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Questions:

1. What is the source? A letter? A speech? An interview? A diary or journal entry? A painting? A radio broadcast?
2. Who is the author of each document? You need to know more than their names. In this case, you'll find this information in the document, but sometimes you will have to conduct some research.
3. What is each author saying? Are they reliable? (I'll let you determine what that means here, but we will discuss this later.) Do you think their views are representative or are they uniquely theirs? (Can they be applied to similar people in similar situations, or must they be dismissed as aberrations? I know you're not ready to make this decision yet, but it's something to consider.)
4. What contribution does each author possibly make to our knowledge and understanding of their historical period, place, culture, society, economy, political system, contemporary events? You can potentially glean a lot of information from a single primary source, even a short one.
5. Is the perspective of the authors (think of them as witnesses) recorded at the time the event happened or are they describing it later? If later, how much later? This matters, and goes back to reliability, because people remember things differently, or even misremember things, many years later. "Spain and the Native Americans: The Guale Revolt, 1597".