Citing Sources Quiz
Name: ________________________
The following quotation is from page 2 of the book Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, published by Delacourt in New
York, New York in 1963.
“We Bokononist believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God’s Will without ever discovering what they are
doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon, and the instrument, the kan-kan, that brought me into my own particular karass was
the book I never finished, the book to be called The Day The World Ended.”
1.
Give the correct MLA bibliographic citation for this source.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle. New York: Delacorte, 1963.
In Problems 2 – 6, be sure to make your writing grammatically correct, effective, and to cite correctly. Your job is to
incorporate the information from this quote effectively, as requested in each of problem. Assume you are writing the start
of a paragraph.
2.
Use the complete quotation with a signal phrase to introduce it.
Vonnegut writes, “We Bokononist believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God’s Will without ever discovering
what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon, and the instrument, the kan-kan, that brought me into my own
particular karass was the book I never finished, the book to be called The Day The World Ended.” (2)
3. Use the complete quotation, without using a signal phrase, as part of a sentence or two sentences.
“We Bokononist believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God’s Will without ever discovering what they are
doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon, and the instrument, the kan-kan, that brought me into my own particular karass was
the book I never finished, the book to be called The Day The World Ended.” (Vonnegut 2).
4. Use a portion of the quote in a sentence with your own words. The sentence should be partly your own words and
partly a direct quote. A signal phrase is optional.
Vonnegut believes that every human is a member of a team and, “the instrument, the kan-kan, that brought me into my own particular
karass was the book I never finished, the book to be called The Day The World Ended.” (2).
Note: need (Vonnegut 2) if they did not use a signal phrase
5. Paraphrase the information in the cited sentence, with an introductory signal phrase.
Vonnegut believes that every person becomes part of a team to do gods work through a kan-kan (2)
6. Paraphrase the information in the cited sentence, without an introductory signal phrase as part of the sentence.
Unknowingly, individuals become members of a team to do gods work called a karass. A kan-kan is the instrument which
beings people into these teams (Vonnegut 2)
7.
On the back of this page, plagiarize this work. You can skip the citation for this one!
We Bokononist believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God’s Will without ever discovering what they are doing.
Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon, and the instrument, the kan-kan, that brought me into my own particular karass was the
book I never finished, the book to be called The Day The World Ended.
Note: no citations whatsoever and no quotes! They can paraphrase or what have you but no quotes or citation