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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the magnetic field caused by an electric force?
(a) Positron force.
(b) Polar force.
(c) Motive force.
(d) Neutrino force.

2. What do sensors and detectors measure?
(a) Electrical currents, rays, and waves.
(b) Only electrical waves.
(c) Only light rays.
(d) Only electrical currents.

3. What are heat, light, and sound?
(a) Digital qualities.
(b) Static qualities.
(c) Variable qualities.
(d) Analog qualities.

4. How is electricity created?
(a) From the movement of protons.
(b) From the movement of electrons.
(c) From the movement of quarks.
(d) From the movement of quantums.

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

6. What is another term for electromagnetic waves?
(a) Quarks.
(b) Rays.
(c) Links.
(d) Quantums.

7. In which direction do electrons always travel?
(a) From magnetic north to magnetic south.
(b) From positive to negative.
(c) From true north to magnetic north.
(d) From negative to positive.

8. What causes electrons to move?
(a) Ectoplasma.
(b) Energy.
(c) Electrostatics.
(d) The attraction to the proton.

9. How do oppositely charged electrons respond to each other?
(a) They absorb each other and become neutral.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They repel each other.
(d) They attract each other.

10. How is magnetism created?
(a) By all negative electrons.
(b) By all positive electrons.
(c) By moving electrons.
(d) By rubbing together zinc tablets.

11. What happens to the charge of an electron in a static electricity situation?
(a) The charge becomes neutral.
(b) The charge reverses.
(c) The charge oscillates between positive and neutral.
(d) The charge oscillates between negative and neutral.

12. What traumatizes the mammoth?
(a) Being taken into virtual reality.
(b) Having its hair cut.
(c) Seeing the dead mammoths all around.
(d) Having its tusks shrink.

13. Why do electromagnets use the forces of attraction and repulsion alternately to keep machines running?
(a) Because an electrical current can only stay polarized.
(b) Because electrons inherently move towards neutrality.
(c) Because electrons are always positively charged.
(d) Because electrical current can be reversed or shut off.

14. What are magnetism, heat, and light in relation to an electron's movement?
(a) The mediums through which electrons can pass.
(b) Elements that hinder an electron's movement.
(c) Elements that an electron's movement can produce.
(d) Elements that enhance an electron's movement.

15. How does Macaulay illustrate the idea of a chemical reaction to produce electricity?
(a) A giant lemon being stabbed with zinc and copper lances.
(b) A man and a woman jousting on dragons.
(c) A man and a woman jousting on mammoths.
(d) Two men holding swords and riding giant lemons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one phenomenon a measurement of force measures?

2. What does the frequency of sound waves create?

3. If you put a copper wire and a zinc wire into a lemon, what occurs?

4. What colors make up all light?

5. What is the absence of any light?

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