MLA Quiz

Before taking this quiz, you may want to read the material on pages 4-13 of Basics of Documentation under these headings:

6. Where should my documentation appear?

7. How should I cite the sources I have used?

Appendix A

You will note that the questions below follow the same order. Try not to look back to Basics of Documentation for the answer so that you can test your knowledge. For each question, note the number of the correct answer (answers are available in MLA quiz answers). If you have printed this quiz, you can highlight or underline the answer to help you check.

a) Bibliography

b) Works Cited

c) References

d) Sources used

e) List of references

a) in alphabetical order by authors’ surname or by title (if there is no author), regardless of type of reference (book, film journal article, website, etc.).

b) under separate subheadings according to type of source.

c) first under those with authors, then those without.

d) numbered in the order in which they appear.

Using parenthetical citations correctly

a) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:

“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (Tannen 7).

b) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:

“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (7).

c) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:

“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (The Argument Culture 7).

d) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:

“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (Tannen, 1998, p. 7).

e) Every issue we see discussed on television appears to be set up as an argument:

“In the argument culture, criticism, attack, or opposition are the predominant if not the only ways of responding to people or ideas” (Tannen, p. 7).

Keaveney, Susan. “When MTV Goes CEO.” Acting on
     Words. Ed. David Brundage and Michael Lahey.
     Toronto: Pearson, 2004. 99-103.

a) According to Keaveney (2004), “Before mid-millennium, Gen Xers will be the CEOs of the future” (p. 103).

b) According to Keaveney, “Before mid-millennium, Gen Xers will be the CEOs of the future” (Keaveney, 103).

c) According to Keaveney, “Before mid-millennium, Gen Xers will be the CEOs of the future” (Brundage and Lahey 103).

d) According to Keaveney, “Before mid-millennium, Gen Xers will be the CEOs of the future” (103).

e) According to Keaveney, “Before mid-millennium, Gen Xers will be the CEOs of the future” (Susan Keaveney, “When MTV Goes CEO,” 103).

a) According to R. W. Weber, “Thirty-one patients with histologically confirmed unresectable measurable metastatic melanoma were enrolled onto an open-label, multicenter phase II study” (qtd. in “Melanoma,” Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week 372).

b) According to R. W. Weber, “Thirty-one patients with histologically confirmed unresectable measurable metastatic melanoma were enrolled onto an open-label, multicenter phase II study” (“Melanoma” 372).

c) According to R. W. Weber, “Thirty-one patients with histologically confirmed unresectable measurable metastatic melanoma were enrolled onto an open-label, multicenter phase II study” (qtd. in “Melanoma” 372).

d) According to R. W. Weber, “Thirty-one patients with histologically confirmed unresectable measurable metastatic melanoma were enrolled onto an open-label, multicenter phase II study” (as cited in “Melanoma,” 2006, p. 372).

e) According to R. W. Weber, “Thirty-one patients with histologically confirmed unresectable measurable metastatic melanoma were enrolled onto an open-label, multicenter phase II study” (372).

a) Therefore, readers need to remember that “[t]he first post-colonial society to develop a ‘national’ literature was the USA” (Ashcroft et al. 15).

b) Therefore, readers need to remember that “[t]he first post-colonial society to develop a ‘national’ literature was the USA” (Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin 15).

c) Therefore, readers need to remember that “[t]he first post-colonial society to develop a ‘national’ literature was the USA” (Ashcroft, Griffiths & Tiffin 15).

d) Therefore, readers need to remember that “[t]he first post-colonial society to develop a ‘national’ literature was the USA” (The Empire Writes Back 15).

e) Therefore, readers need to remember that “[t]he first post-colonial society to develop a ‘national’ literature was the USA” (Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin, p.15).

a) Shaun White says that he is “sick of being called The Flying Tomato” (personal communication, February 20, 2006).

b) Shaun White says that he is “sick of being called The Flying Tomato” (White, Feb. 20, 2006).

c) In an interview, Shaun White says he is “sick of being called The Flying Tomato.”

d) In an interview, Shaun White says that he is “sick of being called The Flying Tomato” (Use your surname here because you interviewed him).

e) Shaun White says that he is “sick of being called The Flying Tomato” (White and your surname, February 20, 2006).

a) Earlier, Emerson had claimed that he would do everything he could to fight the Liberals in government (Anonymous A2).

b) Earlier, Emerson had claimed that he would do everything he could to fight the Liberals in government (Edmonton Journal, Feb. 14, 2006).

c) Earlier, Emerson had claimed that he would do everything he could to fight the Liberals in government. (a parenthetical citation is unnecessary for a paraphrase).

d) Earlier, Emerson had claimed that he would do everything he could to fight the Liberals in government (Emerson A2).

e) Earlier, Emerson had claimed that he would do everything he could to fight the Liberals in government (“Was Emerson lying” A2).

Integrating quotations correctly

a) Susan Keaveney explains that Gen Xers will develop a new kind of management style. “Having rebelled against standard business hours and micromanagement, they might find it difficult to make such demands of their subordinates” (102).

b) Susan Keaveney explains that Gen Xers will develop a new kind of management style. They “[h]ave rebelled against standard business hours and micromanagement, [so] they might find it difficult to make such demands of their subordinates” (102).

c) Susan Keaveney explains that Gen Xers will develop a new kind of management style: “Having rebelled against standard business hours and micromanagement, they might find it difficult to make such demands of their subordinates” (102).

d) Susan Keaveney explains that Gen Xers will develop a new kind of management style because of their attitudes toward being managed: “Having rebelled against standard business hours and micromanagement, they might find it difficult to make such demands of their subordinates” (102).

a) One of the ways that Baby Boomers and Gen Xers can get along in the workplace is to “[f]ac[e]” their problems “squarely” by looking at them as “issues” that consider differences in “cultur[es]” (Keaveney 103).

b) “Facing the issue squarely and approaching Gen X workplace issues as issues of cultural diversity” will help managers from both generations work together (Keaveney 103).

c) By “[f]acing the issue squarely and approaching Gen X workplace issues as issues of cultural diversity,” managers from both generations will be able to work together (Keaveney 103).

d) Managers from both generations will be able to find ways to work together by “[f]acing the issue squarely and approaching Gen X workplace issues as issues of cultural diversity” (Keaveney 103).

Using quotations correctly

a) Historians have discovered that “machinists use[d] various tools…on a daily basis” (Brown 311).

b) Historians have discovered that “machinists use various tools…on a daily basis” (Brown 311).

c) Historians have discovered that “…machinists use[d] various tools…on a daily basis” (Brown 311).

d) Historians have discovered that “[M]achinists use various tools […] on a daily basis” (Brown 311).

Pretend that all the quotations are double-spaced, as they should be. Four periods were used in the ellipses because what follows the ellipses comes from a different sentence later in the paragraph. (Use three periods when removing one or more words from a single sentence).

a) In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Gelb claims that:

b) In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Gelb claims that

c) In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Gelb claims that

d) In How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Gelb claims that:

Using source materials fairly

a) If we compare Italian cars, “some people believe the Lamborgotti Fasterossa is the fastest car in the world, [while] others name the Ferrari as the fastest” (Simpson).

b) Bob Simpson claims that “[a]lthough some people believe the Lamborgotti Fasterossa is the fastest car in the world, others name the Ferrari as the fastest.”

c) Bob Simpson claims that “the Lamborgotti Fasterossa is the fastest car in the world, [but] others name the Ferrari as the fastest.”

d) According to one race car driver, “[a]lthough some people believe the Lamborgotti Fasterossa is the fastest car in the world, others name the Ferrari as the fastest” (Simpson).

a) Jeremy Black insists that “[t]his film…is not…funny.”

b) Jeremy Black claims that this movie is “many things…[including] funny.”

c) Jeremy Black has called the film “funny.”

d) Jeremy Black claims that “[t]his film can be said to be many things[;]…one of the things it is is funny.”

Paraphrasing correctly

a) The current fashion of members of the younger generation owning their own businesses might water down the numbers of available potential low-ranking administrators; however, it might also supply a necessary means at a basic level for business to subcontract (Keaveney 102-103).

b) A necessary infrastructure for corporate outsourcing is provided even though the trend of members of the younger generation owning their own businesses is weakening the availability of potential executives (Keaveney 102-103).

c) Increasingly, members of the younger generation are becoming entrepreneurs rather than making themselves available to work their way up the management scale for an individual company; the difficulties this may cause for companies is offset by the services as subcontractors they can provide as outsourcing becomes more necessary and more common (Keaveney 102-103).

d) Companies will not be able to find enough people to hire who are junior management material, so they will have to subcontract the work instead (Keaveny 102-103).

a) Thirty-one people getting medical treatment with the confirmation by microscopic tissue study that their quantifiable, spreading skin cancer could not be removed by surgery were registered in the investigation (“Melanoma” 372).

b) This study used thirty-one patients whose melanoma (a type of skin cancer) could not be removed by surgery and had obviously spread (“Melanoma” 372).

c) Participants in this study all had melanoma (“Melanoma” 372).

d) All the participants in the study (31) had microscopically established melanomas that were metastasizing and were not good candidates for surgical intervention (“Melanoma” 372).

Formatting Works Cited entries correctly

Using punctuation correctly in documentation

Insert the correct punctuation where necessary in these quotations:

Insert the correct punctuation where necessary in these references:

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