Questions 1–30: Select the one best answer to each question.
1. A covering memorandum should be attached to formal reports
that are sent to
A. customers.
B. the federal government.
C. shareholders.
D. someone within the company.
2. One advantage of topic outlines is that they provide
A. topic sentences for your paragraphs.
B. new ideas for your outline.
C. internal headings for your document.
D. more precise ideas.
3. The following four statements tell something about written
descriptions. Which one of the statements is incorrect?
A. There is a complete paragraph for each part listed in
the introduction.
B. The paragraphs in the body describe each part in greater
detail than the introduction.
C. One paragraph describes several different parts.
D. Transitional clues such as first and next guide the reader
4. Business and technical writers use abbreviations for
A. days of the week and months of the year.
B. the title of a person if it appears before the person’s name.
C. any sign and symbol used in the body of a report.
D. technical words used only occasionally in a report.
5. Reports that are very large in both size and scope usually take the form of a/an
A. formal report. C. interoffice memorandum.
B. letter. D. feasibility report.
6. Unlike memos, letters include
A. a signature above the sender’s typewritten name.
B. a general subject line.
C. indented paragraphs.
D. the sender’s name in the heading.
7. Among the various kinds of visual aids, tables are
A. the most difficult to construct.
B. the most common aid used in reports.
C. helpful for showing the relationships between two sets of data.
D. generally used to show trends in business performance
8. When documenting your research, you should cite the sources for everything except
A. paraphrased material. C. common knowledge.
B. surveys and interviews. D. statistics from a reference book.
9. Which one of the following sentences contains a misplaced or dangling modifier?
A. Assemble the product in a well-lighted place.
B. With three children, a job, and school, my wife has little spare time.
C. When prepared correctly, the garden spot should need no further fertilizing.
D. Walking down Main Street, the cramp in my foot got worse.
10. Progress reports usually report on work that is
A. about to begin but not yet started.
B. currently being done but not yet completed.
C. finished and completed in the previous year.
D. recently finished and completed.