ESOL 2 MLA Test Review

What does MLA stand for?

• Midland Language Association

• Modern Linguistic Agency

• Modern Language Association

• Midland Linguistic Agency

________ is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

• Borrowing

• Plagiarism

• Identity Theft

• Academic looting

________ means to quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for an argument or statement, especially in an academic paper.

• Paraphrase

• Summarize

• Argue

• Cite

The list of sources at the end of your paper is called:

• Bibliography

• Sources Used

• References

• Works Cited

The margins (space between the edge of the paper and text) in your paper should measure...

• 2 inches at the top, and 1 inch on the bottom, left, and right

• 1 inch on each side

• 1 inch on the top and bottom, and 1.25 inches on the left and right

• 0.5 inches on each side

The font size of an MLA paper should be...

• 14 point

• 10 point

• 12 point

• 16 point

The special indent used for the citations on your Works Cited page is called a

• Hanging Indent

• Special Indent

• Indentation

• Double Indent

Titles of books, magazines, journals, newspapers or websites should be

• "In Quotes"

• Italicized

• In Brackets [ ]

• Underlined

• Left Alone

Titles of chapters or sections of a book/article/magazine/journal/newspaper should be

• "In Quotes"

• Underlined

• In Brackets [ ]

• Left Alone

• Italicized

This is used when you want to remove unnecessary words from a quote

• Quotation Marks " "

• Dashes -- --

• Parentheses ( )

• Brackets [ ]

• Ellipses ...