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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. Writers should always look for ________________.
(a) People to tell them about a place so they don't have to actually go anywhere.
(b) Things that relate places to another.
(c) Making places more accessible to other people.
(d) The unique aspects of a place.

2. What is the best way to add humor into writing?
(a) Adding asterisks to funny lines.
(b) Making seperate paragraphs that only have the funny line in them.
(c) Making a funny sentence sneak up on a reader to get an unexpected laugh.
(d) Making all funny lines italicized.

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

4. Why is the above a problem?
(a) Writers need to start at the end and work their way up.
(b) Writers end up editing too much.
(c) Usually the first two or three paragraphs of a piece can be cut.
(d) Writers don't put enough effort into their writing.

5. What is one task that a good writer constantly does?
(a) Reads contemporary and classic works of other writers.
(b) Participates in writing workshops.
(c) Takes writing classes often.
(d) Sends manuscripts out like crazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Should exclamation points be used in serious writing?

2. Where does a writer need to start to get his or her voice discovered?

3. What do people need to understand about science?

4. Can a writer's style be affected to the reader?

5. What stops Americans from writing memoirs?

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