According to Essay 15 from GRAR (“‘But Parents Just Want What is Best for Their Kids’..”), which of the following is not an idea that is part of meritocratic ideology?

Prejudice can be caused when an economically frustrated person blames members of another group that is also suffering from economic strain for the troubles that they face, making the group a ___________. 

Write a constructor for Book. The constructor will take the title, author, and pageCount, and set all instance variables appropriately. If the pageCount is negative or 0, set it to 1. The constructor should also update the totalBooks variable to reflect that a new Book exists.

In two sentences, what is constructor chaining and why is it useful? Provide a brief example of when you would use this().

Write a concrete toString method for Book. The String representation of a Book is “[title] by [author] has [pageCount] pages remaining” (without the square brackets, replacing the square brackets with the values from the indicated instance variables).

Static methods can directly access instance variables without creating an object.

Write a protected visibility method for Book called updatePages. The method should take one parameter, which is an int, and it returns nothing. This method should subtract the number of pages read (the parameter) from the Book’s current pageCount. If the subtraction results in a negative number or zero, set pageCount to 0.

What is the purpose of encapsulation? (select only one)

An abstract class in Java can have both abstract and concrete methods.

What is the result of calling Math.random()? (select only one)