Test yourself—Coping with quotation marks

Choose the correct answer. Read the article Coping with quotation marks to help you out.

1. Tennyson is still admired by literary young women for his highly romantic poem (“The Lady of Shalott.”/“The Lady of Shalott”.)
2. “Are you familiar with the term (‘phosphoglyceraldehydes’?”/‘phosphoglyceraldehydes’”?) asked the biology teacher.
3. The young writer soon realized that no one but his mother was willing to read (‘Darkest Midnight,’/“Darkest Midnight,”) the twenty-page story of every heartbreak he had suffered during his sixteen turbulent years on Earth.
4. (“Was Julius Caesar killed in 44 B.C.”?/“Was Julius Caesar killed in 44 B.C.?”) Joseph asked his neighbour.
5. As a child Hélène was painfully shy, and as a result she withdrew into an imaginary (world/“world”) of her own.
6. The runes were considered mysterious and magical letters; in fact, the word (‘rune’/“rune”) means secret.
  

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