Question 1

Instructions: Each question below is an entry for a Works Cited page. Select Correct if the entry is correctly formatted according to MLA guidelines or Incorrect if the entry is not correctly formatted. Hellmich, Nanci. Outlook on Obesity Is Pretty Grim. USA Today. 30 Aug. 2011: 6D. Print.

Accepted Answer

A)  Correct 
B)  Incorrect

Question 2

Instructions: Find the complete subject and the complete verb in each sentence. Then select the letter of the answer that contains both the subject and the verb. She did not hear the answer to the question.

Accepted Answer

A)  She, did not hear 
B)  She, did hear 
C)  She, did answer

Question 3

Instructions: Each question below is a plan for a narrative paragraph. Events in each plan are not in correct chronological order. For each plan, select the letter of the answer that numbers the events in the proper time sequence. In late 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean sent a destructive tsunami, or huge waves, racing toward many countries. ____ That Indonesian quake displaced a massive volume of water, pushing it outward in all directions. ____ On December 26, 2004, at 2:59 p.m., a powerful earthquake shook the Indian Ocean floor off the coast of Sumatra, an Indonesian island. ____ High tides surged onshore as late as sixteen hours after the earthquake occurred in South Africa and other countries thousands of miles away. ____ At 4:45 p.m., waves began pounding the coasts of Sri Lanka, Thailand, and India. ____ At 3:15 p.m., gigantic waves slammed into the northern coast of Sumatra.

Accepted Answer

A)  2, 1, 5, 4, 3 
B)  1, 3, 2, 4, 5 
C)  5, 4, 2, 3, 1

Question 4

Instructions: Below is a source followed by passage(s) from student papers. If the student has summarized, directly quoted, or indirectly quoted the source correctly, select Correct. If you believe the source is incorrectly summarized or plagiarized, select Incorrect. Human communication depends largely on signs in the form of written or spoken words, images, or gestures. These symbols are conscious and explicit representations of reality of objects, actions, and concepts in the world around us. But there is another aspect of symbolism that is equally important though less explicit: the side that relates to our inner psychological and spiritual world. Within this inner world, a symbol can represent some deep intuitive wisdom that eludes direct expression. Fontana, David. The Secret Language of Symbols . San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993: 9-10. Print. Student version: Symbols serve two purposes, according to David Fontana. They are, on the one hand, conscious and explicit representations of reality of objects, actions, and concepts in the world around us. On the other hand, they can represent some deep intuitive wisdom that eludes direct expression (9-10).

Accepted Answer

A)  Correct 
B)  Incorrect

Question 5

Instructions: The following sentences form a paragraph. Select the correct word for each blank. Then a snow tank ____ dirty shavings.

Accepted Answer

A)  collect s 
B)  collects

Question 6

Instructions: Each of the following sentences tells what you are trying to persuade someone to do. Beneath each sentence are four reasons that attempt to convince the reader that he or she should take this particular course of action. Select the letter of the reason that seems irrelevant, illogical, or untrue. If you wanted to convince someone that your town or city is a great place to live, you could say that

Accepted Answer

A)  your town offers many employment opportunities. 
B)  you have lived there all of your life, so it s obviously a wonderful place to be. 
C)  the crime rate is low. 
D)  your town offers many different recreational activities.

Question 7

Instructions: The following sentences form a paragraph. For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Likewise, someone facing a big decision or a family problem might seek the help of their wolf fetish.

Accepted Answer

A)  decision or 
B)  might seek 
C)  their

Question 8

Instructions: Select the answer that correct joins each pair of simple sentences with conjunctions or conjunctive adverbs and is punctuated correctly. Marcia wanted to hire the actor. She was concerned about his bad temper.

Accepted Answer

A)  Marcia wanted to hire the actor, but she was concerned about his bad temper. 
B)  Marcia wanted to hire the actor however she was concerned about his bad temper. 
C)  Since she was concerned about his bad temper Marcia wanted to hire the actor.

Question 9

Instructions: The following sentences form an essay. If the sentence contains a pronoun error, select Pronoun error. If the sentence is free of pronoun errors, select Correct. I rolled out the dough on a cookie sheet and added tomato sauce along with toppings that included mozzarella cheese, mushrooms, and sausage.

Accepted Answer

A)  Pronoun error 
B)  Correct

Question 10

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct answer. The bottoms up proofreading technique involves reading your paper one sentence at a time,

Accepted Answer

A)  from the last sentence to the first sentence. 
B)  from the first sentence to the last sentence. 
C)  randomly choosing just two or three sentences to check.

Question 11

Instructions: In each of the following sentences, a blank space appears where the verb should be. Select the letter of the correct past tense verb. Michele ____ several cartons of books to the pickup truck.

Accepted Answer

A)  take 
B)  taken 
C)  took

Question 12

Instructions: Read the following sentence(s) carefully. Then select the correct adjective or adverb in parentheses. Juan considered childhood to be the ( happier , happiest ) time of his life.

Accepted Answer

A)  happier 
B)  happiest

Question 13

Instructions: Select the letter of the correctly punctuated sentence. Which sentence is correctly punctuated?

Accepted Answer

A)  Carlos, my buddy from college, is now the registrar. 
B)  Jayla the woman in the next apartment practices drums after midnight. 
C)  Applicants, who arrive after four o clock, will have to return tomorrow.

Question 14

Instructions: The following sentences form a paragraph. Select the answer that correctly identifies the underlined portion of the sentence as wordy or trite. The sun is an example of a medium heat, medium weight star. The hottest stars are blue in color , and the coolest stars are red.

Accepted Answer

A)  wordy 
B)  trite

Question 15

Instructions: Select the letter of the correct answer for each of the following question(s). Failing to give proper credit to an author whose words or ideas you have used is called

Accepted Answer

A)  summarizing. 
B)  plagiarism. 
C)  paraphrasing.

Question 16

Instructions: Select the sentence that uses concise, fresh, and exact language. Which sentence uses concise, fresh, and exact language?

Accepted Answer

A)  I groove to the beat while I work out. 
B)  I play 70 s disco songs on my iPod while I jog. 
C)  I listen to music while I exercise.

Question 17

Instructions: Read the following sentence(s) carefully. Then select the correct adjective or adverb in parentheses. We got to know each other ( quick , quickly ).

Accepted Answer

A)  quick 
B)  quickly

Question 18

Instructions: For each of the following sentences, choose the correct pronoun to fill in the blank. Select the letter of the correct answer. The cab driver told Vic and ____ that traffic on the bridge was heavy at this time of day.

Accepted Answer

A)  me 
B)  I 
C)  myself

Question 19

Instructions: Check the following paragraph(s) for unity. Select the number of the sentence that does not belong in the paragraph. Identify the sentence that does not belong. (1) Bottled water is not necessarily any purer or healthier than the water you can get from your sink. (2) In fact, in many cities and towns, the testing requirements for tap water are much stricter than those for bottled water, and the bottled water may actually contain contaminants that the tap water is not allowed to have. (3) Plus, bottled water usually lacks fluoride, an important mineral that is added to tap water. (4) Another reason to drink tap water is the waste generated by consumption of bottled water. (5) While all of those empty plastic bottles can be recycled, most people just toss them into the trash, and they end up in landfills already overflowing with garbage. (6) Recycling glass, newspaper, and aluminum will also help to minimize America s waste problem. (7) Finally, bottled water costs a lot more than tap water. (8) In fact, it s often about 300 times more expensive.

Accepted Answer

A)  Sentence 3 
B)  Sentence 6 
C)  Sentence 7

Question 20

Instructions: Read the paragraph below and answer the question(s) that follow. (1) We rarely get tired when we are doing something interesting and exciting. (2) For example, I recently took a vacation in the Canadian Rockies up around Lake Louise. (3) I spent several days trout fishing along Coral Creek, fighting my way through brush higher than my head, stumbling over logs, struggling through fallen timber yet after eight hours of this, I was not exhausted. (4) Why? (5) Because I was excited, exhilarated. (6) I had a sense of high achievement: six cutthroat trout. Dale Carnegie, Banishing Boredom on the Job How many examples does the writer use to develop the topic sentence?

Accepted Answer

A)  one 
B)  two 
C)  three

Exam 1: Writing Effective Paragraphs