Recognizing common knowledge in Chicago papers

Read the student passage and determine if the student needs to cite the source of the information. If the material does not need citation because it is common knowledge, click on Common knowledge. If the material is not common knowledge and the student should cite the source, click on Needs citation.

Click Submit after each question to see feedback and to record your answer. After you have finished every question, your answers will be submitted to your instructor’s gradebook. You may review your answers by returning to the exercise at any time. (An exercise reports to the gradebook only if your instructor has assigned it.)

For help with this exercise, see Avoiding plagiarism.

Example

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Question 1. In Rwanda in 1994, a civil war left hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead.
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Question 2. Tong wars erupted in New York’s Chinatown in the early decades of the twentieth century, giving that neighborhood the city’s highest murder rate.
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Question 3. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, as he sat watching a play.
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Question 4. After the Civil War, forty thousand former slaves had successful farms on the Sea Islands of South Carolina—the only place in the South where African Americans owned sizable quantities of land.
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Question 5. The eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatau in Indonesia in 1883 spewed dense volcanic dust high into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering temperatures worldwide for months.
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Question 6. The US invasion of Cambodia in 1970 led to antiwar protests on many college campuses.
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Question 7. A Sherpa named Tenzing Norgay helped guide Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest in 1953.
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Question 8. General George Custer and all of his men were killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Question 9. The underground railroad provided shelter, guides, and assistance to runaway slaves as they made their way north to freedom.
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Question 10. Beginning in March 1988 and continuing for seventeen months, Saddam Hussein had his air force drop poison gas on more than two hundred Kurdish villages and towns in Iraq.
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