This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation Marks – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Marks Quiz 23 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Choose the correct number formation. A) 1500, 00. B) 150, 000. C) 150000. D) 1, 500, 00. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 150, 000. 2. Which punctuation mark ends a sentence that asks a question? A) Period. B) Question mark?. C) Exclamation mark!. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Question mark?. 3. Which punctuation mark is an exclamation mark? A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 4. Which is the correct use of a colon? A) Dear Aunt Cathy:. B) Dear Mom:. C) Dear Dad:. D) Dear Sir:. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dear Sir:. 5. As a young man he worked at various menial jobs until a Little Rock newspaper artist taught him how to draw. A) Compound. B) Compound complex. C) Simple. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Complex. 6. Upon Lewis's death in 1891, "The Freeman, " the newspaper that made him famous, praised his talent and mourned his loss. A) Simple. B) Complex. C) Compound. D) Compound complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complex. 7. My grandmother does not look like her age She just turned 80. A) En dash. B) Em dash. C) Hyphen. D) Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Period. 8. Means something is being asked. A) Exclamation point. B) Full stop. C) Question mark. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Question mark. 9. Mark of separation used between parts of a word A) Quotation mark. B) Colon. C) Hyphen. D) Dash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyphen. 10. Which of these marks is a semicolon? A) ;. B) . C) *. D) :. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ;. 11. Pick the Right Punctuation MarkThere's a coyote heading towards the cattle A) Period. B) Question Mark. C) Exclamation Mark. D) Colon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamation Mark. 12. These punctuation marks are squared off quotations that are used to show information of a technical nature A) Ellipsis. B) Colon. C) Brackets. D) Parenthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brackets. 13. What are these? [ ] A) Hyphen. B) Brackets. C) Parenthesis. D) Quotation Marks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brackets. 14. If you examine this self-portrait of Lewis, you can see evidence of his artistic versatility, and you can get a sense of the atmosphere in which he worked. A) Compound complex. B) Simple. C) Compound. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound complex. 15. A speaker or writer's exact words are contained within these marks. They are also used around titles of shorter works (poems, short stories, etc, ) or titles of works that are a part of a longer work (article in a magazine or newspaper, episode of a TV series, etc.). A) Single quotation marks. B) Parenthesis. C) Brackets. D) Quotation marks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quotation marks. 16. We eat out on fridays.In this sentence, the word ..... needs to be capitalized. A) Fridays. B) Out. C) Eat. D) On. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fridays. 17. What mark is used in short works such as poems and songs? A) Quotation marks. B) Comma. C) Underlining. D) Italics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quotation marks. 18. It shows excitement or strong feelings. A) Apostrophe. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamation point. 19. Which of these marks is a period? A) ;. B) !. C) -. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) . 20. What punctuation should end the following sentence? The teacher asked if we were ready for the test A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Period. 21. What punctuation should end the following sentence? I can't figure out how to turn on this computer A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclamation point. 22. Pick the Right Punctuation Mark I'm so happy right now I can dance A) Period Mark. B) Exclamation Mark. C) Question Mark. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exclamation Mark. 23. Out of these four sentences, select the correct sentence that uses punctuation marks properly. A) "Why are you doing this? " asked Lily to Brian. B) Amir, Li Hong and Suresh are best friends,. C) Mei Ling and Mei Ying are twins?. D) She has not submit her homework yet?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Why are you doing this? " asked Lily to Brian. 24. What punctuation mark do you need in this sentence? I need to buy bread ..... butter ..... jam ..... and some plates. A) Commas. B) Semocolons. C) Full stops. D) Periods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commas. 25. When do we use the colon? A) To introduce informationthat defines, explains, or provides alist of what came before the colon. B) When there are three sentences. C) When there is only one sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To introduce informationthat defines, explains, or provides alist of what came before the colon. 26. My father asks whether you are going to visit us next weekend A) Comma. B) Question mark. C) Period. D) Dash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Period. 27. Tom ran down the road to visit his friend A) Tom ran down the road to visit his Friend. B) Tom ran down the road to visit his friend. C) Tom ran down the road to visit his friend. D) Tom Ran down the road to visit his friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom ran down the road to visit his friend. 28. What a weird sound that is ..... A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 29. Where do you need a hyphen? A) Correct as is. B) Fast-acting-medicine. C) Fast-acting. D) Acting-medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fast-acting. 30. Which of these marks is a quotation mark? A) ;. B) . C) :. D) ''. 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