Deck 34: Putting Your Proofreading Skills to Work

Question 1

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. He want to write about a forgotten aspect of history, the fact that some pre-Civil War blacks actually owned black slaves.

A) want
B) forgotten
C) War

Answer 1

A

Question 2

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. His father was not involved in his life, and his illiterate mother washed dishes and scrub   floors to support her three children , one of whom was disabled.

A) life, and
B) scrub
C) children

Answer 2

B

Question 3

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. When he was finally ready to write in 2001; he sat down at a loaned computer and finished the entire manuscript of The Known World in just seven months.

A) finally
B) 2001; he
C) finished

Answer 3

B

Question 4

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Unlike material objects, experiences tend to bring us closer to other people, not  separate us, leaving us with good feelings and memorys .

A) Unlike material objects,
B) tend to bring us closer
C) feelings and memorys.

Question 5

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. He points out that we are living in the most materially rich society in history, but  many people are less happier than before.

A) the most materially rich
B) history, but  many people
C) less happier

Question 6

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. In 1950, Edward Jones was born poor and had a tough childhood in Washington,  D.C. nevertheless, he grew up to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

A) was born
B) in
C) D.C. nevertheless,

Question 7

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. When most people are ask to visualize what makes them happy , they pick experiences, not things.

A) people are ask to visualize
B) them happy ,
C) experiences, not things.

Question 8

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. We can just climb a hill in springtime, go ice skating with friends learn to bake  bread, or get fit for the first time ever .

A) can just climb
B) with friends learn to bake  bread
C) the first time ever

Question 9

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Jones believes that while he was born poor , "in a certain sense you do what you  were born to do. And maybe, maybe , I was born to writ e .

A) Jones believes
B) poor, "in
C) I was born to write.

Question 10

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. In 2004, the book won the Pulitzer Prize, and critics have call it a masterpiece and a book of "deep human understanding."

A) Prize, and
B) call
C) masterpiece and

Question 11

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. He do manage to graduate from college, but he found himself homeless for a brief time afterward.

A) do
B) college, but
C) homeless

Question 12

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Many researchers recently have been studying what makes people happy, one of these i s James Wallman, a British trend forecaster.

A) have been studying
B) people happy, one of these
C) British trend forecaster.

Question 13

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Experiences doesn't have to cost a lot of money to be wonderful.

A) doesn't have to cost
B) of money
C) to be wonderful.

Question 14

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. He took a dull dead-end job summarizing business articles for low pay. Although he kept that job for 19 years. He never gave up on his literary dreams.

A) took
B) kept
C) years. He

Question 15

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. The family moved 18 times in 18 year's .

A) moved
B) in
C) year's

Question 16

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Then , he beginned thinking about an idea for his first novel.

A) Then
B) beginned
C) an

Question 17

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. For ten long  year , Jones thought about his characters and the story he wanted to tell.

A) year
B) thought
C) characters and

Question 18

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. As a boy, Jones would go to the Public Library just to get warm next to the radiators.

A) boy,
B) would go
C) Public Library

Question 19

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. In 1992, he published a collection of stories called Lost in the City , which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. A major literary prize.

A) Lost in the City
B) which
C) Award. A

Question 20

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. His third book, All Aunt Haggar's children , is a collection of stories that connects to  the people in his first book .

A) All Aunt Haggar's children
B) collection of stories that connects
C) his first book

Question 21

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. It should come as no surprise that the talented Mr. Bunn and his now-famous shop  have earn the fierce loyalty of their many fans.

A) It should come
B) Mr. Bunn and his now-famous
C) have earn the fierce loyalty

Question 22

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Constructed of white marble and crowned by a majestic, onion-shaped dome. The building is flanked by four smaller, symmetrical towers.

A) dome. The
B) is flanked
C) smaller, symmetrical

Question 23

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Mr. Bunn makes all of his headpieces to order he refuses to sell them wholesale .

A) Mr. Bunn makes
B) order he refuses
C) sell them wholesale

Question 24

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Now a tourist attraction that draws 2.2 million visitor a year, the Taj Mahal (which means "Crown Palace" ) is actually a tomb.

A) draws
B) visitor
C) is

Question 25

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Semi-precious stones inlaid into the marble sparkles in the moonlight; the whole structure is reflected in the glassy surface of a long, rectangular pool.

A) sparkles
B) moonlight; the
C) long, rectangular

Question 26

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Over eighteen years, she gave birth to thirteen children, but in 1630, when she was thirty-nine years old she died after delivering her fourteenth.

A) children, but
B) was
C) old she

Question 27

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Furthermore, he likes to work alone his care and pride in each hat makes the work feel like a  craft instead of a nine-to-five job.

A) Furthermore, he likes
B) alone his care and pride
C) makes the work

Question 28

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Mr. Bunns fashionable customers can choose from a dazzling variety of fabrics and styles.

A) Mr. Bunns
B) can choose from
C) variety of fabrics and styles.

Question 29

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Grief-stricken, her husband vowed to build the world's most greatest monument to love.

A) vowed
B) world's
C) most greatest

Question 30

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. The Taj Mahal is one of India's greatest treasures and one of the world's most beautiful masterpiece's of architecture.

A) India's
B) world's
C) masterpiece's

Question 31

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Three hundred and fifty years ago , Shah Jahan was one of a series of Muslim emperors.  Who ruled India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.

A) Three hundred and fifty years ago
B) was
C) emperors. Who

Question 32

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. One example is Hats by Bunn in Harlem , offering custom-made men's and lady's  hats for all seasons.

A) Hats by Bunn in Harlem
B) men's and lady's
C) for all seasons

Question 33

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Twenty-two thousand laborers spended twenty-three years fulfilling his wishes .

A) spended
B) his
C) wishes

Question 34

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. In 1612, he married his beloved Mumtaz Mahal who became his constant companion and  traveled with him even on his military campaigns.

A) married
B) Mahal who
C) and traveled

Question 35

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Although hatter Mr. Bunn could make much more money operating on a larger scale,  he chooses to do all the work hisself.

A) Although hatter Mr. Bunn
B) much more money
C) all the work hisself

Question 36

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. He does not want his hats to be too pricey for the people whom live in his  neighborhood, so he keeps his prices reasonable.

A) does not want his hats to be too pricey
B) people whom live
C) his prices reasonable

Question 37

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Graceful arches curved domes, and exquisite carvings add to the romantic style.

A) arches curved
B) domes, and
C) add

Question 38

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. Since then , the Taj Mahal has drawn lovers of beauty and romance from all in the globe.

A) then
B) drawn
C) in

Question 39

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. New York City is home to many old-fashioned merchants who believes in fine  craftsmanship and customer service .

A) is home
B) merchants who believes
C) craftsmanship and customer service

Question 40

For each item, select the underlined part that contains an error. When the tomb was finally complete in 1653, Shah Jahan placed the coffin containing his queen in it's exact center.

A) 1653, Shah
B) placed
C) it's