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QuizMultiple Choice

Synthesizing Sources

Question 5 • OK-English Language Arts 12 A1 – EDGNTY-83861 26-27

Which title indicates that the text is a secondary source?

Answer
A
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant
B
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, by Yoné Noguchi
C
Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect, by Sir Lawrence Weaver
D
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812, by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Explanation

A secondary source is written later by someone interpreting or describing events, rather than by a person who directly experienced them. Sir Lawrence Weaver’s Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect is a biography about Wren, so it is a secondary source. Grant’s memoir, Noguchi’s diary, and Napoleon’s letters are firsthand accounts and are primary sources.

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