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Question #1
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is summarizing the article “What Does the Millennial Generation Want from a Mobile Phone?” by Stephanie Camp. The article appeared online in The Huffington Post on June 9, 2010. The student accessed the article on June 17, 2010.

A  Camp, Stephanie. “What Does the Millennial Generation Want from a Mobile Phone?” The Huffington Post, 9 June 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-camp/what-does-the-millennial_b_606077.html.  Accessed 17 June 2010.
B  Camp, Stephanie. “What Does the Millennial Generation Want from a Mobile Phone?” The Huffington Post, 9 June 2010. Web. 17 June 2010.
Question #2
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is quoting from the unsigned editorial “Asserting Silence,” published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 4, 2010.

A  Anonymous. “Asserting Silence.” Editorial. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 June 2010, p. A16.
B  “Asserting Silence.” Editorial. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 June 2010, p. A16.
Question #3
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is quoting from a review by Betsy Sharkey (titled “Untangling the Past”) of the film The Secret in Their Eyes, which was directed by Juan José Campanella. The review was published April 16, 2010, and accessed online on May 3, 2010, from the Los Angeles Times.

A  Sharkey, Betsy. “Untangling the Past.” Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2010. Web.
B  Sharkey, Betsy. “Untangling the Past.” Review of The Secret in Their Eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella. Los Angeles Times, 16 April, 2010, articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/16/entertainment/la-et-secret-20100416. Accessed 3 May 2010.
Question #4
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is paraphrasing page 265 of Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris. The book was published by Penguin Press in 2008.
Correct!

A  Harris, Mark. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Penguin Press, 2008.
B  Harris, Mark. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Penguin, 2008.
Question #5
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is paraphrasing from the second edition of the book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World by Rosalind Wiseman. It was published in 2009 by Three Rivers Press, which is an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, which itself is a division of Random House.

A  Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World. 2nd ed., Crown Publishing Group, 2009.
B  Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World. Crown, 2009.
Question #6
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is citing two books by Lawrence Lessig. One is Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, published by Penguin Press in 2008. The other is Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, published by Penguin in 2004.

A  Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. Penguin Press, 2004.
– – -. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press, 2008.
B  Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. Penguin Press, 2004.
Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin Press, 2008.
Question #7
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is citing the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Brungart. It was published by North Point Press, an imprint of the publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, in 2002.

A  McDonough, William, and Brungart, Michael. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point-Farrar, 2002.
B  McDonough, William, and Michael Brungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
Question #8
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is citing “The Enhancement of the Senses,” a review of the book The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. The review appeared in the magazine The Nation on May 31, 2010, on pp. 33–36.

A  Findlen, Paula. “The Enhancement of the Senses.” Review of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes. The Nation, 31 May 2010, pp. 33–36.
B  Findlen, Paula. “The Enhancement of the Senses.” The Nation, 31 May 2010, pp. 33–36.
Question #9
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

For an essay about women in American films from the 1960s, the student is citing the performances of George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn and the work of the director Blake Edwards in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The film was released in 1961 and distributed on DVD in the Paramount Centennial Collection in 2009.

A  Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Performances by George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn, directed by Blake Edwards, Paramount Pictures, 1961.
B  Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Dir. Blake Edwards. Perf. Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Paramount, 1961. Film.
Question #10
Select the entry that correctly uses MLA (2016) style for the works-cited entry (or entries).

The student is quoting from the article “Surveillance: Taking It Downtown” by Brennan David, published on March 28, 2010, in the newspaper Columbia Daily Tribune. The student accessed the article on the Web on June 9, 2010.

A  David, Brennan. “Surveillance: Taking It Downtown.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 28 Mar. 2010, www.columbiatribune.com/news/perspectives/surveillance-taking-it-downtown/article_d9197f56-2331-5d7f-9894-03efb04fe7b8.html. Accessed 9 June 2010.
B  David, Brennan. “Surveillance: Taking It Downtown.” Columbia Daily Tribune, 28 Mar. 2010, Web. www.columbiatribune.com/news/perspectives/surveillance-taking-it-downtown/article_d9197f56-2331-5d7f-9894-03efb04fe7b8.html 9 June 2010.
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