Agents and Schoolwork

End-of-lesson check

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1. Which sentence best captures the main idea of 'Agents and Schoolwork'?

   1. Agents should always run without limits or oversight
   2. Agents and chatbots are the same thing in every way
   3. Using agents to do your homework FOR you is plagiarism.
   4. Tools and goals are unnecessary for agent design

2. Which of the following is part of 'Where agents help with school'?

   1. Disable safety checks for speed
   2. Always run with no oversight
   3. Researching a topic across many sources. Organizing notes from multiple subjects. Generating practice questions.
   4. Never log what the agent did

3. Which of the following is part of 'Three ways agents cross the line'?

   1. Use the most expensive model regardless of fit
   2. Writing essays you submit
   3. Run unbounded retries on any error
   4. Always run with no oversight

4. Which of the following is part of 'Review date'?

   1. Disable safety checks for speed
   2. Reviewed in 2026. Treat fast-changing product names, prices, availability, and policy details as examples to verify before use.
   3. Never log what the agent did
   4. Skip every form of evaluation

5. What is 'plagiarism' in this context?

   1. A reason to skip all logging
   2. A core concept covered in Agents and Schoolwork
   3. A way to disable the agent's tools
   4. A trick to bypass approvals

6. What is 'research help' in this context?

   1. A core concept covered in Agents and Schoolwork
   2. A reason to skip all logging
   3. A way to disable the agent's tools
   4. A trick to bypass approvals

7. What is 'school policy' in this context?

   1. A reason to skip all logging
   2. A trick to bypass approvals
   3. A way to disable the agent's tools
   4. A core concept covered in Agents and Schoolwork

8. Which student use of an AI agent is most clearly within reasonable limits?

   1. Faking sources the agent invented
   2. Letting the agent take a test for you
   3. Using the agent to brainstorm, then writing and citing your own work
   4. Submitting agent output as your own original analysis

9. What is the best response when an agent suggests an action you do not understand?

   1. Run it twice to be sure
   2. Ask the agent to explain the action and its expected effect before approving
   3. Reject everything and stop using the agent
   4. Approve it to keep things moving

10. What does an 'eval' for an agent measure?

    1. Whether the agent reliably completes a defined task end to end
    2. The exact wording of every prompt
    3. How polite the model sounds
    4. The temperature setting

11. Why is logging every tool call an agent makes a baseline requirement?

    1. Logs replace the need for testing
    2. Logs are needed to debug, audit, and explain agent behavior to users
    3. Logs make the model run faster
    4. Logs are only for legal teams

12. What should an agent's trace let you do after a run?

    1. Hide what the agent did from the user
    2. Make the agent run faster next time automatically
    3. Replace the need for any tests
    4. Reconstruct each step, decision, and tool call so you can debug or audit

13. Which of these is the strongest indicator that an agent workflow is ready to scale?

    1. It runs without any logging
    2. It used the latest model
    3. It passes a repeatable eval, has cost in budget, and a rollback plan
    4. It worked once for one user

14. Which signal best tells you an agent is stuck in a runaway loop?

    1. It keeps repeating the same tool call with no new progress
    2. It returns a short summary and stops
    3. It asks one clarifying question
    4. It finishes the task in one step

15. Why does an AI agent need 'tools' such as a browser, calendar, or code runner?

    1. Tools shrink the context window
    2. Tools replace the need for any prompts
    3. Tools let the agent take actions in the world instead of only producing text
    4. Tools make the model speak more naturally