EXERCISE MLA 2–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers

EXERCISE MLA 2–6Recognizing 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.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 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.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 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.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 3 of 10: The writer and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston died in poverty in 1960.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 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.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 5 of 10: Walt Disney fired and blacklisted all of his animators who went on strike in 1941.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 6 of 10: William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley were poets of the Romantic era.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 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.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 8 of 10: Heroic couplets are rhyming pairs of lines written in iambic pentameter.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 Recognizing common knowledge in MLA papers - 9 of 10: Iris Murdoch wrote many sophisticated and complex novels before she succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease.

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EXERCISE MLA 2–6 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.