English 1101 Nuggets quiz

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1) Describe briefly (two sentences max.) any situation or event you thought funny or disturbing in a movie or serial TV show you've seen recently (a TV series, that is, with actors, not a talk show, news show, etc.).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2) Introduce the following quotation from paragraph 1 on p. 143 of the Lewis Coser article in our text: "These include a network of sexual rights and prohibitions." 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3) Introduce the following quote from p. 196: "this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming."

  
 
 
 

4) Underline or put in quote marks the following titles:

     a) The Simpsons [TV show]
     b) I Could Not Stop for Death, [poem]
     c) Trifles [short play]
     d) Ms. Magazine
     e) Macbeth [by Shakespeare]
     f) Are There Traditional Families Still? [essay]
     g) Chipper Jones Goes Yard [an article], from USA Today
     h) The Necklace [short story]
     i) The Scarlet Letter
     j) Gone With the Wind [the movie]
 

Rewrite #'s 5-7, punctuating as needed (do not remove any of the quotation marks):
5) The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying “shoot” “darn” “Jiminey” or “Jumping Jehoshaphat”
 
 
 
 
 

6) Little Ryan's favorite question is “Why”
 
 
 
 
 

7) Did Bill Clinton really say “dammit”
 
 
 
 

8) Introduce and quote a passage from any article in The Little, Brown Reader, using an ellipsis to indicate that you have left out words from within a single sentence.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

9) Introduce and quote a passage from any article in The Little, Brown Reader, using an ellipsis to indicate that you have left out an entire sentence or more.