1) Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto. 2) Ruby is an object-oriented coding language. 3) Objects have attributes and functions. 4) The parent class to all classes is Object. 5) Comment lines begin with # . Comment blocks start with =begin and end with =end. 6a) Local 6b) Global 6c) Class 6d) Constant 6e) Instance 7a) false 7b) false 7c) false 7d) false 7e) false 8) p returns an inspected version of an object. print returns a to_s version of an object. 9a) Trickster 9b) True 9c) True 9d) True