PART ONE: Your task in this part of the exam is to prepare a properly organized, ordered,
structured, and formatted works cited which contains four entries.
The bibliographical information for four (4) works cited entries is included below in this
section. You must prepare one (1) correctly organized and structured works cited which
contains all four entries. Your completed works cited must be constructed in proper MLA 9
format with respect to order, organization, content, and structure. You will have to reorder
or otherwise restructure the information given to you in order to make it comply with MLA
9 works cited rules. In the bibliographical section below in this part of the exam, you may
have been given more information about any one entry than is needed to prepare a properly
constructed MLA works cited entry for that item. You must decide what to use and what to
exclude from your works cited and the entries in the works cited.
Description: You are preparing one (1) MLA works cited which contains four (4) properly
structured and organized entries. Each works cited entry should contain properly organized
information about a single source. The sources included in your works cited include two
online dictionaries: Merriam-Webster and The Oxford English Dictionary; another source
included in your works cited is a story from the book The Prodigal Reader. Use only the data
included in the bibliographical information below (and our textbook, if and when so
directed) to create the entries in your works cited. For purposes of this exercise, you may
leave out the right-hand heading from your completed work, but you must follow all other
MLA 9 rules for preparation of the works cited when completing this portion of the exam.
Bibliographical Information:
Source # 1: An Internet dictionary definition
Name of dictionary: Merriam-Webster
Sponsor/Publisher of the dictionary: Merriam-Webster
Word referenced: vibrant
Part of speech of the word: Adjective
URL: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vibrant
Year of Internet publication: 2023
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Source # 2: An Internet dictionary definition
Name of dictionary: Oxford English Dictionary
Sponsor/ Publisher of the dictionary: Oxford UP
Word referenced: heteronormative
Part of speech of the word: Adjective
URL: https:// www.oed.com/view/Entry/275594?redirectedFrom=heteronormative#eid.
Year of Internet publication: 2022
Source # 3: An Internet dictionary definition
Name of dictionary: Merriam-Webster
Sponsor/ Publisher of the dictionary: Merriam-Webster
Word referenced: courteous
Part of speech of the word: Adjective
URL: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/courteous
Year of Internet publication: 2023
Source # 4: A story taken from a book
Title of book: The Prodigal Reader
Publisher of the book: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
Editor of the book: Terry Haynes
Story used in the book: Hands
Page(s) in the book on which the story appears: (Use your book to find this information)
Number of pages in the book: 274
Author of the Story: Sherwood Anderson
Year of publication of the book: 2022
City of publication of book: Dubuque, Iowa
Version of book: Paper softcover
PART TWO:
Supply the correct answer to each of the ten (10) questions in this section. In each case, write as little as
one word or as much as one complete sentence, as is required to answer the question correctly.
Spelling, grammar, and sentence structure as well as factual correctness of responses will form the
assessment criteria for this portion of the exam. MLA formatting is not required for this part of the
exam.
1. Which of the rhetorical elements discussed in the essay “Murder and the Art of Rhetoric:
Reading between the Lines” concerns the notion of “style,” involving the choice of words one
employs, the level of formality used, and the way in which the phrases and sentences one uses
are constructed?
2. According to the essay “Murder and the Art of Rhetoric: Reading between the Lines,” what
family member is/was the plaintiff in the case titled “Against the Step-mother”?
3. According to the essay “Murder and the Art of Rhetoric: Reading between the Lines,” what is
the name of the person who prepared handbooks and pamphlets designed as rhetorical study
guides for use by dispossessed landowners who went to court in order to regain their lost
property?
4. “I hate this [story] because it’s not a story of love and friendship. It’s not even a story about
giving, as the title implies. [It] is actually a really sick tale of a horribly dysfunctional
relationship. For kids.” Jennifer Ziegler wrote these words about which story that we read this
semester? __________________________.
5. Two United States presidents were mentioned in David Brooks’s “What Suffering Does.” One of
the named presidents was Abraham Lincoln. The other was_____________________.
6. According to Brooks, what part of suffering is always “intrinsically ennobling”? ______________
_____________________.
7. Which reading assigned this semester involved a man who climbs upon someone’s roof to listen
in on what is happening inside the house? The man eventually falls from the roof. Give the title
of the reading. The title of the reading is ________________.
8. In which of the readings assigned this semester did someone get hit with a caduceus? Give the
title of the reading. The title of the reading is ___________________.
9. In “Chain Links,” the connection game is said to come to the narrator in which way?
“Unfortunately, it comes to me of itself, the way a ____ does.” Add the missing word.
10. According to the speaker in Martial’s poem “These Are the Sweeter,” what is the preferred way
to acquire wealth? ________________________
PART THREE: Critical Reading/Writing (Textual Analysis) (30 points)
Below are five (5) sentences from an AI engine’s analysis of the poem “Sleeping
with Walt Whitman.” This poem was published in our textbook and was assigned
for reading this semester. For each sentence, state clearly whether AI’s remarks
are correct, or partially incorrect, or completely incorrect. For each statement
you label “partially incorrect” or “completely incorrect,” specify precisely what is
incorrect and fix the error(s). For each sentence which is completely correct, no
further explanation other than “correct” is required. MLA formatting is not
required for this part.
1. The poem “Sleeping with Walt Whitman” is a poem written by Linda
Pastan.
2. . The poem ends with a description of Whitman proposing marriage to
an old “beggar-woman.”
3. . In the poem, Whitman is described as “hysterical.”
4. At one point in the poem, Whitman is imagined as asking “Does the
transparent summer morning turn to midnight?”
5. . At one point in the poem, Whitman is described as speaking with a
“Bushwick twang.”
