Research Questions Quiz

A ______ is anything that gives you information to answer your research question.

• note

• website

• magazine

• book

• source

_____ means the source relates to the topic and question you are answering.

• Important

• Topic

• Significant

• Relevant

Choose the primary source from the list below.

• My mother told me about my grandmother’s life on her farm and how she collected eggs and milked cows.

• I read an editorial in the Washington Post on how life was better during years when my great-grandmother was a little girl.

• I found a box of artifacts (comb, letters, pot-holder loom and recipes) that belonged to my great-grandmother when she lived on the farm.

• I read about the early settlers in my American History textbook.

A Works Cited page is an alphabetical list of your _________.

• citations

• documentations

• topics

• note cards

A researcher can evaluate a website source to determine if it is ______ by checking the domain name (.edu or .org) and looking at the overall professionalism of the website’s appearance.

• relevant

• reliable

• pretty

• helpful