mla style quiz

If there are two or more books by the same author in a Works Cited list, how should they be recorded?

If two or more books by the same author are cited, the entries for that author in the Works Cited list are alphabetized by title. The name of the author appears only in the first entry; all subsequent entries start with three dashes, followed by a period, the title, and the publishing information.

If a source has more than three authors, how should it be cited in the Works Cited list?

Only the first author's name should listed followed by et al.

To cite an anonymous source in text, what information should be included in parentheses?

The shortened form of the title and the page number

A Works Cited list is not required if all in-text citations have the author(s) and the page number(s) of the source.

false

An MLA Works Cited list is alphabetized based on the title of the source.

false

An MLA Works Cited list appears at the end of the paper on a separate numbered page and contains all works cited in the paper.

true

If an entry in a Works Cited List is longer than one line, second and all subsequent lines need to be indented half an inch.

true

URLs of electronic sources in a Works Cited List are enclosed in angle brackets.

true

If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in parentheses.

true

In MLA style, underlining is preferred instead of italics.

true

Multipe parenthetical references

... are separated by a semicolon.

Indirect sources are cited

... by using qtd. in in parentheses followed by the author who used the quote, and the page number.

In MLA style, long quotations

... should be indented one inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks.

In MLA style, what would you include in the parentheses for a directly quoted in-text citation?

Author and page number: (Doe, 25)

Which is a correct Works Cited entry?

Dietel, Harvey, and Paul Dietel. C How To Program. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999.