APA Quiz Answers

1. According to APA format, the list of references which appear at the end of
your paper is called
c. is correct; all others are incorrect.
2. The references at the end of your paper should appear
c. is correct; all others are incorrect.
Using Parenthetical Citations Correctly

3. Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source:

Tannen, D. (1998). The argument culture. Toronto: Random House.

a. Correct.
b. Incorrect. The author has not been identified.
c. Incorrect. The author has not been identified, and the book needs to be
identified only if the writer is referring to more than work by Tannen in this
paper.
d. Incorrect. The date is missing and “p.”
4. Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source:

Keaveney, S. (2004). “When MTV Goes CEO.” In D. Brundage & M. Lahey

(Eds.), Acting on words (pp. 99-103). Toronto: Pearson.

a. Incorrect. This citation follows MLA format.

b. Incorrect. The author does not need to be named again, and the year
should appear after the first mention of the author.
c. Incorrect. The editors’ names should not appear, and the year is in the
wrong place.
d. Correct.
e. Incorrect. The author’s full name and the title not be given.
5. “Melanoma: low-dose chemobiotherapy is effective in treatment of metastatic
melanoma.”(2006, February 19). Medical devices & surgical technology week,
372.
R. W. Weber’s work and a quotation from him are referred to in the article, but
the material has been taken from another source. Which of the following
parenthetical citations is correct?
a. Incorrect. This citation makes it look like Weber wrote the article.
b. Incorrect. This citation makes it look like Weber wrote the article, even
though the title is included.
c. Incorrect. The name of the journal does not need to be included, but the title
should be.
d. Incorrect. This citation follows MLA format.
 e. Correct. There is no author for the article so a short title is used, and
because Weber is quoted within it, and is not the author of the article,
“as cited in” must be added to the citation.
6. Identify the correct parenthetical citation for this source the first time it
appears in your paper:

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G. & Tiffin, H. (1989). The empire writes back: theory and
practice in post-colonial literatures. London: Routledge.

a. Incorrect. Only use “et al” when all the authors have been referred to in a
previous citation.
b. Correct.
c. Incorrect. The year is missing.
d. Incorrect. The book rather than the authors has been identified.
e. Incorrect. This follows MLA format.
7. On Feb. 20, 2006, you interviewed Shaun White, who won an Olympic gold
medal in snowboarding at Turin on Feb. 20, 2006. Which citation is correct?
a. Correct.
b. Incorrect. It is not clear that this is an interview, and the author has already
been identified.
c. Incorrect. This is not the format used for a personal, unpublished interview.
d. Incorrect. Personal interviews are referred to by the surname of the person
interviewed.
e. Incorrect. This follows MLA format.
8. You are using material from a newspaper article. There is no author given, but
the title of the article is “Was Emerson lying to his constituents?,” published
in the Edmonton Journal on Feb. 14, 2006, on p. A2. Which is the proper
parenthetical citation for this paraphrase?
a. Incorrect. “Anonymous” is not used to identify an author in APA format
unless the source actually uses the word “Anonymous” to identify the
author.
b. Incorrect. This citation would not match the first word(s) to appear for the
reference on References list.
c. Correct.
d. Incorrect. Emerson did not write the article, and page numbers are not
given for paraphrases.
e. Incorrect. Parenthetical citations are required for both quotations and
paraphrases to identify the author (or title) and date. No page number is
required for paraphrases in APA format.
Integrating Quotations Correctly

9. In which sentence the quotation been integrated the most successfully?

a. Incorrect. The quotation has not been integrated at all.
 b. Incorrect. There are not enough words in the sentence to integrate the
quotation successfully.
c. Incorrect. The quotation does not fully explain or support the sentence.
d. Correct. The quotation has been prepared for and fits smoothly into
the text.
10. In which sentence has the quotation been integrated the most successfully?
a. Incorrect. The quotation is unnecessarily broken up and difficult to follow.
b. Correct. The quotation fits smoothly into the text of the sentence.
c. Incorrect. There are not enough words to introduce the quotation smoothly
into the text of the sentence.
d. Incorrect. The quotation needs to be introduced from the beginning so there
is not a change of voice.
Using Quotations Correctly

11. The original quotation about machinists reads “The machinists use various
tools, such as hammers and tongs, on a daily basis” (Brown, 2003, p. 311).
Which sentence has used the quotation correctly to fit into it grammatically
and logically?
a. Correct. The verb in the quotation has been made to fit into the
sentence grammatically and the words left out do not change the
sentence’s meaning.
b. Incorrect. The original verb tense does not agree with the writer’s sentence.
c. Incorrect. When words are left out of the beginning of a sentence, they are
not replaced by ellipses.
d. Incorrect. There is no reason to capitalize “machinists.” Ellipses are not
enclosed in square (editorial) brackets.
12. Which example of a block quotation is correct? (Imagine that all of them are
double-spaced). Four periods were used in the ellipses because what follows
the ellipses comes from a different sentence later in the paragraph. (Use three
periods when removing one or more words from a single sentence).
a. Incorrect. A colon must be preceded by an independent clause even when
introducing a quotation.
b. Correct.
c. Incorrect. Block quotations are not enclosed in quotation marks.
d. Incorrect. There are three errors here: the use of the colon, the quotation
marks, and the placement of the period after the parenthetical citation.
Using Source Materials Fairly

13. The original quotation from Bob Simpson on a website reads “Although some
people believe the Lamborgotti Fasterossa is the fastest car in the world,
others name the Ferrari as the fastest.” Which is an unfair and misleading use
of this quotation?
a. Incorrect. This is fair use.
 b. Incorrect. This is fair use.
c. Incorrect. This is fair use.
d. Correct. Simpson does not claim that the Lamborgotti Fasterossa is
the fastest car.
14. The original quotation from Jeremy Black, a film critic, reads “This film can be
said to be many things, but one of the things it is not is funny.” Which is fair
use of this quotation?
a. Correct.
b. Incorrect. Black thinks it is many things, but funny isn’t one of them.
c. Incorrect. This is the opposite of what Black actually claims.
d. Incorrect. The last part of the sentence reverses what Black has said.
Paraphrasing Correctly

15. The original quotation follows statistics on the increase in eighteen to thirty-
four year olds owning their own businesses: “The trend may dilute corporate
pools of promotable junior managers but provide a needed infrastructure for
corporate outsourcing” (Keaveney, 2004, p.102-103). Which paraphrase is
acceptable?
a. Incorrect. The syntax follows the original too closely.
b. Incorrect. Parts of the paraphrase are direct quotations (which are not
identified).
c. Correct.
d. Incorrect. This paraphrase is not identical in meaning to the original.
16. The original quotation discussing melanoma treatment talks about “Thirty-
one patients with histologically confirmed unresectable measurable
metastatic melanoma were enrolled [in this] study” (“Melanoma,”
2006, p. 372). Which paraphrase is done correctly and best for a lay audience
(one unfamiliar with the medical terminology)?
a. Incorrect. This paraphrase follows the syntax of the original too closely.
b. Correct. This is a useful, simple paraphrase.
c. Incorrect. The paraphrase is misleading because there are no conditions
attached to the melanoma participants have.
d. Incorrect. This is not directed to a lay audience who may be unfamiliar with
some terms.
Formatting References Entries Correctly

17. Which is the correct format for an article called “The biological, social and
clinical bases of drug addiction: commentary and debate,” by J. Altman, B. J.
Everitt, T. W. Robbins, S. Glautier, A. Markou, D. Nutt., R. Oretti and G. D.
Phillips. It was published in 1996 in Psychopharmacology, an online journal;
ISSN 0033-3158, and Volume 125, Issue Number 4, pages 285 – 345.
a. Incorrect. There are many errors here, including the indentation of the first
line.
 b. Correct. When there are more than seven authors, six authors are
listed, followed by an ellipsis, followed by the last author's name. The
ampersand is eliminated.
c. Incorrect. The first six authors should be identified, and there is
unnecessary information.
d. Incorrect. The seventh and eighth authors should be represented by “et al.”
There is also extra unnecessary information gvien.
e. Incorrect. This follows MLA format.
18. The book is called The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-
Colonial Literatures by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. It was
published in 1989 by Routledge in London. How should it appear as a
reference at the end of your paper?
a. Incorrect. All the authors should be named, since there are fewer than
seven.
b. Incorrect. The authors’ names should be reversed. The year is in the wrong
place.
c. Correct.
d. Incorrect. Here “and” is used instead of an ampersand, and the words in the
title are capitalized unnecessarily.
e. Incorrect. This follows MLA format.
19. The website is called William Faulkner on the Web, and the page you cited is
called Faulkner Filmography. The site's author, John B. Padgett, last modified
the page on Monday, October 09, 2000 at 11:56 AM. The URL is
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/films.html. Which is the correct
entry as it should appear on the references list?
a. Incorrect. The information is not all in the correct order, and there is some
unnecessary information.
b. Incorrect. Some important information is missing, and some unnecessary
information has been included.
c. Incorrect. This entry follows MLA format.
d. Incorrect. The page that the writer is citing is not named, and the date is in
the wrong place.
e. Correct.
20. You interviewed Pat Sweeney, a cardiologist, for your paper, on Jan. 10, 2006
at 2 p.m. in the doctor’s home. What is the correct entry for the list of
references?
a. Incorrect. The first two parts follow MLA format, and January would not be
abbreviated in any reference according to APA format.
b. Incorrect. Interviews are not included on the list of references. This is close
to the correct format for an in-text citation.
c. Incorrect. Interviews are not included on the list of references. An author’s
degree or title is not used in citations.
d. Correct.
e. Incorrect. Interviews are not included on the list of references.
 21. You want to use a newspaper article where there is no author given. The title
of the article is “Was Emerson lying to his constituents?” and it was
published in the Edmonton Journal on Feb. 14, 2006, on p. A2. Which is the
correct entry for the list of references?
a. Correct.
b. Incorrect. We do not know that the editors are responsible for creating the
article.The article title should not be enclosed in quotation marks.
c. Incorrect. “Anonymous” is no longer used when creating references where
there is no author identified (unless the actual word “Anonymous” was used
in place of the author on the original source).
d. Incorrect. This follows MLA format.
e. Incorrect. The exact date of the article is not given and the “p.” is missing
before the page number.
Using Punctuation Correctly in Citations

22. According to Dr. Nick Riviera, “There is no such thing as an unnecessary

operation” (as cited in Doctor knows best, 2005, p. 55).
23. One doctor claims that “[h]anding patients helpful brochures after
announcing a diagnosis reflects a caring attitude” (Hibbard, 2004, p. 23).
24. Doctor knows best: quotations from famous physicians. (2005). Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart.
25. Hibbard, J. (2004, November). How to show your patients you care. Annals of
the Royal Society of Physicians and Surgeons, 211(4), 23-35.
26. Munroe, M. (2004, August 12). Patient care. Retrieved from
http://www.marvinmunroe.com/patientcare.htm
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