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1. 
Household appliances can learn the owner’s patterns in order to change their settings.
A.
True
B.
False
2. 
There are already refrigerators that can track their contents and let the owner know what he/she could make for dinner with the current ingredients.
A.
True
B.
False
3. 
The Internet-connected smartphones can have sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes or the GPS.
A.
True
B.
False
4. 
In ___?____, IoT devices can take sensor readings and transmit them instead of workers taking meter readings from individual houses.
A.
personal-item sphere
B.
utility usage monitoring
C.
pet tracking
D.
product monitoring
5. 
In agriculture, soil and crops can be monitored for __?___and other needs.
A.
pollution
B.
inventory
C.
irrigation
D.
consistency
6. 
Tiny sensors that can be placed in cement and other infrastructure materials to detect structural issues are being developed by scientists.
A.
True
B.
False
7. 
What does NOT generate and transmit information about people’s daily lives according to the article?
A.
monetary transactions
B.
bank accounts
C.
inanimate objects
D.
purchasing and traveling patterns
8. 
In which smart devices have security flaws been found according to the text?
A.
light bulbs
B.
stoves
C.
phones
D.
watches
9. 
Ads can not be targeted to people based on their purchases.
A.
True
B.
False
10. 
Data analysis might enable hard-to-detect biases in awarding credit, jobs, or housing.
A.
True
B.
False