Summary 5.1-5.4

Which of the following class members that should be public?

• instance varibles

• constructors

• methods used within the class

• methods used in the main

What is the scope of private methods and private instance variables?

• the declaring class

• the main class

• any class

Classes’ access specifier is generally set to...

• accessor

• mutator

• private

• public

Which of the following would be the state of the Object tree?

• int height

• int girth

• boolean deciduous

• private boolean deciduous

We can set the initial state of an object through...

• methods

• constructors

• variables

• instance varibles

Objects cannot have objects as attributes.

• True
• False

When we use a class as an attribute in another class the class we are using as an attribute will be the ______ _____ of the class that is using it as an attibute.

• data type

• instance variable

• parameter

• method

An objects state is defined by the objects...

• access modifiers

• return values

• instance varibles and values

• methods

What is the purpose of accessor and mutator methods?

• controls what users can access only

• controls what users can mutate only

• controls what users can both access and mutate

• allows all access to all aspects of the class.

The return type of an accessor method...

• must match the data type of the instance variable being accessed

• must be primitive

• is void

• must be user defined