By the nature of some items on this quiz, many of your answers will be very different from the ones below.  The key is to identify the potential "nugget pitfalls" avoided in each of the answers and to ascertain whether you avoided similar pitfalls in your own answers.  If you have questions about specific answers, either yours or miner by telephone or email.
 

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.).

In one especially hilarious episode of Friends, Joey is trying to teach Ross to "talk dirty" to women, and when Chandler walks in and hears Ross "practicing," it appears to him that Ross is passionately attracted to Joey.

Note the literary present tense (N2)and the avoidance of straightforward plot summary (N1)—the sentence makes the point that the episode is hilarious .  Also note the double quote marks around the words "talk dirty" and "practicing" (N5s).
 

Coser suggests that families have a number of "rights and obligations," and he says that "These include a network of sexual rights and prohibitions" (143).

Note the literary present (N2) and the clarification of what the "these" (N3cr) in the quotation refers to. 

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

After she tells her daughter how to behave around men who do not know her well, the mother in "Girl" adds, "this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming" (196).

Note the literary present (N2) in the introduction of the quote, the indication of who is speaking (N3), whom is being addressed as "you" (N3cr), and the indication of what "this way" refers to in the quote (N3cr).

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
f. "Are There Traditional Families Still?" [essay] [Note the question mark inside the quotation marks]
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"

The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying "shoot," "darn," "Jiminey," or "Jumping Jehoshaphat."
The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying "shoot!" "darn!" "Jiminey!" or "Jumping Jehoshaphat!"
The closest Mom comes to swearing is saying "shoot," "darn," "Jiminey," or "Jumping Jehoshaphat"!

In the second sentence, each quote is an exclamation; in the third sentence, the sentence itself is an exclamation.

6) Little Ryan's favorite question is "Why"

Little Ryan's favorite question is "Why?"

The word in quote marks is a question, so the question mark is an integral part of what's quoted and belongs inside the closing quote mark.

7) Did Bill Clinton really say "dammit"

Did Bill Clinton really say "dammit"?

The sentence itself is a question—the quote is not a question.

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.

Black Elk recalls the difficulty of courting a beautiful woman in his youth: "I have to be a very sneaky fellow to talk to her at all, and . . . that is only the beginning" (190).

Note the literary present (N2) , the explanation of the scenario in the introduction of the quote (N3cr), and the correct spacing of the ellipsis points (N4s).  Also note that the portions of the quote before and after the omission make clear grammatical sense together (N4g).

Here's the full text of the original source, from the first paragraph on p. 190 (note that the omission comes from within a single sentence in the original):

Black Elk recalls the difficulty of courting a beautiful woman in his youth: "I have to be a very sneaky fellow to talk to her at all, and after I have managed to talk to her, that is only the beginning" (190).

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.

Black Elk says in "High Horse's Courting," "Probably for a long time I have been feeling sick about a certain girl because I love her so much, but she will not even look at me, and her parents keep a good watch over her. But I keep feeling worse and worse all the time. . . . I feel sicker than ever about her" (191).

Note the literary present in the introduction of the quote and the correct spacing of the four-dot ellipsis (N4s).  Also note that here, too, the portions of the quote before and after the omission make sense together.  The full passage from the original is as follows:

Black Elk says in "High Horse's Courting," "Probably for a long time I have been feeling sick about a certain girl because I love her so much, but she will not even look at me, and her parents keep a good watch over her. But I keep feeling worse and worse all the time; so maybe I sneak up to her tepee in the dark and wait until she comes out. Maybe I just wait there all night and don't get any sleep at all and she does not come out. Then I feel sicker than ever about her" (191).