A Sticky Business Editing Quiz

MONDAY: What punctuation goes at the end of the first sentence?

• period

• exclamation point

• question mark

• nothing, that's not the end of the sentence

MONDAY: What do I need to capitalize in this sentence? The united states produces about 24,000,000 miles of chewing gum each year.

• Just United

• United States

• Just States

• nothing needs to be capitalized

MONDAY: Where do I need to put a comma or commas in the following sentence? "Gum is available in different varieties flavors and shapes but did you ever wonder wear gum comes from?"

• after flavors only

• after but

• after varieties and flavors

• after varieties flavors shapes

MONDAY: Where do the comma or commas go in the following sentence? "People have been chewing gum it turns out for a very long time."

• after gum and after out

• after people

• after gum and after very

• after People and after out

TUESDAY: What change(s), if any, needs to be made in the following sentence? "More than a thousand years ago the maya and other peoples of central america chewed chicle."

• comma after maya. Capitalize america.

• comma after ago. captialize these: maya, and central america

• capitalize maya and central america

• no change is needed

TUESDAY: What change(s), if any, needs to be made in the following sentence? "In the 1860s, the use of chicle as a chewing gum was developed and gums popularity began to raise."

• no change is needed

• comma after developed.

  comma after chicle. Change the word rise to raise

• Delete the comma after 1860s. Change began to begun.

• comma after developed. Add an apostrophe in the word gums to make it gum's. Change raise to rise

Who was responsible for bringing chicle to New York in 1860?

• Thomas Adams

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• John Adams

• George Washington

What was chicle originally intended to be used as?

• A type of rubber

• A type of plastic

• A type of wax

• A type of metal

WEDNESDAY: What change or changes need to be made in the following sentence? "Antonio lopez de santa anna the mexican general whose army defeated the texans at the alamo in 1836 brought chicle to new york in 1860."

• Capitalize these words: lopez, santa, anna, mexican, texans, alamo, new york. Put a comma after anna. Put a comma after 1836.

• Capitalize these words: santa, anna, mexican, general, alamo and new york. Put a comma after anna. Put a comma after 1836

• Capitalize these words: lopez, santa, anna, alamo and new york. Put a comma after general. Put a comma after texans.

• No change is needed.

WEDNESDAY: What change(s) need to be made in the following sentence? "A man named thomas adams tryed to make this "rubber" harden but he failed."

• Capitalize these words: thomas, adams. Change make to making. Change tryed to trying. Add a comma after man.

• No change is needed.

• Capitalize these words thomas, adams. Change tryed to trying. Add a comma after adams.

• Capitalize these words thomas, adams.

  Change tryed to tried. Add a comma after harden.