Show all work for full credit. Once you’re finished testing but before you’ve submitted your exam in Canvas, hold up each page of your handwritten work (including scrap work) in front of your webcam to record an image of your worked-out solutions. An extra ten minutes of testing time has been given to each exam for this purpose. Once this process is done, you will then submit your exam in Canvas and will have five minutes to upload your handwritten work to the Canvas assignment File Upload Midterm I Exam Assignment. DON’T TYPE YOUR ANSWER HERE! Use integration, the Direct Comparison Test, or the Limit Comparison test to determine if the integral converges or diverges. If more than one method applies, use whatever method your prefer. 

What are the main challenges in measuring political knowledge?

What is misinformation, how is it related to information processing motives, and can it be corrected?

What is the “knowledge gap,” and how is it linked to the current high-choice media environment?

COMPREHENSION TRACING For each of the following, write the value of each of the following expressions. You may assume there are no errors.

ONE LINE CODING Each of these problems should be solved in ONE line. (If you cannot do any of them in one line, you can write your solution in multiple lines, but then you will only receive 1 point at most for that problem.) Your solution does not need a return statement and does not need to be saved in a variable.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS For each of the following multiple-choice questions, indicate the best single answer.

L8: Contextos: For each picture, write an appropriate Spanish word from the Lesson 8 that best describes it (10 pts.)    A mi hermano y a su novia les gusta mucho la pizza. Mis papás van a comer pescado, camarones y langosta. A mi prima Mariela le encantan las hamburguesas con papas fritas. Vamos a pedir sándwiches de jamón con queso. Esta noche vamos a cenar carne asada. Ayer desayuné cereal con leche.

Reading Comprehension: Read the brief biography on María Muñoz and complete the Cierto (True)/Falso (False) comprehension statements. (10 pts.)  María Muñoz nació en Barcelona en 1980. Cuando cumplió nueve años, su padre le regaló un cuaderno y María empezó a escribir muchísimo. Fue a la Universidad de Barcelona, donde estudió Lengua y literatura. Cuando se graduó de la universidad, se casó con José Martínez. A los dos años se fueron a vivir a California. Los dos son muy felices y escriben cada día en el jardín de su preciosa casa. María Muñoz was born in 1980. María Muñoz’s dad died when she was 9. María Muñoz married José Martínez when she was in college. María Muñoz moved to California the year she graduated. María Muñoz and her husband get along well.   

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 prevents discrimination to workers over what age?