On Writing Well Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

William Zinsser
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

On Writing Well Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

William Zinsser
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 156 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How rigid are the lines between proper and improper English usage?
(a) There is a grey area, though the need for proper English is most important.
(b) They are very soft, and not rigid at all.
(c) They are very rigid and one cannot cross the line.
(d) There are no lines at all. Every writer has a poetic license to do with words what he or she pleases.

2. What does the process of memoir writing do for a writer?
(a) It brings back bad memories that the person tried to forget.
(b) It forces them to talk to distant relatives they hate.
(c) Nothing but write about everything he or she thinks about daily.
(d) It brings up related memories that were pushed into the subconsious.

3. 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.

4. What is a second approach Zinsser recommends that complements the first approach mentioned?
(a) Never reading other travel pieces, because this adds to cliched writing.
(b) Going within people's homes and seeing what they feel about foreigners.
(c) Going outside and finding out how a place impacts others.
(d) Writing only in the first person, then deciding on a tense later.

5. Does skipping grammar check save a writer time?
(a) No. It harms the writer, and makes more work for them and the editors.
(b) Yes. It is uneccessary since the editor can check grammer.
(c) Yes, it is one less thing the writer has to do.
(d) No, they have to do line edits anyways to check grammar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a product of writing is never read?

2. What method of writing does Zissner use?

3. What does it convey when anyone says he can write a book if he wanted to?

4. What is a major problem with humorous writing?

5. When does the writing start for a nonfiction article?

(see the answer key)

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