Quiz Questions
For Chapter 7
THIS PAGE CONTAINS A SAMPLE quiz on material from
Chapter 7 of this on-line
Java textbook. You should be able to answer these questions after
studying that chapter. Sample answers to all the quiz questions can
be found here.
Question 1:
What is the FontMetrics class used for?
Question 2:
An off-screen image can be used to do double buffering. Explain this.
(What are off-screen images? How are they used? Why are they important?
What does this have to do with animation?)
Question 3:
One of the main classes in Swing is the JComponent class.
What is meant by a component? What are some examples?
Question 4:
What is the function of a LayoutManager in Java?
Question 5:
What does it mean to use a null layout manager, and
why would you want to do so?
Question 6:
What is a JCheckBox and how is it used?
Question 7:
What is a thread
Question 8:
Explain how Timers are used to do animation.
Question 9:
Menus can contain sub-menus. What does this mean,
and how are sub-menus handled in Java?
Question 10:
What is the purpose of the JFrame class?
