Quotation Marks and Punctuation Quiz

How should the quotation marks in this sentence be revised? In a series of articles, John Steinbeck describes a family so overcome by poverty, disease, and death, Dignity is all gone, and spirit has turned to sullen anger before it dies.”

• Delete the quotation mark

• Add a quotation mark after describes

• Insert a quotation mark before Dignity

• No change needs to be made to this sentence

How should the quotation marks in this sentence be revised? In his address, President Roosevelt declared, Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

• Add quotation marks before Freedom and after the period

• Add single quotation marks after declared, and the period

• Add quotation marks around address

• No change needs to be made to this sentence.

How should the quotation marks in this sentence be revised? “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens,” declared Susan B. Anthony in her stump speech, but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.

• Insert quotation marks around “we, the people” instead of where they are now

• Insert quotation marks in front of but and after Union

• Insert quotation marks around stump speech

• No change needs to be made to this sentence

How should the quotation marks in this sentence be revised? The Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, the raven says nothing except Nevermore, but the narrator speaks to the raven a great deal, even shrieking, “Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!”

• Add quotation marks around Nevermore

• Add quotation marks after says and Nevermore

• Remove the quotation marks

• No change needs to be made to this sentence

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• “As you might guess, Ted Williams was quite thin when he was young”, said the commentator.

• “There’s a big sale going on at the lumberyard,” Conor explained.

• neither

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• Mom likes to listen to Michael Feinstein sing “Isn’t It Romantic?”

• Did Stephen Crane write a short story called “The Open Boat?”

• neither

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• “Ouch!” yelled Clarissa.

• “Never,” shouted Morgan, “will I agree to such terms”!

• neither

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• “I have a small yellow kayak at home” said Erica.

• “My dog barks a lot,” Fernando said, “but she doesn’t bite.”

• neither

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• Here are the three things my little brother likes best about the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel:” it is scary, the children are resourceful, and there’s a happy ending.

• This is what I think of Lady Otomo’s poem “My Heart, Thinking:” it is romantic and powerful.

• neither

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• Thea dislikes the Beatles song “Hey Jude”; she thinks it goes on forever without saying very much.

• Her father said, “We cannot go;” her mother said, “Perhaps we can go next summer.

• neither