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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. Who do authors please first with their writing?
(a) Family members.
(b) Readers.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Editors.

2. What is the mood or voice in a piece?
(a) The voice is the authority figure in a nonfiction piece.
(b) The mood is the way the characters feel in a piece.
(c) Mood or voice is the way a piece sounds to the reader in the imaginations inner ear.
(d) Mood or voice is the way the characters speak to one another.

3. What is the biggest mistake a writer can make when creating sentences?
(a) Not reading their sentences aloud.
(b) Packing in too much information into one sentence.
(c) Not creating sentences that readers want to read.
(d) Overediting sentences.

4. How many people are in the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel?
(a) 1000 writers, poets, and editors.
(b) 104 writers, poets, editors, and teachers.
(c) 10 writers.
(d) 14 writers and poets.

5. What is one of Zissner's biggest pet peeves?
(a) When people say they can write a book as if it is easy.
(b) When people dog ear the pages of a book.
(c) When people write in their books.
(d) When people leave the toilet seat up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Do good writers decorate their writing?

2. When can ornamental writing be used as an exception?

3. Who is the author talking to at the beginning of the book?

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

5. Literature was once considered solely as what?

(see the answer key)

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