Like the Unions in Paterson, New Jersey assessment, this question gauges whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine an excerpt from a 1834 book about the Boston Tea Party in 1773, then determine which two of four facts might help them evaluate the account's reliability. In strong answers, students will explain how the gap in time between the year the book was written and the event (Fact 1) and that little is known about the author (Fact 4) make the account less reliable.
