A Test on Parenthetical Punctuation

Below is a quick test on choosing parenthetical punctuation (commas, dashes, and brackets) to offset a parenthesis. (This test is linked to the entry on parenthesis.)

Note: Some of the answers marked

are not wrong but are not as tidy as the correct version.

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