This sentence contains a misuse of italics. Italics/underlining should not be used when referring to a story. The titles of stories should be surrounded by quotation marks. Italics are for complete, longer works like novels and plays. All of the other punctuation is correct. The correct answer is, " "The Lottery," a short story by Shirley Jackson,"

"The Lottery" was first published in 1948.

This sentence contains an error in the placement of the question mark. Ending punctuation should always go on the inside of quotation marks. The correct choice is, "asked, "What time are we meeting for the concert?" "

The use of a question mark is inappropriate in this sentence for two reasons: first, the message in the quotation marks is not a direct question, but an indirect question. Question marks should only be used after direct questions, so it would be appropriate if the message was, "Will you be attending the event?" The second issue is that the quotation does not end this sentence, so even though it functions as an independent clause, you would not use any sort of ending punctuation. When a quotation ends/begins in the middle of a sentence, a comma should be used to separate it from the rest of the sentence. The correct choice is, " "Japser wants to know if you will be at the event," "

This sentence contains an error in the placement of the period at the end. Periods and any ending punctuation should always appear inside of quotation marks. Note, there should never be two ending punctuation marks, as in the case with the choice that has a period on the inside and outside of the quotation marks. No additional corrections are necessary. The correct choice is, "once said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." "

This sentence contains an error in the punctuation of the title of the book. Titles of books/full works should be underlined or italicized. The correct choice is, "Leaves Fall Where They May." Note that quotations are used for things like songs or poems - things generally a part of a larger body of work.

We need to use the hyphen punctuation in this sentence to avoid ambiguity.  "Twenty-odd people' and 'Twenty odd people' makes a big difference to the meaning of the sentence!  Therefore, we need to somehow connect the words.  We do that with a hyphen.

The use of "they" in the underlined portion of the sentence creates confusion, as the pronoun could refer either to "poets" or "the public." The confusion can be fixed by changing the word to a more specific reference. The only answer choice that actually clears up this confusion is "while today poets are fringe cultural figures."

The pronoun "him" in this sentence is confusing and ambiguous, as it makes it unclear precisely to whom the pronoun is referring. By making it a reflexivepronoun, the sentence will be made much less confusing. The only choice that uses the reflexive pronoun is "for both the organization and himself," making it the correct answer.

The use of "her" in the last phrase of the sentence, "her impatience," is confusing, as it is unclear whether this refers to the server or the customer. By using more careful and precise language, the sentence can be made less ambiguous. The only answer choice that properly clears up the pronoun confusion in this sentence without introducing new errors is "The server went to check on her last customer, who was frustrated by the server's impatience."

The use of "his" at the end of the sentence is ambiguous, as the gender of neither the "CEO" nor the "technology expert" has been stated and "his" and "he" could refer to either individual. The sentence must be rewritten to more clearly show that the "technology expert" had given the demands. The only answer choice which properly clears up the ambiguous pronoun usage is "the CEO was finally willing to give the most of the demands the technology expert had set."