MLA
Grammar
2023
Literature
Miscellaneous
100

What font should you use?

Times New Roman

100

Put the following sentence in active voice: My sister was attacked by wild penguins.

Wild penguins attacked my sister.

100

In 2023, which artist broke the record for the most #1 albums by a female artist?

Taylor Swift

100

What is the name of Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials?

The Crucible

100

What college did Ms. Stewart graduate from?

BYU

200

What two things do you need in an in-text citation?

The author's last name and the page number.

200

"Our company values respect, honesty, and working hard." This sentence needs to use __________ structure.

Parallel

200

What was the top grossing movie of 2023?

Barbie

200

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

200

Who wrote A Christmas Carol?

Charles Dickens

300

What type of indent do you use on a works cited page?

Hanging

300

This is the name of a comma that comes last in a list.

Oxford comma

300

Who won the 2023 Super Bowl?

Kansas City Chiefs

300

Name three works written by Edgar Allen Poe.

The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, etc.

300

Which country invented the Christmas tree?

Germany

400

In an MLA citation, what comes after the author's name?

The title 

400

The zombie threw the flower pot at my head, I ducked. What is the name of the error in this sentence?

Comma splice

400

What artist had the song with the most weeks at #1 in 2023?

Morgan Wallen

400

Shirley Jackson, an author famous for her horror stories including The Haunting of Hill House, also wrote this short story that sparked outrage when it was published in the New Yorker in 1948.

"The Lottery"
400

Name the dystopian book by George Orwell that we will read in CE 2015.

1984

500

What does MLA stand for?

Modern Language Association

500

What type of sentence is this: Even though zombies eat brains, they aren't very smart, but you can still teach them to do basic tricks.

Compound-complex

500

The best selling book of 2023 was a memoir written by this famous person.

Prince Harry

500

An Arabic word that features prominently in The Alchemist and means that something has been written by fate or destiny.

Maktub

500

The New Year's song "Auld Lang Syne" originates from where?

Scotland

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