Year 7 History Pretest

Historians search for information about a past event by using historical...

• Artefacts

• Sources

• Information

The Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt are primary sources

• True

• False

Myths and legends CANNOT be used to truthfully tell us about the past.

• True

• False

Information contained in a source is always true and useful.

• True

• False

What is a primary source?

• The main source used to investigate the past

• The only type of primary source is also sometimes called an artefact

• A source that comes from the time of the event or soon after by a person who was there

• A source which is made after the time of the event being investigated

________________ is the information historians take from sources to prove that an event happened in the past.

• Evidence

• Quotes

• Interviews

• Photographs

A history that is incomplete or written from only one person's point of view is probably biased.

• True

• False

A system of organising history by arranging events in order from the first event that occurred all the way to the last event that happened is called '________________________ order'

• Complete

• Chronological

• Institutional

• Formative

The abbreviation 'AD' comes from the Christian system of dating events. It stands for...

• After Death

• After Date

• Anno Domini

• Another Date

As the abbreviation 'BC' identifies dates before the birth of Christ, the higher the number in a BC timeline, the further that date is from today.

• True

• False