MLA Citation Quiz

Modern Linguistics Association

Medical Laboratory Assistant

Modern Language Association

Master of Liberal Arts

The purpose of MLA citations is to give credit to sources and allow readers to locate the original sources.

MLA citations are used to confuse readers and make the writing more difficult to understand.

MLA citations are used to plagiarize other people's work.

MLA citations are unnecessary and time-consuming.

Last Name, Middle Name, First Name

Last Name, First Name

First Name, Last Name

First Name Initial, Last Name

Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Author's First name, Last name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

Title of Book. Author's Last name, First name. Publisher, Publication Date.

Publisher. Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book, Publication Date.

Research from the internet

Statements from an interview

Text from a book or article

Your interpretation of a quote

Forgetting a citation

Paraphrasing another work without citation

Not putting quotation marks around the quote

Rewording the quote and not citing the source

Never

Only three times per essay

Anytime, as long as they are cited correctly

Anytime