7th Grade Social Studies Unit 1, Lessons 10-11 Quiz Review

The discipline of history is based on investigating problems and using _____ to support accounts of the past.

• ideas

• problems

• math

• evidence

When historians select events from the past and interpret their meaning they sometimes create _____ accounts of the same historical event, which textbooks often conceal.

• similar

• boring

• exciting

• conflicting

Since textbooks are limited in how they identify historical problems and use evidence, they can _____ our understanding of the past.

• enhance

• limit

• augment

• supplement

Historians investigate problems about the past, make claims about what happened, and support their claims with _____.

• external inconsistency

• internal inconsistency

• evidence

• a bouquet of roses

_____ provide a narrative of the past, allowing students to read about a broad range of historical events, but have several limitations.

• CD Roms

• Maps

• Textbooks

• Dictionaries

Some of the limitations of history textbooks include that they (1) oversimplify complex events; (2) offer limited evidence, historical arguments, and perspectives; and (3) tend to ignore_____.

• facts

• inaccuracies

• falsehoods

• motives

History textbooks often fail to show the _____ nature of history, and tend to make historical outcomes seem ‘inevitable’.

• investigative

• cognitive

• logistical

• boring

When examining sources, it is important to source, contextualize, closely read, and _____ accounts of the same event in order to get a more accurate picture of the past.

• organize

• corroborate

• synthesize

• sync

In Lesson 11, we examined a diary entry left by Lieutenant John Barker, a lieutenant in the British Army. His diary is an example of _____

• fiction

• historical fiction

• a primary source

• a secondary source

The abreviation et. al. is often used when there is more than one author of a source. It is short for the Latin phrase et. alia, which means _____.

• "The Senate and People of Rome"

• "always faithful"

• "year of our Lord"

• "and others"