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MLA Practice-Electronic Sources

There are twenty items in this practice set. Each item references an electronic source. Select the answer that correctly cites the source in MLA format.

This activity contains 20 questions.

Question 1.

Dan Buettner wrote the article "New Wrinkles on Aging" for National Geographic. It appeared in the November 2005 issue on pages 2-19. You accessed the article from a library subscription database called ProQuest from DeVry University Online on January 19, 2006. The URL for the database is <http://proquest.umi.com.proxy.devry.edu/>.
 
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Question 2.

Alan Richman wrote the article "The 20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die" for the magazine GQ. It appeared in the July 2005 issue on pages 126-181. You accessed the article from a library subscription database called EBSCOhost from Logan Library at Utah State University on June 22, 2006. The URL for the database is <http://search.epnet.com/>.
 
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Question 3.

Jane Mayer wrote the article "The Experiment" for The New Yorker. It was published in the July 11, 2005, issue on pages 60-65. You accessed the article from a library subscription database called LexisNexis from Swem Library at the College of William & Mary on March 11, 2006. The URL for the database is <http://www.lexisnexis.com/>.
 
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Question 4.

James Bamford wrote the article "The Man Who Sold the War" for Rolling Stone. It appeared in the December 1, 2005, issue on pages 53-59. You accessed the article from a library subscription database called ProQuest from Shields Library at the University of California Davis on March 23, 2006. The URL for the database is <http://proquest.umi.com/>.
 
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Question 5.

Charley Able wrote the article "Healing and Remembrance" for Rocky Mountain News, which was published in the April 20, 2006, issue. You accessed the article online on May 13, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4636149,00.html>.
 
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Question 6.
Stacy Teicher wrote the article "Students Weigh In on Closing the Gap" for the April 20, 2006, issue of The Christian Science Monitor. You accessed the article online on July 28, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0420/p14s01-legn.html>.
 
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Question 7.
Gordon Russell wrote the story "Ground Zero: Superdome Becomes Last Resort for Thousands Unable to Leave" for the August 29, 2005, issue of The Times-Picayune. You accessed the article online on July 30, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.nola.com/katrina/pages/082905/A01.pdf>.
 
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Question 8.
David Finkel wrote the article "U.S. Ideals Meet Reality in Yemen" for the December 18, 2005, issue of The Washington Post. You accessed the article online on January 3, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121701237.html>.
 
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Question 9.
David Samuels wrote the article "In a Ruined Country" for the September 2005 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. You accessed the article online on August 22, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200509/samuels>.
 
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Question 10.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote "The Moral-Hazard Myth" for the August 29, 2005, issue of The New Yorker. You accessed the article online on April 24, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050829fa_fact>.
 
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Question 11.
Bill McKibben wrote "Climate of Denial" for the May/June 2005 issue of Mother Jones. You accessed the article online on December 23, 2005, at the following URL: <http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/mckibben_introduction.html>.
 
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Question 12.
Mimi Swartz wrote "Hurt? Injured? Need a Lawyer? Too Bad!" for the November 2005 issue of Texas Monthly. You accessed the article on June 1, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2005-11-01/feature4>.
 
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Question 13.

You want to quote from an article called "Climate" (no author is named). It appeared on a Web site called Global Warming-Climate, sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency. The page was last updated on January 7, 2000, and you accessed it on February 27, 2005, at the following URL: <http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/climate.html>.
 
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Question 14.

You want to quote from an article called "Securing U.S. Ports" on the Web site for the Department of Homeland Security (no author is named). The page was last updated on Feb. 22, 2006. You accessed the site on June 15, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0865.xml>.
 
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Question 15.

You want to quote from an article titled "Could Reducing Global Dimming Mean a Hotter, Dryer World?" (no author is named). It appears on a Web site called The Earth Institute and is sponsored by Columbia University. The article was posted on April 14, 2006, and you accessed it on July 16, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2006/story04-14-06.php>.
 
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Question 16.

You are quoting from a poem titled "the mississippi river empties into the gulf" by Lucille Clifton. It appears on a Web site called Modern American Poetry and is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The page was last updated on January 10, 2003, and you accessed it on November 11, 2005, at the following URL: <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/clifton/onlinepoems.htm>.
 
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Question 17.
Akbar Ahmed wrote the article "America's Role in the Fight for Islam" for the Web site Beliefnet.com. It was posted on April 7, 2006, and you accessed it on May 19, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.beliefnet.com/story/187/story_18723_1.html>.

 
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Question 18.

You want to quote from an article called "Bringing Your New Dog Home," which is posted on the Web site for the Humane Society of the United States (no author is named). The page shows a copyright date of 2006. You accessed it on July 14, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_adoption_information/bringing_your_new_dog_home.html>.
 
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Question 19.

You want to quote a Web log entry titled "Odds Without End" posted on April 12, 2006. The author is Alex Ross, and the blog appears on his site, which is titled The Rest Is Noise. You accessed the site on May 17, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.therestisnoise.com/blog_fallwinter_05/index.html>.
 
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Question 20.

You want to quote from a Web log entry titled "DNA Tests and Immigration," which was posted on a site called Blog for America. No author is named. The entry was posted on April 18, 2006, and you accessed the site on June 12, 2006, at the following URL: <http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/007757.html>.
 
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