Punctuations, Quotations, And Parenthetical Citations
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Questions and Answers
- 1.Question marks, exclamation points, and dashes can go inside the quotation marks even if they are not part of the quoted material.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Exclamation marks and question marks come ( before / after ) parenthetical citations.
- 3.Periods and commas go ( inside / outside ) closing quotation marks.
- 4.Which is an example of an integrated quotation?
- A.
The great Winston Churchill once said, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
- B.
Albert Einstein once stated that "before God we are all equally wise-and equally foolish."
- 5.Which example of double quotation marks is correct?
- A.
"Did she ask, 'What's going on?'"
- B.
'Did she ask, "What's going on?"'
- 6.Which of these examples including a parenthetical citation is correct? (note location of period)
- A.
King David asks, "The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear?" (Ps. 27:1).
- B.
King David asks, "The Lord is my light and my salvation-whom shall I fear?". (Ps. 27:1)
- 7.Which of these is correct?
- A.
"I don't care", she said. "What do you think"?
- B.
"I don't care," she said. "What do you think?"
- 8.When in dialogue, a new paragraph begins with each change of speaker. [ not found in video ]
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Colons and semicolons go ( inside / outside ) closing quotation marks.
- 10.At the end of a quotation (where a comma would normally appear) the comma is omitted if a question mark or exclamation mark is at the end of the quotation. Ex. "What did you say?" she asked.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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