Exercise: Recognizing common knowledge 1 (autoscored)

In each of the following items, decide whether the statement can be considered common knowledge. If it is common knowledge, click “Common knowledge.” If the statement would require a citation, click “Requires citation.”

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The three-day battle of Gettysburg in June 1863 claimed 9,600 lives and left more than 47,000 soldiers injured.

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Multiple narrators take turns telling the story in Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights.

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James Achilles Kirkpatrick, the highest-ranking British officer in the Indian city of Hyderabad in 1800, converted to Islam to marry Khair un-Nissa, the daughter of a prominent local family.

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The 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Toni Morrison for her novel Beloved, about the lingering effects of slavery on an Ohio family.

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The Wife of Bath’s prologue in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales borrows from a discussion of marriage in a thirteenth-century French poem, Roman de la Rose, by Jean de Meun.

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