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This question is meant to test the reader's knowledge of the MLA Citation formatting. In order to correctly answer this question, one must have at least a basic knowledge of how MLA formatting works, regarding placement of names and titles. It would also help if one knew the format of the citation in question: in this case, that of an article whose information was first published in a book. Though the citation presented in the question is slightly outdated, it is still possible to discern the information that is essential to getting the answer. In order to figure out this aforementioned answer, one must go through the citation and identify as many aspects of it as one can, such as the author's name and the page of the particular citation. Once this is done, one must read through every answer carefully in order to determine which answer matches up best with the given citation.

E- In 1991 Crown published //Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools,// written by Jonathan Kozol This is the correct answer.Jonathan Kozol is obviously the author, as he is listed first. The title of the book, as evidenced by the italics and the fact that it is the second piece of information listed, is indeed // Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. //In this particular version of the MLA formatting, both the publisher (Crown) and the date of publication (1991) are placed inside parenthesis immediately after the author and title.

A- This endnote appears on page 237 of // Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools //and on page 37 of the article Hard Data This question is made to mislead. It contains a large portion of the data presented in the citation, and someone who did not scrutinize both the citation and the answer carefully would be likely to jump the gun and go for this answer. However, it takes the two halves of the citation, which are separated by a semicolon, and interprets them as two separate citations for the same information. the citation is not meant to reference two locations of the same article, but rather where the writer found the article, and its original source.

C- The article "Hard Data" was first published in the book // Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools // This answer sounds like it could be right, but it isn't. When one takes a closer look at the citation, one can see that the whole article itself did not appear in the book, but rather information that was later used in the article "Hard Data".

B- Jonathan Kozol edited a book that contains the article "Hard Data" This answer is completely wrong. no type of MLA formatting would ever put the name of the editor before the name of the book or the article.

D- // Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools //is an article printed in both an article edited by Jonathan Kozol and in //Washington Post Weekly// Edition. This answer is also completely wrong. Like the previous answer, Jonathan Kozol is falsely assumed to be the editor, and like answer A, it is made to seem like the two parts of the citation are citing two different sources for the same article, rather than the article and the original source of the information.