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Business Communication and Technical Writing

Quiz covering grammar, word choice, technical documentation, and professional writing principles

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the incorrect one:

  1. The media is protected by the first amendment.
  2. The artist's medium was pen and ink.
  3. His preferred media have been newspapers and magazines.
  4. The media are protected by the first amendment.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the false one:

  1. The pills made him green, but had no other averse effects.
  2. The pills made him green, but had no other adverse effects.
  3. He stopped writing after all the adverse criticism of his first book.
  4. She was averse to all his opinions.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Which of these attributes improve accesibility and make a document more user friendly?

  1. Relevant heading and titles
  2. Well-defined TOC
  3. Working hyperlinks
  4. Less content
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which type of list will you use to explain the process to install a printer?

  1. Numbered List
  2. Bulleted List
  3. Outline
  4. One instruction per line
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the wrong one:

  1. As guilty as he looks, he'll surely be convicted.
  2. As surely that this is payday, she'll be at the racetrack.
  3. She looked surprisingly calm, as harrowing as the trek had been.
  4. She did as poorly on the test as Mary.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the false one:

  1. The reason Emily came dressed as Helen of Troy was that she'd been told it was a costume party.
  2. Emily came as Helen of Troy because she'd been told it was a costume party.
  3. The reason Jay survived was because he had packed a case of chocolate bars for the journey.
  4. Mulligan is serving because the head waiter is sick.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What are the components of an email message?

  1. Salutation, message, signature
  2. Address and subject
  3. None of the above
  4. All of the above
Question 8 True/False

Ideally, only five levels of headings should be displayed in the Table of Contents.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who are the target audience for a design document?

  1. Senior Management
  2. Developers and Testers
  3. Technical Writers
  4. Project Managers
Question 10 True/False

True/False: Alphonse and Mario had not seen each other for a very long time period.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 11 True/False

True/False: Officer, she is the party who hit my car.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 12 True/False

True/False: Needless to say, this has been an exciting party.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Which are correct??

  1. Dr. Levin still has the same childish wonder about science that he had as a boy.
  2. Dana's childish behavior during poker games led to the breakup of the group.
  3. She has a childlike optimism about the future.
  4. Mike bounced back from his trauma with a childlike resiliency
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the wrong one:

  1. In Jim's simplistic view, everyone is either good or bad.
  2. They had a simple plan for rescuing the hostages
  3. Don't overcomplicate this; we need a simplistic solution.
  4. Her message is too simplistic to take seriously.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Choose the wrong one:

  1. He made illusions to his book in every speech.
  2. Perry had harbored so many delusions about being promoted that he refused to believe he was fired.
  3. The Nine Lives Society loved the allusions to reincarnation in your poem.
  4. The bridge looked as if it were swaying, but that was just an illusion right?
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