MLA requires the first page of your paper to be:

In MLA documentation, how should the following parenthetical citation appear?

In general, how is the Works Cited list arranged?

What is the preferred font and size for a Works Cited?

What are the preferred margins in MLA format?

How is the paper supposed to be spaced in MLA format?

How are the titles of books, magazines, newspapers, films, and websites written?

In a title, what words should be capitalized?

How are titles of articles, essays, stories, and television episodes written

Which of the following statements DOES NOT support the idea that Beowulf is an epic?

Which of the following quotations from Beowulf contains alliteration?

Which of the following quotations from Beowulf contains a kenning?

Beowulf calls Grendel and his ancestors “A brood forever opposing the Lord’s / Will, and again and again defeated.” This quote implies all of the following about the Anglo-Saxons’ beliefs about evil EXCEPT

When Beowulf tells the Geats he will cross the sea and destroy Grendel, the poet writes, “None of the wise ones regretted his going.” What inference can the reader draw from that remark?

The central issue of Beowulf is the:

How can the reader tell that Beowulf is an epic story?

What characteristic typical of heroes in Anglo-Saxon epic poems applies to Beowulf?

What Anglo-Saxon belief is revealed in the line, “Fate will unwind as it must”?

From which fact can the reader infer that Beowulf is honorable?

What does the line, “The monster’s thoughts were as quick as his greed or his claws” imply about Grendel?

What conflict type is represented in the following: “Sorrow beat at his heart: he accused / himself of breaking God’s law…”

What conflict type is represented in the following: “she drew / a dagger … / To avenge her only son.”

At the end of his battles, Beowulf attributes his victories to:

When the author of Beowulf describes death as a “journey into darkness,” he is expressing a:

Which of the following lines from the poem expresses a pagan point of view towards life?

Chivalry, introduced by the Normans, was:

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer uses the pilgrimage primarily as a device to:

In order to reveal his characters, Chaucer uses all of the following techniques EXCEPT:

Medieval ideals of chivalry are best represented by the:

Which pilgrim does a brisk business in fake holy relics?

In “The Pardoner’s Tale,” which character(s) does the Pardoner most resemble?

After they abandon their search for Death, the rioters murder one another. This is an example of:

Which of the following quotations from “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is a rhymed couplet?

Reading Comprehension – From A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman (excerpt): “Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life. It developed at the same time as the great crusades of the 12th century as a code intended to fuse the religious and martial spirits and somehow bring the fighting man into accord with Christian theory. A moral gloss was needed that would allow the Church to tolerate the warriors in good conscience and the warriors to pursue their own values in spiritual comfort. With the help of Benedictine thinkers, a code evolved that put the knight’s sword arm in the service, theoretically, of justice, right, piety, the Church, the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed. Chivalry could not be contained by the Church, and bursting through the pious veils, it developed its own principles. Prowess, that combination of courage, strength, and skill that made a chevalier preux, was the prime essential. Honor and loyalty, together with courtesy—meaning the kind of behavior that has since come to be called “chivalrous”—were the ideals, and so-called courtly love the presiding genius.” In contrast to medieval legends, Tuchman’s article indicates that chivalry involved:

Reading Comprehension – From A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman (excerpt provided in previous question). According to Tuchman, chivalry was an integration of the Church with the:

Reading Comprehension – From A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman (excerpt provided earlier). Tuchman’s historical research suggests that the twelfth-century Church’s construction of chivalry was:

Reading Comprehension – From A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman (excerpt provided earlier). According to the article, the concept of chivalry was developed at the time of:

What was to be the intended result of courtly love on society?

Macbeth – Read the passage and answer the question that follows. “Come you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crow to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, / Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, / And take my milk for gall,” Why does Lady Macbeth ask to become “unsexed”?

Macbeth – Read the passage and answer the question that follows. “Out, damned spot! / Out, I say! – One: two: why, then ‘tis time to do’t. – Hell / is murky! – Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What / need we fear who knows it, when none can call our / power to accompt? – Yet who would have thought the old / man to have had so much blood in him.” Why does Macbeth need not fear who knows about the death of Duncan?

Macbeth – Read the passage and answer the question that follows. “If thou be’st slain and with no stroke of mine, / My wife and children’s ghosts will haunt me still. / I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms / Are hired to bear their staves. Either thou, Macbeth, / Or else my sword with an unbatter’d edge / I sheathe again unneeded.” What does Macduff want to occur in this passage?

Macbeth – Read the passage and answer the question that follows. “I will not yield, / To kiss the ground before young Malcom’s feet, / And to be baited with the rabble’s curse. / Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, / And thou opposed, being of no woman born, / Yet I will try the last. Before my body / I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, / And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’” Why will Macbeth not surrender?

Why does Macbeth underplay the death of his wife?

Which sentence states a fact?

Which sentence states a fact?

Which sentence states a fact?

When does a magician engage in misdirection?

Which patient is noncompliant?

Why would a company require an employee to sign a nondisclosure agreement?

Are these sentences fragments? Closed to visitors since the 1960s, the prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France, are between fifteen thousand and seventeen thousand years old.

Are these sentences fragments? A new detective series by J.K. Rowling published under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith after she completed her seven-volume Harry Potter series.

Are these sentences fragments? Whereas the Spirit and Opportunity space rovers were solar powered, the Mars rover known as Curiosity is nuclear powered.

Are these sentences run-ons? As a young boy in England, Roald Dahl dreamed of growing up and working in a chocolate factory, inspiring his children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Are these sentences run-ons? Dust particles around nine nearby stars may have been caused by long-ago collisions between melting comets and asteroids.

Are these sentences run-ons? When a dog wags its tail, it doesn’t always mean the dog is happy or friendly, a wag that is slow and restrained may convey a warning to “back off.”

What is the best way to complete the text? Lemnote was an experienced speed chess _____________ still struggled with the pace of competitive tournaments.

What is the best way to complete the text? You must be present at the raffle drawing in order to claim a __________________ if you leave early, you automatically forfeit your potential winnings.

What is the best way to complete the text? Although wild strawberries grow around the ________ cultivated varieties that are most commonly eaten today originated from a a hybrid of plants taken from Virgina and Chile.

Identify the appositive in the following sentence: "Dr. Smith, a well-known scientist, will be giving the keynote speech."

Identify the appositive in the following sentence: “On November 9, 1989, East Germany opened the Berlin Wall, one of the most reviled symbols of the Cold War.”

Identify the sentence type: "The sun set behind the mountains, and the stars began to appear in the sky."

Which of the following is a simple sentence?

Choose the correct comparative or superlative adjective. Of all the contestants on the game show, the gentleman from Detroit had the __________ knowledge of international affairs.

Some skaters claim that Olympic figure skating has become __________ than it used to be and isn’t as artistic anymore.

That actress’s second audition for the lead was unfortunately __________ than her first audition, so she didn’t get the part.

Which sentence is correctly capitalized?

Which sentence is correctly capitalized?

Which sentence is correctly capitalized?

Which sentence is an example of a compound sentence correctly using a comma?