MLA Direct Quote - 10

What does a MLA in-text citation include in parenthesis when the sources is quoted directly and the author's name is not mentioned in the text? 

• Author and page number separated by a comma: (Doe, 25)

• Author and publication year: (Doe, 2007)

• Author, publication year, and page number preceded by p.: (Doe, 2007, p. 25)

• Author and page number without intervening punctuation: (Doe 25)

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

• True

• False

• Don't pick me

• Don't pick me

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Is this correct?

Aers and Stanly stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion ( p. 271).

• Correct

• Incorrect

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Is this correct?

Aers and Stanly stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" (271) of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Is this correct?

Aers and Stanly stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion ( 271).

• Correct

• Incorrect

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

This this correct?

Aers and Stanly stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context." (271) of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Each source listed in the Works Cited list must be cited in the text.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

When should et al. be used in MLA style? 

• If the sources has more than 4 authors and has already been mentioned once in the document

• When the sources has more than 1 author

• When the sources has more than 3 authors

• never

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In MLA style, block (long) quotations should be - 

• enclosed in quotation marks and single-spaced

• double-spaced, indented half an inch, and have no quotation marks

• indented one inch (all lined) and written without enclosing quotation

• indented one inch (all lines) and single-space

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What does the ellipsis (...) mean in the following quote?

"I wasn't sure whether or not to take that class...I've heard it's really hard" 

• something from the original quote was cut out

• something has been added to the original quote but the meaning of the quote hasn't been changed

• something has been added to the original quote

• something from the original quote was cut out but the meaning of the quote hasn't been changed

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9