gather information. 13. What does the term credible mean? A) Fake. B) Summarizing. C) Proof of something. D) Trustworthy; believable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trustworthy; believable. 14. Rewording of something written by someone else A) Direct quote. B) Plagiarism. C) Credible source. D) Paraphrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paraphrase. 15. What should show after I enter my keywords and hit search? A) Error message. B) Results page. C) Item Not Found. D) Nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Results page. 16. What is Paraphrase? A) The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, fild, or record work. B) To present the words and ideas of someone else as your own, without giving credit. C) A reference to an author of a given work that can include name, title, page number, and date. D) To re-work the ideas, words, phrases, and sentence structures of others and retell them in your own words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To re-work the ideas, words, phrases, and sentence structures of others and retell them in your own words. 17. Fill in the blank: ..... is looking for new information and learning cool things by asking questions and exploring. A) Research. B) Sleeping. C) Drawing. D) Cooking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Research. 18. True or false:It's okay to drop in a quote all by itself, without any of your own words before. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. The type of primary research where you collect information without interacting with the participant. A) Focus Group. B) Experiment. C) Observation. D) Survey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Observation. 20. A tendency to lean to one or the other side of an argument. A) Bias. B) MLA format. C) Controversial. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bias. 21. Locating facts about a topic using books, the internet or database sources A) Nonfiction. B) Source. C) Works cited. D) Research. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Research. 22. The published articles in an academic field A) Sample. B) Literature. C) Hypothesis. D) Measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literature. 23. What is the primary purpose of an archive? A) B) To provide a place where people can examine a collection of primary sources to gather facts, data, and evidence. B) A) To store large amounts of data, especially audiovisual data. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B) To provide a place where people can examine a collection of primary sources to gather facts, data, and evidence. 24. Definition of a claim A) Will NOT offer facts and reasons to show the author's point of view and is NOT backed up with evidence. B) Argumentative text. C) The main idea, or arguable statement, that represents the author's position on a topic. D) A type of writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The main idea, or arguable statement, that represents the author's position on a topic. 25. Research can be defined as A) A careful or diligent work to reach a new understanding. B) Non-fiction text. C) Give credit to someone else's words. D) Your personal experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A careful or diligent work to reach a new understanding. 26. Which word means:To judge the quality or importance of information? A) Evaluate. B) Truth. C) Informational text. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evaluate. 27. What do we call the resource which is a short introduction located at the beginning of a book? A) Table of contents. B) Glossary. C) Index. D) Preface. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Preface. 28. An expression whose meaning means something elseIt is raining cats and dogs. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 29. Which word means writing only someone's key ideas? A) Paraphrase. B) Quote. C) Summarize. D) Cite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Summarize. 30. General subject area chosen or assigned for research A) Topic. B) Tranistion words. C) Keyword. D) Accurate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Topic. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesResearch Vocabulary Quiz 1Research Vocabulary Quiz 2Research Vocabulary Quiz 3Research Vocabulary Quiz 4Research Vocabulary Quiz 5Research Vocabulary Quiz 6Research Vocabulary Quiz 7Research Vocabulary Quiz 8Research Vocabulary Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books