MLA Quiz
entry
On the works-cited list, each of the separate sources you borrowed from and used in your essay, along with full information about how to locate that source, is called a/an:
The author's last name, then the rest of the name
You begin the works-cited entry with the "Author" element, which means:
What file format gives you a version of a journal, magazine, or newspaper article as it originally appeared in print, including the original page numbers and any photos?
a container
When a source forms part of a larger whole, the larger whole can be thought of as:
three hyphens
When documenting two or more works by the same author, substitute THIS for any name repeated from the author in the previous entry:
by putting brackets around the changes
When quoting from a research source, you indicate changed or added letters or words:
a signal phrase
When you use a research source for the first time in your essay, in preparing your in-text citation you should use:
at the end of the sentence
Where is the in-text citation usually placed?
a container nested in a larger container
An article from the New Yorker magazine is available through LexisNexis, a database. This is an example of:
outside the quotation marks, but before the period or comma
An in-text cite should follow a direct quotation. Where would the in-text citation be located with reference to quotation marks?
the most recent one
Element eight is "Publication Date." Which publication date do you use when there is more than one date on the copyright page?
Edition
Element five is called "Version." For books, this usually means:
a page number or range of page numbers
Element nine is "Location." For a print (hard copy) source, what does "location" mean?
The volume number of a numbered multi-volume set
Element six is called "Number." This refers to:
the source's digital object indentifer
For sources that have a DOI, the "location" element means:
by using an ellipsis (three spaced dots)
How do we indicate language left out of a quotation from research?
italics
How is the title of a volume of essays punctuated?
Title
If a work has no author, the first element in the works-cited list should be the work's:
an abbreviated version of the title of the source in quotation marks
If a work has no author, what do you use instead of an author in the in-text citation?
skip the page number in the in-text citation
If there is no apparent pagination or if the document is only one page long, what do you use for the page number in the in-text citation?
add the first initials (or full names if necessary)
If you borrow from two authors with the same last name, how do you handle the names in the in-text citation?
B
If you want to recognize the role of someone who was important to your research who is not the author, what do you do? A) Name that person and specify what his/her role was in the "Author" element instead of the author's name. B) Name that person and specify what his/her role was in the fourth element, "Other Contributors."
a short story
In the following list, which one is NOT a container? an encyclopedia, a database, a television series, a short story
in-text citations
THESE appear in your essay and point the reader to the corresponding entry where readers can find complete information about the source:
works cited or work cited
The complete list of sources borrowed from and thus cited in your essay is called:
C
The source you're reading authored by Jane Smith has a quotation on page 29 by Dr. Martin Luther King that you want to use in your essay. You don't have the essay by Dr. King; all you have is the article by Smith. What does your in-text citation look like? A)(Smith 29) B) (King 29) C) (qtd. in Smith 29) D) (Smith, King 29)
quotation marks
The title of an article from a website is punctuated with?
Elements
There are nine of THESE potentially included in a works-cited entry:
False
True or False: Authors must be individuals. Works cannot be created by a corporate author.
false (more than four lines)
True or False? A prose quotation of more than three lines requires a block quotation.
false
True or False? To compose an in-text citation, inside the parentheses we always use the last name of the author and the page number.
true
True or false: Normally, italicize the titles of containers, followed by a comma.
true
True or false? Any time you use information you have gathered or borrowed from a source, you should use in-text citations.
false
True or false? Each entry in the works-cited list uses a hanging indent, which means to indent the first line ½ inch like a paragraph.
False
True or false? Element seven is the name of the "Publisher." For a book, you would look for the name of the publisher on the cover or spine of the book.
True
True or false? For online sources, the "location" is the URL.
True
True or false? If a work is published by an organization that is also its publisher, skip the "Author" element and begin with the "Title" element; list the organization as publisher in the "Publisher" element.
true
True or false? If you have one author who wrote more than one source, the in-text citation uses the author's last name, a comma, the short form of the title in question, and the page number.
false
True or false? MLA citation style applies only to word-processed documents such as essays; it does not apply to works such as PowerPoint presentations, videos, or Web projects.
true
True or false? No matter where your essay ends, you must put your works-cited list on a new page at the end of your essay.
False
True or false? The "Title of Source" is put in quotation marks if the source is self-contained and independent like a book, film, painting, or play.
true
True or false? The page with the works-cited list has the student's last name and page number in the upper right hand corner like any other page of the essay.
True
True or false? The works-cited list should be alphabetized by the author's last name; if none, then by title.
true
True or false? To incorporate several lines of poetry into your essay, use a forward slash with a space on each side to indicate line breaks.
False
True or false? When a work has more than one author, you should list the authors' names in alphabetical order.
false (when multiple sources apply, list them in a single parentheses, separating them with a semicolon.)
True or false? When multiple sources apply to a single sentence/group of sentences in your essay, list them in separate parentheses separated by a semicolon.
True
True or false? When you have three or more authors, you must reverse the first name and follow it with a comma and the words et al. instead of writing out the other authors' names.
True
True or false? When you have two authors' names, you reverse the first name, follow it with a comma and the word and, and give the second name in normal order.
False
True or false? When you paraphrase a researched quote into your own words, no in-text citation is necessary.
True
True or false? You can name someone other than the author in the "Author" element, but you must follow the name with a description of that person's role.
