EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers

EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers

Read the student passage and determine if the student needs to cite the source of the information. If the material does not need citation because it is common knowledge, click on Common knowledge. If the material is not common knowledge and the student should cite the source, click on Needs citation. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.

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1 of 10

Question

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 1 of 10: Many of William Faulkner’s novels are set in Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional part of Mississippi.

2 of 10

Question

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 2 of 10: William Faulkner may have gotten the word Yoknapatawpha from a 1915 dictionary of the Choctaw language.

3 of 10

Question

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 3 of 10: The writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston died in poverty in 1960.

4 of 10

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 4 of 10: William Shakespeare was the only playwright of his generation known to have a long-standing relationship with a single theater company.

5 of 10

Question

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 5 of 10: Walt Disney fired and blacklisted all of his animators who went on strike in 1941.

6 of 10

Question

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 6 of 10: William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley were poets of the Romantic era.

7 of 10

Question

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 7 of 10: As of 2012, the film Titanic had earned more than two billion dollars in box office revenue worldwide.

8 of 10

Question

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 8 of 10: Heroic couplets are rhyming pairs of lines written in iambic pentameter.

9 of 10

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 9 of 10: Iris Murdoch wrote many sophisticated and complex novels before she succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease.

10 of 10

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EXERCISE 54–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 10 of 10: George Lucas made a larger fortune by selling Star Wars toys than he made by selling tickets to Star Wars.