Deck 7: Lists and Tuples

Question 1

What is the first negative index in a list?

A) 0
B) -1
C) -0
D) Size of the string or list minus one

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What would be the value of the variable list2 after the execution of the following code?
List1 = [1, 2, 3]
List2 = list1
List1 = [4, 5, 6]

A) [1, 2, 3]
B) [4, 5, 6]
C) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
D) invalid code

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What would be the value of the variable list2 after the execution of the following code?
List1 = [1, 2, 3]
List2 = []
For element in list1
List2.append(element)
List1 = [4, 5, 6]

A) [1, 2, 3]
B) [4, 5, 6]
C) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
D) invalid code

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What are the data items in the list called?

A) data
B) elements
C) items
D) values

Question 5

Invalid indexes do not cause slicing expressions to raise an exception.

Question 6

What method can be used to convert a tuple to a list?

A) append
B) tuple
C) insert
D) list

Question 7

What would you use if an element is to be removed from a specific index?

A) del statement
B) remove method
C) index method
D) slice method

Question 8

What method can be used to convert a list to a tuple?

A) append
B) tuple
C) insert
D) list

Question 9

What would be the value of the variable list after the execution of the following code?
List = [1, 2, 3, 4]
List[3] = 10

A) [1, 2, 3, 10]
B) [1, 2, 10, 4]
C) [1, 10, 10, 10]
D) invalid code

Question 10

Arrays, which most other programming languages allow, have much more capabilities than list structures.

Question 11

What method can be used to place an item in the list at a specific index?

A) append
B) index
C) insert
D) Add

Question 12

The remove method removes all occurrences of the item from a list.

Question 13

When working with multiple sets of data, one would typically use a(n) _____.

A) list
B) tuple
C) nested list
D) Sequence

Question 14

Lists are dynamic data structures such that items may be added to them or removed from them.

Question 15

What would be the value of the variable list after the execution of the following code?
List = [1, 2]
List = list * 3

A) [1, 2] * 3
B) [3, 6]
C) [1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2]
D) [[1, 2], [1, 2], [1, 2]]

Question 16

A list cannot be passed as an argument to a function.

Question 17

The primary difference between a tuple and list is that _____.

A) when creating a tuple you don't use commas to separate elements
B) a tuple can only include string elements
C) a tuple cannot include lists as elements
D) once a tuple is created, it cannot be changed

Question 18

Which list will be referenced by the variable number after the execution of the following code?
Number = range(0, 9, 2)

A) [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
B) [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
C) [2, 4, 6, 8]
D) [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]

Question 19

What method or operator can be used to concatenate lists?

A) *
B) +
C) %
D) concat

Question 20

What is the advantage of using tuples over lists?

A) Tuples are not limited in size.
B) Tuples can include any data type as an element.
C) Processing a tuple is faster than processing a list.
D) There is no advantage.

Question 21

The _______________ function returns the item that has the lowest value in the sequence.

Question 22

Indexing starts at 1, so the index of the first element is 1, the index of the second element is 2, and so forth.

Question 23

Tuples are _______________ sequences, which means that once a tuple is created, it cannot be changed.

Question 24

The first step in calculating the average of the values in a list is to get the total of the values.

Question 25

The built-in function _______________ returns the length of a sequence.

Question 26

The sort method rearranges the elements of a list so they appear in ascending or descending order.

Question 27

The index - 1 identifies the last element in a list.

Question 28

The _______________ exception is raised when a search item is not in the list being searched.

Question 29

Each element in a tuple has a(n) _______________ that specifies its position in the tuple.

Question 30

A(n) _______________ is a span of items that are taken from a sequence.

Question 31

A(n) _______________ is an object that holds multiple items of data.

Question 32

In slicing, if the end index specifies a position beyond the end of the list, Python will use the length of the list instead.

Question 33

The _______________ method reverses the order of the items in the list.

Question 34

Lists are _______________, which means their elements can be changed.

Question 35

The _______________ method is commonly used to add items to a list.