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MLA Formatting

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to MLA, song titles should be…​ ​ ​ ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Placed in quotation marks
Shorted to just one major word or phrase
Italicized
2.

According to MLA, novel titles should be…​ ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Italicized
Placed in quotation marks
Shorted to just one major word or phrase
3.

According to MLA, newspaper titles should be…​ ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Italicized
Placed in quotation marks
Shorted to just one major word or phrase
4.

When is “et al.” used in a parenthetical citation?​ ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
When there are three or more authors
When there is an editor
When there are two or more authors
5.

What is MANDATORY to include in a novel citation?​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Author Last Name and Page # (Joyce 33).
The city where it was published. (NYC).
6.

If a writer "paraphrases" (puts a quote in her own words), she ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
does need a citation following the paraphrase.
does not need to give any credit.
7.

What date would be used on the Works Cited page if a book or source has been published multiple times?​ ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
The MOST recent date published.
The oldest date published.
8.

What are the MOST important pieces of information that you would use within your In-text Citations?

a)

Author's Last Name

b)

Title of book

c)

Title of container (magazine, publication).

d)

Other contributors

e)

Version

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
9.

What is the correct parenthetical citation for the following passage from Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Act:  4   Scene 2 lines 29-31

a)

(Shakespeare 4.2.29-31)

b)

(Macbeth 4.2.29-31)

c)

(Shakespeare, 4.2.29-31)

10.

Sources WITH authors are always considered reliable.​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
FALSE
True
11.

Articles with bias (personal preference) are inaccurate and should never be used.​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
FALSE
TRUE
12.

Which of the following is likely to be the LEAST reliable research source?​ ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
A blog article written by a high school teacher.
A scholarly journal from an online database
A .ORG website with an author
13.

How should sources in an annotated bibliography be ordered?​ ​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Alphabetically usually author's last name.
Chronologically by the publication date
14.

Match the following

a)

Paraphrase

1.

Putting someone else's thoughts and ideas into your own words

b)

Direct Plagiarism

2.

Using someone's work without proper attribution

c)

In-Text Citation

3.

Internal documentation of source information

d)

Works Cited

4.

Full alphabetized list of all sources cited in-text

15.

Match the following punctuations

a)

Book/Novel

1.

Italicize

b)

Poem

2.

Quotation Marks

c)

Song Title

3.

Quotation Marks

d)

Movie

4.

Italicize

e)

Encyclopedia

5.

Italicize