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Open
Note Quizzes & "Explain This Passage" Questions
When
a quiz is labeled "Open Note," the quiz will contain
one question that will ask you to explain a short excerpt of my
choosing from the reading. I will, however, only choose portions
of the text that summarize a section of the reading.
What do I mean by "section"? If you look, for example,
to page 7 of the downloaded chapter, you will notice that the
page has been divided into distinct units under individual headings;
on page 7 the headings are, for example, "Contact and Trade
Routes" and "Worlds Apart."
I
might ask for example, the following question:
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page 7, the textbook states "By 1300, the world's societies
were becoming more familiar with one another." What specifically
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A
response to the above question that would get full credit might
be:
By 1300, growing population pressures and improved forms of
transportation increasingly linked Eurasia to China and Africa.
Often relying on the people living between regions, trade
circulated goods and ideas between cultures, as the travels
of the two merchants discussed makes clear.
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Notice
from this response that such quiz question do NOT require that
you know small details (such as the names of the merchants) but
these questions will require that you know the major details of
the section.
 What
notes can I use on open-note quizzes?
On an open-note
quiz, you will be allowed to use any handwritten notes in
a notebook or the like; you can NOT
use notes you make in your textbook.
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One
way to prepare for such a quiz is to record in your notes (which
you will be allowed to use on these open-note type quizzes) the
main ideas (or topic
sentence) from each paragraph in a section.
So
for this section, the relevant topic sentences are:
Paragraph 1: "These merchants and scholars..."
Paragraph
2: "Many of these people..."
Paragraph
3: " Population pressures..."
Paragraph
4: "New and impoved forms of transportation..."
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