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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapter 20 The Sound of Your Voice.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has literature transformed into?
(a) Literature is still mainly novels,and very rarely includes other writing.
(b) Literature now includes poetry.
(c) Literature has not transformed at all.
(d) Literature now includes nonfiction and fiction alike.

2. What group of people does the author think has the worst type of writing?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Toddlers.
(c) Musicians.
(d) Politicians.

3. What could cause a writer to write unclear?
(a) Not having enough experience.
(b) Not having brainstormed enough.
(c) Not knowing what they want to say.
(d) Not taking any writing classes.

4. How much information should a writer provide to his or her readers?
(a) Enought to make a show worth seeing, without spoiling it for the readers and viewers.
(b) Everything about the show that he or she felt was worthwhile.
(c) Only dates and times of the show with a thumbs up or down.
(d) Very little. Readers need to be left in the dark so they can go see a show on their own.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are writers like painters?

2. What problem does a scientist have when writing about science?

3. When should a writer choose the point of view in a piece of writing?

4. Chapter 3 is about __________.

5. What happens when a writer writes in unclear ways?

(see the answer key)

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