English Composition 1: MLA Quiz

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is quoting from the unsigned editorial "Asserting Silence," published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 4, 2010.

"Asserting Silence." Editorial. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 June 2010, p. A16.

In MLA documentation, how should the following parenthetical reference appear?

(Barrett 17)

How many sources are you required to use on the assigned Annotated Bibliography that accompanies your Research Paper?

5

Which of the following is true of a Works Cited page? Choose all that apply.

> Starts a new page numbered sequentially > Placed after the body of the paper > "Works Cited" is centered, without quotation marks, italics, bolding, or underlining > Includes all quoted, paraphrased, or summarized sources > Each entry starts on a new line, at the left margin, with no indenting (subsequent lines might be indented) > The second line, and all subsequent lines, for each entry should be indented five spaces ("hanging indent") > Double Space all lines > Alphabetize the entries of the Works Cited by the author's last name, or whatever appears as the first word for each entry

Which of the following is true about block quotes? Choose all that apply.

> The entire block quote is indented > They are only used when the author is mentioned in the text. > The page number at the end goes outside the period (a normal citation goes inside the period). > Quotation marks are not used.

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. For an essay about women in American films from the 1960s, the student is citing the performances of George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn and the work of the director Blake Edwards in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The film was released in 1961 and distributed on DVD in the Paramount Centennial Collection in 2009.

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Performances by George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn, directed by Blake Edwards, Paramount Pictures, 1961.

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is summarizing the article "What Does the Millennial Generation Want from a Mobile Phone?" by Stephanie Camp. The article appeared online in The Huffington Post on June 9, 2010. The student accessed the article on June 17, 2010.

Camp, Stephanie. "What Does the Millennial Generation Want from a Mobile Phone?" The Huffington Post, 9 June 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-camp/what-does-the-millennial_b_606077.html. Accessed 17 June 2010.

MLA requires the first page of your paper to be:

Double-spaced with a heading in the left corner with your name, your professor's name, the course, and the date

True or False: The annotation paragraphs on an Annotated Bibliography should be single spaced.

False

True or False: The sources in an Annotated Bibliography should be organized in order of how they appear in the paper, listing unused sources after the used sources in any order.

False

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is citing "The Enhancement of the Senses," a review of the book The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. The review appeared in the magazine The Nation on May 31, 2010, on pp. 33-36.

Findlen, Paula. "The Enhancement of the Senses." Review of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes. The Nation, 31 May 2010, pp. 33-36.

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is citing two books by Lawrence Lessig. One is Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, published by Penguin Press in 2008. The other is Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, published by Penguin Press in 2004.

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. Penguin Press, 2004.- - -. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press, 2008.

What does "MLA" stand for?

Modern Language Association

What does Hanging Indent look like? Top: Smith, John K. "What a Day for a Daydream! A Wild Look at Boredom." Teenage Life Magazine 6 Mar. 2005: 4. Print. Bottom: Smith, John K. "What a Day for a Daydream! A Wild Look at Boredom." Teenage Life Magazine 6 Mar. 2005: 4. Print.

Top

True or False: Quotation marks should be placed around titles of shorter works (articles, poems, short stories, essays).

True

True or False: When you use quotations in the text, you place the citation before the last quotation mark. ex: ". . . and they lived happily ever after (Perrault 173)."

False

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is paraphrasing from page 265 of Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris. The book was published by Penguin Press in 2008.

Harris, Mark. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Penguin Press, 2008.

On your Works Cited page, which indentation style is correct?

Hanging

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is citing the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Brungart. It was published by North Point Press, an imprint of the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, in 2002.

McDonough, William, and Michael Brungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is quoting from a review by Betsy Sharkey (titled "Untangling the Past") of the film The Secret in Their Eyes, which was directed by Juan José Campanella. The review was published April 16, 2010, and accessed online on May 3, 2010, from the Los Angeles Times.

Sharkey, Betsy. "Untangling the Past." Review of The Secret in Their Eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella. Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2010, articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/16/entertainment/la-et-secret-20100416. Accessed 3 May 2010.

What does the symbol (- - -.) highlighted in yellow in the sample source, mean when it is used on a Works Cited Page? - - -. Venetian Blinds: Contemporary Study of Compulsive Lying. Pendant, 1994.

The author is the same as the previous source

True or False: The authors' names (on your sources) are listed alphabetically in reverse order (meaning last name, then first name) on the Works Cited page.

True

True or False: The citations on the Annotated Bibliography use hanging indent, whereas the annotation paragraphs use a regular first line indent.

True

True or False: The sources in an Annotated Bibliography should be alphabetized according to the first word of each citation.

True

True or False: When you access information online, your citation must always include the date when you accessed the information.

True

True or False: You only use block quotes when quoting more than 4 lines (not sentences) of text.

True

True or False: You should not use the authors' last names in the parenthetical citation if the authors' names appear in the text.

True

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry: The student is quoting from the article "Surveillance: Taking It Downtown" by Brennan David, published on March 28, 2010, in the newspaper Columbia Daily Tribune. The student accessed the article on the web on June 9, 2010.

David, Brennan. "Surveillance: Taking It Downtown." Columbia Daily Tribune, 28 Mar. 2010, www.columbiatribune.com/news/perspectives/surveillance-taking-it-downtown/article_d9197f56-2331-5d7f-9894-03efb04fe7b8.html. Accessed 9 June 2010.

True or False: You should only use "et al." when you are citing a text with more than three authors.

True

Select the item that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for a works cited entry. The student is paraphrasing from the second edition of the book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World by Rosalind Wiseman. It was published in 2009 by Three Rivers Press, which is an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, which itself is a division of Random House.

Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World. 2nd ed., Crown Publishing Group, 2009.