Dialogue Quiz

Choose the sentence with correct quotations and punctuation.

• "Hello, Jack. How are you today?" asked Jill.

• "Hello, Jack. How are you today. asked Jill.

• Hello, "Jack." How are you today?" asked Jill.

A conversation within a story or play is called what?

• talk

• dialogue

• speaking

Choose the sentence that is correct.

• My dad is a great basketball coach, "said Josie."

• "My dad is a great basketball coach, said Josie."

• "My dad is a great basketball coach," said Josie.

How can differentiating between internal and external dialogue enhance a reader's understanding of a character?

• By clarifying which characters are present in a scene.

• By revealing the contrast between what a character says and what they truly think.

• By indicating the time period of the story.

• By showing the geographical location of the story.

You DO NOT need a comma to separate the speaker from the quote.

• True

• False

Always start a new paragraph when switching speakers.

• False

• True

Dialogue makes your writing more interesting.

• True

• False

A comma should go AFTER which word in the sentence below?

Miller whined "Are we there yet?"

• whined

• Miller

• yet

We put __________________ around the speaker's exact words in a sentence using dialogue.

• commas

• speaker tags

• quotation marks

• An indent

When writing dialogue, the first word inside the quotation marks and first word of each sentence is always

• Indented

• Capitalized

• Underlined

• Deleted