Pippa Is Taking an Intelligence Test

question 47

Multiple Choice

Pippa is taking an intelligence test. On the particular part of the test she is working on, the examiner reads her a list of numbers. She has to try to remember them and repeat them back in the order in which they were read. Each list is a little bit longer than the last one. Pippa is working on the ____ subtest.

• A) vocabulary
• B) similarities
• C) digit span
• D) mental rotation

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Definitions:

NullPointerException

An exception thrown in Java when an application attempts to use null in a case where an object is required.

NumberFormatException

An exception thrown in Java to indicate that an attempt has been made to convert a string to one of the numeric types, but the string does not have the appropriate format.

PrintStackTrace

A method in Java that prints the stack trace of the current thread to the standard error stream, useful for debugging exceptions.

GetMessage

GetMessage is typically a method in many programming languages and frameworks used to retrieve a message or description from an exception object.