Question

24)

Which bibliographic entry would be the MOST helpful or relevant if you wanted to know more about where an author got his
information about the sinking of the Titanic?
A)
McDonald, Allen. Naval Laws of the Victorian Era. Harper: New York, 1922.
Smythe, Clark. Unsinkable: Folly on the Titanic Little, Brown: New York,
1976.
Young, Jennifer D. The Flora and Fauna of the Artic Lands Harper: New
York, 1987
Jefferson, Cynthia The Autobiography of Molly Brown Harcourt: San
Francisco, 1935.

Answer 1

The best bibliogaphic entry would probably be: Smythe, Clark. Unsinkable: Folly on the Titanic Little, Brown: New York, 1976.

That is because it seems to be a book about the Titanic itself, whereas the other ones have to do with:

• topics which are less directly related to the subject-matter (the first entry is about maritime laws and the third one is about the animal and plant populations of the lands near the North Pole),
• personal, relative accounts of the events (like the fourth entry, which is an autobiography of a survivor and therefore describes the wreck through the character's own perspective) as opposed to more factual material.