Instructions for animalQuiz

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Note that this week, both tasks count separately towards the project credit. In other words, you need to do both of them, instead of just picking one.

What animal are you similar to? In this task, you will write a quiz program that determines your animal based on answers to three questions:

• Do you like to eat meat?
• Do you like cold weather?
• Do you like fuzzy things?

The answers to these three questions determine the animal shown in this table:

Your task is to create the following four functions in a new file named animalQuiz.py:

1. boolFromResponse - Accepts one parameter (a string) and returns True if that string begins with 'Y' or 'y', returning False in all other cases. The .lower() and .startswith() methods of strings are helpful for this function; using .startswith() is required, and using .lower() is an extra goal. The sample output gives examples of how boolFromResponse should work. boolFromResponse must not call input, because it only looks at its parameter.

2. boolFromUser - Accepts one parameter (a prompt string) and gathers input from the user using that prompt, before converting that input into a boolean using boolFromResponse, and returning that boolean. The sample output demonstrates how it should workd.

3. chooseAnimal - Accepts three parameters, each a Boolean: the first indicates whether the user likes meat or not, the second whether they like cold or not, and the third whether they like fuzzy things or not. Based on these three binary decisions, this function returns an animal string based on the table shown above. The sample output demonstrates how it should work. Note that chooseAnimal should not call boolFromUser: it gets boolean values as parameters, and does not itself ask for input. You must use one or more if/else statement(s) to select the appropraite return value.

4. animalQuiz - Does not accept any parameters. It prompts the user with three yes/no questions, and then displays the animal determined by their answers. See the sample output below for the exact wording you must use. You must use the boolFromUser and chooseAnimal functions within this function, and you may not use input directly (use boolFromUser instead).

Interactive Testing

One way to test your functions is to first run your program in the editor window (to load the function definitions) and then enter sample calls of your functions in the interactive console to test that they work correctly. The behavior of each function should match the provided examples (we have included examples for boolFromResponse, boolFromUser, chooseAnimal, and animalQuiz).

Automatic Testing

Interactive testing can be tedious, and it's easy to make mistakes if you're testing things every time you make one little change. We have provided a file called test_AnimalQuiz.py which will test your functions, although it does not check carefully enough to ensure that they will satisfy all of our extra tests during grading.

You can work from the provided test cases in the starter file as examples, and you are encouraged to use the examples given in this file as the basis for your test cases. We encourage you define your test cases before writing your code, and just comment them out until you're ready to use them, because this will ensure that you have a clear idea of the correct behavior when you start writing each function.

Notes

• As usual, all of your functions must be documented.
• Also as usual, you should not waste boxes and you must not waste fruit.
• The Python string method .lower() returns a lower-case version of the string when called with zero arguments. The .startswith(s) method takes a single string as a parameter, and determines whether the string before the period begins with the string it got as a parameter. These examples show how these methods work. Note that case matters for .startswith.
• In animalQuiz, you must ask exactly the same questions in the same order. Your printout should match the examples above. You can use this difference checker website to test for any minor differences in your output, and you could also set up tests in optimism for the correct output.