Basic Programming Concepts Quiz

Which line of code correctly stores a player's score of 100 in a variable?

• 100 = playerScore

• playerScore: 100

• playerScore = 100

• playerScore = "100"

What is the main purpose of an if statement?

• To repeat a block of code multiple times.

• To make a decision and run code only if a condition is true.

• To store a list of items.

• To get input from a user.

A player has health = 10. Which if statement correctly checks if the player has run out of health?

• if health = 0:

• if health > 0:

• if health == 0:

• if health is 0:

What will this code print? player_age = 13 if player_age >= 13: print("Welcome, teen!") else: print("You are too young.")

• You are too young.

• Welcome, teen!

• It will print nothing.

• It will cause an error.

Which line of code correctly asks the user for their name and stores it in the user_name variable?

• "what is your name?" = user_name

• user_name = input("What is your name? ")

• input(user_name)

• user_name = "What is your name? "

What is a for loop best used for?

• Running code forever until the program crashes.

• Running code as long as a condition is true.

• Iterating over a sequence (like a list) a known number of times.

• Making a single decision.

What will be printed by the following loop? Python for i in range(3): print("Ahoy!")

• Ahoy!

• Ahoy!

  Ahoy!

• Ahoy!

  Ahoy!

  Ahoy!

• Ahoy!

  Ahoy!

  Ahoy!

  Ahoy!

You want to create a countdown from 5 to 1. Which while loop is set up correctly?

• count = 5

  while count > 5: print(count)

• count = 5

  while count < 0: print(count);

  count = count - 1

• count = 5

  while count > 0: print(count);

  count = count - 1

• count = 0

  while count < 5: print(count);

  count = count + 1

What is an "infinite loop"?

• A loop that runs exactly 1,000,000 times.

• A for loop that has too many items in its list.

• A loop where the condition to stop it is never met.

• A loop that contains an error.

How would you print each item from the inventory list on a new line? inventory = ["sword", "shield", "potion"]

• print(inventory)

• while item in inventory: print(item)

• for item in inventory: print(item)

• for inventory:

  print(item)