Tygiel
History 450

GUIDELINES FOR QUIZ PREPARATIONS
 

There will be a quiz every other week to test your knowledge of the readings. If you are keeping up with the class readings, you should have little trouble with the tests. Quizzes will be based solely on the assigned readings and will include all materials since the previous quiz, including those readings scheduled for discussion on the day of the quiz.  In preparing for the quizzes pay particular attention to things that appear in chapter headings and subheadings.  All answers will be multiple choice.
 

The questions will take one of the following forms:
 

1. Factual. You will be asked to identify or describe important people, events, legislation, concepts or ideas. These items will include people or subjects which receive a great deal of attention in the readings. They will not be obscure.
 

2. Chronological. On each test there will be questions dealing with dates. You need not memorize each specific date but you should know within which decade or span of years important historical events took place.
 

3. Interpretive. These questions will ask you to identify which arguments typify the work of specific authors in the text and supplementary readings.  Pay particular attention to the arguments introductions and conclusions to each chapter of the textbook.
 

THERE WILL BE SEVEN QUIZZES. THERE WILL BE NO MAKE-UP QUIZZES. YOUR FINAL QUIZ  GRADE WILL BE BASED ON AN AVERAGE OF YOUR TOP FIVE QUIZ GRADES.  THUS, IF YOU MISS ONE QUIZ OR EVEN TWO QUIZZES IT PROBABLY WILL NOT AFFECT YOUR FINAL GRADE.