Plagiarism Unit Test

1. Which of the following word would best complete this sentence: Mary would understand the concepts better if someone would show her how to ____ her reading.

• patch write

• plagiarize

• speed through

• paraphrase

The act of passing off someone's words or ideas as your own is simply ____.

• patch write

• copyright laws

• plagiarism

• a paper mill

Larry used an awesome quote by Shakespeare, but refused to give credit to the playwright. Larry's teacher took 20 points off of his project for ___.

• patchwriting

• non-attribution

• paper mill

• paraphrasing

I found that taking the time and effort to change an author's words around and to find synonyms and other similar phrases was more trouble than it was worth. ___ is more difficult than writing the paper correctly.

• patchwriting

• non-attribution

• verbatim plagiarism

• paraphrase plagiarism

5. My teacher said, "If you find a passage you like, feel free to use it; however, make sure you cite it properly."

In the above statement, the word cite means: (choose all that applies)

• to quote a passage or a source in order to justify an argument or view and attributing credit to the author

• to take an author's ideas and presenting them as your own as well as not giving the author credit

• to share your research with a fellow student to ensure that you are not duplicating information

• to read a passage carefully to ensure that plagiarism is not committed.

A term that refers to creative thoughts or ideas that an individual will produce whether in a piece of writing or art is known as ___.

• intellectual property

• copyright

• plagiarism

• paper mill

7. Protects an artist or writer from someone who would steal their work and pass it off as their own.

• paper milling

• copyright laws

• public domian

• plagiarism

Which of the following descriptions would be considered to be plagiarism by a teacher?

• A student paraphrases an author and remembers at the last minute to give the author credit. He revises his work and turns in his assignment late.

• A student decides to write a paper about the poet Emily Dickinson. She wants to use as many samples of her poems that she can, but cannot decide which one to use. She decides to cite one from her earlier works by supplying the book title and page number where the poem is found.

• A student copies and pastes a passage from his online textbook in an essay that will be counted as two test grades. He frantically looks for the authors of the book and asks his teacher how to cite sources with multiple authors.

• A student finds a digital copy of his sister's research paper on her laptop. His printer is out of ink, so he uploads the paper to a friend's Google Drive. The friend prints the paper, but places her own name on the old assignment and places under her professor's door.

How would you correctly cite this letter from Mark Twain in an essay?

• Place quotation marks around the text then add in-text citation

• Copy the letter and attach it to my essay

• Use several lines of the letter in my introductory paragraph.

• Take a picture of the letter

Relativsim is defined as...

• The belief that family should stick together regardless of the circumstances in life

• relating a story to a friend but adding your own emphasis for effect

• communicating truth regardless of how the truth will be received

• the belief that knowledge, morality and truth is not the same for every culture, generation, or historical context. There are no absolutes