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Quiz Four

2. Which one is the correct example of an MLA in-text citation?

a. One of the world’s earliest air disasters was the destruction of the French dirigible Dixmude, which exploded in 1923 after it was struck by lightening, killing all fifty-nine crew members aboard.(Davis 11)
b.  The 1881 fire that destroyed the Ring Theater in Vienna, Austria killed 850 people and injured hundreds of others. The fire was even more tragic because it was caused by human error, and it escalated by inaction (Davis pp. 203-04).
c. both a and b
d. neither a nor b