ENG 2100 Quiz #2 Name________Andrey Petruniv____________________

Please, place a check next to the preferred phrase or sentence.

1) ___ No agreement has been reached as yet.

_√__ No agreement has yet been reached.

2) ___ He has not got any sense.

_√_ He has no sense.

3) ___The job was unattractive in terms of salary.

_√__The salary made the job unattractive.

4) ___ Her folks arrived by the afternoon train.

__√_ Her father and mother arrived by the afternoon train.

5) _√_ The weather was nice during our trip to Italia.

___ The weather was sunny and warm during our trip to Italia.

6) ___ He lost the first game due to carelessness.

_√__ He lost the first game because of carelessness.

7) ___ Personally, I thought it was a good book.

__√_ I thought it was a good book.

8) ___ The balancing act was very unique.

__√_ The balancing act was unique.

MULTIPLE CHOICE

__b_ 9) The term which means "slang" word or phrase is:

a) anecdote
b) colloquialism
c) antecedent
d) analogy
_b__ 10) Strunk and White advise the writer to "draw the reader's attention to the sense and
substance of the writing." You should place yourself in the _____________.
a) foreground
b) background
c) in the story
d) none of the above
__a_ 11) "Before beginning to compose, gauge the nature and extent of the enterprise and work
from a suitable _________."
a) design
b) emotion
c) tense
d) language
_c 12) "Write with _________, not with____________."
 a) nouns and adjectives; verbs and adverbs
b) verbs and adverbs; nouns and adjectives
c) nouns and verbs; adjectives and adverbs
d) adjectives and adverbs; nouns and verbs
__d_ 13) Revision and the act of rewriting are_________.
a) signs of sloppy writing
b) are not recommended
c) essential for the amateur writer but not needed by the professional
d) essential for all writers
_b__ 14) "Do not overwrite. When writing with a computer, you must guard against ______."
a) large words
b) wordiness
c) the active voice
d) concrete language
__a_ 15) " Do not affect a _______ manner. The________ style is often the work of an
egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that comes to mind is of general interest and
that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day."
a) breezy
b) direct
c) vigorous
d) active
__d__16) Strunk and White advises the writer to:
a) avoid the use of qualifiers
b) use orthodox spelling
c) do not explain too mush
d) all of the above
__a_ 17) MLA is short for:
a) Modern Language Association
b) Modern Library Association
c) Modern Library Academy
d) all of the above
__c_ 18) The last page of a MLA paper is titled:
a) bibliography
b) references
c) works cited
d) foot notes
_b__ 19) Within the body of the paper, each citation is identified with:
a) book title and page number
b) author's last name and page number
c) foot note number
d) page number
__d_ 20) A one or two sentence statement of the central idea of the paper is called the:
a) concept
b) title
c) theme
d) thesis