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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 18 Writing About the Arts: Critics and Columnists.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does a thesaurus help with brainstorming?
(a) The book provides brainstorming exercises.
(b) The book gives a list of unrelated words that weeds out the bad choices.
(c) Looking up a word leads to a list of related words and gives overal word choices and concepts.
(d) There are pictures of mindmaps within each thesaurus.

3. Why is it important for writers to read constantly?
(a) To emulate their heroes.
(b) To study the market.
(c) To learn how to write.
(d) To learn from other writers' mistakes.

4. What does the etymology of words mean?
(a) The sound of words.
(b) The biology of words.
(c) The history of words.
(d) The written scripts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a strange but effective way of proofreading to check for errors?

2. What is a requirement for good literary criticism?

3. Why do criticism writers have to be at a higher level than other writers?

4. Can a writer simply write the article with one interview?

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

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