MLA Documentation
7 Questions
| Total Attempts: 1065
This quiz will help determine your readiness to write a research paper using the proper MLA format.
Questions and Answers
- 1.A paper’s title should both capture the reader’s attention and briefly indicate the paper’s focus.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The paper’s title should
- A.
Be in bold type
- B.
Be in italics
- C.
Be in type larger than the body of the paper
- D.
Be enclosed in quotation marks
- E.
Be underlined
- F.
None of the above
- 3.Page numbers should appear in the
- A.
Top right corner of every page
- B.
Top center of every page
- C.
Bottom center of every page
- 4.Quotations should always be introduced (i.e., integrated into your writing), not simply dropped into your paragraphs as sentences with quotation marks around them.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Quotations of three lines or more should be double indented and double spaced without quotation marks.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Most great writers try to avoid long quotations. In fact, quoting a word or phrase as part of your own sentence can be very effective.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.Sources used in the paper should appear
- A.
On a page entitled Bibliography;
- B.
A page entitled Works Cited
- C.
In alphabetical order by author
- D.
A. and c. above
- E.
Both on the page entitled Works Cited and in alphabetical order by author
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