MLA Quiz

What font is required per MLA guidelines?

• Comics Sans, 12pt

• Arial, 12pt

• Garamond, 11pt

• Times New Romans, 12pt

Check all the in-text citations that are correct per MLA guidelines.

• (Frost, 244)

• (Dean 548)

• (Smith 13)

• (Davis pg. 32)

• (harris 19)

Which in-text citation is correct?

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (Tommy Orange 118)

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (Orange 118)

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (Orange pg 118)

• "Orvil couldn't fathom what she meant by risks" (118)

How is the Works Cited page arranged?

• Alphabetically, by title of the work

• Alphabetically, by the author's first name

• By publication year

• Alphabetically, by the author's last name

Which of the following is cited correctly in MLA style?

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

• Aers and Stanley stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (1996, p. 271).

• Aers and Stanley (1996) stress "the urgency of recovering [the] cultural context" of fourteenth-century English thought regarding religion (p. 271).

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

There are 4 components of the proper MLA heading. What is on third line?

• Your Name

• The Date

• The Instructor's Name

• Name of Your Class

A source (video, website, book) needs to be cited when you...

• directly quote from them

• when you summarize or paraphrase them

• when you use numerical data (statistics, charts, graphs) from them

• all of the above

Select which parenthetical citation is PROPERLY DONE from the options below.

• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately (Smith 10).

• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith 10)

• Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately. (Smith p.10)

• (Smith 10) Many of the students who plagiarize do so out of ignorance rather than deliberately

Given the MLA guidelines, choose the properly cited source.

The book source of the work citied page is

Authors. Title of book. Publisher, Publication date.

• Rose Whitaker. The Orphan. Rittenhouse. 1974

• Whitaker, Rose. The Orphan. Rittenhouse.

• Whitaker Rose The Orphan Rittenhouse 1974

• Whitaker, Rose. The Orphan. Rittenhouse, 1974.

Which is the correct in-text citation referencing a book titled "Growing the Perfect Garden" by Monic A.Blue, Samantha Day, Karol Farmer, page 67"

• "(67 Blue et al)"

• "(Bleu, Day and Farmer 67)"

• "(67 et al)"

• "(Blue et al. 67)"