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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV: Chapter 23 A Writer's Decision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main attitude that writers have today?
(a) To write modern literature and be the next best author.
(b) To be published in the New Yorker.
(c) To write well, regardless of whether it is fiction or nonfiction.
(d) To write literature, the way it was defined before WWII.

2. What is the transaction in writing?
(a) How much facts a writer uses.
(b) How much a writer gives of themselves rather than of facts.
(c) The bookbuying process.
(d) How much a writer talks about themselves.

3. Do writers need to write all the time?
(a) No, if they are not in the mood, it will come out in their writing.
(b) Yes, even if they have to force it out.
(c) Yes, because writers are always able to write.
(d) No, writers should only write when they are in the zone.

4. What is a major problem with humorous writing?
(a) It gets dated, and what is funny in 1980 will not be funny in 2080.
(b) It is too hard to be funny in writing and takes a gifted person.
(c) Sarcasm does not come out in writing.
(d) It can never be taken seriously.

5. Why do journalists need to perfect uncluttered writing?
(a) It is easier to sell.
(b) People only pay attention to short articles.
(c) It make their writing easier to read.
(d) They have a limited number of column inches and word limits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Zissner believe in the journalism model for good writing?

2. What is one task that a good writer constantly does?

3. What is a memoir?

4. How much research does Zinsser recommend for an article?

5. Who is rivaling everything that Zissner is saying?

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