How to Outline an Essay with AI Quiz

Answers and explanations appear as you take the quiz.

1. According to the guide, what is treated as misconduct under nearly all academic AI policies?
   • Reading your syllabus
   • Asking a teacher about the AI policy
   • Submitting AI-generated text as your own writing
   • Making an outline by hand
2. Which three qualities make a good thesis?
   • Arguable, specific and supportable
   • Long, formal and neutral
   • Short, funny and broad
   • Descriptive, general and obvious
3. What is a reverse outline?
   • Writing the conclusion first
   • Listing sources in reverse order
   • Having the AI write the essay backward
   • Stating the main claim of each paragraph in a finished draft to check structure
4. Why is an AI-generated outline not the same as research?
   • Outlines are always too short
   • Its facts and quotes must be checked against real sources you cite
   • Research cannot be organized
   • AI cannot produce bullet points
5. What happened to OpenAI's AI-text classifier in 2023?
   • It became required in all schools
   • It was made perfectly accurate
   • It was withdrawn because of low accuracy
   • It was merged into a grammar checker
6. What does it mean to 'steelman' a counterargument?
   • State the opposing view in its strongest form
   • Ignore the opposing view
   • State a weak version so it is easy to defeat
   • Replace the counterargument with a joke
7. Why does the guide suggest asking the AI for short paragraph labels instead of full sentences?
   • Labels are more accurate than sentences
   • Full sentences are banned by all schools
   • Labels help the AI search the web
   • It keeps the wording and ideas in the essay your own
8. Why do AI outlines often default to a five-paragraph shape with a balanced conclusion?
   • It is the only structure teachers accept
   • Those patterns are very common in the model's training text
   • The model cannot count past five
   • It is required by the essay rubric