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Book Editing VIP Certification Practice Exam
Book Editing Practice Test — No single universal licensing body administers a 'Book Editing Certification' exam; this is an original comprehensive practice set modeled on the competencies assessed by the Editors' Association of Canada (EAC) Editing Certification, the ACES editorial skills benchmarks, and the Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) — the industry standard reference for book editing in North America.
55
Questions
90m
Time Limit
75.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 55👑 VIP
A developmental editor is reviewing a 95,000-word mystery novel. The protagonist, a retired detective, is established in Chapter 1 as someone who refuses to carry a weapon due to a traumatic past shooting. In Chapter 14, without any intervening scene or internal reflection, the detective pulls a handgun from her jacket and shoots a lock off a door. What is the most appropriate editorial response?
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