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Question 1

Which item CANNOT be found in Quest, the library catalogue? (Choose one)

journal title
journal article
encyclopedia
book

Question 2

You can use Quest to find material your professor has put on reserve for your course. (Choose one)

True
False

Question 3

Use the following record to answer questions A, B, and C.

A. This book is located in the:

Engineering Library
Harriet Irving Library
Science and Forestry Library

B. This book is about:

Teaching
Classrooms
ERIC

C. The year this book was published is:

1995
1997
1998

Question 4

You can see how many books you have signed out and when they are due using Quest.

True
False

Question 5

To look up a journal, magazine, or newspaper in Quest the best choice would be: (Choose one.)

A keyword search in titles
An exact search in titles
A browse of periodical titles
A keyword search of everything

Question 6

When doing a keyword search, the search everything choice will search author, title, subject and other fields as well.

True
False

Question 7

If you want to find a book about Bill Gates, you would use a (Choose one.)

Keyword search
Subject search
Author search

Question 8

The power search option will allow you to combine terms from several fields.

True
False

Question 9

Quest uses truncation and wildcards to include possible variants of search terms. Choose those that are used by Quest. (Choose two.)

* is used for truncation
$ is used for truncation
# is used as a wildcard
? is used as a wildcard

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