AP Style Quiz
INSTRUCTIONS: Using your
AP Stylebook
, find and correct all errors in this quiz. Each sentencecontains zero, one or two errors addressed by the AP Stylebook. If the sentence is correct aswritten, leave it correct as written. Do not delete information unless it is redundant.Once you complete the quiz, which should take you between 15 and 45 minutes, depending onyour familiarity with AP Style, watch the screencast where I show you the correct answers andwhere to find them in the 2009
AP Stylebook
He ate 15 doughnuts at the fair.2.
Rev. Frank Robbins, 55, served as a chaplain in the U.S. army.3.
The living room is nine feet wide and seventeen feet long.4.
She met the pope on a sunny day in Rome.5.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Burns told the general that nothing was wrong at the hospital.6.
Robert J. Carey Jr. is Mayor of College Park, Md.7.
Members of the Missouri legislature refused to stand for Governor Kit Bond.8.
You can write to me at 400 W. 7th St.9.
I grew up in the North, and I like cold weather.10.
Her favorite song is "Rock Me On The Water."11.
At 10 A.M. this morning, Vice President Al Gore canceled the meeting.12.
"A bottle of Dr. Pepper, two coca-colas and a beer to go," he said.13.
Our home was totally destroyed by Hurricane Andrew.