2773 Quotes and Documentation Quiz Answered Correct any errors in citation and documentation for #'s 1-4:
1) The speaker in W. D. Snodgrass's "Leaving the Motel" advises his or her lover to "Keep things straight: don't take/The matches, the wrong keyrings--/We've nowhere we could keep a keepsake--/Ashtrays, combs, things/That sooner or later others would accidentally find.(9-14)"
The speaker in W. D. Snodgrass's "Leaving the Motel" advises his or her lover to
Keep things straight: don't take
The matches, the wrong keyrings--
We've nowhere we could keep a keepsake--
Ashtrays, combs, things
That sooner or later others
Would accidentally find. (9-14)
Note that there are no quote marks used with block indention.
2) In "Two Songs," by Adrienne Rich, the speaker says, "I'd call it love if love/ didn't take so many years/ but lust too is a jewel/ a sweet flower and what/ pure happiness to know/ all our high-toned questions/ breed in a lively animal."(720: 15-21).
I'd call it love if love
didn't take so many years
but lust too is a jewel
a sweet flower and what
pure happiness to know
all our high-toned questions
breed in a lively animal. (15-21)
Note that there is no page number in the parentheses and that the parentheses go outside the closing punctuation of the block quote.
3) When Herrick's speaker tells virgin maidens, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may(1)", he is encouraging them to "seize the day."
4) The speaker in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" says, "I've known rivers:/Ancient, dusky rivers./My soul has grown deep like the rivers."(8-10)
Note the spaces before and after the slashes and between the closing quote mark and the parentheses. Also note that the period has been moved from the end of the quotation to the end of the sentence--after the parentheses.
5) Which of the following (a-d) is correct:
sentence of The Chimes with a facetious remark on the special relationship
between writers and readers:
There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-teller andFar from striving to keep the author behind the scenes in the illusion that novelsa story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as
possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to
young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people:
little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down
again—there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a
church. (81)
describe actual persons and events as modern writers do, Dickens seems instead
to impose his authorial presence deliberately between the reader and the scenes
he describes so that the reader always remembers an author is entertaining an
audience with a story.
Note that the double spacing is uniform throughout, and that the quote is indented from the left margin only.
6) Give correct works cited entries for the following (a-d):
a) The poem, "The Flesh and the Spirit," which starts on p. 260 in our Norton text.
American Literature. Sixth edition. Vol. A. Ed. by Nina Baym et al. New York:
Norton, 2003. 260-62.
b) The play Hamlet, from the third edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, which is edited by David
Bevington. The book was published by Scott, Foresman and Company in
Glenview, Illinois in 1980, and Hamlet is on pp. 1074-1120.
Third edition. Ed. by David Bevington. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman,
1980. 1074-1120.
c) An article by Bill Williams titled "Re-Visioning the Double Play," from the scholarly journal, Academic Baseball, edited by Jack Johnson, published at the University of the Diamond Press in Atlanta, GA, in the 35th volume (the year 2006), on pages 295-375.
295-375.
d) The 3rd edition of Boys Playing on Diamonds, written by Bill Williams and published in 2007 by the University of the Diamond Press in Atlanta, GA. The book has 673 pages.
2007.