MLA Style 101 Video Course Quiz: Title of Source Element

Question 1 of 10

1. What is the function of the information listed in the Title of Source element in the MLA template of core elements?

a. It identifies the work.
b. It identifies the author.
c. It tells you who sponsored the work.

Question 2 of 10

2. Which of the following should NOT be listed in the Title of Source element?

a. the title of a novel
b. a description of a museum object
c. the author of the source

Question 3 of 10

3. Which item is in the Title of Source element in the following entry?

Belton, John. “Painting by the Numbers: The Digital Intermediate.” Film Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 3, spring 2008, pp. 58–65.

a. Film Quarterly
b. “Painting by the Numbers: The Digital Intermediate”
c. John Belton

Question 4 of 10

4. The best place to look for the title of a book is

a. a website like Amazon
b. on the book’s title page
c. the table of contents

Question 5 of 10

5. Determining the title of an online work sometimes requires that you consider

a. the page design
b. the site owner
c. the browser

Question 6 of 10

6. How do you handle the Title of Source element if your source does not have a title?

a. Skip the Title of Source element.
b. Provide a description in place of a title.
c. Use the placeholder “No Title.”

Question 7 of 10

7. You are citing an untitled advertisement for shampoo from a print magazine. Which of the following will be most relevant to include in your description in order to identify the work?

a. the name of the shampoo
b. the name of the magazine in which the ad appeared
c. the page number of the advertisement

Question 8 of 10

8. You are citing an untitled book review. Which of the following will be most relevant to include in your description in order to identify the work?

a. the book reviewer’s name
b. the author and title of the book being reviewed
c. the name of the periodical in which the book review appears

Question 9 of 10

9. You are citing an e-mail message. Which of the following will be most relevant to include in your description in order to identify the work?

a. the name of the message’s recipient
b. the name of the e-mail program used to send the message
c. the sender’s name

Question 10 of 10

10. You are citing an untitled poem by Walt Whitman that begins “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d.” It appears in a book titled Collected Works of Whitman. What should you list in the Title of Source element?

a. a description of the poem
b. Collected Works of Whitman
c. The first line of the poem

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