Plagiarism Quiz

Cutting and pasting a sentence from a website and then changing a few of the words is plagiarism.

• True

• Fase

It's okay if you recycle or reuse someone else's project with their permission, as long as they aren't in that class anymore.

• True

• False

You can copy and paste a sentence written by someone else as long as you put quotation marks around it.

• True

• False

It is considered plagiarism if you use an image or song found online without providing the citation.

• True

• False

It’s okay to take a photograph found online and use it for an art project.

• True

• False

You don’t have to worry about citations when including “common knowledge” facts in your reports such as President Washington was the first U.S. President.

• True

• False

Paraphrasing means to summarize someone else’s ideas in your own words. Paraphrasing, with proper citations, is a good practice to use to avoid plagiarism.

• True

• False

It’s okay to use another person’s interpretation of a piece or artistic style as one’s own.

• True

• False

Which of the following are examples of public domain? Click all that apply.

• a work with an expired copyright or with an author that died more than 70 years ago

• a piece of art found online

• a fact or theory

• anything considered "common knowledge"

• an article in a newspaper

Someone can lose a job, or be kicked out of a class or college if they are caught plagiarizing.

• True

• False