MLA Exam

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1. How should the following title appear at the beginning of a student essay?

a. “MARTA Throughout Georgia”

b. MARTA Throughout Georgia

c. MARTA Throughout Georgia

d. MARTA Throughout Georgia

2. How should the title be positioned and where?

3. What sized margins should an essay following MLA guidelines have?

4. Should the heading of an essay following MLA guidelines be double-spaced?

5. Should there be an extra space between the paragraphs of an MLA essay?

6. Where and how should page numbers appear in your MLA essay?

7. How do you distinguish between what is a short (normal) quotation from a block quotation? (HINT: # of lines in your essay)

8. Provide the correct in-text citation for a quotation from J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye on page 143, chapter 15 (assume that Salinger’s name does not appear in the sentence).

9. If Salinger’s name appears in the introduction to the quotation, how does the in-text citation appear?

10. Where does an in-text citation appear?

a. beginning of the sentence

b. directly before the ending punctuation of the sentence

c. immediately following the quotation

d. immediately before the quotation

e. any of the above

11. If you are citing a quotation on page 75 from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and one on page 220 from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, how would each in-text citation appear? Assume that within the essay you only quote from the books listed above.

12. If you are citing quotations on page 201 from Bleak House and on page 89 from A Tale of Two Cities both by Charles Dickens, how would each in-text citation appear?

13. How would an in-text citation from “The Seafarer”—author unknown—page 11 appear?

14. If you were quoting from page 12 of Richard Ford’s “In the Face,” an essay on pages 5-15, contained in The Best American Essays of 1998, edited by John Updike, published in 1998 in New York, New York by Harper Collins, how would the in-text citation appear?

15. How would the Works Cited entry appear from the information given in question 14?

16. If you use brackets inside a quotation, what do they indicate (generally) that you have done?

17. Give three distinct reasons why you would use brackets.

18. You wish to quote the following dialogue from page 193 of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye: “Have just one more drink,” I told him. “Please. I’m lonesome as hell. No kidding.” Rewrite the quotation as it would appear, including the in-text citation:

19. What is the formatting for block quotations? Mention the use of quotation marks, spacing and positioning of end punctuation in relation to the in-text citation.

20. How are the Works Cited page entries ordered?

21. If a Works Cited page entry has more than a single typed line, what do you do to any subsequent lines after the first?

22. Is the Works Cited page double-spaced?

23. Is the Works Cited page numbered?

24. How should the Works Cited title appear?

a. Works Cited

b. “Works Cited”

c. WORKS CITED

d. Works Cited

e. Any of the above

25. Write out the Works Cited page entry for Jane Austen’s 351-page Pride and Prejudice, published in London, England by Random House. The end page has the following date information: copyright 1793, published in 1952, 1964, and 1989.