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Question 20 • United States History and Geography

This is a reliable source mainly because

Answer
A
it was written by a person who was on board during the sinking.
B
it is based on secondhand information about the Maine sinking.
C
it appeared in a fictional story about the sinking of the Maine .
D
it is dated 1899, which was only a year after the ship’s sinking.