MLA quiz
Master MLA Format Quiz
Test your knowledge of MLA formatting with our comprehensive quiz! This quiz contains 10 carefully crafted questions that cover essential aspects of MLA style, suitable for students, writers, and academics alike.
It’s designed to be interactive and informative, providing instant feedback on your answers. Key topics include:
- Margin requirements
- Text spacing
- In-text citations
- Citing multiple authors
MLA Quiz
This quiz contains 8 questions. It will show the correct answer when you click the wrong one, and the score shows when you finish this quiz.
After taking the quiz, you can find the analysis for each question and its key points in the website.
In MLA format, what are the margins set to for all sides and all pages?
1.5 inch
2 inch
1 inch
In MLA format, what type of spacing is used on all pages？
Double
Single
1.5
1.15
You should not use the authors’ last names in the citation if the authors’ names appear in the text.
True
False
When citing one author in a text, which one is wrong?
According to Lauren Wispé, sympathy essentially involves “the heightened awareness of the suffering of another as something to be alleviated” (318).
As...say that they “feel sorry for someone” who is experiencing something difficult (Clark 30).
Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).
This point has been argued before. (Glenn Frye, 197)
Which one is correct when you cite authors with same last names (in-text citation)?
Sentence 1(Hyland 16)...sentence 2(Hyland 32).
Sentence 1 (K. Hyland 16)...sentence 2(R. Hyland 32).
Sentence 1(Karen Hyland 16)...sentence 2(Robert Hyland 32).
Which one is correct when you cite a source with two authors (in-text citation)?
The authors claim that surface reading looks at what is “evident, perceptible, apprehensible in texts” (Best and Marcus 9).
The authors claim that surface reading looks at what is “evident, perceptible, apprehensible in texts” (Best et al. 9).
The authors claim that surface reading looks at what is “evident, perceptible, apprehensible in texts” (Best 9).
You only use “et al” when you are citing a text with more than three authors.
True
False
Which one is correct when you cite multiple sources in the same parenthetical reference?
Sentence 1 (Berlin 14; Kaplan 9)
Sentence 1 (Berlin and Kaplan, 14 and 9)
(Berlin 14, Kaplan 9)
Sentence 1 (Berlin and Kaplan; 14 and 9)
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