1. Which of the following describes a widow?

a) last line of paragraph left alone at top of page

b) first line of paragraph left alone at bottom of page

c) both a and b

d) none of the above

Ans: a

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: In multi-page documents, paragraphs breaks can occur at the top of the page when the Widow/Orphan control is disabled.

1. Which of the following describes a widow?

a) last line of paragraph left alone at top of page

b) first line of paragraph left alone at bottom of page

c) both a and b

d) none of the above

Ans: a

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: In multi-page documents, paragraphs breaks can occur at the top of the page when the Widow/Orphan control is disabled.

2. Which of the following describes an orphan?

a) last line of paragraph left alone at top of page

b) first line of paragraph left alone at bottom of page

c) both a and b

d) none of the above

Ans: b

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: In multi-page document, a paragraph will break at the bottom of the page when the Widow/Orphan control is disabled.

3. On which of the following would you find the Keep Lines Together box?

a) Paragraph group

b) Page Layout dialog box

c) Paragraph dialog box

d) none of the above

Ans: c

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: The Line and Page Break tab in the Paragraph dialog box, has options to select how paragraphs will break in a document.

4. Word considers any line of text that is followed by a return to be a __________.

a) sentence

b) paragraph

c) line

d) all of the above

Ans: b

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: Pressing the Enter key after a text is considered a paragraph.

5. From which of the following would you choose to insert a manual page break?

a) Home tab, Paragraph group

b) Paragraph dialog box

c) Page Layout tab, Paragraph group

d) Insert Tab, Pages group

Ans: d

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: The Page Break command is located in the Pages group.

6. The location in a document where one page ends and another begins is known as a(n) __________.

a) page break

b) widow

c) page end

d) orphan

Ans: a

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Page breaks can be automatic page break where Word determines where to break the page or the user can complete a manual page break.

7. The Breaks menu contains options for setting __________ type(s) of page break(s).

a) one

b) two

c) three

d) four

Ans: c

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Word provides three types of page breaks, Page, Column, and Text Wrapping. 

8. What are vertical blocks of text known as in Word?

a) lines

b) rows

c) paragraphs

d) columns

Ans: d

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Setting up Columns

Explanation: Columns can be compared to newspaper or magazine columns where text flows between columns.

9. You may choose to create up to how many total columns in a Word document?

a) six

b) eight

c) twelve

d) sixteen

Ans: c

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Setting up Columns

Explanation: Word can only create up twelve columns in a document.

10. You can insert a blank page at which point in a Word document?

a) beginning

b) middle

c) end

d) all of the above

Ans: d

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Inserting a Blank Page

Explanation: A blank document can be inserting anywhere in a document.

11. When choosing the paper size of a document, which of the following choices is available?

a) Legal

b) Letter

c) Custom

d) all of the above

12 A widow is the last line of a paragraph that is left alone at the top of a page.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: By default the Widow/Orphan control is enabled. Documents that produce a widow indicate that the control is off.

13. An orphan is the first line of a paragraph that is left alone at the bottom of a page.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: By default the Widow/Orphan control is enabled. Documents that produce a widow indicate that the control is off.

14. You can choose to keep lines together on the same page, but not paragraphs.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: In the Paragraph dialog box, in the Lines and Page Breaks tab, paragraphs can be kept together by enabling the Page Break Before control.

15. Word considers any line of text that is followed by a return to be a line.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: Text followed by the Enter key is a paragraph.

16. The Break Page Before option forces a paragraph to the bottom of a page.

 Ans: False

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: The Page Break Before forces the paragraph to the next page.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Manual page break can be deleted. The easiest way to delete is to turn on the Show/Hide, select then press the Delete key.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Print Layout view displays the document as it will appear printed.

19. The Breaks menu contains options for inserting two different kinds of breaks.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: The Breaks menu has three kinds of breaks, Page, Column, and Text Wrapping.

20. You can choose to insert any number of columns by clicking the Columns button.

Ans: False

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Setting up Columns

Explanation: The Columns dialog box has the option to insert the number of columns for the documen t.

23. When choosing a page’s orientation, you are limited to two choices: Landscape and Portrait.

Ans: True

Difficulty: Easy

Explanation: The Orientation button display two choices, Portrait ad Landscape 

Ans: multi-page

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: When the page reaches it limit, Word inserts an automatic page break. Another term of automatic page break is a “soft page break.” An automatic (soft) page break appears as a dotted horizontal line.

25. You can choose to keep two lines together at either the top of the page or the __________ of the page.

Ans: bottom

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: Using the Line and Page Break tab in the Paragraph dialog box provides options on paragraph behavior 

26. The last line of a paragraph that is left alone at the top of a page is called a(n) __________.

Ans: widow

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: Widows appearing at the top of the document can be corrected by enabling the Widow/Orphan control.

27. The first line of a paragraph that is left alone at the bottom of a page is called a(n) __________.

Ans: orphan

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: Orphans appearing at the bottom of the document can be corrected by enabling the Widow/Orphan control.

28. Word’s Keep With Next command ensures that two __________ remain together on the same page.

Ans: paragraphs

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Controlling Paragraph

Explanation: The Keep With Next command would be used when you want to keep a heading with some of the paragraph lines. This would avoid the heading being alone with no text following. 

29. To insert a manual page break, click the Page Break button in the __________ group of the Insert tab.

Ans: Pages

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Word provides two methods for inserting a manual page break, using the Page Break button or keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + Enter.

30. You may also press the __________ key to delete a manual page break.

Ans: Backspace

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Users can delete a manual page break by using the Backspace key or selecting the manual page break and pressing the Delete key.

31. The __________ menu contains options for inserting three types of breaks.

Ans: Breaks

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Three types of breaks are available in the Breaks menu: Pages, Columns, and Text Wrapping.

32. A(n) __________ break is used to create layout or formatting changes in a portion of a document.

Ans: section

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: Using section breaks provides options for setting different page settings within the document.

33. Word provides __________ options for creating section breaks.

Ans: four

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Working with Breaks

Explanation: There are four types of section breaks, Next Page, Continuous, Even Page, and Odd Page.

34. Vertical blocks of text in a Word document are known as __________.

Ans: columns

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Setting up ColumnsExplanation: Newspaper and magazines are examples of vertical blocks of  text.

35. Word allows you to insert up to __________ columns in a document.

Ans: twelve

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Setting up Columns

Explanation: Twelve is the maximum number of columns that can be set in a document.

36. Columns may be formatted with even or uneven __________ in the Columns dialog box.

Ans: widths

Difficulty: Hard

Section Ref: Setting up Columns

Explanation: The Equal Column Width control is enabled by default; remove the check mark to disable.

37. To insert a blank page, click the Blank Page command in the __________ group of the Insert tab.

Ans: Pages

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Inserting a Blank Page

Explanation: The Blank Page command is found in the Pages group and can inserted anywhere in the document 

38. Changing the margins of a document can affect the number of __________ in a document.

Ans: pages

Difficulty: Medium

Section Ref: Page Layout

Explanation: When margins are changed the document will either increase or decrease in pages.

39. Margins are the blank spaces located at the top, bottom, and __________ of a page.

Ans: sides

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Page Layout

Explanation: Margins are blank spaces located at the top, bottom, left and right of the page. 

40. A document may be set to Landscape or __________ orientation. 

Ans: Portrait

Difficulty: Easy

Section Ref: Page Layout

Explanation: Word provides two ways to set the orientation for a document.