Like the Unions in Paterson, New Jersey assessment, this question gauges whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students first look at an image created in Japan about life in America. Students then analyze three historical facts and determine which one can help determine whether the image is a historically reliable depiction of life in America. Strong students will select Fact 3 and explain how the artist's misrepresentation of American architecture suggests that he may not have been basing the image on reliable information about the United States at the time.
