Quiz - Reading - Feb 7 And 8

5 Questions | By Sammacholl | Last updated: Mar 20, 2022 | Total Attempts: 71

FCAT 10 Selection from Released Test

Questions and Answers

1.

How did Dawkins change after working with the Argus editors?
- A.
  
  He learned to ask the right questions for a story.
- B.
  
  He learned to meet deadlines in a timely manner.
- C.
  
  He began to check his own work for errors in grammar.
- D.
  
  He became familiar with the newspaper-making process.
2.

Dawkins regrets having misspelled a person’s name in a profile he wrote. Why is this error more embarrassing to him than other errors he has made?
- A.
  
  His subject was a schoolteacher.
- B.
  
  He had a reputation to maintain.
- C.
  
  His editor failed to catch the error.
- D.
  
  He had no excuse for such an error.
3.

Read these sentences from the article. . . . she left and was replaced by Steve Burgard, who also came in early and read a lot of my copy. Steve, who is now at The Los Angeles Times, always asked a lot of questions about facts in the story. What is the most likely meaning of the word copy?
- A.
  
  A printout of a newspaper
- B.
  
  Editorial criticisms of writing
- C.
  
  Grammatical concerns in writing
- D.
  
  Text that reporters write for the paper
4.

“The Police Beat” was written in the same style as
- A.
  
  A news report.
- B.
  
  A formal speech.
- C.
  
  A persuasive paper.
- D.
  
  A personal narrative.
5.

Why did the author write “The Police Beat”?
- A.
  
  To present the lessons learned by a first-year reporter
- B.
  
  To encourage the reader to take up a career in journalism
- C.
  
  To describe the process by which a report becomes a news story
- D.
  
  To relate the experiences of one reporter while covering crime stories