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

2. When can ornamental writing be used as an exception?
(a) When writing evaluations and resumes.
(b) When the wrting needs extra fluff.
(c) To follow solid writing.
(d) When the author needs to abide by editors remarks.

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

4. Why does he recommend starting in the preferred tense?
(a) It creates a teacher student relationship.
(b) It brings out the natural voice.
(c) It causes writer's to think about the reader.
(d) It makes it easier for people to relate to.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about every writer's voice?

2. What is another example of when a person HAS to read bad writing?

3. Should exclamation points be used in serious writing?

4. How is humor used in writing nonfiction?

5. What does Zinsser think about this misconception?

(see the answer key)

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