1. What does Zinsser do before submitting a piece of writing?
(a) He submits his writing to his family.
(b) He edits everything three times.
(c) He reads everything aloud.
(d) He has his wife read his work.

2. What was the best advice Zinsser ever received about having opinions in writing?
(a) To always second guess an argument and make a pro and con list.
(b) Take a stand and stick to it. One should never "go peeing down both legs."
(c) It was to argue both sides of a story.
(d) To never second guess a story.

3. When does the writing start for a nonfiction article?
(a) It starts whenever the writer is ready to start.
(b) It starts when the interviewing process and research is complete.
(c) It starts before the interview but after the research.
(d) It starts before interviewing to set up the article paragraphs.

4. Can a writer simply write the article with one interview?
(a) Yes, but it should be avoided because people forget things in the first interview.
(b) Yes, but it is better to have mulitple interviews and meld them together into one incident.
(c) No, there should always be mulitple interviews.
(d) No, editing is too hard with just one interview.

5. What do interviews do for the writer?
(a) Interviews humanize a topic, making a boring topic interesting.
(b) They make a writer feel stupid since he or she does not know that much about a subject.
(c) They make the writer an expert in a given subject.
(d) They make a writer less valid, since he or she needs to interview several people to create one article.