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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 (italics quotation marks).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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