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+Objective Questions
+-------------------
+
+.. A mininum of 8 questions here. 
+
+1. What function is used to open a file?
+
+   Answer: ``open``
+
+#. The ``open`` function returns a 
+
+   a. string
+   #. list
+   #. file object
+   #. function
+
+   Answer: file object
+
+#. ``open`` function opens a file by default in write mode. T or F?
+   
+   Answer: False
+
+#. The ``read`` method reads a file and returns the contents
+
+   a. string
+   #. list
+   #. file object
+   #. None of the above
+
+   Answer: string
+
+#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like 
+   ::
+     
+     Hello, World!
+
+   What is the value of content, at the end of this code block::
+
+     f = open('hello.txt')
+     pre_content = f.read()
+     content = f.read()
+     f.close()
+
+   Answer: It is a null string. 
+
+#. The following code block prints each line of ``hello.txt``::
+
+     f = open('hello.txt')
+     for line in f.read():
+         print line
+
+   True or False?
+
+   Answer: False
+
+#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like 
+   ::
+     
+     Hello, World!
+
+   What is the output of ::
+
+     f = open('hello.txt')
+
+     for line in f:
+         print line
+
+     for line in f:
+         print line
+
+     f.close()
+
+   Answer: Hello, World! is printed once.
+
+           .. The actual answer should talk about blank lines, but I'm
+           .. not sure if we should get into such detail. 
+
+           .. Should this be made a multiple-choice?
+
+	   .. #[[Anoop: I think it will better if we make this multiple
+	      choice]]
+   
+#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like 
+   ::
+     
+     Hello, World!
+
+   What is the output of ::
+
+     f = open('hello.txt')
+
+     for line in f:
+         print line
+
+     f.close()
+
+     for line in f:
+         print line
+
+     f.close()
+
+   Answer: Hello, World! is printed twice.
+
+#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like 
+   ::
+     
+     Hello, World!
+
+   What is the output of ::
+
+     f = open('hello')
+
+     for line in f:
+         print line
+
+     f.close()
+
+     for line in f:
+         print line
+
+     f.close()
+
+   Answer: IOError - No such file or directory: 'hello'
+
+
+Larger Questions
+----------------
+
+.. A minimum of 2 questions here. 
+
+1. What does ``f.read(size)`` do?
+
+#. Print every alternate line of a file, starting at the first line. 
+
+#. Print the file in reverse. Starting from the last line to the
+   first.