Quiz: The Basics of In-Text Citations
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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 the basics of in-text citations.
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1 . Question
1. Does the following example show a correct in-text citation?
In Beloved , the character Sethe notes, “Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays” (35).
Works Cited
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man . Vintage Books, 1995.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Explanation: The first element of the entry for Beloved is the author’s name, so the in-text citation must include the author’s name, either in your prose or in parentheses:
In Beloved , the character Sethe notes, “Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays” (Morrison 35).
In Toni Morrison’s Beloved , the character Sethe notes, “Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays” (35).
2 . Question
2. Does the following example show a correct in-text citation?
In Toni Morrison’s novel, Sethe notes, “Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays” (35).
———. The Bluest Eye . Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Explanation: There is more than one work by Morrison in the works-cited list, so the title is needed to let your reader know which source you are citing. You can provide the title in your prose or in parentheses:
In Toni Morrison’s novel, Sethe notes, “Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays” ( Beloved 35).
In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved , Sethe notes, “Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays” (35).
3 . Question
3. Does the following example show a correct in-text citation?
As the character Sethe notes, “Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays” (Morrison, Beloved 35).
Answer: Yes
Explanation: There are two works by Morrison in the works-cited list and one work by Ralph Ellison, so the citation must indicate, in your prose or in parentheses, the author and the title of the work being cited.
4 . Question
4. Does the following example show a correct in-text citation?
5 . Question
5. Does the following example show a correct in-text citation?
After attacking the dragon, Beowulf says, “Old Guardian of the people, I shall still seek battle, perform a deed of fame, if the evil-doer will come to me out of the earth-hall” ( Beowulf ).
Beowulf . Translated by E. Talbot Donaldson. The Norton Anthology of English Literature , edited by Donaldson et al., M. H. Abrams, general editor, vol. 1, W. W. Norton, 1979, pp. 24–83.
Explanation: If you quote from a paginated print work, you must provide a page number indicating where a quotation or paraphrase can be found. This information should be given in parentheses, not in your prose:
After attacking the dragon, Beowulf says, “Old Guardian of the people, I shall still seek battle, perform a deed of fame, if the evil-doer will come to me out of the earth-hall” ( Beowulf 72).
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