Quotation mark quiz with answers: Test your knowledge of quotation mark rules

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 💬 Direct Quotations: Use quotation marks to enclose the exact words someone said.
• ✍️ Titles: Use quotation marks for titles of short works like articles, poems, songs, and short stories.
• 🤔 Single Quotation Marks: Use single quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation.
• ✏️ Punctuation: Place periods and commas inside quotation marks in American English.
• ❗ Exclamation/Question Marks: Place exclamation and question marks inside quotation marks when they are part of the quoted material; otherwise, place them outside.
• 💡 Dialogue: Each new speaker gets a new paragraph.
• 🌐 Varying Conventions: Be aware that quotation mark conventions may differ in other languages (e.g., British English).

✍️ Practice Quiz

1. Which sentence uses quotation marks correctly?
   1. "I'm going to the store," she said.
   2. I'm going to the store, she said".
   3. "I'm going to the store, she said."
   4. I'm going to the store," she said".
2. Which of the following titles should be enclosed in quotation marks?
   1. The Lord of the Rings
   2. "The Raven"
   3. National Geographic
   4. Pride and Prejudice
3. Identify the sentence where a quotation appears within another quotation:
   1. She said, "He told me, 'I'll be late.'"
   2. She said, He told me, I'll be late.
   3. "She said, He told me, I'll be late."
   4. She said, "He told me I'll be late".
4. Which sentence correctly uses punctuation with quotation marks?
   1. "Is it raining"? she asked.
   2. "Is it raining?" she asked.
   3. "Is it raining? she asked."
   4. Is it raining"? she asked.
5. Choose the sentence that demonstrates correct dialogue formatting:
   1. "Hello," she said. "How are you?"
   2. "Hello," she said. How are you?"
   3. "Hello," she said. "How are you?"
   4. "Hello, she said. How are you?"
6. Which sentence uses quotation marks to indicate irony or skepticism?
   1. The "expert" couldn't solve the problem.
   2. The expert couldn't solve the problem.
   3. "The expert" could solve the problem.
   4. The expert "could" solve the problem.
7. Which sentence correctly uses a quotation mark in a sentence?
   1. She exclaimed, "What a beautiful day!"
   2. She exclaimed, What a beautiful day!
   3. She exclaimed "What a beautiful day!"
   4. "She exclaimed, What a beautiful day!"