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21) Primary historical evidence on racism in British Columbia in the early 1900s would potentially include which of the following items? A) An article written in 1972 titled “White Canada Forever” B) A Vancouver police department report found in the back of an old filing cabinet detailing police raids on Japanese Canadian businesses conducted in 1928 C) A magazine article in last month’s Maclean’s magazine comparing recent attempts to change immigration laws with the Chinese Canadian Head Tax years. D) Signed documents by mining company owners on illegal labour practices against Japanese Canadians. E) B and D only. 22) A great deal of primary historical data is located in archives. Which of the following statements is correct about doing archival research? A) Virtually all archival materials are now stored electronically, so scanning through large amounts of material online is very easy. B) Most archives are located in one or two large cities, so even if one needs to visit an archive, it is easy to find one. Most are open 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. C) Archival materials are usually very well-organized and sorted. All material is clearly labelled and categorized for easy searching. D) Archival research is often painstakingly slow. Often there are gaps or holes in a series of papers or destroyed documents, but reading new material can reveal new ideas or connections. E) Common events and individual persons are easy to track in archival material. All materials are in one location, and everything related to a person or event of interest will be clearly connected and include everything of relevance. 23) Which of the following statements best describes the fundamental premises of oral history? A) Oral history consists of the events, beliefs, or feelings in the past that were directly experienced. B) Oral history is a type of writing about a historical setting in which the writer attempts to “tell a story” by following chronological order, describing particular people and events, and focusing on many colourful details. C) Oral history precisely measures and operationalizes variables. D) Oral history is information about events or settings that is documented or written later by historians or others who did not directly participate in the events or setting. E) Oral history consists of files, records, or documents that are maintained in a relatively consistent manner over a period of time. 24) Professor Randy Rudiment conducted a study of First Nations in Ontario between 1880 and 1920. He interviewed elderly Aboriginals about what they remembered about their childhood and the stories told to them by their parents and grandparents. His data is an example of A) running records. B) oral history. C) supporting evidence. D) non-source-based knowledge. E) primary sources. 25) Professor Freeze Iceberg visited the national historical library and also the archives at Revenue Canada. He looked up the tax records paid each year by the 20 largest companies in Canada between 1950 and the present. This type of data is best classified as A) running records. B) recollections. C) secondary sources. D) primary sources. 26) You read a book called British Columbia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. While reading it you notice that the author discusses only the lives and ideas of five individuals based upon their diaries. The book basically recounts the lives of a few individuals. It avoids making any sort of generalizations or integrating some possible themes. What problem with secondary sources is illustrated with this example? A) Historians often use vague concepts with inconsistent definitions to organize the primary sources they read. B) Historians select a tiny fraction of the mass of information they read, but the selection process is largely unseen and unknown. C) Historians often have an individualistic bias and tend to focus on actions of the specific individuals revealed in primary sources. D) Historians, especially those who write in a narrative form, separate out significant from trivial information, but rarely make their social theories explicit. E) Historians are influenced by various “schools” of historiography. 27) Which of the following statements is an example evaluating a letter by General Peabody written in 1900 using the technique of “internal criticism”? A) Checking that a letter was not actually written in 1864 B) Checking to be sure that general’s wife was not the letter’s author C) Checking that the general witnessed events referred to in the letter and that the meanings within the letter are consistent D) Asking why the letter survived to the present 28) ________ means evaluating the authenticity of a document to be certain that it is not a fake or a forgery. A) Back translation B) Narrative history C) Internal criticism D) External criticism E) Equivalence 29) Graduate student Fanny Farquarson studied the language of the Izzibot. In the language there is no word equal to the English word compassion but she knows, however, that the Izzibot people experience this emotion. This illustrates a problem with A) lexicon equivalence. B) contextual equivalence. C) conceptual equivalence. D) measurement equivalence. E) back translation. 30) Which of the following statements best describes the difference between qualitative content analysis and quantitative content analysis? A) In qualitative approaches to content analysis, manifest content is usually the focus, while in quantitative approaches attention shifts to revealing implied meanings and motives. B) Quantitative content analysts use segments of text to identify instances of a code, while qualitative content analysts are more likely to examine entire texts at once for their meaning. C) Quantitative content analysis organizes and links general themes into a coherent theory about social life, while in qualitative content analysis the goal is to identify general themes that run through the different texts. D) Qualitative content analysis often finds patterns by using sophisticated statistical techniques, while in quantitative content analysis patterns and linkages are discovered through the coding process. E) Quantitative content analysis is presented through the use of statistical tables, while qualitative content analysis provides evidence in the form of graphs and summarized statistics.