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Writing Test
Jennifer Curtis
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Copyright 1997, Softdisk Publishing
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Header
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$TOPIC
Writing Test
Hard
4
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$QUEST
Charles Addams is a:
cartoonist
novelist
photographer
script writer
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The Caldecott Medal is awarded to:
an illustrator of a children's book
well-known artists
novelists
photographers
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"The Beast in the Jungle" was written by:
Henry James
James Joyce
Walt Williams
Tennessee Williams
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A "frontispiece":
is located directly before the title page of a book's major theme
is the dedication page
is an illustration
is the cover of a book
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"Psycho" was written by:
Robert Bloch
Stephen King
Peter Straub
Rod Serling
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"The Elements of Style" was written by:
Strunk and White
Copperud
Webster
Fowler
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$QUEST
"Lead sheets" are related to:
music publishing
news print
radiation therapy
none of the above
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$QUEST
A "legend" once referred only to:
a tale of a saint
a story of giants
a myth of great length
a deceptive tale of warriors
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An "expose" may uncover:
all of the above
wrongdoing
injustice
misappropriation of funds
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$QUEST
The number of picas to an inch is:
6
12
24
48
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A "picaresque":
is about rogues
delves into the life of Picasso
is always illustrated
is written in 12-inch pica
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$QUEST
The first "poet laureate" was appointed in"
1619
1700
1750
1909
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$QUEST
Which writer appeared on a postage stamp?
all of the above
Rachel Carson
Edith Wharton
Louisa May Alcott
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$QUEST
"#" is the proofreading symbol for:
space
number
delete
add
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Material unprotected by copyright is said to be:
in the public domain
trademarked
patented
unavailable
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A "puff":
is all of the above
is a press release that is not objective
praises a person, place, or product
is often used to promote authors and books
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The first Pulitzer Prize awarded:
$500
$1,000
$2,000
$3,000
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The author of "Lonesome Dove" was:
Larry McMurtry
Pat Conroy
David Troy
James Lapine
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The 1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction was:
Anne Tyler
Neil Sheehan
Richard Rhodes
Kay Shipler
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The author of "The Color Purple" is:
Alice Walker
Margaret Atwood
Richard Wright
Zora Neale Hurston
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Theodore Geisel's pen name was:
Dr. Seuss
Mark Twain
Stephen King
David Doppler
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"Recto" pages:
all of the above
appear on the right side
are odd-numbered
cannot be even-numbered
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A "simile":
is based on comparison
is the same as a hyperbole
is an idiom
none of the above
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"Sine qua non" is Latin for:
without which not
without a hope
work of art
absolute eternal truth
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A "roman à clef":
is all of the above
means novel with a key
is a novel that incorporates real people and/or events into a work of fiction
is typified by "All the King's Men"
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Alice Walker received a Pulitzer in:
1983
1985
1899
1909
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HG Wells is considered the father of:
science fiction
mystery novels
comic books
none of the above
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The author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jose Donoso
Julio Crotazar
none of the above
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The author of "The Great God Pan" was:
Arthur Machen
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Bloch
Dean Koontz
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In a "full shot":
an audience sees an entire subject
a partial view is presented
the camera points toward the star
the director determines the specific angle
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar was a:
poet
artist
playwright
novelist
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The unauthorized use of a copyright is:
piracy
marauding
depredating
legal
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Poetic license:
is an artist's right to deviate from the conventional
is the use of lower case in poems
refers to Yeats's poetry
is reserved for amateur poets
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The first "poet laureate" was:
Ben Jonson
William Shakespeare
ee cummings
Robert Browning
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The character "Willie Stark" appears in:
All the King's Men
Billboard
JFK
Death of a Salesman
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Willie Start represents:
Huey Long
Howard Hughes
Dwight Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
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"True History" was written by:
Lucian of Somosata
Arthur Clark
Edward Andrews
Jung
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"The Jungle" was written by:
Upton Sinclair
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
James Joyce
Bob Woodward
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"John Marcher" was a character in:
The Beast in the Jungle
Tales of the Lion
The Jungle Book
Tales from the Jungle
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"The Loved One" was written by:
Evelyn Waugh
Pat Conroy
Patricia Walker
Alice Walker
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