Sources

Question 1

Memoirs

Answer 1

✅ Honest personal reflection

❌ Details could have been forgotten/selective use of facts

Question 2

Newspaper

Answer 2

✅ Shows the mood/opinions at the time

❌ Bias/sensationalized

Question 3

Report

Answer 3

✅ Official document/well-researched

❌ May only give narrow view/lack of feelings

Question 4

Photograph

Answer 4

✅ Accurate/shows what conditions were like

❌ could be staged/selective

Question 5

Textbook

Answer 5

✅ Well researched/balanced

❌ May only deal with one aspect of topic question

Question 6

Poster

Answer 6

✅ Shows concerns of the time

❌ Biased

Question 7

Speech

Answer 7

✅ Given my important people that know facts/speaking with authority

❌ Biased

Question 8

Cartoon

Answer 8

✅ Shows concerns of the time

❌ Exaggerated

Question 9

Diary or Letter

Answer 9

✅ Eyewitness/first hand experience - Primary

✅ Have expertise - Secondary

❌ Only provide one person’s view of events

Question 10

Pamphlet/Leaflet

Answer 10

✅ Shows concerns of the time

❌ Biased

Question 11

Chronicle

Answer 11

✅ First hand evidence of events/collection of records from eyewitnesses

❌ Biased/accounts often passes by word of mouth facts details lost or sensationalized

Question 12

Quotes

Answer 12

✅ Accurate, balanced factual information

❌ Exaggerated
❌ May be vague on details