Question

What is the best way to punctuate the bolded portion of the sentence? Kurt Vonnegut’s book, Welcome to the Monkey House, includes the short story A Long Walk to Forever

A) “A Long Walk to Forever”.
B) A Long Walk to Forever.
C) A Long Walk to Forever
D) “A Long Walk to Forever.”

Answer 1

The answer is a because if the title is in the middle you always have to put quotation marks

Answer 2

Answer: D

Explanation: Option C an be discarded because it lacks final punctuation, and option B can be discarded because short story titles are emphasized with quotation marks. Finally, option A is also incorrect because periods and commas always go before the closing quotation marks.