This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Punctuation > Ellipses – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ellipses Quiz 5 (15 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the sentence that uses hyphens correctly. A) The well known author was signing books. B) The well-known author was signing books. C) The well known-author was signing books. D) The well-known-author was signing books. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The well-known author was signing books. 2. A solar eclipse only happens during a ..... moon. A) New. B) Cresent. C) Gibbous. D) Full. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New. 3. What is at the middle of a Heliocentric system? A) Mars. B) Moon. C) Sun. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun. 4. Complete the sentence using ellipses to show an unfinished thought:'I was going to tell you ..... but I forgot.' A) Something important. B) The whole story. C) An interesting fact. D) A secret. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A secret. 5. Will Smith said: "The first step is you have to say that you can ..... There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A." A) Correct. B) Incorrect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incorrect. 6. Which is NOT one of Kepler's laws? A) Planets travel in an ellipse. B) Planets closest to the sun travel faster. C) The farther a planet is from the sun, the longer it takes to orbit. D) Planets revolve around the Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Planets revolve around the Earth. 7. What is the eccentricity of the ellipse? $\frac{\left(x-6\right)^2}{25}+\frac{\left(y-3\right)^2}{64}=1$ A) 0.63. B) 0.78. C) 0.86. D) 0.74. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.78. 8. Which punctuation mark is used to enclose non-essential information in a sentence? A) Brackets. B) Parentheses. C) Commas. D) Ellipses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parentheses. 9. In which scenario would you use ellipses? A) To list items. B) To indicate a pause in speech. C) To show omitted text in a quote. D) To end a sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To show omitted text in a quote. 10. In an ellipse, what distance does b represent? A) The distance from the center to a vertex. B) The distance from the center to a co-vertex. C) The distance from the center to a focus. D) The length of the minor axis. E) The length of the major axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The distance from the center to a co-vertex. 11. What is the purpose of an ellipsis in a sentence? A) To indicate a pause. B) To show excitement. C) To omit unnecessary words. D) To connect two ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To omit unnecessary words. 12. Choose the sentence that uses ellipses correctly to indicate omitted text. A) She said she would arrive by noon. B) She said she would arrive by noon. C) She said she would arrive by noon. D) She said she would arrive by noon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She said she would arrive by noon. 13. What has an eccentricity of zero A) A straight line. B) A large ellipse. C) A circle. D) A small ellipse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A circle. 14. What does the distance labeled "b" tells about an ellipse? A) Half of the length of its major axis. B) Half of the length of its minor axis. C) The distance between the foci. D) The length of its major axis. E) The length of its minor axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Half of the length of its minor axis. 15. Ellipses are used at the beginning of a sentence to show something has been omitted. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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