On Writing Well Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

William Zinsser
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

On Writing Well Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

William Zinsser
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 14 Writing About Yourself: The Memoir.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a memoir?
(a) They can be about any life experience.
(b) They are books about other people written by ghostwriters.
(c) They are fiction peices about real people.
(d) They are stories about immigrants.

2. Which is the simplest sentence?
(a) Simplicity is opporite clutter.
(b) Simplicity is the opposite of clutter.
(c) Simplicity.
(d) Simplicity is the direct opposite of clutter.

3. What period in U.S. history does Zissner point out as a time filled with euphemisms?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) Spanish Civil War.
(c) The Korean War.
(d) World War II.

4. Chapter 3 is about __________.
(a) Clutter.
(b) Reducing clutter.
(c) Increasing the simplicity of writing.
(d) Simplicity.

5. What does a Thesaurus help a writer with, besides finding alternate words?
(a) Provides easy word webs.
(b) A thesaurus can help when writing in another language.
(c) The book can help a writer become an expert in opposites.
(d) A thesaurus is a powerful stimulant to a writer's imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of memoirs does Zinsser like reading?

2. What stops Americans from writing memoirs?

3. How can uncluttered writing help fiction?

4. What is one task that a good writer constantly does?

5. What are the two components of the original Roget's Thesaurus?

(see the answer key)

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