CCP English Comp MLA Quiz

What is MLA

A method of citing references in research papers within the liberal arts and humanities' classes.

Tell if the following statements are true or false to whether they are cited correctly from the given citation. - "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/ write living. Accessed 4 May 2009. "Tip #9 explains how to make the website colorful" ("10 Tips on Writing the Living Web.") "Tip #9 explains how to make the website colorful." ("10 Tips on Writing the Living Web") "Tip #9 explains how to make the website colorful" ("10 Tips on Writing the Living Web"). "Tip #9 explains how to make the website colorful" (10 Tips on Writing the Living Web).

1. False 2. False 3. True 4. False

Tell if the following statements are true or false to whether they are cited correctly from the given citation. - Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999. 1. Henley explained that 95% of children today love hummingbirds (45) 2. There are 45% of children today who think all hummingbirds are blue (Henley 42) 3. "The interviewed children told stories of all the hummingbirds they heard" (Henley 43) 4. "The interviewed children told stories of all the hummingbirds they heard" (Henley)

1. True 2.True 3. False 4. False

When creating the heading of your essay, it should be in this order

A. your name, teacher's name, class title, date B. teacher's name, your name, class title, date C. your name, teacher's name, date, class title D. your name, date, teacher's name, class title Answer: A

Based on the example given from a works cited page, tell which source it comes from. (i.e. book, article, website, interview, etc.) - Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html. Accessed 6 July 2015.

Answer: A page on a website

Which is true of a Works Cited page? (There is more than one correct answer) a. Starts new page numbered sequentially b. Page is not numbered c. Placed after the conclusion of the paper d. "Works Cited" is centered, without quotation marks, italics, or underlining e. Include all quoted, paraphrased, or summarized sources f. Do not need to include sources where titles are used in text g. Start each entry on new line, regular left margin h. Font type should be different then the body of the paper i. Indent the second and all subsequent lines five spaces ("hanging indent") j. Margins should be changed to 1.5 all around k. Double-space all lines l. Do not include web sites because they do not count as sources m. Alphabetize by the author's last name, book title, or website name (whatever is given first in the citation)

Answer: A, C ,D ,E ,G ,K ,M

Based on the example given from a works cited page, tell which source it comes from. (i.e. book, article, website, interview, etc.) - Alonso, Alvaro, and Julio A. Camargo. "Toxicity of Nitrite to Three Species of Freshwater Invertebrates." Environmental Toxicology,vol. 21, no. 1, 3 Feb. 2006, pp. 90-94. Wiley Online Library, doi: 10.1002/tox.20155

Answer: An Article from an Online Database with multiple authors.

Based on the example given from a works cited page, tell which source it comes from. (i.e. book, article, website, interview, etc.) -"10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 16 Aug. 2002, alistapart.com/article/writeliving. Accessed 4 May 2009.

Answer: An article online with no author

Based on the example given from a works cited page, tell which source it comes from. (i.e. book, article, website, interview, etc.) - Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999.

Answer: Book with one author

T/F You should underline the title of a text.

Answer: False - italicize

T/F For multiple authors of the same text in your Works Cited page, list all authors in reverse order, separated by commas, and a period at the end.

Answer: False - list the first author's last name, then et al. and the page (Smith, et al. 73) - this is for 3 or more authors

T/F Your thesis should be a few sentences long and discuss a topic and claim.

Answer: False - one sentence at the end of your intro.

T/F Alphabetize your Works Cited page including "A", "An", or "The" as the first word of a title.

Answer: False - start with the first main word of the title

T/F You should start and end paragraphs with citations.

Answer: False - you should start with your own topic and concluding sentences

T/F You should capitalize every word in a title.

Answer: False- not most small words

Based on the example given from a works cited page, tell which source it comes from. (i.e. book, article, website, interview, etc.) - Smith, William. Personal Interview. 8 March 2015.

Answer: Interview

T/F If you are citing using an article to a website that is long, it is okay to use the first few words when doing intext citations.

Answer: True

T/F MLA prefers Times New Roman font, but a few others are accepted as well.

Answer: True

T/F Quotation marks should be placed around titles of shorter works (articles, poems, short stories, essays).

Answer: True

T/F You only use "et al" when you are citing a text with 3 or more authors.

Answer: True

T/F You only use block quotes when quoting more than 4 lines (not sentences) of text.

Answer: True

T/F You should avoid contractions in a formal MLA essay.

Answer: True

T/F You should not use the authors' last names in the citation if the authors' names appear in the sentence you just wrote.

Answer: True

T/F You should spell out one and two word numbers unless in a quote, date, percent, etc.

Answer: True

T/F You should use third person point of view in a formal MLA essay.

Answer: True

T/F You must list the URL for a website source on the Works Cited page.

Answer: True (It used to be just the word WEB, but they have changed it with MLA8)

Based on the example given from a works cited page, tell which source it comes from. (i.e. book, article, website, interview, etc.) - McGonigal, Jane. "Gaming and Productivity." YouTube, uploaded by Big Think, 3 July 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdzy9bWW3E.

Answer: a Youtube video

Based on the example given from a works cited page, tell which source it comes from. (i.e. book, article, website, interview, etc.) - Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Answer: book with more than one author

Which of the following is true about block quotes a. The entire block quote is indented b. The original quote must be 4 lines or longer c. Citation at end is after the period d. Quotation marks are not used e. It is double spaced f. All of the above

Answer: f

What does the acronym MLA stand for

Modern Language Association

When documenting one author from a book by name in a text, which is correct

a. Frye has argued this point before (Frye 197). b. Frye has argued this point before. (197). c. Frye has argued this point before. (Frye, 197). d. Frye has argued this point before (197). Answer: D - because the author was already listed, you do not say it again in ( ).

When documenting a citation with an author from a book, which is correct

a. This point has been argued before (Frye 197). b. This point has been argued before. (Glenn Frye, 197) c. This point has been argued before. (Frye 197) d. This point has been argued before (Frye, 197). Answer: A - the period goes after the ( ). with no comma in between author and page