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How to Write a Literature Review with AI Quiz

Tests building a study comparison matrix, why language models invent citations, and how to verify every reference before it enters a literature review.

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Why can a general chatbot without search produce a reference to a paper that does not exist?

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  1. Why can a general chatbot without search produce a reference to a paper that does not exist?
    • It copies references from a secret database
    • It generates likely token sequences, and citations follow a regular pattern it can imitate
    • Journals deliberately publish fake references
    • It cannot produce text in citation format
  2. What is the main difference between a literature review and a list of summaries?
    • A review groups studies by theme, agreement, method or gap and explains what is known
    • A review includes only one study
    • A review never includes limitations
    • A review is written entirely by an AI tool
  3. Why should an extraction schema include a 'not reported' value?
    • It makes the matrix shorter
    • It is required by all journals
    • It lets the tool skip reading the paper
    • It stops the model from filling empty cells with guesses
  4. Which check confirms a reference is real and correctly cited?
    • The reference sounds academic
    • The chatbot says it is real
    • The DOI resolves and the title, authors, year and journal match
    • The journal name is well known
  5. What happened in the 2023 US case Mata v. Avianca?
    • Lawyers were sanctioned for citing cases ChatGPT had invented
    • A court banned all AI research tools
    • A journal retracted every AI-assisted paper
    • An airline sued a chatbot company
  6. What remaining risk do retrieval-based tools like Elicit or Consensus still carry?
    • They always invent papers
    • They cannot search any database
    • They only work offline
    • They can misstate or misread a real paper's findings
  7. What is citation chaining?
    • Copying a citation list from a chatbot
    • Following a paper's references backward and its citing papers forward
    • Citing the same paper many times
    • Linking citations with hyperlinks
  8. Why does the guide suggest asking for a short quote and page number for each extracted claim?
    • Quotes make the review longer
    • Page numbers are needed to upload PDFs
    • It makes spot-checking each claim against the paper fast
    • It prevents the tool from reading tables

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