Quotation marks 3

In each pair, click on the sentence in which quotation marks are used correctly with other punctuation marks. (All citations, in MLA style, are from the book The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan.)

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◯ In his book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Michael Pollan compares industrial farming with organic farming, and he finds some surprising similarities.
◯ In his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan compares industrial farming with organic farming, and he finds some surprising similarities.
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◯ Pollan poses the questions “Is organic food better? Is it worth the extra costs?” (176).
◯ Pollan poses the questions “Is organic food better? Is it worth the extra costs” (176)?
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◯ Pollan points out that processed foods, while not necessarily nutritious or appetizing, are “highly profitable and infinitely adaptable” (301).
◯ Pollan points out that processed foods, while not necessarily nutritious or appetizing, are: “highly profitable and infinitely adaptable” (301).
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◯ Philip Wylie makes a similar argument in his 1954 article Science Has Spoiled My Supper, in which he criticizes the frozen food industry.
◯ Philip Wylie makes a similar argument in his 1954 article “Science Has Spoiled My Supper,” in which he criticizes the frozen food industry.
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◯ Pollan explains one of the most basic challenges facing the American food industry: “Try as we might, each of us can eat only about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products—CDs, say, or shoes—there’s a natural limit to how much food we can each consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year—1 percent being the annual growth rate of the American population.” (94)
◯ Pollan explains one of the most basic challenges facing the American food industry: Try as we might, each of use can eat only about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products—CDs, say, or shoes—there’s a natural limit to how much food we can each consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year—1 percent being the annual growth rate of the American population. (94)
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◯ What exactly do chicken farmers mean by the term “free range”?
◯ What exactly do chicken farmers mean by the term “free range?”
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◯ Pollan claims that “each of us is personally responsible for consuming a ton of [corn] every year”; most of this consumption, however, comes in the form of corn by-products such as corn syrups and starches (85).
◯ Pollan claims that “each of us is personally responsible for consuming a ton of [corn] every year;” most of this consumption, however, comes in the form of corn by-products such as corn syrups and starches (85).
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◯ With respect to corn, Pollan says, “As in so many other “self-made” American successes, the closer you look the more you find the federal government lending a hand” (41).
◯ With respect to corn, Pollan says, “As in so many other ‘self-made’ American successes, the closer you look the more you find the federal government lending a hand” (41).
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◯ According to Pollan, the food industry is as much to blame for petroleum consumption as the automobile industry: “It takes between seven and ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate” (183).
◯ According to Pollan, the food industry is as much to blame for petroleum consumption as the automobile industry, “It takes between seven and ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate” (183).
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◯ “Of course, just because food is local doesn’t necessarily mean it will be organic or even sustainable,” concedes Pollan, “There’s nothing to stop a local farmer from using chemicals or abusing animals” (257).
◯ ”Of course, just because food is local doesn’t necessarily mean it will be organic or even sustainable,” concedes Pollan. “There’s nothing to stop a local farmer from using chemicals or abusing animals” (257).
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