DOL Quiz 7, 10/22: Punctuation Mania!

Annie Holub and Heather Reilly

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  1. They were five Canadian muscians who loved all kinds of American ____________ country, rockabilly and gospel.
  2. Your answer:
    music: blues
    music; blues
    music, blues


  3. They were young and _______________ were also eager to create their own musicial sound and to sing about America as they saw it.
  4. Your answer:
    ambitious: they
    ambitious; they
    ambitious, they


  5. The group___________________________ Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, and Robbie Robertson.
  6. Your answer:
    included the following: Rick Danko,
    included the following--- Rick Danko,
    included the following; Rick Danko,


  7. For years they toured the East Coast as a little-known__________________________were not unknown to Bob Dylan.
  8. Your answer:
    rock-and-roll band--- however,
    rock-and-roll band; however,
    rock-and-roll band: however,


  9. Dylan needed a new group for his tours in 1965 and ____________he signed them for the job.
  10. Your answer:
    1966: therefore,
    1966; therefore,
    1966--- therefore


  11. They had performed under many names over the________________________________finally became known simply as The Band.
  12. Your answer:
    years: The Hawks, The Crackers, The Canadian Squires, but
    years--- The Hawks, The Crackers, The Canadian Squires--- but
    years, The Hawks, The Crackers, The Canadian Squires, but


  13. The Band in 1968 recorded their now-famous album__________________.
  14. Your answer:
    Music from the Big Pink
    “Music from the Big Pink”


  15. Which one of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
  16. Your answer:
    Music critic Greil Marcus (who now writes for Salon magazine) identified the magic of The Band: They have a spirit of excitement, humor, history, and a determination to find plurality and drama in America.
    Music critic Greil Marcus— who now writes for Salon magazine--- identified the magic of The Band “They have a spirit of excitement, humor, history, and a determination to find plurality and drama in America.”
    Music critic Greil Marcus, who now writes for Salon magazine, identified the magic of The Band “They have a spirit of excitement, humor, history, and a determination to find plurality and drama in America.”
    Music critic Greil Marcus (who now writes for Salon magazine) identified the magic of The Band: “They have a spirit of excitement, humor, history, and a determination to find plurality and drama in America.”


  17. Which of the following sentences needs quotation marks?
  18. Your answer:
    Millie answered that emigrants are people who leave their native country; they’re immigrants in the new country
    Do you know the difference between immigrants and emigrants? asked Natalie.


  19. Which of the following sentences needs quotation marks?
  20. Your answer:
    Much of our country’s literature concerns immigrants, Emil pointed out.
    The group recalled that Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia concerns immigrant settlers of Nebraska.


  21. When asked what jazz was, Louie Armstrong _______________________________
  22. Your answer:
    answered, “Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.”
    answered, “man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know”
    answered “Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know”.


  23. ____________________________said Groucho Marx, ___________________________
  24. Your answer:
    “I never forget a face,” ; “But in your case, I’ll make an exception.”
    “I never forget a face”, ; “But in your case, I’ll make an exception”.


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