Python String Quiz [15 String Quiz Questions]

This Python String Quiz provides Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) to help you get familiar with Python Strings. To perform any programming tasks in Python, a good understanding of string manipulation is necessary. This online quiz focuses on testing your skills in Python String manipulation.

You’ll encounter questions covering:

String Creation and Basics: How to define strings, basic properties like length, and immutability.
String Indexing and Slicing: Accessing specific characters or substrings using indices and slicing techniques.
String Methods: Utilizing built-in string methods for common operations like changing case, searching, replacing, splitting, and joining strings.
String Formatting: Different ways to embed variables and expressions within strings.
Escape Sequences: Understanding special characters within strings.

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15 Python Quizzes: each focusing on a specific topic

The quiz contains 25 questions. There is no time limit.
Explanation is provided for each answer.
You will get 1 point for each correct answer. Solve 15 correctly to pass the test

1. Which f-string syntax allows you to print both the variable name and its value for debugging purposes?

f"{varname} = {varname}"

f"{varname:debug}"

f"{varname=}"

f"{varname.debug()}"

2. Which string method would you use to center a string within a specified width, padding with a specified character?

str.center()

str.align_center()

str.pad_center()

str.middle()

3. Which of the following is the modern (Python 3+) and generally preferred way to format strings, offering better readability and performance than % formatting?

% formatting

str.format() method

f-strings

Template Strings

4. Guess the correct output of the following String operation

str1 = 'Welcome'
print(str1*2)

WelcomeWelcome

Error

5. Which string method is used to count the number of non-overlapping occurrences of a substring in the string?

str.find_all()

str.occurrences()

str.count()

str.num_substrings()

6. What is the purpose of a “raw string” (prefixed with r or R) in Python?

To create strings that cannot be modified.

To ignore escape sequences like \n or \t.

To define strings that are case-insensitive.

To represent binary data.

7. Which string method returns True if all characters in the string are alphabetic (letters) and there is at least one character?

str.isalphabet()

str.isalpha()

str.isalphanumeric()

str.isletter()

8. What will be the output of the following Python code?

text = "programming"
print(text.count('g'))
print(text.count('m', 5))

2
1

2
2

1
1

1
2

9. Choose the correct function to get the character from ASCII number

ascii(number)

char(number)

chr(number)

10. What will be the output of the following Python code?

s = "Python"
print('o' in s)
print('x' not in s)

True
False

True
True

False
True

False
False

11. You have a list of strings words = ["hello", "world", "python"]. How would you join them into a single string "hello-world-python"?

"-".join(words)

words.join("-")

words.connect("-")

"-".concatenate(words)

12. Which string method converts all characters in a string to uppercase?

str.upper_case()

str.toUpper()

str.upper()

str.caps()

13. How would you replace all occurrences of “apple” with “orange” in the string s = "I like apple pie, apple juice."?

s.replace("apple", "orange")

s.replace_all("apple", "orange")

s.sub("apple", "orange")

s.change("apple", "orange")

14. What will be the output of the following string operations

str = "My salary is 7000";
print(str.isalnum())

True

False

15. Python does not support a character type; a single character is treated as strings of length one.

False

True

16. Guess the correct output of the following code?

str1 = "PYnative"
print(str1[1:4])
print(str1[4:])

PYna
ative

Ynat
ative

Yna
tive

17. What will be the output of the following Python code?

path = "/usr/local/bin/python"
print(path.split('/'))

['', 'usr', 'local', 'bin', 'python']

['usr', 'local', 'bin', 'python']

['/usr', '/local', '/bin', '/python']

['/', 'usr', 'local', 'bin', 'python']

18. What is the default encoding used for strings in Python 3?

ASCII

Latin-1

UCS-2

UTF-8

19. Which of the following is the most efficient way to concatenate a large number of small strings in a loop?

Using the + operator repeatedly.

Using f-strings in each iteration.

Appending to a list and then using "".join(my_list)

Using the str.concat() method.

20. Select the correct output of the following String operations

str = "my name is James bond";
print (str.capitalize())

My Name Is James Bond

Error

My name is james bond

21. What is the difference between str.strip() and str.lstrip()?

strip() removes all whitespace, lstrip() removes only spaces.

strip() removes leading/trailing whitespace, lstrip() removes only leading whitespace.

strip() removes specified characters, lstrip() removes only leading specified characters.

strip() is for numbers, lstrip() is for strings.

22. What will be the output of the following string comparison

print("John" > "Jhon")
print("Emma" < "Emm")

True
False

False
False

23. What will be the output of the following Python code?

s = "Python"
print(s[2:5])

tho

hon

yth

ython

24. What will be the output of the following Python code?

sentence = "Python Python Python"
sentence = sentence.replace("Python", "PYnative", 1)
print(sentence)

PYnative PYnative PYnative

Python PYnative Python

Python Python Python

PYnative Python Python

25. What will be the output of the following Python code?

strOne = str("pynative")
strTwo = "pynative"
print(strOne == strTwo)
print(strOne is strTwo)

False
False

True
True

True
False

False
True

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