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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 11 Nonfiction as Literature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an example of a dead language?
(a) Latin is dead because nobody speaks it anymore.
(b) Spanish because its roots are disintegrating.
(c) Italian because there is only one country that speaks it.
(d) Chinese because it never changes.

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

3. What is a dash useful for?
(a) Dashes are good in place of exclamations.
(b) Dashes act as pointers to a point and to set off parenthetical statementes.
(c) Dashes are good to separate thoughts.
(d) Dashes are good to connect complex sentences.

4. What is another example of when a person HAS to read bad writing?
(a) Television captions.
(b) Political Journals.
(c) Instruction manuals.
(d) Literature anthologies.

5. Where should the writer find his or her words?
(a) From a thesaraus.
(b) From within the subconscious to the writing consciousness
(c) From modern euphanisms that people can relate to.
(d) From a dictionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How rigid are the lines between proper and improper English usage?

2. What is unity in writing?

3. Why doesn't he simply cross out clutter?

4. Who do authors please first with their writing?

5. What are the two components of the original Roget's Thesaurus?

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