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If a quotation within a sentence does not name the author of the quotation, what information MUST follow the quotation?

A)title, publisher, page number
B)title, author's last name, publisher
C)title, page number where quote appears
D)author's last name, page number where quote appears

If you wanted to quote from page 27 of a book by Donald R. Howard about the poet Geoffrey Chaucer's life (titled The Time of Chaucer) for a research paper, which would be the correct way to cite this source using MLA documentation?
A) (Howard 27).
B) (Howard page 27).
C) (The Time of Chaucer 27).
D) (Howard, The Time of Chaucer, 27).

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Well for the first one, its D...

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The correct answer is C) title, page number where the quote appears

This occurs when you cite multiple works by the same author, then you omit the name and write the title. The answer for the second is A) (Howard 27), this is the correct MLA citation form.
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