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    "# Chapter 6: Bytes & Text"
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    "## Content Review"
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    "Read [Chapter 6](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/webartifex/intro-to-python/blob/master/06_text.ipynb) of the book. Then work through the eight review questions."
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    "### Essay Questions "
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    "Answer the following questions briefly with *at most* 300 characters per question!"
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    "**Q1**: In what sense is a **\"string\" of characters** a **sequence**? What is a **sequence** after all? A *concrete* **data type**, or something else?"
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    "**Q2**: What is a direct consequence of the `str` type's property of being an **ordered** sequence? What operations could we *not* do with it if it were *unordered*?"
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    "**Q3**: What does it mean for an object to be **immutable**? Discuss how we can verify the `str` type's immutability by comparing the two variables `example` and `full_slice` below. Are they pointing to the *same* object in memory?\n",
    "```python\n",
    "example = \"text\"\n",
    "full_slice = example[:]\n",
    "```\n",
    "Hint: Find out what `[:]` does first!"
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    "**Q4**: Describe in your own words what we mean by **string interpolation**!"
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    "### True / False Questions"
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    "Motivate your answer with *one short* sentence!"
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    "**Q5**: **Triple-double** quotes `\"\"\"` and **triple-single** quotes `'''` create a *new* object of type `text` that models so-called **multi-line strings**."
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    "**Q6**: A **substring** is a string that *subsumes* another string."
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    "**Q7**: Indexing into a `str` object with a *negative* index **fails silently**: It does *neither* raise an error *nor* do anything useful."
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    "**Q8**: We *cannot* assign a *different* character to an index or slice of a `str` object because it is **immutable**."
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