This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Academic Writing > Citation And Referencing > Mla Format – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Mla Format Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What button do you use to indent? A) Enter. B) Shift. C) Tab. D) Space. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tab. 2. What is one thing you noticed about what this student did that the other student did NOT in the introduction paragraph? A) Attempted the TAG (title author genre). B) Used text evidence. C) Used a thesis (but still needs work). D) Didn't write an intro at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attempted the TAG (title author genre). 3. Citations on a Works Cited page ..... A) Are numbered to show each new citation. B) Are alphabetical by author last name/title of resource. C) Are listed in order of appearance in your essay. D) Are alphabetical by the source titles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are alphabetical by author last name/title of resource. 4. If you only have one citation, it is called a ..... page. A) Work Cited. B) Works Cited. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Work Cited. 5. Why is it important to use the page number tool instead of the header tool for page numbers, as stated in the guidelines? A) The page number tool ensures correct placement and automatic numbering throughout the document. B) The header tool makes the document look more professional. C) The page number tool allows for colored page numbers. D) The header tool is not compatible with Times New Roman font. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The page number tool ensures correct placement and automatic numbering throughout the document. 6. The author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text A) HEADING. B) IN-TEXT CITATION. C) MARGINS. D) HOOK. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) IN-TEXT CITATION. 7. Double-spacing is when you hit the space-bar twice after each word. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Which information belongs in the MLA heading? A) Essay title. B) Page number. C) Works Cited. D) Student's full name. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Student's full name. 9. If you use information from a source, but you put it in your own words, you should: A) Make sure that the paragraph does not contain information from other sources. B) Cite yourself as the author. C) Cite the source. D) Make sure to integrate it into a paragraph with another source. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cite the source. 10. When citing a website, MLA requires the URL to be included. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. What is the purpose of including page numbers in an in-text citation? A) To provide the specific location of the information being cited within the source. B) To indicate the author's name. C) To show the publication date of the source. D) To highlight the main idea of the information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To provide the specific location of the information being cited within the source. 12. Works cited should ALWAYS be in alphabetical order A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What date should be included in the header? A) Date it is due. B) Medjool Date. C) Expiration Date. D) Date it was assigned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Date it is due. 14. Key you must press at the beginning of each paragraph. A) Tab. B) Space Bar. C) Return. D) Caps Lock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tab. 15. The alignment of the title on the Works Cited page is center aligned. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Which of the following is true about MLA citations for images? A) They must include the image's price. B) They must include the image's title. C) They must include the image's color. D) They must include the image's size. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They must include the image's title. 17. How many spaces should be between your date and the first line of your paper? A) 2. B) 4. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 18. What do we do at the beginning of every paragraph? A) Change font. B) Press enter 2 times. C) Space. D) Indent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indent. 19. When citing a quote from a book, you must always place the ..... in the parentheses. A) Volume number. B) Page number. C) Entire quote. D) Chapter title. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Page number. 20. Number all pages consecutively with Roman numerals A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 21. What is the correct order of elements in an MLA citation for a book? A) Publisher, Year of Publication. Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book. B) Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication. C) Title of Book. Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Publisher, Year of Publication. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year of Publication. 22. The date in MLA format is ordered as ..... A) 10 January 2016. B) 10, January, 2016. C) January 10, 2016. D) 2016-January, 10th. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10 January 2016. 23. Situate the table near the text to which it relates. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 24. How is the header aligned? A) Left. B) Center. C) Hanging. D) Right. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Right. 25. What is the third line of the heading? A) Your name. B) The date. C) The class period and name of class. D) The teacher's name. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The class period and name of class. 26. The title of the container is written ..... A) In quotation marks. B) Separated by commas. C) In italics. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In italics. 27. Which personal pronouns are allowed in literary analysis? A) Trick question! A writer should exclude all personal pronouns. B) Second person (you). C) First person (I, we). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trick question! A writer should exclude all personal pronouns. 28. What does CRAP stand for? A) ClarityRespectabilityAuthorityPersuasivness. B) CreativityReliabilityAccuracyPurpose. C) ClarityReliabilityAccuracyPurpose. D) CurrencyReliabilityAuthorityPurpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) CurrencyReliabilityAuthorityPurpose. 29. Oh no! Lily has made another MLA formatting error! Can you find it? A) Using 12-point Times New Roman font. B) Including a title centered on the first page. C) Double-spacing the entire document. D) Leaving extra spaces between paragraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leaving extra spaces between paragraphs. 30. Smith, Snuffy. How to Go to College. Scribners, 2005. 234.What from the citation goes inside these parenthesis?How to Go to College explains that "[students] really have no idea what opportunities exist in the big wide world. The possibilities are endless" ( ..... ). A) 234. B) How to Go to College. C) Smith. D) Smith 234. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smith 234. 31. In MLA format, how should the publication date be formatted for a magazine article? A) Year month day (e.g., 2021 Oct. 10). B) Month day year (e.g., Oct. 10 2021). C) Day/month/year (e.g., 10/10/2021). D) Day month year (e.g., 10 Oct. 2021). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Day month year (e.g., 10 Oct. 2021). 32. In MLA 9 format a work cited list A) Follows immediately after the last paragraph of my essay. B) Is on a separate page at the end of my essay. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is on a separate page at the end of my essay. 33. How are months with names longer than four letters formatted in the bibliography? A) Abbreviated. B) Omitted. C) Replaced with numerical values. D) Written in full. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abbreviated. 34. Which of the following is the correct format for a book citation in MLA style? A) Author's First Name Last Name. Book Title. Year of Publication, Publisher. B) Book Title. Author's Last Name, First Name. Publisher, Year of Publication. C) Author's Last Name, First Name:Book Title (Publisher, Year of Publication). D) Author's Last Name, First Name. Book Title. Publisher, Year of Publication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Author's Last Name, First Name. Book Title. Publisher, Year of Publication. 35. How should you begin each paragraph? A) By adding two spaces with the space bar. B) By adding space between paragraphs using the "enter" key. C) By indenting with the "tab" key. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By indenting with the "tab" key. 36. How many times do you press ENTER after you finish a paragraph to start a new one? A) 1. B) 4. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 37. MLA essays should be: A) Single-spaced. B) Double-spaced. C) 1.5-spaced. D) Triple-spaced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Double-spaced. 38. How should the works cited page be formatted? A) Center aligned with single spacing. B) Center aligned with double spacing. C) Right aligned with double spacing. D) Left aligned with double spacing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Center aligned with double spacing. 39. We will call the way to remember what to format by naming it the A) Final 15. B) Final Four. C) First Five. D) Format Format. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) First Five. 40. How should you format a citation for a source with no known author in MLA? A) Use "Anonymous" as the author. B) Start with the title of the work. C) Skip the author and start with the date. D) Use "No author" in place of the author's nameTagsDOK Level 2:Skill/Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Start with the title of the work. 41. Identify the dominant appeal: "You will never be satisfied in life if you don't seize this opportunity. Do you want to live the rest of your years thinking about what would have happened if you just jumped when you had the chance?" A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 42. Examples of this method of persuasion include statistics, research, data, and facts. A) Ethos. B) Logos. C) Kairos. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos. 43. If there is no author, how should the source be alphabetized on a works cited page? A) By URL. B) By date. C) By publisher. D) By title. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By title. 44. Where does the parenthetical citation go in a sentence? A) At the beginning of the paragraph. B) At the end of the sentence after the period. C) On a new line. D) At the end of the sentence before the period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At the end of the sentence before the period. 45. Every character in an MLA formatted document is what size? A) Two. B) 12. C) Eleventy-two. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 46. In the upper right-hand corner of the first page, list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 47. The last line of the heading is the A) Page number. B) Teacher's name. C) Date. D) Title. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Date. 48. All of the following are true about a title for an MLA paper EXCEPT: A) Capitalized. B) Bold. C) Centered. D) Creative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bold. 49. What information is not included in the heading in the upper left hand corner of an MLA styled essay? A) Student Name. B) Date. C) Teacher Name. D) Essay Title. E) Subject Name. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Essay Title. 50. What is the purpose of using MLA format for citations? A) To confuse readers with unnecessary information. B) To give credit to original sources, avoid plagiarism, and provide readers with necessary information. C) To test the reader's patience. D) To make the paper longer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To give credit to original sources, avoid plagiarism, and provide readers with necessary information. 51. Wikipedia is a reliable source A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 52. What should be included between body paragraphs in an essay? A) A transition statement. B) An extra space. C) A quotation. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A transition statement. 53. Where should the MLA header appear? A) Top right of every page. B) Bottom right of the last page. C) Centered at the top of the page. D) Top left of the first page only. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Top right of every page. 54. In what order should you list your sources? A) Chronologically by date published. B) Alphabetically. C) Chronologically according to how they are listed in your essay. D) It doesn't matter as long as they are all there. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alphabetically. 55. If a source has no known author, how should it be cited in-text in MLA format? A) Omit the citation entirely. B) Use "No author" followed by the page number. C) Use "Anonymous" followed by the page number. D) Use the title of the work instead of the author's name. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Use the title of the work instead of the author's name. 56. Your citations should be listed in alphabetic order. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 57. The first line of each paragraph should be indented 1/2 inch from the 1 inch margin. This can be done by using the tab key. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. The Works Cited page is on a separate page. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. Which of the following is an example of a correct in-text citation in MLA format? A) (Smith, John. 45). B) (Smith 45). C) (John Smith 45). D) (45 Smith). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) (Smith 45). 60. Which of the following is NOT a component of a well-structured paragraph? A) Supporting details. B) Bibliography. C) Topic sentence. D) Concluding sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bibliography. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesAcademic Writing QuizzesGrammar QuizzesMla Format Quiz 1Mla Format Quiz 2Mla Format Quiz 3Mla Format Quiz 4Mla Format Quiz 5Mla Format Quiz 6Mla Format Quiz 7Mla Format Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books