Using Quotation Marks

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1. She asks, ʺCould anybody but Mark Twain have told the story of Adam and Eve without mentioning Jehovah.ʺ
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Using Quotation Marks. Select the letter of the choice that correctly punctuates the sentence.

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2. Science fiction writer Ursula Le Guinn writes: ʺI was raised as irreligious as a jack rabbit, and probably this is one reason Mark Twain made so much sense to me.ʺ
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3. Writing about the conclusion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Toni Morrison wonders, ʺWill that undefined space, so falsely imagined as ʺopen,ʺ be free of social chaos, personal morbidity, and further moral complications embedded in adulthood and citizenship?ʺ
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4. Hal Holbrook says that ʺhe wasnʹt aware of Mark Twainʹs potential for social commentary until he was in Little Rock in 1957.ʺ
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5. In Roughing It, Mark Twain has this to say about the fate of the thousands of young men who came to Virginia City seeking gold ʺall gone, or nearly allπvictims devoted upon the altar of the golden calf.ʺ
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6. ʺHere again is Kiplingʹs old dictum that ʺEast is East and West is West.ʺ
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7. James Joyceʹs response to complaints about his use of vulgar language is thisʺ: This race and this life produced me--I shall express myself as I am.ʺ
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8. ʺArt itself,ʺ Conrad wrote ʺmay be defined as a single‐minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe.ʺ
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9. Henry James: The Private Universe is the title of an article written by Graham Greene.
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10. According to an early review of D. H. Lawrenceʹs Sons and Lovers, ʺThe book is full of short, vivid descriptions: ʹThe steep swoop of highroad lay in its cool morning dust...ʺ
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11. An early view of the novel Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis concludes with the following assessment: Artistically, Arrowsmith is an authentic step forward. The novel is full of passages of a quiet noble felicity and the old skill in presenting character through dialogue never fails. Babbitt is generic or he is nothing (Stewart 36)
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12. What a brilliant prediction: ʺProust will never be a widely read writer.ʺ
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13. Is the following quote about James Joyceʹs Ulysses an elitist remark: ʺThe average intelligent reader will glean little or nothing from it.ʺ?
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14. According to Donald Adams, Light in August is a powerful novel, a book which secures Mr. Faulknerʹs place in the very first rank of American Fiction writers.ʺ
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She asks, ʺCould anybody but Mark Twain have told the story of Adam...
Science fiction writer Ursula Le Guinn writes: ʺI was raised as...
Writing about the conclusion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,...
Hal Holbrook says that ʺhe wasnʹt aware of Mark Twainʹs potential...
In Roughing It, Mark Twain has this to say about the fate of the...
ʺHere again is Kiplingʹs old dictum that ʺEast is East and West is...
James Joyceʹs response to complaints about his use of vulgar language...
ʺArt itself,ʺ Conrad wrote ʺmay be defined as a single‐minded...
Henry James: The Private Universe is the title of an article written...
According to an early review of D. H. Lawrenceʹs Sons and Lovers,...
An early view of the novel Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis concludes with...
What a brilliant prediction: ʺProust will never be a widely read...
Is the following quote about James Joyceʹs Ulysses an elitist remark:...
According to Donald Adams, Light in August is a powerful novel, a book...
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