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Question 10 • English Language Arts 12

Which excerpt is most clearly from a primary source?

Answer

"[Amelia Earhart] grinned as she lay on the cabin floor of the Friendship , thinking that this flight across the Atlantic was perhaps the most unorthodox happening in any girl’s life."

"Drs. Grant and Coldstream attended much to marine Zoology, and I often accompanied the former to collect animals in the tidal pools, which I dissected as well as I could."

"Those who join the stampede to a new goldfield may generally be divided into two classes, the tenderfoot and the old-timer; otherwise, the novice and the experienced prospector."

"He had caught the spirit of Portuguese Henry the Navigator, and his soul had glowed when the fame of Columbus first thrilled Spain."

Explanation

A primary source is a firsthand account written by someone who experienced the events being described. In choice B, the writer says, “I often accompanied” the scientists and describes collecting and dissecting animals, showing direct personal experience. The other excerpts describe or interpret someone else’s experiences rather than clearly presenting the writer’s own firsthand account.

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