MLA Style Quiz
A Works Cited page includes all sources you've consulted during your research whether you've actually used any information from them in your paper or not. True or False
False
A summary includes many specifics from the source. True or False
False
If a source has two authors, only use one of the author's last names in the citation in your paper. True or False
False
If an article was written by Joe Smith, John Jones, and Betty Edwards, would this citation be correct? The article "College Chaos" says, "Eighty-seven percent of college seniors have an urgent need to find a job in their field of study" (Smith, Jones, and Edwards 56).
False
If the title of an article is "An Economics Lesson," on the Works Cited page, would you alphabetize by the "A" rather than the "E?" True or False
False
If you paraphrase or summarize, it's not important to use a lead-in and parentheses since you're putting the source material in your own words. True or False
False
The Works Cited page should include extra spacing between each entry to really make the citations stand out from one another. True or False
False
The following date is written correctly according to MLA style rules: January 10, 2019. True or False
False
The heading with the student's name, the professor's name, the class, and the date should appear on each page of one's paper. True or False
False
When you put your last name and page number at the top right corner of each page, place a comma between your name and page number. True or False
False
A Works Cited page should be alphabetized by whatever comes first in the citation, whether that be an author's last name or the title of the article if there is no author. True or False
True
A paraphrase keeps the length of the original. Therefore, if you're paraphrasing three sentences from a magazine article, your paraphrase will contain approximately three sentences in your own words. True or False
True
If Betty Edwards wrote an article, and she quotes something Fred Franklin said, would this citation be written correctly? According to Franklin, "Poodles are the best" (qtd. in Edwards 49).
True
If a title is italicized or in quotation marks on the Works Cited page, it should appear the same way when you incorporate that title in your paper. True or False
True
If there is no author for a source, put whatever comes first on the Works Cited citation in parentheses, such as the title of the article. True or False
True
If you have the option of a pdf file when you're looking up articles in an online database, it's important to use the pdf file so you'll have a real page number to include in the parentheses. True or False
True
On the Works Cited page, the first line of each citation should start at the left margin, and the second, third, etc. line should be indented. This is called a "hanging" indent. True or False
True
Sentences using numbers/statistics should always be direct quoted using direct quotation marks. True or False
True
The heading of your paper consists of four lines, and the heading is double-spaced. True or False
True
The title of a book, journal, magazine, and newspaper should be italicized. True or False
True
