Free Printable Plagiarism Quiz

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Plagiarism Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class

Date

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

Citation

Bibliography

Plagiarism

Newton's Law

Plagiarism can be accidental.

True

False

What do you use when you want to use a passage from the author and put it in your own words?

summary

paraphrase

reported speech

Which of the following is plagiarism? (Check all that apply)

Copying and pasting a sentence from an article into a research paper.

Taking your friend's painting and saying you painted it.

Singing a song at songwriter's open mic night that you heard at a talent show.

Copying and pasting a sentence from an article and using it in a presentation with quotation marks and soures.

Emily is getting ideas for her pyramid project from a website. She takes notes and lists the website name and information in her project when she turns it in.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

Chris wrote a book report in 5th grade. Now he is in 6th grade, and wants to reuse this report for another class.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

Joe wrote a report about cats. He wrote this in his report:
Cats can have long hair or short hair, they can be lots of different colors, and "they can even have blue eyes," says Julia Nelson in her book called Cats are Amazing Animals.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

Jill copied wolf images and sounds from another website into the mascot page of her school webpage.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

Lee changed a few words in the sentence he copied for his report on bats. He decided he did not have to give credit to the original author.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

10.

John is doing a report on George Washington. He writes that Washington was the 1st president. He believes this is common knowledge so he does not give credit to a source for this fact.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

11.

Rachel has to write a paragraph about volcanoes for science. She finds a paragraph on a website that sounds great. She copies it in her own handwriting and turns it in.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

12.

Jennifer spends a lot of time searching the web. She finds a great drawing on a site. She prints it for the cover of her report and gives credit to the illustrator in her report.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

13.

Samantha copies a webpage into her book report and adds her own first sentence.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

14.

David had a ball game last night and didn't have time to finish his homework. Justin offers to let him copy his, and sends it to David in an email.
OKAY or NO WAY?

Okay

No Way

15.

Teachers have web sites and computer programs that tell them if students have plagiarized or not.

true

false

16.

It is not necessary to cite a summarized source as long as you don't quote verbatim from the text.

True

False

17.

Plagiarism is a problem because it

is stealing intellectual property.

prevents your teacher from seeing what you’ve learned.

damages the trust between you and your academic community.

all of the above

18.

Which of the following would NOT need to be cited?

A quote from a historian about the causes of the American Revolution

A statistic of how many people died during a specific battle

A sentence stating that George Washington was the first United States president

Commentary on the effectiveness of George Washington during his time as a general.

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Plagiarism Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

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