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Quotation Marks or Italics? is a free printable Grade 5 English worksheet on which kind of title takes which mark, aligned to Common Core standard L.5.2. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Quotation Marks or Italics?

L.5.2

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1.How should you show the title of one chapter in a book?
  • A.In capital letters only
  • B.In quotation marks
  • C.In italics, or underlined when handwritten
2.How should you show the title of a short poem, such as The Eagle?
  • A.In capital letters only
  • B.In quotation marks
  • C.In italics, or underlined when handwritten
3.How should you show the name of a newspaper?
  • A.With no capital letters
  • B.In quotation marks
  • C.In italics, or underlined when handwritten
4.How should you show the title of a play?
  • A.With no capital letters
  • B.In quotation marks
  • C.In italics, or underlined when handwritten
5.Why do some titles take quotation marks and others italics?
  • A.Short works and parts of a bigger work take quotation marks; whole, long works take italics
  • B.Long titles take quotation marks and short titles take italics
  • C.Writers choose whichever they like
6.How should you show the title of a short story?
  • A.In quotation marks
  • B.In capital letters only
  • C.In italics, or underlined when handwritten
7.Which of these titles would go in quotation marks?
  • A.One poem in a book of poems
  • B.A daily newspaper
  • C.The book of poems itself
8.How should you show the title of one episode of a TV series?
  • A.In capital letters only
  • B.In quotation marks
  • C.In italics, or underlined when handwritten

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Answer key — Quotation Marks or Italics?

Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.In quotation marks
  2. 2.In quotation marks
  3. 3.In italics, or underlined when handwritten
  4. 4.In italics, or underlined when handwritten
  5. 5.Short works and parts of a bigger work take quotation marks; whole, long works take italics
  6. 6.In quotation marks
  7. 7.One poem in a book of poems
  8. 8.In quotation marks

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to L.5.2 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.