Business Communication and Technical Writing
Quiz covering grammar, word choice, technical documentation, and professional writing principles
Questions
Choose the incorrect one:
- The media is protected by the first amendment.
- The artist's medium was pen and ink.
- His preferred media have been newspapers and magazines.
- The media are protected by the first amendment.
Choose the false one:
- The pills made him green, but had no other averse effects.
- The pills made him green, but had no other adverse effects.
- He stopped writing after all the adverse criticism of his first book.
- She was averse to all his opinions.
Which of these attributes improve accesibility and make a document more user friendly?
- Relevant heading and titles
- Well-defined TOC
- Working hyperlinks
- Less content
Which type of list will you use to explain the process to install a printer?
- Numbered List
- Bulleted List
- Outline
- One instruction per line
Choose the wrong one:
- As guilty as he looks, he'll surely be convicted.
- As surely that this is payday, she'll be at the racetrack.
- She looked surprisingly calm, as harrowing as the trek had been.
- She did as poorly on the test as Mary.
Choose the false one:
- The reason Emily came dressed as Helen of Troy was that she'd been told it was a costume party.
- Emily came as Helen of Troy because she'd been told it was a costume party.
- The reason Jay survived was because he had packed a case of chocolate bars for the journey.
- Mulligan is serving because the head waiter is sick.
What are the components of an email message?
- Salutation, message, signature
- Address and subject
- None of the above
- All of the above
Ideally, only five levels of headings should be displayed in the Table of Contents.
- True
- False
Who are the target audience for a design document?
- Senior Management
- Developers and Testers
- Technical Writers
- Project Managers
True/False: Alphonse and Mario had not seen each other for a very long time period.
- True
- False
True/False: Officer, she is the party who hit my car.
- True
- False
True/False: Needless to say, this has been an exciting party.
- True
- False
Which are correct??
- Dr. Levin still has the same childish wonder about science that he had as a boy.
- Dana's childish behavior during poker games led to the breakup of the group.
- She has a childlike optimism about the future.
- Mike bounced back from his trauma with a childlike resiliency
Choose the wrong one:
- In Jim's simplistic view, everyone is either good or bad.
- They had a simple plan for rescuing the hostages
- Don't overcomplicate this; we need a simplistic solution.
- Her message is too simplistic to take seriously.
Choose the wrong one:
- He made illusions to his book in every speech.
- Perry had harbored so many delusions about being promoted that he refused to believe he was fired.
- The Nine Lives Society loved the allusions to reincarnation in your poem.
- The bridge looked as if it were swaying, but that was just an illusion right?