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Language Basics  Questions and Exercises: Variables     1. The
term "instance variable" is another name for ___.   2. The term
"class variable" is another name for ___.   3. A local variable
stores temporary state; it is declared inside a ___.   4. A
variable declared within the opening and closing parenthesis of
a method signature is called a ____.   5. What are the eight
primitive data types supported by the Java programming language?
6. Character strings are represented by the class ___.   7. An
___ is a container object that holds a fixed number of values of
a single type.     1. Create a small program that defines some
fields. Try creating some illegal field names and see what kind
of error the compiler produces. Use the naming rules and
conventions as a guide.   2. In the program you created in
Exercise 1, try leaving the fields uninitialized and print out
their values. Try the sa