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Italics and Quotations with Titles - Exercise 2
Each sentence below contains one or more titles. Indicate whether each title should be written in italics or put inside quotation marks by clicking the appropriate button after each phrase. When you are finished, click on the "Check My Work" button at the bottom of the page.

1. James Cameron wrote the script for the movie Avatar (   )

2. The article, Stocks Hit a New Milestone,(   ) appeared in yesterday's New York Times (   )

3. The USS Arizona (   ) , was sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

4. The TV series, Family Guy, (   )  once aired an episode titled Home Again (   )

5. Chapter one, Marvin Wipes Out, (   ) begins the adventure novel Suicide Surfers (   )

6. The article, Oriole Bats Quiet Again, (   )told the story all too clearly in The Baltimore Sun (   ) newspaper.

7. National Geographic (   ), is one of my favorite magazines.

8. The cockpit and nose of the B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, (   ) were once on display at the Smithsonian Institute.

9. Some people would prefer to have America the Beautiful (   ) as the national anthem instead of The Star Spangled Banner (   )

10. The Necklace (   )is one of Guy de Maupassant's most famous short stories.

             

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