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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Electricity and Automation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one component of a lever?
(a) A straight edge.
(b) A caliper.
(c) A spring.
(d) A screw.

2. What is created when heating an object to the point that it burns or glows, or by passing an electric current through a vapor or gas?
(a) Artificial light.
(b) Sounds at higher than average frequencies.
(c) Sounds at lower than average frequencies.
(d) A chemical reaction.

3. How many methods of modern printing are there?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

4. What makes it possible to use light and radio waves to communicate?
(a) They coalesce.
(b) They oscillate.
(c) They have short bursts of energy.
(d) They travel in patterns.

5. What is the absence of any light?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Purple.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two elements combine to make a body scanner?

2. What is an example of a second-class lever?

3. How many types of gears are there?

4. What happens to the charge of an electron in a static electricity situation?

5. How many different ways can waves be created by instruments?

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