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This quiz is intended to support the In-Text Citations in MLA Format video course on MLA Handbook Plus. Take this quiz to test your knowledge of common misconceptions about in-text citations.
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Question 1 of 5
1. Question
1. Does the following example show correct in-text citations?
Jo Walton’s novel is, according to one review, a “gorgeous, deeply philosophical work.”
Work Cited
Review of Or What You Will, by Jo Walton. Publishers Weekly, 2 Apr. 2020, www .publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-30899-3.
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Answer: No
Explanation. Since the citation is for a review of Walton’s novel, not for the novel itself, include a parenthetical citation that keys to the first element of the works-cited-list entry for the review, which happens to be the word Review.
Jo Walton’s novel is, according to one review, a “gorgeous, deeply philosophical work” (Review).
Work Cited
Review of Or What You Will, by Jo Walton. Publishers Weekly, 2 Apr. 2020, www .publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-30899-3.
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Answer: No
Explanation. Since the citation is for a review of Walton’s novel, not for the novel itself, include a parenthetical citation that keys to the first element of the works-cited-list entry for the review, which happens to be the word Review.
Jo Walton’s novel is, according to one review, a “gorgeous, deeply philosophical work” (Review).
Work Cited
Review of Or What You Will, by Jo Walton. Publishers Weekly, 2 Apr. 2020, www .publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-30899-3.
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Question 2 of 5
2. Question
2. Does the following example show correct in-text citations?
Sophie Gilbert notes that “[s]ome of the most distinctive original series of the past few years . . . have occupied a strange stylistic space, mashing up old classics into shows about teenagers who aren’t old enough to have experienced the originals.”
Work Cited
Gilbert, Sophie. “The Teen Dramas That Reject Modernity.” The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2020, www .theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/neflix-new-teen-nostalgia-i-am-not-okay-with-this-sex-education-stranger-things/607366/.
Correct
Answer: Yes
Explanation: This quotation is from an article on a website. The author’s name in the text keys to the first element of the works-cited-list entry. Since there are no page numbers to give, the citation is complete.
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Answer: Yes
Explanation: This quotation is from an article on a website. The author’s name in the text keys to the first element of the works-cited-list entry. Since there are no page numbers to give, the citation is complete.
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Question 3 of 5
3. Question
3. Does the following example show correct in-text citations?
Jock, in delivering a eulogy that invokes “Rosa Luxemburg, Marx, Engels, and Lenin” (Barke 491), looks past “confusions, doubts and despair” to emphasize the need for a “major [revolutionary] operation” (492).
Work Cited
Barke, James. Major Operation. Collins, 1936.
Correct
Answer: Yes
Explanation: There are more quotations than page numbers, so the page number for the first quotation is placed in the middle of the sentence, directly after the quotation. The second and third quotations are both from page 492, indicated parenthetically at the end of the sentence.
Incorrect
Answer: Yes
Explanation: There are more quotations than page numbers, so the page number for the first quotation is placed in the middle of the sentence, directly after the quotation. The second and third quotations are both from page 492, indicated parenthetically at the end of the sentence.
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Question 4 of 5
4. Question
4. Does the following example show correct in-text citations?
By the turn of the twentieth century, first-year writing courses were teaching basic skills instead of advanced rhetoric (Carr; Miller).
Works Cited
Carr, Jean Ferguson. “Composition, English, and the University.” PMLA, vol. 129, no. 3, May 2014, pp. 425–41.
Miller, Susan. “The Feminization of Composition.” The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary, edited by Richard Bullock and John Trimbur, Boynton/Cook, 1991, pp. 39–54.
Correct
Answer: Yes
Explanation: You can paraphrase more than one work in a sentence and group your citations parenthetically.
Incorrect
Answer: Yes
Explanation: You can paraphrase more than one work in a sentence and group your citations parenthetically.
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Question 5 of 5
5. Question
5. Does the following example show correct in-text citations?
In an article in Bookforum, Gerald Howard remarks that “[b]y every metric that we use to measure literary greatness . . . Don DeLillo, now eighty-three, scores in the highest possible percentile” (Howard).
Work Cited
Howard, Gerald. “Stockholm, Are You Listening? Why Don DeLillo Deserves the Nobel.” Bookforum, Apr.-May 2020, www .bookforum.com/print/2701/why-don-delillo-deserves-the-nobel-23926.
Correct
Answer: No
Explanation: Since the author’s name is mentioned in prose, it is unnecessary to repeat the author’s name in parentheses. Since the work is an article on a website, there are no page numbers to cite; the author’s name alone is sufficient to key the citation to the works-cited-list entry.
Incorrect
Answer: No
Explanation: Since the author’s name is mentioned in prose, it is unnecessary to repeat the author’s name in parentheses. Since the work is an article on a website, there are no page numbers to cite; the author’s name alone is sufficient to key the citation to the works-cited-list entry.