BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY/ SPRING 2023 MRS. Dr.

REESE BONNIE
BASIC COMMUNICATION STUDENT: MOHAMMED BOUKNIFY

MLA quiz
1. A Works Cited list is not required if all in-text citations have the author(s) and the page
number(s) of the source.

1. False

2. An MLA Works Cited list appears at the end of the paper on a separate numbered page and
contains all works cited in the paper.

1. True

3. Which is a correct Works Cited entry?

b. Dietel, Harvey, and Paul Dietel. C How To Program. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999.

4. An MLA Works Cited list is alphabetized based on the title of the source.

2. False

5. If there are two or more books by the same author in a Works Cited list, how should they
be recorded?

a. If two or more books by the same author are cited, the entries for that author in the Works
Cited list are alphabetized by title. The name of the author appears only in the first entry; all
subsequent entries start with three dashes, followed by a period, the title, and the publishing
information.

6. In MLA style, underlining is preferred instead of italics.

a. True

7. If a source has more than three authors, how should it be cited in the Works Cited list?

c. Only the first author's name should listed followed by et al.

8. If an entry in a Works Cited List is longer than one line, second and all subsequent lines
need to be indented half an inch.

a. True

9. URLs of electronic sources in a Works Cited List are enclosed in angle brackets.

a. True

10. In MLA style, what would you include in the parentheses for a directly quoted in-text
citation?
BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY/ SPRING 2023 MRS. Dr. REESE BONNIE
BASIC COMMUNICATION STUDENT: MOHAMMED BOUKNIFY

c. Author and page number: (Doe 25)

11. In MLA style, long quotations

b. should be indented one half inch (all lines) and written without enclosing quotation marks
and double spaced

12. Indirect sources are cited

b. by using qtd. in in parentheses followed by the author who used the quote, and the page
number.

13. If the author's last name is mentioned in the text, then it does not need to be included in
parentheses.

a. True

14. To cite an anonymous source in text, what information should be included in

parentheses?

c. The shortened form of the title and the page number

15. Multiple parenthetical references

a. are separated by a semicolon.