RESEARCH METHODOLOGY MCQs
MLA stands for ____________.
A. Handbook for research scholars
B. Modern Language Association
C. Modern Linguistic Association
D. Modern Language Administration
ANSWER:B
2. MLAstyle founded in the year__________.
A. 1883
B. 1983
C. 1795
D. 1978
ANSWER:A
In ____________ the Modern Language Association published “The MLA Style Sheet” A. 1951 B. 1853 C. 1945 D. 1965 ANSWER:A 4. MLAisan organization founded in___________.
A. Africa
B. Canada
C. India
D. NewYork City
ANSWER:D
A Web-based component of MLA is accompanied for the first time in the ___________ edition.
A. second
B. third
C. fifth
D. seventh
ANSWER:D
____________ is a form of exploration.
A. The Research Paper
B. The Research Study
C. The Research Methods
D. The Research Types
ANSWER:A
___________describes a presentation of student research .
A. Research Paper
B. Primary Source
C. Secondary Source
D. Draft
ANSWER:A
Research paper can be in a ________ or an electronic format
A. printed
B. hand written
C. xerox
D. e-mail
ANSWER:A
The research paper is generally base on a combination of primary research and ______ research.
A. preliminary
B. last
C. early
D. Secondary
ANSWER:D
____________ is a form of written communication.
A. Research Paper
B. Draft
C. Summation
D. Final Draft
ANSWER:A
____________ is intellectually rewarding.
A. typing
B. referring the secondary sources
C. reading primary sources
D. writing a research paper
ANSWER:D
 ____________ is a form of exploration that leads to discoveries that are new.
A. primary source
B. research
C. secondary source
D. web source
ANSWER:B
 ___________ is given for selecting a topic.
A. guidelines
B. intsructions
C. freedom of choice
D. list of topics
ANSWER:C
 ___________ is essential in evaluating and refining the topics.
A. Primary source
B. Preliminary reading
C. secondary source
D. Web Source
ANSWER:B
__________ is the primary task in conducting a research.
A. writing drafts
B. selecting a topic
C. summingup
D. printing
ANSWER:B
 In general the research is divided into ________.
A. two
B. three
C. five
D. eight
ANSWER:A
__________ is the examination of studies that other researchers have made of a subject.
A. summingup
B. drafting
C. secondary research
D. preliminary reading
ANSWER:C
__________ is the study of a subject through firsthand investigation.
A. summingup
B. drafting
C. secondary search
D. primary research
ANSWER:D
Analyzing a literary or historical text, a film or a performance, conducting a survey or an interview, and carrying out a lab experiment are example for _________.
A. primary research
B. secondary research
C. summingup
D. drafting
ANSWER:A
Research increases our knowledge and __________ of a subject.
A. predicting
B. evaluating
C. underestimating
D. understanding
ANSWER:D
____________ will be your most reliable guide when you conduct research.
A. Library
B. Web
C. Net
D. Magazine
ANSWER:A
MLAInternational Bibliography and Science Direct provides_________.
A. notes
B. interpretation
C. analysis
D. bibliographic databases
ANSWER:D
__________ is the examination of studies that other researchers have made of a subject.
A. summingup
B. drafting
C. secondary research
D. preliminary reading
ANSWER:C
__________ is the study of a subject through firsthand investigation.
A. summingup
B. drafting
C. secondary search
D. primary research
ANSWER:D
Analyzing a literary or historical text, a film or a performance, conducting a survey or an interview, and carrying out a lab experiment are example for _________.
A. primary research
B. secondary research
C. summingup
D. drafting
ANSWER:A
Research increases our knowledge and __________ of a subject.
A. predicting
B. evaluating
C. underestimating
D. understanding
ANSWER:D
____________ will be your most reliable guide when you conduct research.
A. Library
B. Web
C. Net
D. Magazine
ANSWER:A
MLAInternational Bibliography and Science Direct provides_________.
A. notes
B. interpretation
C. analysis
D. bibliographic databases
ANSWER:D
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature provides__________.
A. periodicals
B. articles
C. magazines
D. news papers
ANSWER:A
____________ present summaries of journal articles and other literature.
A. collections of magazines
B. collections of periodicals
C. collections of articles
D. collections of abstracts
ANSWER:D
_______________ give introductory information about subjects.
A. articles
B. journals
C. encyclopedias
D. dictionary
ANSWER:C
___________ is a careful and detailed study into a specific problem, concern,or issue using the scientific method.
A. Documentary
B. Research
C. Experimental
D. Detective
ANSWER:B
__________ are annual publications containing data, especially statistics, about many subjects.
A. Journals
B. Articles
C. Almanacs
D. yearbooks
ANSWER:C
___________ are collections of maps.
A. jounals
B. atlases
C. almanacs
D. yearbooks
ANSWER:B
Gazetteers provide ____________ information.
A. scientific
B. technic
C. electronic
D. geographic
ANSWER:D
___________ provide geographic information.
A. Statistical information
B. Scientifical information
C. electronic information
D. geographic information
ANSWER:A
Indexes and _____________ are lists of publications classified by subject.
A. articles
B. journals
C. encyclopedias
D. bibliographies
ANSWER:D
Reference Universe allows you to search the indexes of more than ___________ thousand reference works.
A. five
B. eight
C. ten
D. nine
ANSWER:C
The NewYork Times Indexes covers all ____________ published in the newspaper.
A. magazines
B. periodicals
C. articles
D. journals
ANSWER:C
Summaries of doctoral dissertations are available in______________.
A. Dissertation Abstracts International
B. Dissertation Articles International
C. Dissertation Journals International
D. Dissertation Magazines International
ANSWER:A
___________ provide information, usually concise definitions, about words or topic.
A. newspapers
B. books
C. dictionaries
D. magazines
ANSWER:C
_________ give introductory information about subjects.
A. Newspapers
B. Encyclopedias
C. Novels
D. Dictionaries
ANSWER:B
An entry in Book Review Digest provides an abstract of a _______, experts of reviews it received in major publications, and bibliographic data for the reviews.
A. dissertation
B. journal
C. dictionary
D. book
ANSWER:D
 A ___________ lists groups of synonyms-words with similar meanings.
A. dictionary
B. thesaurus
C. dissertation
D. encycopedia
ANSWER:B
Elever’s ___________ of Environment is found in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
A. Dissertation
B. Thesaurus
C. Encyclopedia
D. Dictionary
ANSWER:D
The ____________ Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science is a specialized one.
A. corsini
B. coisini
C. cosini
D. coinage
ANSWER:A
_____________ has standard reference works.
A. MLAInternational Bibliography
B. The Encyclopedia Britannica Online
C. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
D. Dissertation Abstracts International
ANSWER:A
__________________ is published in electronic and print formats.
A. Dissertation Abstracts INternational
B. The Encyclopedia Britannica Online
C. Stannford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
D. MLAInternational Bibliography
ANSWER:D
The entry of “Arthur Conan Doyle or Sherlock Holmes” in searching is known as __________.
A. author search
B. title search
C. boolean search
D. subject search
ANSWER:C
The entry of the book “Talking Voices” in searching is known as __________.
A. subject search
B. author search
C. boolean search
D. title search
ANSWER:D
The entry of “Judith Butler” in searching is known as ___________.
A. title search
B. boolean search
C. author search
D. subject search
ANSWER:C
The entry of “Detective Fiction” in searching is known as ____________.
A. title search
B. author search
C. boolean search
D. subject search
ANSWER:D
“PA817.B43 1992,” is an example for _______________.
A. call number
B. key word
C. subject
D. title
ANSWER:A
The entry of “Competition and Human Behavior” in searching is an example for _________________.
A. title search
B. subject search
C. key word search
D. call number search
ANSWER:B
‘List of books published in Spanish between 1990 and 2000″ is an example for ________________.
A. advanced search
B. key word search
C. subject search
D. title search
ANSWER:A
The Library of Congress System divides books into _____ major groups. A. 18
B. 20
C. 19
D. 30
ANSWER:B
The division of K for Law is found in __________________.
A. The library of Dewey decimal System
B. The Library of Science System
C. The Library of General System
D. The Library of Congress System ANSWER:D
“G for Geography, Anthropology, recreation” is one of the major groups in ______________.
A. The Library of General System
B. The Library of Dewey decimal System
C. The Library of Congress System
D. The Library of Science System
ANSWER:C
“500 for Science” is found in _______________.
A. The Dewey decimal System
B. The Library OF General System
C. The Library of Congress System
D. The Library of Science System
ANSWER:A
“700 for Arts and recreation” is one of the major groups in ____________.
A. The Library of Science System
B. The Library of general System
C. The Library of Congress System
D. The Dewey decimal System
ANSWER:D
The Dewey decimal system classifies books under _______ major headings. A. 15
B. 10
C. 11
D. 6
ANSWER:B
EEBO stands for _________________.
A. Early English Books Online
B. Easy English Books Online
C. Each English Books Online
D. Elaborate English Books Online
ANSWER:A
EBSCOstands for _______________________.
A. Eliot B.Stephens Company
B. Emma B.Stephens Company
C. Emerald B.Stephens Company
D. Elton B.Stephens Company
ANSWER:D
Project Muse issues of nearly four hundred scholarly journals in the humanities and _______________.
A. technology
B. social science
C. science
D. geography
ANSWER:B
____________ designates printed matter greatly reduced in size by microphotography.
A. Miniform
B. Macroform
C. Microform
D. Midstform
ANSWER:C
_______________ provides links to other sites.
A. gateway
B. pathway
C. easyway
D. microway
ANSWER:A
Gateway is also known as __________________.
A. collection
B. summation
C. metapage
D. datapage
ANSWER:C
“Crossroads” and “Intute” are examples of _____________.
A. gateway sites
B. pathway sites
C. microway sites
D. datapage sites
ANSWER:A
Google, Windows Live and Yahoo are example for __________________.
A. gateway sites
B. search engines
C. datapage sites
D. metapage sites
ANSWER:B
URL stands for _______________________. A. Under Resource Locator
B. United Resource Locator
C. Uniform Resource Locator
D. Ultimate Resource Locator
ANSWER:C
One can compile a record by using ___________________ feature.
A. gateway
B. bookmark
C. metapage
D. search engine
ANSWER:B
A record of discovered sources is called ____________________.
A. search engine
B. book marking
C. working bibliography
D. work cited
ANSWER:C
_________________ is useful for working bibliography.
A. writing
B. recording
C. summingup
D. creating a computer file
ANSWER:D
Working bibliography will be transformed into a ______________list.
A. work cited
B. summation
C. bibliography
D. bookmark
ANSWER:A
Work cited will be arranged alphabetically by ___________.
A. data
B. author
C. work
D. reference
ANSWER:B
” Spell out a term if the ____________ may puzzle your reader”
A. abbreviation
B. data
C. reference
D. title
ANSWER:A
Publishers’ names and the __________ of well-known and commonly studied works can be abbreviated.
A. author
B. titles
C. punctuation
D. subject
ANSWER:B
BC stands for ____________.
A. British Colorado
B. British Country
C. British Company
D. British Columbia
ANSWER:D
Can. is the abbreviation of ____________.
A. Canada
B. Columbia
C. Connecticut
D. California
ANSWER:A
The abbreviation Afgh. for Africa is a _____________ name.
A. geographic
B. scientific
C. technical
D. commercial
ANSWER:A
The abbreviation Col. stands for ________________.
A. college
B. column
C. constitution
D. conference
ANSWER:B
The abbreviation univ. is considered as ____________ abbreviation.
A. scientific
B. geographic
C. commercial
D. scholarly
ANSWER:D
 ERIC stands for _____________________.
A. Educational Resource Information Center
B. Environmental Resource Information Center
C. Electronic Resource Information Center
D. Equipment Resource Information Center
ANSWER:A
 This abbreviation amb is used for _______________.
A. write
B. correction
C. record
D. draft
ANSWER:B
 The abbreviation sp stands for _______________.
A. wordy writing
B. faulty diction
C. correction
D. error in spelling
ANSWER:D
 The abbreviation vb is meant _________________.
A. error in spelling
B. wrongverb form
C. faulty diction
D. wordy writing
ANSWER:A
 The short form of AWW is ___________________.
A. In All’s Well That Ends Well
B. Othello
C. Macbeth
D. All’s Well That Ends Well
ANSWER:A
 The short form Dan. of Danial if from ________________.
A. Wikipedia
B. Encyclopedia
C. Dictionary
D. Bible
ANSWER:D
The abbreviation Gen. means ____________________.
A. Genises
B. Gonises
C. Genesis
D. Ginesis
ANSWER:C
Peter comes in __________________.
A. Bible
B. Newtestament
C. Genesis
D. Macbeth
ANSWER:B
CT stands for ____________________.
A. The Canterbury Tales
B. The Clerk’s Tale
C. The Cook’s Tale
D. The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
ANSWER:A
Beo. stands for _________________.
A. Beowful
B. Byron
C. Bacchae
D. Boccaccio
ANSWER:A
PL stands for _______________________.
A. Paradiso
B. Paradise Lost
C. Purgatorio
D. Plato
ANSWER:B
_____________ method involves describing in details specific situation using research tools like interviews, observation and surveys
A. qualitative
B. quantitative
C. correlation
D. experimental
ANSWER:A
Quantitative method requires ________ data involving numerical and statistical explanations.
A. quantitative
B. quantifiable
C. qualitative
D. experimental
ANSWER:B
_____________ method determines the strength of relationship between two or more variables.
A. experimental
B. quantitative
C. qualitative
D. correlation
ANSWER:D
The average impact of several different studies on a hypothesis is called
A. meta-analysis
B. experimental
C. qualitative
D. correlation
ANSWER:A
Anthropology is a _____________ research method.
A. qualitative
B. quantitative
C. correlation
D. meta-analysis
ANSWER:A
Case study comes under ______________ study.
A. psychological
B. qualitative
C. quantitative
D. correlation
ANSWER:A
_________________ research is used to solve an immediate problem in an organization.
A. Psychological
B. Experimental
C. Correlation
D. Action
ANSWER:D
________________ research is called true experiment.
A. Psychological
B. Experimental
C. Action
D. Psychologica
ANSWER:B
The rules for capitalizing __________ are strict.
A. abbreviations
B. authors
C. titles
D. names
ANSWER:C
The researcher should use a _____ and a space to separate a title from a subtitle.
A. colon
B. semicolon
C. comma
D. full stop
ANSWER:A
The researcher should not capitalize _____________.
A. titles
B. subjects
C. verbs
D. parts of speech
ANSWER:D
Effective writing depends as much on clarity and _________ as on content.
A. quotation
B. summation
C. readability
D. punctuation
ANSWER:C
The term Plagiarism is derived from _______________.
A. French
B. Latin
C. Greek
D. Spanish
ANSWER:B
To plagiarize means ” to commit _________________ theft.
A. geographical
B. technical
C. literary
D. scientific
ANSWER:C
_____________ betrays the personal element in writing.
A. Summation
B. Plagiarism
C. Draft
D. Reference
ANSWER:B
The primary purpose of _____________ is to ensure the clarity and readability of writing.
A. punctuation
B. summation
C. draft
D. reference
ANSWER:A
In writing one has to use ____________ when items in a series have internal commas.
A. clauses
B. commas
C. colons
D. semicolons
ANSWER:D
The comma may be omitted when the sentence is short and the connection between the ___________ is not open to misreading.
A. clauses
B. words
C. letters
D. lines
ANSWER:A
____________ should not use between a month and a year or between a season and a year.
A. clause
B. colon
C. comma
D. semicolon
ANSWER:C
_____________ makes a sharper break in the continuity of the sentences than commas do.
A. Clauses
B. Semicolons
C. Colons
D. Dashes
ANSWER:D
Use dashes or ____________ to set off a parenthetical element that contains a comma and that might be misread if set off with commas.
A. commas
B. parentheses
C. clauses
D. colons
ANSWER:B
Use a ____________ in a compound adjective beginning with an adverb such as better, best or well.
A. hyphen
B. parentheses
C. comma
D. colon
ANSWER:A
A ___________ may also be used instead of a colon to introduce a list or an elaboration of what was just said.
A. comma
B. colon
C. hyphen
D. dash
ANSWER:D
____________ has a place mainly between two terms paired as opposites or alternatives and used together as a noun
A. colon
B. hyphen
C. slash
D. dash
ANSWER:C
_________________ is a style of type in which the characters slant to the right. A. Italic
B. Times New Roman
C. Slash
D. Dash
ANSWER:A
____________ centuries when they are used as adjectives before nouns.
A. Hyphenate
B. Italicize
C. underline
D. darken
ANSWER:A
The research paper has to leave margin of ____________ inch at the top and bottom and on both sides of the text.
A. one
B. half C. two
D. three
ANSWER:A
_______________ is considered to be an easily readable typeface.
A. Times New Roman
B. Arabic
C. English
D. Scotish
ANSWER:A
The standard size of words in a research paper is ____________.
A. 12
B. 13
C. 14
D. 16
ANSWER:A
The researcher should not italicize or underline the _______________.
A. letter
B. word
C. subheading
D. title
ANSWER:D
Indent the first word of a paragraph ___________ inch.
A. one-half
B. two
C. one
D. half
ANSWER:A
The research does not need a ________________ page.
A. front
B. subject
C. title
D. heading
ANSWER:C
Number all pages consecutively throughot the research paper in upper _____________ corner.
A. right-hand
B. left-hand
C. bottom
D. top
ANSWER:A
The page number should leave ___________ inch from the top and flush with the right margin.
A. one
B. three
C. one-half
D. two
ANSWER:C
_____________________space has to be used throughout the research paper.
A. single
B. double
C. dash
D. hyphen
ANSWER:B
The researcher should use only ______, 81/2-by-11-inch paper of good quality.
A. white
B. blue
C. red
D. black
ANSWER:A
The research papers should be printed on a _____________ side.
A. bottom
B. upper
C. double
D. single
ANSWER:D
__________________ citations are keyed to a works-cited list.
A. dashed
B. double spaced
C. italicized
D. parenthetical
ANSWER:D
” Anderson 7″ is a ______________.
A. quotation
B. documentation
C. draft
D. citation
ANSWER:D
APA stands for ____________________.
A. American Psychological Association
B. African Psychological Association
C. American psychological Assembly
D. Afghanistan psychological Association
ANSWER:A
 _____________ style provides a flexible, modular format for recording key features of work cited.
A. MLA
B. APA
C. SPK
D. NMB
ANSWER:A
 _________ gives the list of works that the researcher cited.
A. Summation
B. Data
C. Bibliography
D. Works Cited
ANSWER:D
130. Entries in a __________ list are arranged in alphabetical order.
A. summation
B. data
C. work-cited
D. bibliography
ANSWER:C
131. Newspapers and magazines are examples for _________ publications.
A. print
B. web
C. online
D. electronic
ANSWER:A
132. ______________ is crucial task in conducting research.
A. selecting a topic
B. using methods
C. writing
D. printing
ANSWER:A
_____________ is a particularly useful intermediate activity between research and writing.
A. correcting
B. drafting
C. outlining
D. printing
ANSWER:C
_________________ will help to get an overall view of a research paper.
A. correction
B. summation
C. draft
D. outline
ANSWER:D
135. __________________ will make easier to keep track of all important aspects of subject and to focus research on relevant topic.
A. outline
B. summation
C. draft
D. correction
ANSWER:A
136. ________________ out each new version will let the researcher compare more easily with other versions.
A. Printing
B. Writing
C. Drafting
D. Outlining
ANSWER:A
____________ more important for focusing the subject of a research.
A. Thesis statement
B. Thesis format
C. Thesis print
D. Thesis content
ANSWER:A
Corrections and _____________ are common in drafting.
A. insertions
B. insetation
C. insersions
D. insartions
ANSWER:A
___________ is a systematic ,theoretical analysis of the methods applied to a field of study.
A. Qualitative
B. Quantitative
C. Psychology
D. Methodology
ANSWER:D
Reading the working outline __________ and deleting the irrelevant points are common in research.
A. critically
B. painfully
C. carefully
D. analytically
ANSWER:A
The two factors that are important in shaping of a thesis statement are purpose and___________.
A. audience
B. author
C. title
D. subject
ANSWER:A
A _____________ is the general research strategy that outlines the way in which the research has to be taken.
A. methodology
B. psychology
C. case study
D. experiment
ANSWER:A
Bring _______ material together under general headings.
A. related
B. irrelevant
C. important
D. final
ANSWER:A
Chronology is used for _____________ discussion.
A. historical
B. scientific
C. technical
D. geographic
ANSWER:A
Cause and effect is the consequences of ___________ discovery.
A. historical
B. geographical
C. technical
D. scientific
ANSWER:D
_____________ is an example for “how a politician got elected”
A. problem
B. solution
C. process
D. causes
ANSWER:C
_____________ logic moves from the general to the specific.
A. inductive
B. detective
C. quantitative
D. qualitative
ANSWER:B
____________ logic moves from specific to general.
A. detective
B. qualitative
C. quantitative
D. inductive
ANSWER:D
___________ is used only short phrases throughout.
A. Topic outline
B. sentence outline
C. labeling
D. drafting
ANSWER:A
150. ____________ is used to complete sentences throughout.
A. Sentence outline
B. Labeling
C. Topic outline
D. Drafting
ANSWER:A