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- Writing Test
- Jennifer Curtis
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- Copyright 1997, Softdisk Publishing
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- Writing Test
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- 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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- "Lead sheets" are related to:
- music publishing
- news print
- radiation therapy
- none of the above
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- 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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- 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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- The first "poet laureate" was appointed in"
- 1619
- 1700
- 1750
- 1909
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- Which writer appeared on a postage stamp?
- all of the above
- Rachel Carson
- Edith Wharton
- Louisa May Alcott
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- "#" 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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