logical_fallacies

Question: John S. Knight, Detroit Free Press (3 July 1970): ...Capitalism is the economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned and operated for profit. The alternative system is called socialism, the theory of the ownership and operation of the means of production by society, with all members sharing in the work and the products.

Choices:
- Begging the Question
- False Dilemma
- Straw Man
- Appeal to Gallery (Provicialism)


logical_fallacies

Question: The fallacy of appeal to the person is rejecting a claim by...

Choices:
- Using rhetoric
- Making false statements
- Ignoring the person
- Criticizing the person who makes it


logical_fallacies

Question: We must assume that he is a Communist, because he says that he is not, and we know that Communists are taught always to deny party membership.

Choices:
- Argument from Ignorance
- Affirming the Consequent
- Denying the Antecedent
- Begging the Question


logical_fallacies

Question: Asking a question that includes an unproven assumption may lead to which of the following fallacies?

Choices:
- Appeal to ignorance
- Extension
- a priori
- Complex question


logical_fallacies

Question: Which of the following fallacies happens when someone draws a conclusion that is simply a restatement of one of the premises?

Choices:
- Laudatory personality
- Guilt by association
- Accident
- Begging the question


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| RELUs are not monotonic, but sigmoids are monotonic. Statement 2| Neural networks trained with gradient descent with high probability converge to the global optimum.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The Stanford Sentiment Treebank contained movie reviews, not book reviews. Statement 2| The Penn Treebank has been used for language modeling.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: A machine learning problem involves four attributes plus a class. The attributes have 3, 2, 2, and 2 possible values each. The class has 3 possible values. How many maximum possible different examples are there?

Choices:
- 12
- 24
- 48
- 72


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| ImageNet has images of various resolutions. Statement 2| Caltech-101 has more images than ImageNet.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| A neural network's convergence depends on the learning rate. Statement 2| Dropout multiplies randomly chosen activation values by zero.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Which one of the following is the main reason for pruning a Decision Tree?

Choices:
- To save computing time during testing
- To save space for storing the Decision Tree
- To make the training set error smaller
- To avoid overfitting the training set


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Density estimation (using say, the kernel density estimator) can be used to perform classification. Statement 2| The correspondence between logistic regression and Gaussian Naive Bayes (with identity class covariances) means that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the parameters of the two classifiers.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: The model obtained by applying linear regression on the identified subset of features may differ from the model obtained at the end of the process of identifying the subset during

Choices:
- Best-subset selection
- Forward stepwise selection
- Forward stage wise selection
- All of the above


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Overfitting is more likely when the set of training data is small. Statement 2| Overfitting is more likely when the hypothesis space is small.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: What is the dimensionality of the null space of the following matrix? A = [[3, 2, â9], [â6, â4, 18], [12, 8, â36]]

Choices:
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3


machine_learning

Question: Given two Boolean random variables, A and B, where P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, and P(A | Â¬B) = 1/4, what is P(A | B)?

Choices:
- 1/6
- 1/4
- 3/4
- 1


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| For a continuous random variable x and its probability distribution function p(x), it holds that 0 â¤ p(x) â¤ 1 for all x. Statement 2| Decision tree is learned by minimizing information gain.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The kernel density estimator is equivalent to performing kernel regression with the value Yi = 1/n at each point Xi in the original data set. Statement 2| The depth of a learned decision tree can be larger than the number of training examples used to create the tree.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Say the incidence of a disease D is about 5 cases per 100 people (i.e., P(D) = 0.05). Let Boolean random variable D mean a patient âhas disease Dâ and let Boolean random variable TP stand for "tests positive." Tests for disease D are known to be very accurate in the sense that the probability of testing positive when you have the disease is 0.99, and the probability of testing negative when you do not have the disease is 0.97. What is P(TP), the prior probability of testing positive.

Choices:
- 0.0368
- 0.473
- 0.078
- None of the above


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| L2 regularization of linear models tends to make models more sparse than L1 regularization. Statement 2| Residual connections can be found in ResNets and Transformers.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Suppose we like to calculate P(H|E, F) and we have no conditional independence information. Which of the following sets of numbers are sufficient for the calculation?

Choices:
- P(E, F), P(H), P(E|H), P(F|H)
- P(E, F), P(H), P(E, F|H)
- P(H), P(E|H), P(F|H)
- P(E, F), P(E|H), P(F|H)


machine_learning

Question: What is the rank of the following matrix? A = [[1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1]]

Choices:
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3


machine_learning

Question: The disadvantage of Grid search is

Choices:
- It can not be applied to non-differentiable functions.
- It can not be applied to non-continuous functions.
- It is hard to implement.
- It runs reasonably slow for multiple linear regression.


machine_learning

Question: The K-means algorithm:

Choices:
- Requires the dimension of the feature space to be no bigger than the number of samples
- Has the smallest value of the objective function when K = 1
- Minimizes the within class variance for a given number of clusters
- Converges to the global optimum if and only if the initial means are chosen as some of the samples themselves


machine_learning

Question: The numerical output of a sigmoid node in a neural network:

Choices:
- Is unbounded, encompassing all real numbers.
- Is unbounded, encompassing all integers.
- Is bounded between 0 and 1.
- Is bounded between -1 and 1.


machine_learning

Question: Given a large dataset of medical records from patients suffering from heart disease, try to learn whether there might be different clusters of such patients for which we might tailor separate treatments. What kind of learning problem is this?

Choices:
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Both (a) and (b)
- Neither (a) nor (b)


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The softmax function is commonly used in mutliclass logistic regression. Statement 2| The temperature of a nonuniform softmax distribution affects its entropy.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Say the incidence of a disease D is about 5 cases per 100 people (i.e., P(D) = 0.05). Let Boolean random variable D mean a patient âhas disease Dâ and let Boolean random variable TP stand for "tests positive." Tests for disease D are known to be very accurate in the sense that the probability of testing positive when you have the disease is 0.99, and the probability of testing negative when you do not have the disease is 0.97. What is P(D | TP), the posterior probability that you have disease D when the test is positive?

Choices:
- 0.0495
- 0.078
- 0.635
- 0.97


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| RoBERTa pretrains on a corpus that is approximate 10x larger than the corpus BERT pretrained on. Statement 2| ResNeXts in 2018 usually used tanh activation functions.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: After applying a regularization penalty in linear regression, you find that some of the coefficients of w are zeroed out. Which of the following penalties might have been used?

Choices:
- L0 norm
- L1 norm
- L2 norm
- either (a) or (b)


machine_learning

Question: What would you do in PCA to get the same projection as SVD?

Choices:
- Transform data to zero mean
- Transform data to zero median
- Not possible
- None of these


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following is the joint probability of H, U, P, and W described by the given Bayesian Network H -> U <- P <- W? [note: as the product of the conditional probabilities]

Choices:
- P(H, U, P, W) = P(H) * P(W) * P(P) * P(U)
- P(H, U, P, W) = P(H) * P(W) * P(P | W) * P(W | H, P)
- P(H, U, P, W) = P(H) * P(W) * P(P | W) * P(U | H, P)
- None of the above


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Besides EM, gradient descent can be used to perform inference or learning on Gaussian mixture model. Statement 2 | Assuming a fixed number of attributes, a Gaussian-based Bayes optimal classifier can be learned in time linear in the number of records in the dataset.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: For Kernel Regression, which one of these structural assumptions is the one that most affects the trade-off between underfitting and overfitting:

Choices:
- Whether kernel function is Gaussian versus triangular versus box-shaped
- Whether we use Euclidian versus L1 versus Lâ metrics
- The kernel width
- The maximum height of the kernel function


machine_learning

Question: MLE estimates are often undesirable because

Choices:
- they are biased
- they have high variance
- they are not consistent estimators
- None of the above


machine_learning

Question: Which is true about Batch Normalization?

Choices:
- After applying batch normalization, the layerâs activations will follow a standard Gaussian distribution.
- The bias parameter of affine layers becomes redundant if a batch normalization layer follows immediately afterward.
- The standard weight initialization must be changed when using Batch Normalization.
- Batch Normalization is equivalent to Layer Normalization for convolutional neural networks.


machine_learning

Question: As of 2020, which architecture is best for classifying high-resolution images?

Choices:
- convolutional networks
- graph networks
- fully connected networks
- RBF networks


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following is false?

Choices:
- Semantic segmentation models predict the class of each pixel, while multiclass image classifiers predict the class of entire image.
- A bounding box with an IoU (intersection over union) equal to $96\\%$ would likely be considered at true positive.
- When a predicted bounding box does not correspond to any object in the scene, it is considered a false positive.
- A bounding box with an IoU (intersection over union) equal to $3\\%$ would likely be considered at false negative.


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The SVM learning algorithm is guaranteed to find the globally optimal hypothesis with respect to its object function. Statement 2| After being mapped into feature space Q through a radial basis kernel function, a Perceptron may be able to achieve better classification performance than in its original space (though we canât guarantee this).

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: What are support vectors?

Choices:
- The examples farthest from the decision boundary.
- The only examples necessary to compute f(x) in an SVM.
- The data centroid.
- All the examples that have a non-zero weight Î±k in a SVM.


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Support vector machines, like logistic regression models, give a probability distribution over the possible labels given an input example. Statement 2| We would expect the support vectors to remain the same in general as we move from a linear kernel to higher order polynomial kernels.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following can only be used when training data are linearly separable?

Choices:
- Linear hard-margin SVM.
- Linear Logistic Regression.
- Linear Soft margin SVM.
- The centroid method.


machine_learning

Question: For a Gaussian Bayes classifier, which one of these structural assumptions is the one that most affects the trade-off between underfitting and overfitting:

Choices:
- Whether we learn the class centers by Maximum Likelihood or Gradient Descent
- Whether we assume full class covariance matrices or diagonal class covariance matrices
- Whether we have equal class priors or priors estimated from the data
- Whether we allow classes to have different mean vectors or we force them to share the same mean vector


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following are the spatial clustering algorithms?

Choices:
- Partitioning based clustering
- K-means clustering
- Grid based clustering
- All of the above


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The ID3 algorithm is guaranteed to find the optimal decision tree. Statement 2| Consider a continuous probability distribution with density f() that is nonzero everywhere. The probability of a value x is equal to f(x).

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Suppose we have the following objective function: $\argmin_{w} \frac{1}{2} \norm{Xw-y}^2_2 + \frac{1}{2}\gamma \norm{w}^2_2$ What is the gradient of $\frac{1}{2} \norm{Xw-y}^2_2 + \frac{1}{2}\lambda \norm{w}^2_2$ with respect to $w$?

Choices:
- $\\nabla_w f(w) = (X^\\top X + \\lambda I)w - X^\\top y + \\lambda w$
- $\\nabla_w f(w) = X^\\top X w - X^\\top y + \\lambda$
- $\\nabla_w f(w) = X^\\top X w - X^\\top y + \\lambda w$
- $\\nabla_w f(w) = X^\\top X w - X^\\top y + (\\lambda+1) w$


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The F1 score can be especially useful for datasets with class high imbalance. Statement 2| The area under the ROC curve is one of the main metrics used to assess anomaly detectors.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The set of all rectangles in the 2D plane (which includes non axisaligned rectangles) can shatter a set of 5 points. Statement 2| The VC-dimension of k-Nearest Neighbour classifier when k = 1 is infinite.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Suppose you are given an EM algorithm that finds maximum likelihood estimates for a model with latent variables. You are asked to modify the algorithm so that it finds MAP estimates instead. Which step or steps do you need to modify?

Choices:
- Expectation
- Maximization
- No modification necessary
- Both


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Since the VC dimension for an SVM with a Radial Base Kernel is infinite, such an SVM must be worse than an SVM with polynomial kernel which has a finite VC dimension. Statement 2| A two layer neural network with linear activation functions is essentially a weighted combination of linear separators, trained on a given dataset; the boosting algorithm built on linear separators also finds a combination of linear separators, therefore these two algorithms will give the same result.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The training error of 1-nearest neighbor classifier is 0. Statement 2| As the number of data points grows to infinity, the MAP estimate approaches the MLE estimate for all possible priors. In other words, given enough data, the choice of prior is irrelevant.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The derivative of the sigmoid $\sigma(x)=(1+e^{-x})^{-1}$ with respect to $x$ is equal to $\text{Var}(B)$ where $B\sim \text{Bern}(\sigma(x))$ is a Bernoulli random variable. Statement 2| Setting the bias parameters in each layer of neural network to 0 changes the bias-variance trade-off such that the model's variance increases and the model's bias decreases

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The maximum margin decision boundaries that support vector machines construct have the lowest generalization error among all linear classifiers. Statement 2| Any decision boundary that we get from a generative model with classconditional Gaussian distributions could in principle be reproduced with an SVM and a polynomial kernel of degree less than or equal to three.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| In a Bayesian network, the inference results of the junction tree algorithm are the same as the inference results of variable elimination. Statement 2| If two random variable X and Y are conditionally independent given another random variable Z, then in the corresponding Bayesian network, the nodes for X and Y are d-separated given Z.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| In AdaBoost weights of the misclassified examples go up by the same multiplicative factor. Statement 2| In AdaBoost, weighted training error e_t of the tth weak classifier on training data with weights D_t tends to increase as a function of t.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Let us say that we have computed the gradient of our cost function and stored it in a vector g. What is the cost of one gradient descent update given the gradient?

Choices:
- O(D)
- O(N)
- O(ND)
- O(ND^2)


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following sentence is FALSE regarding regression?

Choices:
- It relates inputs to outputs.
- It is used for prediction.
- It may be used for interpretation.
- It discovers causal relationships


machine_learning

Question: Which one of the following is equal to P(A, B, C) given Boolean random variables A, B and C, and no independence or conditional independence assumptions between any of them?

Choices:
- P(A | B) * P(B | C) * P(C | A)
- P(C | A, B) * P(A) * P(B)
- P(A, B | C) * P(C)
- P(A | B, C) * P(B | A, C) * P(C | A, B)


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| For any two variables x and y having joint distribution p(x, y), we always have H[x, y] â¥ H[x] + H[y] where H is entropy function. Statement 2| For some directed graphs, moralization decreases the number of edges present in the graph.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| VGGNets have convolutional kernels of smaller width and height than AlexNet's first-layer kernels. Statement 2| Data-dependent weight initialization procedures were introduced before Batch Normalization.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: When doing least-squares regression with regularisation (assuming that the optimisation can be done exactly), increasing the value of the regularisation parameter Î» the testing error.

Choices:
- will never decrease the training error.
- will never increase the training error.
- will never decrease the testing error.
- will never increase


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| CIFAR-10 classification performance for convolution neural networks can exceed 95%. Statement 2| Ensembles of neural networks do not improve classification accuracy since the representations they learn are highly correlated.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following is true of a convolution kernel?

Choices:
- Convolving an image with $\\begin{bmatrix}1 & 0 & 0\\\\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\\\ 0 & 0 & 1 \\end{bmatrix}$ would not change the image
- Convolving an image with $\\begin{bmatrix}0 & 0 & 0\\\\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\\\ 0 & 0 & 0 \\end{bmatrix}$ would not change the image
- Convolving an image with $\\begin{bmatrix}1 & 1 & 1\\\\ 1 & 1 & 1 \\\\ 1 & 1 & 1 \\end{bmatrix}$ would not change the image
- Convolving an image with $\\begin{bmatrix}0 & 0 & 0\\\\ 0 & 0 & 0 \\\\ 0 & 0 & 0 \\end{bmatrix}$ would not change the image


machine_learning

Question: Predicting the amount of rainfall in a region based on various cues is a ______ problem.

Choices:
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Clustering
- None of the above


machine_learning

Question: You've just finished training a decision tree for spam classification, and it is getting abnormally bad performance on both your training and test sets. You know that your implementation has no bugs, so what could be causing the problem?

Choices:
- Your decision trees are too shallow.
- You need to increase the learning rate.
- You are overfitting.
- None of the above.


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Word2Vec parameters were not initialized using a Restricted Boltzman Machine. Statement 2| The tanh function is a nonlinear activation function.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Maximizing the likelihood of logistic regression model yields multiple local optimums. Statement 2| No classifier can do better than a naive Bayes classifier if the distribution of the data is known.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: We are training fully connected network with two hidden layers to predict housing prices. Inputs are $100$-dimensional, and have several features such as the number of square feet, the median family income, etc. The first hidden layer has $1000$ activations. The second hidden layer has $10$ activations. The output is a scalar representing the house price. Assuming a vanilla network with affine transformations and with no batch normalization and no learnable parameters in the activation function, how many parameters does this network have?

Choices:
- 111021
- 110010
- 111110
- 110011


machine_learning

Question: You are training a linear regression model for a simple estimation task, and notice that the model is overfitting to the data. You decide to add in $\ell_2$ regularization to penalize the weights. As you increase the $\ell_2$ regularization coefficient, what will happen to the bias and variance of the model?

Choices:
- Bias increase ; Variance increase
- Bias increase ; Variance decrease
- Bias decrease ; Variance increase
- Bias decrease ; Variance decrease


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The log-likelihood of the data will always increase through successive iterations of the expectation maximation algorithm. Statement 2| One disadvantage of Q-learning is that it can only be used when the learner has prior knowledge of how its actions affect its environment.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Existential risks posed by AI are most commonly associated with which of the following professors?

Choices:
- Nando de Frietas
- Yann LeCun
- Stuart Russell
- Jitendra Malik


machine_learning

Question: Given a Neural Net with N input nodes, no hidden layers, one output node, with Entropy Loss and Sigmoid Activation Functions, which of the following algorithms (with the proper hyper-parameters and initialization) can be used to find the global optimum?

Choices:
- Stochastic Gradient Descent
- Mini-Batch Gradient Descent
- Batch Gradient Descent
- All of the above


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| After mapped into feature space Q through a radial basis kernel function, 1-NN using unweighted Euclidean distance may be able to achieve better classification performance than in original space (though we canât guarantee this). Statement 2| The VC dimension of a Perceptron is smaller than the VC dimension of a simple linear SVM.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Consider the Bayesian network given below. How many independent parameters are needed for this Bayesian Network H -> U <- P <- W?

Choices:
- 2
- 4
- 8
- 16


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following is/are true regarding an SVM?

Choices:
- For two dimensional data points, the separating hyperplane learnt by a linear SVM will be a straight line.
- In theory, a Gaussian kernel SVM cannot model any complex separating hyperplane.
- For every kernel function used in a SVM, one can obtain an equivalent closed form basis expansion.
- Overfitting in an SVM is not a function of number of support vectors.


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The BLEU metric uses precision, while the ROGUE metric uses recall. Statement 2| Hidden markov models were frequently used to model English sentences.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Which among the following prevents overfitting when we perform bagging?

Choices:
- The use of sampling with replacement as the sampling technique
- The use of weak classifiers
- The use of classification algorithms which are not prone to overfitting
- The practice of validation performed on every classifier trained


machine_learning

Question: Which PyTorch 1.8 command(s) produce $10\times 5$ Gaussian matrix with each entry i.i.d. sampled from $\mathcal{N}(\mu=5,\sigma^2=16)$ and a $10\times 10$ uniform matrix with each entry i.i.d. sampled from $U[-1,1)$?

Choices:
- \\texttt{5 + torch.randn(10,5) * 16} ; \\texttt{torch.rand(10,10,low=-1,high=1)}
- \\texttt{5 + torch.randn(10,5) * 16} ; \\texttt{(torch.rand(10,10) - 0.5) / 0.5}
- \\texttt{5 + torch.randn(10,5) * 4} ; \\texttt{2 * torch.rand(10,10) - 1}
- \\texttt{torch.normal(torch.ones(10,5)*5,torch.ones(5,5)*16)} ; \\texttt{2 * torch.rand(10,10) - 1}


machine_learning

Question: Neural networks:

Choices:
- Optimize a convex objective function
- Can only be trained with stochastic gradient descent
- Can use a mix of different activation functions
- None of the above


machine_learning

Question: In building a linear regression model for a particular data set, you observe the coefficient of one of the features having a relatively high negative value. This suggests that

Choices:
- This feature has a strong effect on the model (should be retained)
- This feature does not have a strong effect on the model (should be ignored)
- It is not possible to comment on the importance of this feature without additional information
- Nothing can be determined.


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| The original ResNets and Transformers are feedforward neural networks. Statement 2| The original Transformers use self-attention, but the original ResNet does not.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: K-fold cross-validation is

Choices:
- linear in K
- quadratic in K
- cubic in K
- exponential in K


machine_learning

Question: Averaging the output of multiple decision trees helps _.

Choices:
- Increase bias
- Decrease bias
- Increase variance
- Decrease variance


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Linear regression estimator has the smallest variance among all unbiased estimators. Statement 2| The coefficients Î± assigned to the classifiers assembled by AdaBoost are always non-negative.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following is NOT supervised learning?

Choices:
- PCA
- Decision Tree
- Linear Regression
- Naive Bayesian


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following best describes what discriminative approaches try to model? (w are the parameters in the model)

Choices:
- p(y|x, w)
- p(y, x)
- p(w|x, w)
- None of the above


machine_learning

Question: For polynomial regression, which one of these structural assumptions is the one that most affects the trade-off between underfitting and overfitting:

Choices:
- The polynomial degree
- Whether we learn the weights by matrix inversion or gradient descent
- The assumed variance of the Gaussian noise
- The use of a constant-term unit input


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| As of 2020, some models attain greater than 98% accuracy on CIFAR-10. Statement 2| The original ResNets were not optimized with the Adam optimizer.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Highway networks were introduced after ResNets and eschew max pooling in favor of convolutions. Statement 2| DenseNets usually cost more memory than ResNets.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following is false?

Choices:
- The following fully connected network without activation functions is linear: $g_3(g_2(g_1(x)))$, where $g_i(x) = W_i x$ and $W_i$ are matrices.
- Leaky ReLU $\\max\\{0.01x,x\\}$ is convex.
- A combination of ReLUs such as $ReLU(x) - ReLU(x-1)$ is convex.
- The loss $\\log \\sigma(x)= -\\log(1+e^{-x})$ is concave


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| We learn a classifier f by boosting weak learners h. The functional form of fâs decision boundary is the same as hâs, but with different parameters. (e.g., if h was a linear classifier, then f is also a linear classifier). Statement 2| Cross validation can be used to select the number of iterations in boosting; this procedure may help reduce overfitting.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Traditional machine learning results assume that the train and test sets are independent and identically distributed. Statement 2| In 2017, COCO models were usually pretrained on ImageNet.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: High entropy means that the partitions in classification are

Choices:
- pure
- not pure
- useful
- useless


machine_learning

Question: Adding more basis functions in a linear model, pick the most probably option:

Choices:
- Decreases model bias
- Decreases estimation bias
- Decreases variance
- Doesnât affect bias and variance


machine_learning

Question: For a neural network, which one of these structural assumptions is the one that most affects the trade-off between underfitting (i.e. a high bias model) and overfitting (i.e. a high variance model):

Choices:
- The number of hidden nodes
- The learning rate
- The initial choice of weights
- The use of a constant-term unit input


machine_learning

Question: Another term for out-of-distribution detection is?

Choices:
- anomaly detection
- one-class detection
- train-test mismatch robustness
- background detection


machine_learning

Question: Suppose your model is overfitting. Which of the following is NOT a valid way to try and reduce the overfitting?

Choices:
- Increase the amount of training data.
- Improve the optimisation algorithm being used for error minimisation.
- Decrease the model complexity.
- Reduce the noise in the training data.


machine_learning

Question: Which of the following points would Bayesians and frequentists disagree on?

Choices:
- The use of a non-Gaussian noise model in probabilistic regression.
- The use of probabilistic modelling for regression.
- The use of prior distributions on the parameters in a probabilistic model.
- The use of class priors in Gaussian Discriminant Analysis.


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Industrial-scale neural networks are normally trained on CPUs, not GPUs. Statement 2| The ResNet-50 model has over 1 billion parameters.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| When learning an HMM for a fixed set of observations, assume we do not know the true number of hidden states (which is often the case), we can always increase the training data likelihood by permitting more hidden states. Statement 2| Collaborative filtering is often a useful model for modeling users' movie preference.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: If your training loss increases with number of epochs, which of the following could be a possible issue with the learning process?

Choices:
- Regularization is too low and model is overfitting
- Regularization is too high and model is underfitting
- Step size is too large
- Step size is too small


machine_learning

Question: As the number of training examples goes to infinity, your model trained on that data will have:

Choices:
- Lower variance
- Higher variance
- Same variance
- None of the above


machine_learning

Question: Statement 1| Layer Normalization is used in the original ResNet paper, not Batch Normalization. Statement 2| DCGANs use self-attention to stabilize training.

Choices:
- True, True
- False, False
- True, False
- False, True


machine_learning

Question: Suppose we would like to perform clustering on spatial data such as the geometrical locations of houses. We wish to produce clusters of many different sizes and shapes. Which of the following methods is the most appropriate?

Choices:
- Decision Trees
- Density-based clustering
- Model-based clustering
- K-means clustering


machine_learning

Question: If N is the number of instances in the training dataset, nearest neighbors has a classification run time of

Choices:
- O(1)
- O( N )
- O(log N )
- O( N^2 )


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following heavenly bodies have never had a spacecraft landed on it?

Choices:
- Venus
- Mars
- The Moon
- Jupiter


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these movies does not star Jim Carrey?

Choices:
- Patch Adams'
- The Truman Show'
- Dumb and Dumber'
- The Mask'


miscellaneous

Question: What is the name of the baby who appears in cartoons and comic strips with Popeye the Sailor?

Choices:
- Pun'kin
- Lamikins
- Suga'baby
- Swee'pea


miscellaneous

Question: What color is a ruby?

Choices:
- red
- black
- yellow
- blue


miscellaneous

Question: Who wrote musicals with Oscar Hammerstein II?

Choices:
- Richard Rodgers
- Rogers Hornsby
- Gilbert O' Sullivan
- George Rogers Clark


miscellaneous

Question: What is the name for the thin board used to mix colors while painting?

Choices:
- pestle
- easel
- shoe
- palette


miscellaneous

Question: From 1971 to 1997 the Democratic Republic of Congo was known as what?

Choices:
- Zaire
- Angola
- Rhodesia
- Belgian Congo


miscellaneous

Question: What is the name of Raggedy Ann's doll brother?

Choices:
- Red
- Freckles
- Randy
- Andy


miscellaneous

Question: In golf what is one stroke overpar called?

Choices:
- eagle
- bogey
- dormy
- birdie


miscellaneous

Question: What is the capital of North Dakota?

Choices:
- Bismarck
- Fargo
- Sioux Falls
- Pierre


miscellaneous

Question: The disco band ABBA comes from what country?

Choices:
- Norway
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- The Netherlands


miscellaneous

Question: Fragile works of sculpture can be displayed most securely by placing the works

Choices:
- in glass-paneled cases
- on a series of pedestals
- on wall-mounted shelves with sturdier works around them
- in shadow boxes with signs that read "Do Not Touch"


miscellaneous

Question: What city is known as 'the rubber capital of the world'?

Choices:
- Omaha Nebraska
- Rockford Illinois
- Grand Rapids Michigan
- Akron Ohio


miscellaneous

Question: Who led the 1831 slave insurrection in SouthamptonVirginia?

Choices:
- John Brown
- Dred Scott
- Nat Turner
- Harriet Tubman


miscellaneous

Question: What is the only metal that is a liquid at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature?

Choices:
- lead
- antimony
- uranium
- mercury


miscellaneous

Question: The nineteenth-century photographic process used to create a daguerreotype was notable for its

Choices:
- quick exposure time
- ability to capture sharp detail
- capacity to be reproduced multiple times
- use of paper negatives


miscellaneous

Question: Normally, S-P arrival intervals from a minimum of how many seismic stations are required to uniquely locate the epicenter of an earthquake?

Choices:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4


miscellaneous

Question: Including the bottom how many sides are on a square-based pyramid?

Choices:
- three
- four
- five
- six


miscellaneous

Question: Poverty as defined by the United States government is best understood as

Choices:
- the index value of government services such as Medicaid and public housing
- the concept of relative deprivation and is based on changes in the distribution of income
- an absolute level set in the 1960s and since adjusted to reflect inflation at the consumer level
- a concept based on lifestyle and measured on a sliding scale based on the needs of an individual


miscellaneous

Question: What was the name of Huey Lewis band?

Choices:
- The News
- The Attractions
- The Silver Bullet Band
- Louie and Dewey


miscellaneous

Question: _Whenever the mood strikes her_, Angela takes a short walk around the block. In the sentence above, the underlined portion can best be described as

Choices:
- an adjective clause
- a relative clause
- a subordinate clause
- an independent clause


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following people would benefit most if the value of the United States dollar increased relative to the Japanese yen?

Choices:
- A United States car dealer importing Japanese cars
- A Japanese tourist vacationing in the United States
- A worker in the United States beer industry
- A Japanese baker buying United States wheat


miscellaneous

Question: What are fans of the TV show 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' known as?

Choices:
- Mysterians
- MiSTies
- Bot Brigade
- Gizmonics


miscellaneous

Question: What children's TV character is known as 'Da Niao' in China?

Choices:
- Barney
- Big Bird
- Mickey Mouse
- Tinky Winky


miscellaneous

Question: What popular toy is featured in the film 'The Hudsucker Proxy'?

Choices:
- Beanie Babies
- Hula Hoop
- Lincoln Logs
- Lite Brite


miscellaneous

Question: What is Delta Burke's character's job on the sitcom 'Designing Women'?

Choices:
- fashion designer
- graphic designer
- interior designer
- website designer


miscellaneous

Question: According to a popular slogan what state should people not 'mess with'?

Choices:
- New York
- Texas
- Montana
- Rhode Island


miscellaneous

Question: Where is Ghirardelli Square located?

Choices:
- Milan
- Rome
- Washington DC
- San Francisco


miscellaneous

Question: Who composed the 'Moonlight Sonata'?

Choices:
- Mozart
- Handel
- Bach
- Beethoven


miscellaneous

Question: What country does Bordeaux wine come from?

Choices:
- France
- Spain
- Australia
- United States


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following protocols is used to transport HTML pages from Web servers to Web browsers?

Choices:
- BOOTP
- HTTP
- SNMP
- SMTP


miscellaneous

Question: A passage Jane Eyre is as follows. This was all the account I got from Mrs. Fairfax of her employer and mine. There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out. Mr. Rochester was Mr. Rochester in her eyes, a gentleman, a landed proprietorâÃÃ¬nothing more: she inquired and searched no further, and evidently wondered at my wish to gain a more definite notion of his identity. Mrs. Fairfax differs from the speaker in that Mrs. Fairfax

Choices:
- has more interest in the complexities of people's personalities
- judges people by their social station in life
- is more willing to take people at face value
- has a more positive opinion of Mr. Rochester


miscellaneous

Question: A committee of middle school teachers is meeting to begin the process of finding a software program to improve students' drafting skills. Which of the following steps should the committee take first in the process?

Choices:
- Downloading a trial version of the most popular software for evaluation
- Conducting a survey to determine the importance of drafting skills in the classroom
- Defining the learning objectives they would like the software to meet
- Deciding what type of user interface would be most appropriate


miscellaneous

Question: According to the title of a popular children's TV show what color is Bear's big house?

Choices:
- red
- green
- purple
- blue


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these names has never belonged to a Pope?

Choices:
- Leo
- Lando
- Linus
- Lawrence


miscellaneous

Question: In 1909 Frederick Cook claimed to be the first explorer to reach what location?

Choices:
- Mount Everest
- Bermuda Triangle
- Atlantis
- North Pole


miscellaneous

Question: A clothes dryer that is set to run for 30 minutes is an example of which of the following control systems?

Choices:
- Open loop
- Closed loop
- Negative feedback
- Positive feedback


miscellaneous

Question: How many cups of coffee were consumed in the United States in the past week (as of 2013)?

Choices:
- 300 million cups per week
- 1 billion cups per week
- 3 billion cups per week
- 9 billion cups per week


miscellaneous

Question: What part of the human body does a gastroenterologist examine?

Choices:
- Brain
- Skeleton
- Stomach
- Nose


miscellaneous

Question: What is actor Antonio Banderas native language?

Choices:
- Spanish
- Russian
- German
- French


miscellaneous

Question: What high school does the gang from the 'Archie' comic strip attend?

Choices:
- Ridgemont High
- Riverdale High
- Rumson High
- Riker's Island High


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following has provided evidence that the Sun's atmosphere contains sodium atoms?

Choices:
- Absorption lines in the solar spectrum are consistent with the presence of sodium.
- Stars with the same spectral class as the Sun are made mostly of sodium.
- Solar samples returned to Earth by the Voyager spacecraft contained sodium.
- The Sun gives off energy produced by the nuclear fusion of sodium in its core


miscellaneous

Question: In baseball how many balls make a walk?

Choices:
- one
- two
- three
- four


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following is a renewable energy source?

Choices:
- Wood
- Oil
- Natural gas
- Coal


miscellaneous

Question: Which part of the electromagnetic spectrum has the shortest wavelength?

Choices:
- Gamma rays
- X-rays
- Radio waves
- Microwaves


miscellaneous

Question: Which company holds an annual self-named 'Bake-Off'?

Choices:
- Betty Crocker
- Duncan Hines
- Pillsbury
- Keebler


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following materials has a resistance that is LEAST affected by temperature changes?

Choices:
- Copper
- Carbon
- Germanium
- Silicon


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these evangelists is a cousin of rocker Jerry Lee Lewis?

Choices:
- Billy Graham
- Oral Roberts
- Jerry Falwell
- Jimmy Swaggart


miscellaneous

Question: How many pairs of chromosomes are in the genome of a typical person?

Choices:
- 1
- 23
- 88
- 7921


miscellaneous

Question: How many innings are there in a regular Major League Baseball game?

Choices:
- seven
- eight
- nine
- ten


miscellaneous

Question: What is the name of the South African political party that was headed by Nelson Mandela?

Choices:
- African National Congress
- South African Democrats
- Inkatha Freedom Party
- Aryan National Assembly


miscellaneous

Question: Where did jazz great Sun Ra claim he was born?

Choices:
- Atlantis
- Mount Olympus
- Saturn
- in a saxophone


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these is not a Hindudeity?

Choices:
- Shiva
- Vishnu
- Sanskrit
- Brahma


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following was a direct result of the First Opium War of 1839-1842?

Choices:
- The Chinese commissioner of trade in Canton (Guangzhou) banned the opium trade in that city.
- China was forced to open some of its ports to international trade.
- Chinese revolutionaries toppled the Qing dynasty.
- Chinese leaders set out to remake their economy along Western lines.


miscellaneous

Question: The Strauss family of composers popularized what dance?

Choices:
- waltz
- tango
- fox-trot
- square dance


miscellaneous

Question: What was the revenue for flat screen televisions sold in Australia in the past 12 months (as of 2013)?

Choices:
- $120 million annual Revenue
- $1.2 billion annual Revenue
- $12 billion annual Revenue
- $120 billion annual Revenue


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following artists is an English landscape painter who created a poetic sense of changing atmospheric effects by using tiny applications of local color?

Choices:
- John Constable
- William Morris
- William Hogarth
- Joshua Reynolds


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following steps in the design of a dog house would be earliest?

Choices:
- Acquiring all the tools necessary for the building
- Purchasing all the materials for building the structure
- Identifying the color, shape, and style of the exterior surface
- Accessing the measurements of the dog and all the interior materials


miscellaneous

Question: What are the Smothers Brothers'(first names?

Choices:
- Frank and Bill
- Tom and Dick
- Dave and George
- Ed and Pete


miscellaneous

Question: In which of the following bands did Jimmy Page not play guitar?

Choices:
- Bad Company
- The Firm
- Led Zeppelin
- The Yardbirds


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these is not one of the four basic forces in nature?

Choices:
- electromagnetic
- gravitational
- nuclear
- centrifugal


miscellaneous

Question: How much energy do Americans waste each year by throwing out the unused ice in their drinks?

Choices:
- 6*10^8 J
- 6*10^11 J
- 6*10^14 J
- 6*10^17 J


miscellaneous

Question: In which layer of Earth is the geomagnetic field generated?

Choices:
- Outer core
- Crust
- Mantle
- Inner core


miscellaneous

Question: What car company once manufactured and sold the 'Datsun' line of automobiles?

Choices:
- Nissan
- Mazda
- Toyota
- Daihatsu


miscellaneous

Question: In horse racing what is the term for a wager on the 1st 2nd and 3rd place finishers in a specific race?

Choices:
- triple action
- trifecta
- exacta
- triple crown


miscellaneous

Question: In which of these sports do competitors use a 'funny car'?

Choices:
- supercross
- dogsledding
- gymnastics
- drag racing


miscellaneous

Question: What was the name of the first ship to sail around the world?

Choices:
- Triton
- Victoria
- Magellan
- Elizabeth II


miscellaneous

Question: A _ is a plant cell that helps control the passage of materials into and out of the stomates.

Choices:
- Cell membrane
- Cytoplasm
- Guard cell
- Cellulose


miscellaneous

Question: What country was once ruled by shoguns?

Choices:
- China
- Japan
- North Korea
- Taiwan


miscellaneous

Question: Animals in which of the following groups may have a backbone and a spinal cord?

Choices:
- Mollusks
- Chordates
- Invertebrates
- Echinoderms


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following groups was converted to Christianity in the tenth century AD by missionaries from the Byzantine Empire?

Choices:
- Franks
- Visigoths
- Russians
- Anglo-Saxons


miscellaneous

Question: What do herpetologists study?

Choices:
- Herpes
- Blood
- Insects
- Reptiles and amphibians


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these refers to an alcoholic drink laced with a knockout drug?

Choices:
- Zombie
- Kamikaze
- Mickey Finn
- Molotov cocktail


miscellaneous

Question: During President Dwight Eisenhower's administration in the 1950s, the federal government promoted significant changes in transportation in the United States by

Choices:
- establishing generous subsidies for urban mass transit
- sponsoring research to develop less polluting automobiles
- funding the construction of the interstate highway system
- funding the establishment of a national railroad passenger system


miscellaneous

Question: In the movie 'Star Wars' what kind of creature is Chewbacca?

Choices:
- Woolie
- Woobie
- Wookiee
- Klingon


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these is not one of the three branches of the US government?

Choices:
- Judicial
- Executive
- Parliamentary
- Legislative


miscellaneous

Question: Soil structure refers to which of the following?

Choices:
- Arrangement of soil particles
- Proportion of sand, silt, and clay
- Organic composition
- Profile depth


miscellaneous

Question: What team has won the most World Series?

Choices:
- Chicago Cubs
- Los Angeles Dodgers
- New York Yankees
- San Francisco Giants


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following questions can a student ask to best determine whether an author is using the persuasive technique of pathos in a passage?

Choices:
- Does the author use tone and style to convey authority on the subject to the audience?
- Does the author use credible and reliable sources to convince the audience of the argument?
- Does the author use facts and sound reasoning to substantiate claims made to the audience?
- Does the author use personal connections and stories to appeal to the audience's emotions?


miscellaneous

Question: Determining how a product can be useful, identifying the target price, finding a place to sell the product, and deciding how to promote it best exemplifies using

Choices:
- market research
- positioning
- marketing mix
- segmenting


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these famous baseball figures was once acquitted at court-martial for insubordination?

Choices:
- Abner Doubleday
- Ty Cobb
- Jackie Robinson
- Billy Martin


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these words is a synonym for 'perambulate'?

Choices:
- kiss
- shout
- stroll
- heal


miscellaneous

Question: In the comic strip 'Peanuts' what is Schroeder known for doing?

Choices:
- Dancing
- playing football
- playing the piano
- Flying an imaginary plane


miscellaneous

Question: How many states were in the Confederate States of America?

Choices:
- 11
- 13
- 16
- 22


miscellaneous

Question: In the children's game what color is 'Rover'?

Choices:
- Green
- black
- red
- blue


miscellaneous

Question: If you work as a 'dolly grip' what business are you in?

Choices:
- sheep farming
- film production
- construction
- moving


miscellaneous

Question: How many stars are on the American flag?

Choices:
- 13
- 48
- 50
- 51


miscellaneous

Question: The traitor is a traitor, so you are a traitor, so I am a patriot.The words of a patriot are the most valuable, so my words are good.Since my words are good, you are undoubtedly a traitor! Which of the following makes the same logical mistake as above?

Choices:
- Literature and art are not worthy of attention. Modernization must relies on science and technology, so science and technology are worthy of our attention. But literature and art are not science and technology.
- Non-university can also become an outstanding talent. Gorky, Edison, Faraday, Franklin, etc. have not attended college, but they have all become outstanding talents.
- The earth is a sphere, which can be proved from the fact that when we stand at a height and watch the sailing boat in the sea, we always see the mast first and then the hull. The reason for this is because the earth is a sphere.
- I saw them coming out of this chemical plant several times before I realized that this young man who was eager to help patients was originally a worker in this chemical plant.


miscellaneous

Question: In what decade did Israel become an independent state?

Choices:
- 1920s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s


miscellaneous

Question: Ada Lovelace is credited with being the first person to have made what?

Choices:
- a computer program
- a souffle
- a brassiere
- a mystery novel


miscellaneous

Question: What part of the world was once known as Cathay?

Choices:
- China
- India
- Iran
- Indonesia


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following statements accurately describes a JPEG compressed digital photograph?

Choices:
- The JPEG format is used only for color photos.
- A JPEG compression alters the proportions of the original image by rearranging data.
- A JPEG compression sharpens the details in an image.
- The JPEG format compresses file size by selectively discarding data.


miscellaneous

Question: The first sound recording to be made and reproduced was a recitation of what nursery rhyme?

Choices:
- Humpty Dumpty'
- Mary Had a Little Lamb'
- Jack Be Nimble'
- Home Sweet Home'


miscellaneous

Question: Which of the following breakfast cereals is shaped like the letter O?

Choices:
- Life Corn
- Chex
- Cheerios
- Raisin Bran


miscellaneous

Question: What sporting event is held annually on Memorial Day weekend?

Choices:
- Iditarod
- Kentucky Derby
- Indianapolis 500
- Super Bowl


miscellaneous

Question: What company makes Oreo cookies?

Choices:
- General Mills
- Nabisco
- Keebler
- Kraft


miscellaneous

Question: Which dwarf planet is closest to the Sun?

Choices:
- Pluto
- Eris
- Ceres
- Makemake


miscellaneous

Question: Which of these is commonly used to treat allergies?

Choices:
- antimatter
- anticoagulants
- antiseptics
- antihistamines


miscellaneous

Question: What is the baseball term for a batter who substitutes for another batter?

Choices:
- Switchhitter
- Shadow hitter
- Clip hitter
- Pinch hitter


miscellaneous

Question: By what collective name do Christians refer to God the Father God the Son and the Holy Ghost?

Choices:
- the Trio
- the Troika
- the Triumvirate
- the Trinity


philosophy

Question: Traditionally art has been defined as _____.

Choices:
- wealth
- utility
- representation
- well being


philosophy

Question: Parfit claims that:

Choices:
- it is possible for an outcome to be worse for a particular person than some alternative.
- it is possible for an outcome to be worse than some alternative.
- both a and b.
- neither a. nor b.


philosophy

Question: Plato's view is that true beauty is _____.

Choices:
- found in everyday objects
- nonexistent
- everywhere in the natural world
- not of this world


philosophy

Question: Concerning the relationship between morality and theology, Bentham claims that:

Choices:
- we must first know whether something is right before we can know whether it conforms to Godâs will.
- we must first know whether something conforms to Godâs will before we can know that it is right.
- God exists, but does not concern himself with matters of morality.
- God does not exist.


philosophy

Question: Moore defines the naturalistic fallacy as the view that:

Choices:
- everything that is natural is good.
- everything that is good is natural.
- good is identical to a natural property.
- all of the above.


philosophy

Question: In his discussion of the Divided Line, Plato says that, in contrast to mere belief or opinion, knowledge is a belief for which we give reasons or justifications by appealing:

Choices:
- to what our senses reveal to us about how things appear to us, not how they  really are.
- beyond the Forms to images of goodness, beauty, and truth obtained from particular objects.
- to what we sincerely believe is true about the Forms based on our experiences in the world.
- beyond sense experience to unchanging ideas (Forms) that are perceived as rationally ordered.


philosophy

Question: How does Stevenson respond to the objection that his theory does not account for the kind of goodness that is objective and is known a priori?

Choices:
- He claims to have proven that such a property does not exist.
- He claims to have offered an account of just such a property.
- He claims he does not understand such a property.
- None of the above.


philosophy

Question: In Aquinasâs view, manâs ultimate happiness consists in:

Choices:
- pleasure
- acts of the moral virtues.
- loving God.
- contemplating God.


philosophy

Question: The biblical account of the soul is at odds with _____.

Choices:
- a unitary concept of the soul
- the identity theory
- soul-body dualism
- the idea of a monistic soul


philosophy

Question: The control condition claims:

Choices:
- it is morally wrong to ever lose control of oneself.
- it is morally wrong to try to control the lives of (adult) others.
- one cannot be morally assessed for what is due to factors outside oneâs control.
- one cannot be morally blamed for taking control of oneâs own life.


philosophy

Question: For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of _____.

Choices:
- knowledge
- wealth
- community
- courage


philosophy

Question: Berkeley believes that sensible things cannot exist except in _____.

Choices:
- a mind
- absolute existence
- material substance
- a material universe


philosophy

Question: The theory that says mental states are nothing but brain states is known as _____.

Choices:
- brain theory
- epiphenominalism
- identity theory
- logical behaviorism


philosophy

Question: According to Socrates, just as there is a difference between what an ironic statement says and its true meaning, so also appearances differ from reality.  Even though societies or individuals appear to differ about what is required for the good life, that in no way contradicts the fact that:

Choices:
- what is right or wrong, true or false varies from one culture to another.
- appearances are the only real way we have for knowing reality.
- the distinction of appearance and reality is the basis for the dialectical discovery of truth.
- there are objective principles for thought and action that are required for the good life.


philosophy

Question: The view that art is defined by its form is known as _____.

Choices:
- informalism
- expressionism
- formalism
- structuralism


philosophy

Question: Moore defines good as:

Choices:
- pleasure.
- that which we desire.
- that which we desire to desire.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: According to Hobbes, in the condition of man in which there is a state of war of everyone against everyone, every man has a right to _____.

Choices:
- some things
- lawful treatment
- due process
- everything


philosophy

Question: For Socrates, the belief that "virtue is knowledge" is related to his claim that "the unexamined life is not worth living," because he believes that:

Choices:
- the unexamined life is one in which we live day to day without asking questions about who we are and why we are here in the first place.
- the Delphic oracle identified Socrates as the wisest person on earth because he claimed to know nothing.
- by questioning traditional beliefs, we learn to recognize how some answers seem to be more satisfactory than others.
- the only way to be a good or worthwhile person is to know how human beings should behave based on universal norms or values.


philosophy

Question: Aquinas claim that all human operations appear to serve:

Choices:
- those in power.
- those of high status.
- those who contemplate the truth.
- those who act wickedly.


philosophy

Question: Hume defines virtue as:

Choices:
- a tendency to maximize happiness.
- a tendency to pursue justice.
- whatever mental action or quality gives a spectator a sentiment of approbation.
- whatever mental action or quality brings about the best consequences for all.


philosophy

Question: According to Singer, compliance with his principle requires:

Choices:
- modest changes to our personal habits, but not to our society as a whole.
- modest changes to our personal habits, as well as to society.
- drastic changes to our personal habits, but not to our society.
- drastic changes to both our personal habits and to our society.


philosophy

Question: In spite of the fact that Socrates claims to be ignorant of the essence or nature of certain things like justice, he is wise insofar as he recognizes that without such knowledge actions are rationally unjustified.  That is, his wisdom consists in his recognition not only that he is ignorant of such essences but also that:

Choices:
- justice, like knowledge, requires that we admit that we know nothing and never will.
- he knows what he is supposed to be looking for--knowledge of the essences of things.
- knowledge of the essences of things is impossible, because that would require that we know what we are looking for before we know what it is we are looking for.
- his method of asking questions about essences is itself unjustified because he does not know why he engages in such a practice.


philosophy

Question: Anscombe claims that on Sidgwickâs view, the badness of an action must be estimated in light of:

Choices:
- its actual consequences.
- its expected consequences.
- whether it violates any duties.
- whether it violates divine law.


philosophy

Question: Aristotle states that if we ask what the highest good of human action is:

Choices:
- there is no agreement about the answer.
- most people agree that it is pleasure.
- nearly everyone agrees that it is happiness.
- there is no objective answer to this question.


philosophy

Question: Epicurus claims that all other virtues spring from:

Choices:
- prudence.
- temperance.
- justice.
- courage.


philosophy

Question: The view that we consist of two distinct substances (body and mind) and that these two interact is known as _____.

Choices:
- functionalism
- identity theory
- substance dualism
- materialism


philosophy

Question: Feinberg claims that when people are hungry, they typically desire:

Choices:
- to eat food.
- pleasant gustatory sensations.
- both a and b.
- neither a nor b.


philosophy

Question: The systematic use of critical reasoning to try to find answers to fundamental questions about reality, morality, and knowledge is called _____.

Choices:
- the argumentative method
- the philosophical method
- propositional logic
- syllogistic reasoning


philosophy

Question: Paley maintains that the key difference between the âcontrivanceâ of a watch and that of nature is that the latter is _____.

Choices:
- simpler
- more natural
- older
- greater and grander


philosophy

Question: Logical behaviorism is at odds with our commonsense intuition that mental states _____.

Choices:
- cause behavior
- never cause behavior
- exist
- do not exist


philosophy

Question: Philosophy is concerned primarily with identifying beliefs about human existence and evaluating arguments that support those beliefs.  These activities can be summarized in two questions that drive philosophical investigations:

Choices:
- why should we bother? and what are the consequences of our believing one thing over another?
- what do you mean? and how do you know?
- who really believes X? and how can we explain differences in people's beliefs?
- how do philosophers argue? and are their differences important?


philosophy

Question: Hume claims that a person who is unaffected by images of human happiness or misery will also be indifferent to:

Choices:
- art and beauty.
- virtue and vice.
- his own well-being.
- all of the above.


philosophy

Question: According to Kant, the supreme principle of morality is:

Choices:
- analytic and a priori.
- analytic and a posteriori.
- synthetic and a priori.
- synthetic and a posteriori.


philosophy

Question: In Hobbesâs view, to say something is good is to say that:

Choices:
- it is conducive to human happiness.
- you desire it.
- most people desire it.
- most people ought to desire it.


philosophy

Question: The idea that mental states are dispositions to behave in particular ways in certain circumstances is known as _____.

Choices:
- logical nominalism
- logical behaviorism
- methodological behaviorism
- eliminative materialism


philosophy

Question: According to Craig, the kalam cosmological argument establishes that _____.

Choices:
- the God of Christianity exists
- the universe has a cause
- the Big Bang model is false
- the universe is uncaused


philosophy

Question: Descartes declares that he is _____.

Choices:
- a body
- a dream
- a thing that thinks
- a thing that cannot exist


philosophy

Question: According to Brandt, John Stuart Millâs view most closely resembles:

Choices:
- act-utilitarianism.
- a rule-utilitarianism based on the actual rules of society.
- a rule-utilitarianism based on ideal moral rules.
- Kantâs ethics.


philosophy

Question: Hare asserts that ethics and science are similar in that:

Choices:
- both seek to provide us with true beliefs about the world.
- both are essential components of a worthwhile life.
- both involve testing general principles by examining their logical consequences.
- all of the above.


philosophy

Question: In Butlerâs view, acting virtuously consists of acting in accordance with:

Choices:
- our strongest inward principle.
- our highest inward principle.
- all of our inward principles.
- the commands of God.


philosophy

Question: According to Kant, morality requires us to:

Choices:
- perform the action that leads to the greatest total happiness.
- act only on maxims that we can will to become universal laws.
- behave only in such a way as a perfectly virtuous person would behave.
- place the interests of others above the interests of ourselves.


philosophy

Question: According to Locke, a man in the state of nature will relinquish his absolute freedom to the state because _____.

Choices:
- he will also enjoy absolute freedom when subject to the state
- in the state of nature the enjoyment of his freedom is very uncertain and vulnerable
- he wants to have absolute power over others
- he rejects the laws of the state of nature


philosophy

Question: According to Mill, to determine whether one pleasure is more valuable than another, we must _____.

Choices:
- determine which one is objectively most pleasurable
- determine which pleasure most experienced people prefer
- consult philosophers of the past
- consult science


philosophy

Question: According to Kant, nothing can be called âgoodâ without qualification except _____.

Choices:
- right action
- good consequences
- happiness
- a good will


philosophy

Question: Of the ways of escaping moral arguments that he discusses, Hare claims:

Choices:
- none of them are successful.
- some, but not all of them are successful.
- all are entirely successful.
- all might be successful, but at a price.


philosophy

Question: According to Parfit, both Taurek and Lewis assume that for there to be a âsum of pain,â it must be:

Choices:
- all felt at a single time.
- all felt by a single person.
- all be caused by a single source.
- all of the above.


philosophy

Question: Hobbes defines injustice as:

Choices:
- taking more than oneâs share of a good.
- failure to perform oneâs covenant.
- treating another person as a mere means.
- violating a law of nature.


philosophy

Question: Mill claims that the distinction between justice and other moral obligations corresponds perfectly to the distinction between:

Choices:
- perfect and imperfect obligations.
- positive and negative duties.
- strong and weak duties.
- absolute and relative obligations.


philosophy

Question: According to Kant, the moral worth of an action depends on:

Choices:
- the moral character of the agent who performs it.
- the consequences of the action.
- the maxim that is acted on.
- all of the above.


philosophy

Question: According to Socrates, an unexamined life is not worth living; and it certainly could not be a virtuous life.  Why not?

Choices:
- Because if someone did not know how to act virtuously, he or she would still be considered virtuous by others who also did not know the principles for good living.
- Because since Socrates was a philosopher, he of course thought that people who examined their lives philosophically were more virtuous than those who did not.
- Because without knowing the rationale for why one should act in a particular way, one does not know whether actions are justified and ought to be repeated.
- Because a virtuous life would be one in which someone does what the rest of the society says is right, and that means examining views other than one's own.


philosophy

Question: Hare claims that the two essential features of the logic of moral judgments are:

Choices:
- consequentialism and hedonism.
- universalizability and prescriptivity.
- contractualism and rule-following.
- consistency and coherence.


philosophy

Question: Anscombe claims that the notion of moral obligation is derived from the concept of:

Choices:
- preference.
- maximizing utility.
- positive law.
- divine law.


philosophy

Question: Which of the following concepts can be defined, according to Moore?

Choices:
- good
- yellow
- horse
- all of the above


philosophy

Question: Kant claims that the natural purpose of reason is to:

Choices:
- produce happiness.
- produce pleasure.
- produce knowledge.
- produce a good will.


philosophy

Question: Hume thinks that each mind perceives _____.

Choices:
- the same beauty
- a different beauty
- a warped sense of beauty
- objective beauty


philosophy

Question: Anscombe criticizes as absurd Kantâs idea of:

Choices:
- the thing in itself.
- the categorical imperative.
- the phenomenal self.
- legislating for oneself.


philosophy

Question: Rawls conceives of the original contract as one to:

Choices:
- enter a particular society.
- set up a particular form of government.
- establish the principles of justice for the basic structure of society.
- establish the content of morality.


philosophy

Question: According to Hobbes, the right of nature is:

Choices:
- an entitlement to the fruits of oneâs labors.
- a claim not to be harmed by others.
- the right of the king to rule his subjects.
- the liberty to use oneâs powers to preserve oneâs life.


philosophy

Question: To say that "philosophy" (like "love" or "art") is not a closed concept means that we cannot state the necessary and sufficient conditions by which it is defined.  Rather, philosophic issues are identifiable as having "family resemblances" with one another.  In other words:

Choices:
- there is no one distinguishing feature that identifies an issue as philosophic, only an overlapping of issues roughly associated with one another.
- the way we come to think about philosophy, love, or art really depends on how we were raised by our families to identify things as resembling one another.
- the necessary and sufficient condition for something to be considered philosophic is that it answers either of these questions: What does it mean? and How do you know?
- philosophy is not a closed discipline insofar as it is willing to accept any answer suggested by the "human family" as being true.


philosophy

Question: Augustine claims that to be happy, one must know:

Choices:
- the causes of natural occurrences.
- the causes of good and evil.
- both a and b.
- neither a nor b.


philosophy

Question: "There is no rationale for myth because it is through myth that reason itself is defined."  This means that:

Choices:
- mythos is ultimately based on logos, just as myth is ultimately based on reasoning or thinking.
- myth does not "explain" how things are related as much as it simply reveals them as related.
- metaphysicians are justified in reasoning as they do because there is only one true answer about being.
- myth and reason are the same: "myth" defines "reason," and "reason" defines "myth."


philosophy

Question: According to Rawls, the two parts of his theory:

Choices:
- are interdependent: You cannot accept one part without accepting the other.
- are independent: You can accept either part without accepting the other.
- are provable from self-evident premises.
- cannot be justified via rational means.


philosophy

Question: For Plato, ordinary sensible objects exist and are knowable as examples or instances of Ideas or "Forms" that do not exist in our ordinary sensible world.  Forms do not exist in the sensible world because:

Choices:
- in the sensible world only mathematical objects (e.g., triangles) can be known using hypotheses which are recollected when we are asked the right kinds of questions.
- unlike everything in the sensible world, Forms are not individual things but rather the universal essences or natures by which individual things are what they are and are known.
- nothing in the sensible, experienced world could exist or be identified as one particular thing or another unless there were a "Sensible World" Form (like the Form of beauty or justice).
- the sensible world consists of changing Forms that exist and are known in terms of other changing Forms, which in turn exist and are known in terms of yet others in an endless regress.


philosophy

Question: A moral theory explains _____.

Choices:
- why an action is right or wrong
- why one moral event caused another
- where a moral agent got her values
- why people do what they do


philosophy

Question: Most of those who take the externalist approach to meaning view the matter from a _____ standpoint.

Choices:
- secular
- nonreligious
- religious
- pragmatic


philosophy

Question: According to Hume, justice:

Choices:
- has no value.
- has value in part because it is useful to society.
- has value solely because it is useful to society.
- has value solely because it is useful to the agent.


philosophy

Question: Augustine claims that Academic skepticism:

Choices:
- is true, and can be proven.
- is true, but cannot be proven
- is false but cannot be refuted.
- is false and can be refuted.


philosophy

Question: According to Gauthier, the basis of morality is:

Choices:
- maximizing the utility of all sentient beings.
- Godâs commands.
- the agreement of rational persons choosing the terms of their interaction.
- the purposive order of nature.


philosophy

Question: Aquinas claims that the ultimate perfection of operation is:

Choices:
- delight.
- peace.
- pleasure.
- Godliness.


philosophy

Question: Critics of the divine command theory have argued that the theory implies that God's commands are _____.

Choices:
- well supported
- unclear
- unknowable
- arbitrary


philosophy

Question: Nussbaum claims that recent anthropological work has shown that fear is:

Choices:
- partially learned and culturally variant.
- universally experienced in roughly the same way.
- not present in certain societies.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: Gauthier claims that moral agreements that are equally favorable to all parties are desirable because they:

Choices:
- satisfy our desire for fairness.
- satisfy the conceptual constraint against exploitation.
- maximize the productivity of society.
- invite the stable compliance of everyone.


philosophy

Question: In Butlerâs view, injustice is caused by:

Choices:
- desires for external goods.
- love of injustice.
- ill-will toward others.
- self-hatred.


philosophy

Question: In the Republic, Thrasymachus claims that justice is:

Choices:
- telling the truth and paying oneâs debts.
- doing what pleases the gods.
- the advantage of the stronger.
- a harmony of the soul.


philosophy

Question: Descartes had been disillusioned by his discovery that many of the alleged truths learned in his youth were _____.

Choices:
- contrary to his religion
- TRUE
- FALSE
- beyond question


philosophy

Question: Anscombe criticizes Butler on the grounds that:

Choices:
- our consciences are fallible.
- the notion of âlegislating for oneselfâ is absurd.
- we really can derive an âoughtâ from an âis.â
- the concept of âpleasureâ is unclear.


philosophy

Question: The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and _____.

Choices:
- bioethics
- logic
- aesthetics
- categorical logic


philosophy

Question: In Augustineâs view, lying is:

Choices:
- often permissible if done for the right reasons.
- not evil in itself, although it can have bad consequences.
- permissible only in very rare circumstances.
- never permissible.


philosophy

Question: In Hobbesâs view, a law of nature is:

Choices:
- a command of God.
- a principle of duty, known by intuition.
- a principle, known by reason, which forbids one from doing something destructive of oneâs life.
- None of the above.


philosophy

Question: According to Socrates, justice is when a soul is ruled by its:

Choices:
- respect for the law.
- rational part.
- desire for honor.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: Wolf claims that morality:

Choices:
- is merely a cultural artifact.
- is not really relevant to our lives.
- provides a comprehensive guide to conduct.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: Aristotle ends the Ethics with a segue to a discussion of:

Choices:
- aesthetics.
- theology.
- politics.
- natural science.


philosophy

Question: According to Sartre, the first principle of existentialism is that _____.

Choices:
- God is dead
- man is all-powerful
- man is nothing else but what he makes of himself
- man is nothing


philosophy

Question: Nagel claims that prior to reflection, it is plausible that people cannot be morally assessed for:

Choices:
- actions that affect only themselves.
- their character.
- what is due to factors beyond their control.
- actions that do not violate anyoneâs rights.


philosophy

Question: Stevenson claims that the primary use of ethical judgments is to:

Choices:
- state facts.
- influence the interests of others.
- describe oneâs own approval of things.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: During his trial, Socrates argues that he would never intentionally corrupt others because:

Choices:
- it is his duty not to do so.
- this would make them vicious, and they would then harm him.
- he would be likely to get caught if he did so.
- he would not know how.


philosophy

Question: According to Ross, we should construct a moral theory by:

Choices:
- constructing logical proofs for moral principles.
- consulting social conventions.
- reflecting on what we really think.
- consulting scripture.


philosophy

Question: Disagreements about the aesthetic value or social relevance of a piece of art are _____.

Choices:
- uncommon
- common
- vacuous
- never serious


philosophy

Question: Nussbaum claims that our modern debates about homosexuality:

Choices:
- are continuations of the very same debate about sexual activity that went on in the Greek world.
- are interminable because there is no objective answer as to whether homosexuality is immoral.
- are carried out in a manner that is not virtuous.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: Before his conversion, what was Tolstoy surrounded by?

Choices:
- what is considered complete happiness
- things that no one would want
- what is considered heavenly bliss
- what is considered deep insight


philosophy

Question: According to Parfit, the obligation to give priority to the welfare of oneâs children is:

Choices:
- agent-relative.
- agent-neutral.
- absolute.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: Kant claims that the moral law is given to each person by:

Choices:
- society.
- oneâs own will.
- God.
- Nature.


philosophy

Question: Butler claims that in the strictest and most proper sense, tofollow nature is to:

Choices:
- act as one pleases.
- act on any of oneâs passions.
- act on oneâs strongest passion.
- act on oneâs conscience.


philosophy

Question: Anscombe claims that it is not profitable to do moral philosophy until we have an adequate philosophy of:

Choices:
- religion.
- physics.
- psychology.
- art.


philosophy

Question: Singer claims that his conclusions are similar to those of:

Choices:
- Plato.
- Aristotle.
- Thomas Aquinas.
- Immanuel Kant.


philosophy

Question: Aesthetics addresses questions that interest _____.

Choices:
- only philosophers
- only critics
- no one
- philosophers and nonphilosophers


philosophy

Question: Philo says the analogy that Cleanthes uses to make his case is _____.

Choices:
- too complicated
- weak
- strong
- not based on a legitimate method of reasoning


philosophy

Question: Rawls claims that a conception of justice should be justified by:

Choices:
- deducing it from self-evident premises.
- direct acquaintance via moral intuition.
- the mutual support of many considerations, which it fits into one coherent view.
- none of the above.


philosophy

Question: Wolf claims that interpreting Kantâs ethics so that it consists of a finite set of constraints:

Choices:
- yields an unattractive picture of moral sainthood.
- implausibly places an âupper boundâ on moral worthiness.
- yields a theory that is too demanding.
- transforms the theory into a form of contractarianism.


philosophy

Question: In Book II of the Republic, Glaucon claims that justice originates from:

Choices:
- a social agreement.
- nature.
- the gods.
- the powerful.


professional_accounting

Question: Sussman Co. prepared cash-basis financial statements for the month ended January 31. A summary of Sussman's January activities follows: Credit sales of $5600. Collections of $1900 relating to January credit sales. Accrued salaries of $1200. By what amount will Sussman's cash-basis income for the month ended January 31 increase as a result of restating these activities to the accrual basis of accounting?

Choices:
- $2,500
- $3,700
- $4,400
- 4900


professional_accounting

Question: Ultra Co. uses a periodic inventory system. The following are inventory transactions for the month of January: 1/1 Beginning inventory 20000 units at $13 1/20 Purchase 30000 units at $15 1/23 Purchase 40000 units at $17 1/31 Sales at $20 per unit 50000 units Ultra uses the LIFO method to determine the value of its inventory. What amount should Ultra report as cost of goods sold on its income statement for the month of January?

Choices:
- $710,000
- $750,000
- $830,000
- 1000000


professional_accounting

Question: The purpose of establishing quality control policies and procedures for deciding whether to accept or continue a client relationship is to

Choices:
- Provide reasonable assurance that personnel are adequately trained to fulfill their responsibilities.
- Minimize the likelihood of associating with clients whose management lacks integrity.
- Document the matters that are required to be communicated to the audit committee.
- Enhance the auditor's understanding of the client's business and its industry.


professional_accounting

Question: Large City does not use the modified approach to account for roads. At the beginning of the current year the city spent $800000 on new roads. The roads have a 20-year useful life. What amount should Large City report as an expense related to the new roads in the statement of activities for the current year?

Choices:
- $0
- $20,000
- $40,000
- 800000


professional_accounting

Question: A company last paid a dividend of $3. If the expected return on its equity is estimated at 12% and its shares are currently quoted on London Stock Exchange at $75, what should the dividend growth rate be to ensure that the price is consistent with the pricing of a growing perpetuity?

Choices:
- 0%
- 8%
- 16%
- -4%


professional_accounting

Question: Mill CPA was engaged by a group of royalty recipients to apply agreed-upon procedures to financial data supplied by Modern Co. regarding Modern's written assertion about its compliance with contractual requirements to pay royalties. Mill's report on these agreed-upon procedures should contain a(an)

Choices:
- Disclaimer of opinion about the fair presentation of Modern's financial statements.
- List of the procedures performed (or reference thereto) and Mill's findings.
- Opinion about the effectiveness of Modern's internal control activities concerning royalty payments.
- Acknowledgment that the sufficiency of the procedures is solely Mill's responsibility.


professional_accounting

Question: Which of the following factors most likely would cause an accountant not to accept an engagement to compile the financial statements of a nonissuer?

Choices:
- A lack of segregation of duties in the entity's accounting and payroll departments.
- Indications that reports of asset misappropriation are not investigated by management.
- The entity's intention to omit from the financial statements substantially all of the disclosures required by GAAP.
- Management's acknowledgement that the financial statements will be included in a written personal financial plan.


professional_accounting

Question: Which of the following factors most likely would cause a CPA not to accept a new audit engagement?

Choices:
- Management reputation for failing to provide schedules to prior auditors on a timely basis.
- The CPA's inability to review the predecessor auditor's working papers.
- Management's unwillingness to make all financial records available to the CPA.
- The CPA's lack of understanding of the entity's operations and industry.


professional_accounting

Question: A company is considering a move to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering instead of a traditional in-house application. Which of the following concerns is unique to SaaS?

Choices:
- Disaster recovery capabilities and documented recovery procedures.
- User credential setup and control over the actions that employees can perform.
- Allocation of software expenses and overhead charged to departments.
- Ownership of processed data and costs of data migrations.


professional_accounting

Question: During an engagement to review the financial statements of a nonissuer, an accountant becomes aware of several leases that should be capitalized, but are not capitalized. The accountant considers these leases to be material to the financial statements. The accountant decides to modify the standard review report because management will not capitalize the leases. Under these circumstances, the accountant should

Choices:
- Issue an adverse opinion because of the departure from GAAP.
- Express no assurance of any kind on the entity's financial statements.
- Emphasize that the financial statements are for limited use only.
- Disclose the departure from GAAP in a separate paragraph of the accountant's report.


professional_accounting

Question: Suppose that the market price of Company X is $45 per share and that of Company Y is $30. If X offers three-fourths a share of common stock for each share of Y, the ratio of exchange of market prices would be:

Choices:
- 0.667
- 1
- 1.125
- 1.5


professional_accounting

Question: An auditor is evaluating a clientâs internal controls. Which of the following situations would be the most difficult internal control issue for an auditor to detect?

Choices:
- The accounting staff neglects the control, due to increased transactions to be processed.
- The technology department writes a program that does not properly implement the control, due to a lack of understanding.
- Two employees, who work in different departments, are circumventing an internal control.
- Someone erroneously disables edit checks in a software program designed to identify control exceptions.


professional_accounting

Question: The FASB makes changes to the Accounting Standards Codification by issuing

Choices:
- Accounting Standards Updates.
- Emerging Issues Task Force Releases.
- Statements of Financial Accounting Standards.
- Staff Technical Bulletins.


professional_accounting

Question: What is the process by which products and services of a business entity are measured and evaluated relative to the best possible levels of performance?

Choices:
- Measuring the performance gap
- Standard measurement
- Benchmarking
- Variance management


professional_accounting

Question: Accrual accounting involves accruals and deferrals. Which of the following best describes accruals and deferrals?

Choices:
- Accruals are concerned with expected future cash receipts and payments while deferrals are concerned with past cash receipts and payments.
- Accruals are concerned with past cash receipts and payments while deferrals are concerned with expected future cash receipts and payments.
- Both accruals and deferrals are concerned with expected future cash receipts and payments.
- Both accruals and deferrals are concerned with past cash receipts and payments.


professional_accounting

Question: Which of the following characteristics most likely would heighten an auditor's concern about the risk of material misstatements arising from fraudulent financial reporting?

Choices:
- The entity's industry is experiencing declining customer demand.
- Employees who handle cash receipts are not bonded.
- Bank reconciliations usually include in-transit deposits.
- Equipment is often sold at a loss before being fully depreciated.


professional_accounting

Question: Mast Co. converted from the FIFO method for inventory valuation to the LIFO method for financial statement and tax purposes. During a period of inflation would Mast's ending inventory and income tax payable using LIFO be higher or lower than FIFO? Ending inventory Income tax payable

Choices:
- Lower Lower
- Higher Higher
- Lower Higher
- Higher Lower


professional_accounting

Question: Zokro a nongovernmental not-for-profit organization uses the indirect method to prepare its statement of cash flows. In determining its net cash provided (used) by operating activities Sokro must add back which of the following to the change in net assets?

Choices:
- Purchase of equipment.
- Payment on long-term debt.
- Depreciation.
- Decrease in accounts payable.


professional_accounting

Question: The simple linear regression between stock and market returns

Choices:
- fits the errors to obtain a more precise estimate of the stockâs beta.
- minimises the stockâs alpha, i.e. its idiosyncratic component.
- estimates the alpha of stock returns and their dependence on the market returns.
- models market returns as a function of the stock returns and its beta.


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Question: Bale Co. incurred $100,000 of acquisition costs related to the purchase of the net assets of Dixon Co. The $100,000 should be

Choices:
- Allocated on a pro rata basis to the nonmonetary assets acquired.
- Capitalized as part of goodwill and tested annually for impairment
- Capitalized as an other asset and amortized over five years.
- Expensed as incurred in the current period


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Question: Lake Trust a simple trust reported the following items of income and expense during the year: Dividend income $2500 Taxable interest income 2000 Capital gains (allocable to corpus) 5000 Accounting fees (allocable to income) (500) Trustee fees (allocable to income) (750) What is Lake's distributable net income?

Choices:
- $9,500
- $8,250
- $5,000
- 3250


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Question: Match Co. manufactures a product with the following costs per unit based on a maximum plant capacity of 400000 units per year: Direct materials $ 60 Direct labor 10 Variable overhead 40 Fixed overhead 30 Total $140 Match has a ready market for all 400000 units at a selling price of $200 each. Selling costs in this market consist of $10 per unit shipping and a fixed licensing fee of $50000 per year. Reno Co. wishes to buy 5000 of these units on a special order. There would be no shipping costs on this special order. What is the lowest price per unit at which Match should be willing to sell the 5000 units to Reno?

Choices:
- $110
- $140
- $190
- 200


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Question: Which of the following types of information would be included in total net assets in the statement of financial position for a nongovernmental not-for-profit organization?

Choices:
- Total current net assets and total other assets.
- Total current assets and restricted assets.
- Unrestricted net assets, temporarily restricted net assets, and permanently restricted net assets.
- Unrestricted net assets, restricted net assets, and total current assets.


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Question: Greene is the sole shareholder of Seagull, a calendar-year S corporation. Greene's basis at the beginning of the year is $15,000. Seagull reported an ordinary loss of $5,000 and $2,000 of municipal bond interest for the year. Seagull distributed cash of $6,000 to Greene on November 1. What is Greene's basis in Seagull at the end of the year?

Choices:
- $4,000
- $6,000
- $14,000
- $15,000


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Question: If a CPA recklessly departs from the standards of due care when conducting an audit the CPA will be liable to third parties who are unknown to the CPA under the law of

Choices:
- Strict liability.
- Breach of contract.
- Negligence.
- Gross negligence.


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Question: A shoe retailer allows customers to return shoes within 90 days of purchase. The company estimates that 5% of sales will be returned within the 90-day period. During the month, the company has sales of $200,000 and returns of sales made in prior months of $5,000. What amount should the company record as net sales revenue for new sales made during the month?

Choices:
- $185,000
- $190,000
- $195,000
- $200,000


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Question: Gamma Co. a manufacturer of medical products had a 10% return on assets and an asset turnover of 4:1. What was Gamma's profit margin on sales?

Choices:
- 40.00%
- 10.00%
- 4.00%
- 0.025


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Question: Guldeâs tax basis in Chyme Partnership was $26,000 at the time Gulde received a liquidating distribution of $12,000 cash and land with an adjusted basis to Chyme of $10,000 and a fair market value of $30,000. Chyme did not have unrealized receivables, appreciated inventory, or properties that had been contributed by its partners. What was the amount of Guldeâs basis in the land?

Choices:
- $0
- $10,000
- $14,000
- $30,000


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Question: Which of the following transactions correctly illustrates the doctrine of substantial performance?

Choices:
- Blair ordered a dozen blue chairs from Kyle but Kyle delivered a dozen red chairs.
- Leslie painted an entire room but failed to put the electrical outlet covers back on.
- A contract required hair styling to be done to Toby's satisfaction but Toby was in good faith dissatisfied with the completed result.
- A dentist competently completed the extraction of Lee's tooth but mistakenly pulled the wrong one.


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Question: Which of the following cannot be amortized for tax purposes?

Choices:
- Incorporation costs.
- Temporary directorsâ fees.
- Stock issuance costs.
- Organizational meeting costs.


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Question: The essence of responsibility accounting is

Choices:
- Developing performance reports emphasizing costs and revenues that managers can control.
- Allocating service department costs to production departments so that production department managers know all costs for which they are responsible.
- Determining who is to blame for unfavorable variances.
- Investigating all variances regardless of their status as favorable or unfavorable.


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Question: A companyâs new time clock process requires hourly employees to select an identification number and then choose the clock-in or clock-out button. A video camera captures an image of the employee using the system. Which of the following exposures can the new system be expected to change the least?

Choices:
- Fraudulent reporting of employeesâ own hours.
- Errors in employeesâ overtime computation
- Inaccurate accounting of employeesâ hours.
- Recording of other employeesâ hours.


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Question: West is single has no dependents and does not itemize. West provides the following information regarding his current-yearâÃÃ´s return: Long-term capital gain $15000 Percentage depletion in excess of property's adjusted basis 9000 Dividends from publicly-held companies 10000 What is the amount of West's AMT tax preference items?

Choices:
- $9,000
- $19,000
- $24,000
- 34000


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Question: Strut Co. has a payable to its parent Plane Co. In which of the following balance sheets should this payable be reported separately? Strut's Plane's consolidated balance sheet balance sheet

Choices:
- Yes Yes
- Yes No
- No Yes
- No No


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Question: While performing an audit of the financial statements of a company for the year ended December 31, year 1, the auditor notes that the companyâs sales increased substantially in December, year 1, with a corresponding decrease in January, year 2. In assessing the risk of fraudulent financial reporting or misappropriation of assets, what should be the auditorâs initial indication about the potential for fraud in sales revenue?

Choices:
- There is a broad indication of misappropriation of assets.
- There is an indication of theft of the entityâs assets.
- There is an indication of embezzling receipts.
- There is a broad indication of financial reporting fraud.


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Question: A company exchanged land with an appraised value of $50,000 and an original cost of $20,000 for machinery with a fair value of $55,000. Assuming that the transaction has commercial substance, what is the gain on the exchange?

Choices:
- $0
- $5,000
- $30,000
- $35,000


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Question: An investment project cost $1 million to undertake and will deliver $2 million in five yearsâ time. The discount rate is 10%. What is the projectâs NPV?

Choices:
- $1,000,000
- $300,000
- $2,000,000
- $242,000


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Question: Lind Co.'s salaries expense of $10,000 is paid every other Friday for the 10 workdays then ending. Lind's employees do not work on Saturdays and Sundays. The last payroll was paid on June 18. On Wednesday, June 30, the month-end balance in the salaries expense account before accruals was $14,000. What amount should Lind report as salaries expense in its income statement for the month ended June 30?

Choices:
- $24,000
- $22,000
- $20,000
- $18,000


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Question: Which of the following procedures would an accountant least likely perform during an engagement to review the financial statements of a nonissuer?

Choices:
- Make inquiries of management about actions taken at board of directors' meetings.
- Study the relationships of financial statement elements expected to conform to predictable patterns.
- Identify internal control activities that are likely to prevent or detect material misstatements.
- Compare the financial statements with anticipated results in budgets and forecasts.


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Question: If the correlation between Securities A and B is â0.20, and their respective standard deviations are 8% and 18%, what is the standard deviation of a portfolio with one quarter invested in A and three quarters invested in B?

Choices:
- 8.70%
- 13.20%
- 54%
- 6.60%


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Question: A company recently moved to a new building. The old building is being actively marketed for sale, and the company expects to complete the sale in four months. Each of the following statements is correct regarding the old building, except:

Choices:
- It will be reclassified as an asset held for sale.
- It will be classified as a current asset.
- It will no longer be depreciated.
- It will be valued at historical cost.