1) Hyphens are mainly used to join two words together. a) True b) False 2) Hyphens are used to create... a) compound nouns b) compound adjectives c) candy verbs 3) A hyphen is a much shorter mark than a dash a) True b) False 4) There are two types of dashes a) True b) False 5) Which two dashes would be correct a) N & M b) M & M's -- tasty! c) Not the right answer... 6) N dashes are used to.... a) Talk about number ranges (1--10), (2005 -- 2023) b) Dash through the snow.. c) Talk about people they don't like.. 7) M dashes are not used to add extra information a) Oh, yes they are! b) M dashes are not real c) M dashes don't do anything, they're lazy! 8) M dashes are stronger than commas and add waaaaaaay more excitement and pace to your writing. a) Yes, definitely/ b) Probably not stronger than a comma 9) M dashes can be used instead of commas, brackets and colons.....or just about any other punctuation mark. a) True -- they are the superMan of punctuation. b) Yep - I agree with above.. 10) Today, we're gonna learn more about dashes....don't dash off anywhere -- will you? a) Yes, let's get our dash on! b) Oh no, I have to dash off! Bye!

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