Source Skills Quiz

You are researching how royals lived in the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa, a civilization from the 1200s on the island of Sri Lanka. You fly over there and tour the remains of their palaces. The physical palace remains are...

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• Secondary sources

• Tertiary sources

• Interplanetary sources

A woman witnesses a car crash on the highway and tells a reporter about it. The  reporter writes an article about the crash for The Lake Oswego Review. This article is a …

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• Popular source

You are researching buffalo hunters of the 1800s and see a buffalo gun that was used by the hunters in a museum in Salem, Oregon. That buffalo gun is a …

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• Online source

You read an article on Wikipedia about the British sport snooker. The article is a...

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• LIE!

You are learning about Thomas Jefferson and read a book written by a famous modern historian about him. This book is most likely a…

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• Tertiary source

• Comedic source

You are studying Chief Joseph, a famous leader of the Nez Perce tribe. You read a speech he gave after his people were rounded up by the U.S. army and forced to a reservation. This speech is a …

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• Radio source

What would be the BEST source to use to answer this research question: Were the Puritans selfish or selfless?

• A collection of speeches made by important Puritans.

• Watching The Crucifix, a Hollywood movie about the Puritans starring Winona Ryder.

• Looking up the word Puritan in the dictionary.

What would be the BEST source to use to answer this research question: What, exactly, does the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution say about equal rights for all citizens in the U.S.?

• A series of political cartoons drawn by famous artists.

• A summary of the Fourteenth Amendment by a famous newspaper columnist.

• The text of the Fourteenth Amendment.

What would be the BEST source to use to answer this research question: What went on between Anne Frank and her family when they were hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam?

• The historical papers of the Nazi secret police in Amsterdam.

• A diary that Anne Frank kept during that time.

• Anne Frank’s childhood friends - before she went into hiding.

What would be the BEST source to use to answer this research question:  How many spies did the U.S.S.R. (Russia) have in the U.S. during the Cold War?

• The Hollywood film, The Hunt for Red October

• Reading the historical fiction novel, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad.

• Reading recently declassified government files from the U.S. and Russia