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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: Chapter 16 Business Writing: Writing in Your Job.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a misconception about writers and scientists?
(a) Writers are better than scientists.
(b) Writers are more creative that scientists.
(c) Scientists are smarter than writers.
(d) It is that writers cannot do science and scientists cannot write.

3. What is a dash useful for?
(a) Dashes are good to connect complex sentences.
(b) Dashes are good in place of exclamations.
(c) Dashes act as pointers to a point and to set off parenthetical statementes.
(d) Dashes are good to separate thoughts.

4. What has literature transformed into?
(a) Literature is still mainly novels,and very rarely includes other writing.
(b) Literature has not transformed at all.
(c) Literature now includes nonfiction and fiction alike.
(d) Literature now includes poetry.

5. What are Zinsser's four articles of faith to writing well?
(a) Brevity, quick turnaround, clever sentences and little humanity.
(b) Clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.
(c) Simplicity, brevity, busy sentences and proper grammer.
(d) Clarity, simplicity, elasticity and minimalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do journalists need to perfect uncluttered writing?

2. What is a second approach Zinsser recommends that complements the first approach mentioned?

3. Why is the above a problem?

4. What does Zissner think of gimmicky writing?

5. What is Zinsser's preferred method for interviewing?

(see the answer key)

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