This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation Marks – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Marks Quiz 24 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. These punctuation marks are squared off quotations that are used to show information of a technical nature A) Parenthesis. B) Brackets. C) Ellipsis. D) Colon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brackets. 3. What are these? [ ] A) Quotation Marks. B) Brackets. C) Parenthesis. D) Hyphen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brackets. 4. 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) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) Compound complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compound complex. 5. 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. 6. We eat out on fridays.In this sentence, the word ..... needs to be capitalized. A) On. B) Fridays. C) Out. D) Eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fridays. 7. What mark is used in short works such as poems and songs? A) Underlining. B) Quotation marks. C) Italics. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quotation marks. 8. It shows excitement or strong feelings. A) Exclamation point. B) Question mark. C) Apostrophe. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exclamation point. 9. Which of these marks is a period? A) . B) -. C) ;. D) !. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. What punctuation mark do you need in this sentence? I need to buy bread ..... butter ..... jam ..... and some plates. A) Full stops. B) Commas. C) Semocolons. D) Periods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Commas. 15. 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. 16. My father asks whether you are going to visit us next weekend A) Comma. B) Dash. C) Period. D) Question mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Period. 17. 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. 18. What a weird sound that is ..... A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !. 19. Where do you need a hyphen? A) Fast-acting. B) Fast-acting-medicine. C) Acting-medicine. D) Correct as is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fast-acting. 20. Which of these marks is a quotation mark? A) ''. B) ;. C) :. D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ''. 21. What punctuation should end the following sentence? Your choices for breakfast are scrambled eggs, pancakes, or cereal A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Period. 22. Select the answer below that uses capitalization and punctuation correctly. A) Jack shouted "Here I am!". B) Jack shouted, Here I am!. C) Jack shouted, "Here I am!". D) Jack shouted, "here I am!". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jack shouted, "Here I am!". 23. This punctuation is used to show strong emotion. A) Question mark. B) Exclamation mark. C) Period. D) Colon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exclamation mark. 24. What punctuation mark do you need in this sentence? Little by little the hole ..... filling company expanded its business. A) A hyphen-. B) A comma,. C) A semicolon ;. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A hyphen-. 25. Which punctuation mark should appear after this statement? Yipee ..... I won ..... A) . B) !. C) ?. D) ,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) !. 26. Through his cartoons, Lewis frequently criticized the U.S. government's racial policies; however, he also produced nonpolitical ink drawings, sketches, and chald plates. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) Compound complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound. 27. What do you need at the end of this sentence? Mark shouted, "I love ice cream ..... " A) ?. B) !. C) . D) ( ). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) !. 28. Why do you use brackets? A) To write a set of less important details. B) To be more handsome. C) To show missing letters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To write a set of less important details. 29. Used to separate a list. A) Comma. B) Apostrophe. C) Exclamation point. D) Parentheses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma. 30. Which of these marks is a hyphen? A) ,. B) . C) (). D) -. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesPunctuation Marks Quiz 1Punctuation Marks Quiz 2Punctuation Marks Quiz 3Punctuation Marks Quiz 4Punctuation Marks Quiz 5Punctuation Marks Quiz 6Punctuation Marks Quiz 7Punctuation Marks Quiz 8Punctuation Marks Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books