Choose the correct answers for questions 12–15.
12. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Dogs cats and hamsters are animals, that you are unlikely to find in a zoo. Dogs, cats, and hamsters are animals that you are unlikely to find in a zoo.* Dogs, cats and hamsters, are animals that you are unlikely to find in a zoo. Dogs, cats, and hamsters are animals that you are, unlikely, to find in a zoo.
13. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
On January 1, 2019 most of the charity’s activities will cease.
Most of the charity’s activities will cease in January 2019.
The president lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20500. The president lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20500.

14. Which sentence is punctuated incorrectly?
When you get there, you will see him, of course.
Hey, Chris, do you want to watch the game on TV tonight?**
Needless to say, nobody thought that her joke was particularly funny. The story was, far too long and way too dull, in my opinion.
15. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
The ladie’s room is on the other side of the building.
Marcias’ attempt at making dinner was a smashing success.
The children’s playroom was a metaphorical beehive of activity.
The music industries’s profits have fallen sharply over time.
16. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
Medicine has seen great advances: and life expectancies have risen as a result. Medicine has seen great advances and life expectancies have risen as a result. Medicine has seen great advances; life expectancies have risen as a result. Medicine has seen great advances; and life expectancies have risen as a result.**
17. Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
A “Newsweek” article entitled “Today’s Child” has sparked a lot of controversy. A Newsweek article entitled “Today’s Child” has sparked a lot of controversy.
A “Newsweek” article entitled Today’s Child has sparked a lot of controversy.
A Newsweek article entitled Today’s Child has sparked a lot of controversy.
9. “Old age should burn and rave at close of day...”
This line from Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” is an example of which of
the following?
slant rhyme
internal rhyme
a villanelle
a sonnet
10. Read these lines from Rupert Brooke’s “The Soldier.”
“A body of England’s, breathing English air,/Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.”
Which of these can be found in this excerpt?
parallelism
repetition
an epiphany
an allusion
