General Copywriters Skills MCQs

1. What is self-publishing?

2. Which works are not protected?

3. What is a query letter?

4. PDF is an acronym for:

5. On creating her two page resume, Emma finds the paragraph heading for her 'Professional Achievements' paragraph is showing at the bottom of the first page, while the details are on the next page. To keep the paragraph heading as well as the paragraph text on the same page, and assuming there are no empty paragraph markers in the document and the widow/orphan option is turned on, Emma should click in the paragraph heading and select which option from the Paragraph group:

6. A copyright in the context of authorship immediately becomes the property of the person who wrote the work.

7. What should you do to avoid plagiarism?

8. Chapters for the young readers should be long, so that they may not be able to read the chapter quickly and feel as if they have accomplished something.

9. Josh is to create a technical write-up comprising short paragraphs with double line spacing. Each paragraph is to be separated from the other by a single line space. He writes a paragraph, selects the text, points to Line Spacing on the paragraph toolbar and sets it to 2.0. He gets the paragraph double spaced. The moment he clicks enter to start a new paragraph, it automatically gets double spaced. How can Josh achieve paragraphs separated by single line spaces from each other within the document?

10. What are screen shots?

11. _____ is a method by which you enter a contract with a publishing company to print your manuscript in book form for you.

12. Different states have different copyright laws in America.

13. Which one best defines RoboHELP?

14. At what age are children ready for books that delve into themes like bullying and adventure?

15. A diamond shaped box in a flowchart signifies:

16. Choose the INCORRECT statement:

17. As a writer, what do you do when you create a macro?

18. A person's work is only recognized as original if it has a copyright notice attached.

19. When you agree to first serial rights, you give a magazine the right to use your article only.

20. To select vertical blocks of text, you would hold down which key while dragging the mouse?

21. Blogging does not necessarily require skilled writers.

22. You want to select all instances of a specific style used in your document. However, the Select All command in the Styles pane is not available (grayed out). You must enable:

23. Using the thoughts and writings of other people and passing them as your own is known as_______.

24. Which is the standard language used to create Web pages?

25. Applying a theme to your document affects all content except tables.

26. What are copyrights?

27. When you apply a theme to a Microsoft Word 2010 document, all the tables, charts, SmartArt graphics, shapes, and other objects are updated to complement one another.

28. Microsoft Word 2010 has enabled ligatures for which of the following fonts?

29. What view must be used when inserting a subdocument?

30. Anna selects a paragraph in a Microsoft Word 2010 file. On the horizontal ruler, she drags the Hanging Indent marker to the left. What will happen?

31. Which kind of readers are targeted by the picture books?

32. Editors won't take a blog seriously as an example of someone's writing skills.

33. What is the method of finding inspiration from an already published piece of writing and creating stories with the same characters in a different situation, or different characters in the same situation called?

34. If you want to write children's books, you must be an illustrator as well as a writer.

35. A PDF file can be viewed if ____________ is installed.

36. In Microsoft Word 2010, 'Keep lines together' paragraph formatting:

37. In Microsoft Word 2010, 'Keep lines together' paragraph formatting:

38. A legal violation of a copyright could be a(n) ___________.

39. Which are Help Authoring Software?

40. The kind of rights where you agree to first serial rights, you give a magazine the right to be the first to publish your article, but you own the rights and you can later have the article published elsewhere are known as simultaneous rights.

41. Which is a diagram drawing software application used to draw diagrams like flowcharts?

42. On creating her two-page resume, Emma finds that the paragraph heading for her 'Professional Achievements' paragraph is showing at the bottom of the first page, while the details are on the next page. To keep the paragraph heading as well as the paragraph text on the same page, and assuming there are no empty paragraph markers in the document and the widow/orphan option is turned on, Emma should click in the paragraph heading and select which option from the Paragraph group?

43. Writers use foreshadowing to _____.