Week 10 Quiz

The course roster names a writer for The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Who is that writer?

Select one.

• Sojourner Truth herself, in her own hand
• Olive Gilbert
• Frederick Douglass
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How does the course's roster classify the document type of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth?

Select one.

• An autobiography Truth wrote and signed herself
• A secondary source written later by a historian
• A dictated narrative of her life
• A court record of New York's emancipation law

Which document contains the pinned fragment "born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800"?

Select one.

• The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
• Abigail Adams's private letter to John Adams
• The Declaration of Independence
• Jefferson's Report on Census, sent to Washington

Item 11 of the source-sorting set (illustrative) is an online encyclopedia entry summarizing the census. For a question about the period the census comes from, how does the course sort it?

Select one.

• Primary, because it is about a primary source
• Secondary, because it is a later summary of the census
• Primary, because it is published online
• Neither, because an encyclopedia is not a source

True or false: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is a text in Truth's own written words.

True or false.

• True
• False

Which host keeps the text of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth that the course reads?

Select one.

• Founders Online
• The Avalon Project
• The National Archives
• The Library of Congress

In which year is The Narrative of Sojourner Truth dated in the course's document roster?

Select one.

• 1827
• 1828
• 1850
• 1797

Which of these items from the illustrative source-sorting set are primary sources for the period they come from? Select every one that is.

Select every option that applies.

• A merchant's account book from a Charleston shop, 1774 to 1776
• A printed census schedule certified in 1791
• An online encyclopedia entry summarizing the census
• A modern map drawn to show the 1803 purchase
• An oral account recorded in the 1930s from a person born into slavery

Item 12 of the source-sorting set (illustrative) is an oral account recorded in the 1930s from a person born into slavery. For a question about that person's own experience, how does the course sort it?

Select one.

• Primary, read with the gap in time in mind
• Secondary, because it was recorded decades later
• Secondary, because someone else recorded it
• Neither, because a spoken account is not a source

The Declaration of Sentiments, adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention, opened by echoing a pinned line from an earlier document: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal". Which document holds that line, and in what year is it dated?

Select one.

• The Constitution of the United States, 1787
• The Bill of Rights, ratified 1791
• The Declaration of Independence, 1776
• Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, 1801