This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Punctuation > Punctuation Marks – Quiz 35 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Punctuation Marks Quiz 35 (22 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What needs a capital letter? There is no school on monday. A) School. B) Is. C) On. D) Monday. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monday. 2. What is the name of the punctuation mark that separates things in a list? A) The period. B) The comma. C) The question mark. D) The question mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The comma. 3. These marks are used at the beginning and end of a phrase to show that it is being written exactly as it was originally said or written. A) Quotation marks. B) Semicolon. C) Apostrophe. D) Dash. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quotation marks. 4. Is made with a full stop over a comma. It used to separate parts of a sentence or list and indicating a pause longer than a comma, but shorter than a full stop. A) Apostrophe. B) Comma. C) Parentheses. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Semicolon. 5. Choose the correct punctuation and tell what type of sentence it is.I am buying rollerblades tomorrow ..... A) . declarative. B) ? interrogative. C) ! exclamatory. D) . imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . declarative. 6. What is the correct symbol for "quotation marks" ? Choose the correct answers. A) ( ). B) '' ". C) , ,. D) !. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) '' ". 7. What punctuation is the following sentence missing? Groucho Marx has this to say about people, dogs, and reading "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." A) Colon. B) Semicolon. C) Parentheses. D) Dash or dashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colon. 8. Which punctuation mark is a period? A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 9. What punctuation is the following sentence missing? My usually soft spoken brother began to shout angrliy. A) Semicolon. B) Dash or dashes. C) Parentheses. D) Hyphen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyphen. 10. Choose the correct punctuation and tell what type of sentence it is.Go get the kitten ..... A) . declarative. B) ? interrogative. C) ! exclamatory. D) . imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) . imperative. 11. One pair of shallow curved signs, used to enclosed an additional inserted word or comment and make it different from the rest of the sentence A) Semicolon. B) Comma. C) Parentheses. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parentheses. 12. What is the missing Punctuation Mark in the following statement? I love sushi my friend said. A) Ellipsis. B) Comma. C) Question Mark. D) Quotation Mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quotation Mark. 13. What punctuation should end the following sentence? Did you take any notes in class A) Period. B) Question mark. C) Exclamation point. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Question mark. 14. I like your new shoes A) ?. B) . C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) . 15. I would like to learn to rollerblade ..... A) . B) ?. C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 16. What is the correct symbol for "quotation marks" ? Choose the correct answer. A) ( ). B) '' ". C) !. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) '' ". 17. This mark of punctuation can either show an "empty, " or thoughtful pause, or it can be used to show that something has been left out of quoted material. A) Hyphen. B) Ellipsis. C) En dash. D) Parentheses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipsis. 18. I love playing outdoors.In this sentence the word ..... needs to be capitalized. A) Outdoors. B) Love. C) Playing. D) I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I. 19. Identify the correct use of a singular possessive noun. A) Marys' glove. B) Mary' gloves. C) Mary's glove. D) Marys's gloves'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mary's glove. 20. This mark of punctuation is used in certain conventional situations such as between the hours and minutes in the time of day or after the greeting of a business letter. A) Colon. B) Comma. C) Semicolon. D) En dash. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colon. 21. Where do you need a colon? A) Appoint:ment. B) 3:30. C) A:m. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3:30. 22. Which of these marks is a diagonal slash? A) (. B) !. C) -. D) /. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) /. ← PreviousRelated 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