Mr. Burkholtz’s Weekly Quiz
Directions: Please answer all questions on a separate sheet of paper.
Part 1: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Make sure your answers are
written in complete sentences and restate the question in some way.
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What are two instances that require the use of quotation marks?
What is the difference between a direct quotation and an indirect quotation?
Name 3 types of titles that need to be underlined.
Name 3 types of titles that need to be put in quotation marks.
Name the four different types of sentences.
Part 2: Rewrite the following sentences, correcting any errors in punctuation and capitalization. Also,
identify each of the sentences as either D, Ex, Int, or Imp.
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Darn Clara said I paid $10 more for these pants just yesterday
This radio the salesperson announced has excellent sound quality
Gretchen told me last week that this store has a great selection
Didn’t Ted say Meet me in the shoe department at noon
Does she like flowers asked Jeremy flowers are a good gift
The sale items explained the manager are all sold out
Didn’t my brother say asked Erika that he wanted a blue hat for his birthday
These towels exclaimed Angela are so soft
Isn’t this dress asked Viv amazingly beautiful
Mrs. Rogers said finding the right pair of shoes can be a trying experience
Part 3: Rewrite each sentence below and insert question marks where needed and underline words
that should be italicized. Also, identify each of the sentences as either D, Ex, Int, or Imp.
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Who wrote the plays Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet?
For homework, we have to read two chapters from Johnny Tremaine.
Two poems by Robert Frost are The Road Not Taken and Mending Wall.
Naomi’s favorite song from the musical My Fair Lady is On the Street Where You Live.
The magazine Calliope contains an article entitled Life in Antarctica.
Part 4: Rewrite the following sentences, correcting any errors in punctuation and capitalization.
1. Pointing to the rhino hornbill the guide said each day this large African bird eats a combination of raw
meat mice crickets mealworms sweet potatoes grapes raisins cucumbers diced apples and peeled
bananas
2. The fruits and vegetables sound okay to me commented one young visitor but the raw meat mice and
crickets are definitely not on my menu
3. I bet many of you like peanut butter and jelly said the zoo chef. guess what most of our animals
except for the reptiles do to he said
4. The guide continued we maintain a live-food room with mice and rats for our snakes and lizards
chickens for our crocodiles and pythons as well as worms and crickets
5. It’s my job explained the chef to know exactly what the animals like and dislike and to make sure they
don’t get fat. Here in the zoo they get less exercise than they would if they were in the wild
6. As the group walked toward the apes the guide asked how many of you saw the movie congo. When
several visitors replied that they had seen the movie he said well the gorilla noises you heard in the
movie were recorded he at Zoo Atlanta
Part 5: Rewrite the sentences, inserting quotation marks and underlines where necessary.
1. The words to The Star-Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 and
then set to an English melody known as To Anacreon in Heaven.
2. Musicals like Grease and Evita have been made into movies.
3. The TV series Little House on the Prairie was based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
4. The Canterbury Tales is a book of stories written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
5. The Laughing Man, a selection from Nine Stories, was written by J.D. Salinger.
6. Virgil, the Roman poet who composed the Aeneid, was influenced by the Illiad and the Odyssey, two
Greek epics attributed to Homer.
7. Robert Louis Stevenson, author of such great adventures as Treasure Island and Kidnapped also wrote
many wonderful poems that can be found in A Child’s Garden of Verses.
8. George Gershwin’s musicals include Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue and such popular songs as I
Got Rhythm and Embraceable You.
9. During the 1800s and early 1900s, conditions and business, industry, and politics were exposed by
writers known as muckrakers in publications such as Everybody’s Magazine and McClure’s Magazine.
10. The first newspaper in the American Colonies, Publick Occurences Both Foreign and Domestick, was
founded by Benjamin Harris of Boston in 1690.
Part 6: Write a brief dialogue between to school children. Make sure that you use at least one
example of each of the different types of sentences and that you punctuate properly.