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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 16 Business Writing: Writing in Your Job.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the English language changing all the time?
(a) It changes because of regional differences that make their way outwards.
(b) It changes because people don't know how to speak it properly and are changing the way it is spoken.
(c) It changes because academics choose the best ways to speak English and try to teach that to children.
(d) It changes because it is a living language.

2. What should writers focus on when writing travel pieces?
(a) Information and substance.
(b) Substance and exaggerating adjectives.
(c) Style and substance.
(d) Style and sentence structure.

3. What stops Americans from writing memoirs?
(a) Editors hate reading memoirs therefore don't pick them up.
(b) Memoires don't sell well enough.
(c) People don't like reading memoires.
(d) An attitude to please teachers and not readers.

4. Why doesn't he simply cross out clutter?
(a) Because it uses too much ink to cross out than to bracket.
(b) So that his students will learn to recognize clutter.
(c) Because underlining is easier on the eyes.
(d) Because highlighting is easier to see.

5. Can good writing be taught?
(a) Of course it can.
(b) Only good students can learn good writing.
(c) It cannot, but it can be learned.
(d) Only good teachers can teach good writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a writer become better at his craft?

2. What is a major problem of business writing?

3. What are two tools every writer should use?

4. Why does the doctor write?

5. How can uncluttered writing help fiction?

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