Quiz # 5 -- MLA Style Guidelines

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    Question # 1: Pretend that you are constructing an Works Cited page citation for a book. The publisher is Johns Hopkins University Press, the city is Baltimore, and the year of publication is 2003. Keeping in mind the appropriate abbreviations involved, as well as whether or not to use punctuation (periods, commas, colons) type the city, publisher, and year of publication exactly as it will appear in your Works Cited page citation.

    Question # 2:  Pretend that you are constructing an Works Cited page citation for either an article in a journal, or an article in an anthologized book (meaning a book like Speculations which contains many articles). The article begins on page 200 and ends on page 222. Type the page numbers exactly as they will appear in your Works Cited page citation.

    Question # 3:  Pretend that you are constructing an Works Cited page citation for either an article in a journal, or an article in an anthologized book. The article begins on page 201 and ends on page 207. Type the page numbers exactly as they will appear in your Works Cited page citation.

    Question # 4:  Pretend that you are constructing an Works Cited page citation for an article in an antologized book. The city of publication in Madison, the publisher is University of Wisconsin Press, the year of publication is 2004, and the article begins on page 155 and ends on page 182. Type all this information exactly as it will appear in your Works Cited page citation.

    Question # 5:  Pretend that you are constructing an Works Cited page citation for an article in a journal. The article appears in volume 41 number 1, the date of publication is 2003, and it begins on page 155 and ends on page 182. Type all this information exactly as it will appear in your Works Cited page citation.

    Question # 6:   Pretend that you are constructing an Works Cited page citation for an article in a journal. The name of the journal should be underlined. Is the name of the journal followed with a period?

    YES  

    NO  

    Question # 7:  Pretend that you are constructing an Works Cited page citation for an article in a book. The title of the book should be underlined. Is the title of the book followed with a period?

    YES  

    NO  

    Question # 8:  In 1954, Yale University Press, which is located in New Haven, published a book by Louis L. Martz titled The Poetry of Meditation. The correct way to format this information in a Works Cited page citation is as follows:

    Martz, Louis L. The Poetry of Meditation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1954.

    TRUE  

    FALSE 

    Question # 9:  You are citing an Internet website on your Works Cited page. MLA style guidelines state that you should include the name of the website's editor, as well as the date the website was last modified. However, if this information is unavailable, then it is acceptable to simply omit it.

    TRUE  

    FALSE 

    Question # 10:  You are citing an Internet website on your Works Cited page. MLA style guidelines state that you should include the date you accessed the website. For example, if you accessed the website on September 22, 2004, then the correct way to format this information in a Works Cited page citation is as follows:

    17 Feb. 2003.

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    FALSE 

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