BB Dayorder: Newtype Question AP Citation

Oldspeak translation: This year the College Board has announced that there will be multiple choice questions that relate specifically to citation (think back to your essays and works cited pages, comrades). The following questions should be simple for you to understand, unlike the island questions.

That exercise was designed for three purposes: 1) Possible confusion regarding the repetition of phrases within the long third paragraph. As we noted the repetition is correct and requires only a change in inflection to be understood; 2) Mispellings (it should be obvious to you that I just misspelled "misspellings"). Here the word of was erroneously replaced by if on two occasions. If that confused or messed you up, you'll have to get over it. I'm not over it yet, but then again, I don't have to take the test. You will also need to simply get over any effluvium (look it up) that gets in the way. In the island passage, question 6 included references to passages or lines that were difficult or impossible to understand. Don't let misspellings, typos or gibberish distract you; 3) Understand clearly that you may have to simply skip questions you do not understand. No matter how long the arguement continued for question 2 (2nd Period), we still never fully came to a conclusive answer. (IT IS B, by the way.) This question was designed specifically to slow you down, to distract you and to make it harder to refocus. Don't fall into traps. After way too much debate we may decide on the appropriate answer, but we sacrificed way to much time. What do we do with a question like this? Skip it like hopscotch.

Here are today's questions, just three:

1. In many novels, plays and poems, one line stands out iconically representing the whole of the work. "Out damn spot" and "No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end" are two excellent examples.

Which of the following represents the appropriate citation for the above referenced quotations:

a) (Shakespeare, William, Macbeth): (Fitzgerald, 6)
b) (Shakespeare, V.1.32): (The Great Gatsby, 6)
c) (Macbeth, 5.1.32): (Fitzgerald, 6)
d) (Macbeth, 5.1.32): (Fitzgerald, 6)
e) (Macbeth, 5.1.32): (The Great Gatsby, 6)

2. Which is the correct citing for the following sentence in a paper on Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays"?

a) Robert Hayden poses the question, "...what did I know/of love's austere and lonely offices?" ("Those Winter Sundays")
b) Robert Hayden poses the question, "...what did I know/of love's austere and lonely offices?" (Hayden, 39)
c) Robert Hayden poses the question, "...what did I know/of love's austere and lonely offices?" (Haden, "Those Winter Sundays")
d) Robert Hayden poses the question, "...what did I know/of love's austere and lonely offices?" (Those Winter Sundays)
e) Robert Hayden poses the question, "...what did I know/of love's austere and lonely offices?" (Those Winter Sundays, 39)

3. Which of the following is INCORRECT?

a) Kennedy, David. Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. New Haven: Yale UP, 1970.
b) Wellek, Rene, and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature. 3rd ed. New York:
Harcourt, 1962.
c) Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: MLA, 2003.
d) St. James, James. Aladdin Sane. New York: Random House, 2000
e) Sams, David. Shakespeare and Co. New York: Columbia UP, 1990.