Question 1:

Which one of these is ALWAYS considered a primary source?

A. Novel

B. Professional Journal

C. Diary

D. Magazine

Question 2:

Why do you want to include primary sources in your research?

A. To go through the process of interpreting and creating something new.

B. To look smart.

C. Because the professor says so.

Question 3:

A secondary source is a work that interprets or analyzes an event or trend.

True     False

Question 4:

Which of these is not a primary source?

A. Maps

B. Records of organizations or agencies

C. Current encyclopedias

D. Artifacts

Question 5:

Why are autobiographies and memoirs less reliable primary sources?

A. They are usually dull.

B. They may be distorted by bias, dimming memory or the revised perspective that may come with hindsight.

C. They are usually about people nobody cares about.

D. Who knows, I never read them!

Question 6:

A photo of Lance Armstrong winning his 5th Tour de France can be a primary source.

True     False

Question 7:

The minutes of an Intel Corporation annual meeting can be a primary source.

True     False

Question 8:

Jane Goodall's field notes of chimpanzees can be a primary source?

True     False

Question 9:

Select the primary source from the following list of references.

A. Dallek, Robert. "Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945." New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

B. Cohen, Warren, ed. "The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 3, The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945" by Akira Iriye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

C. Browder, Robert. "The Origins of Soviet-American Diplomacy." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953.

D. Freedman, Max. "Roosevelt and Frankfurter: Their Correspondence 1928-1945." Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1967.

Question 10:

What items are always considered primary sources?

A. Manuscripts

B. Videos taken at the time of a particular event

C. Government documents

D. Research data at the time

E. Photographs

F. Memoirs

G. Audio recordings at the time of a particular event

H. Maps

I. All of the above