P&S Sources Practice Test

Identify the following statement as a primary or secondary source:

A woven napsack from the 1500s that was used by the Chumash tribe to carry oysters.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Identify the following statement as a primary or secondary source:

An audio recording of you talking about the effects of the Mexican independence on farmers in the 1800s.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Identify the following statement as a primary or secondary source:

The biography of Donald Trump written by his Vice President, Mike Pence.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Identify the following statement as a primary or secondary source:

A newspaper article that includes the experiences of people recently evacuated from their homes due to the California fires.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Identify the following statement as a primary or secondary source:

A journal that was used in an Ancient History class to take notes, found 100 years laters in an abandoned school.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Check (3) BOXES out of (5) that are examples of primary sources.

• Google Earth

• A wikipedia web page

• A hand crafted whistle

• A letter or diary

• A book review on a novel

Check (3) BOXES out of (5) that are examples of secondary sources.

• A handmade basket

• A biography

• A photoshopped image

• An autobiography

• An ancient history webpage

Determine the BEST reasoning explaining WHY the statement is a PRIMARY or SECONDARY source:

The Plan de Ayala, a document that was created during the Mexican Revolution to give land and rights to farmers.

• This is a primary source because it is an official plan.

• This is a primary source because it is a document created that reflects a specific time period in a country.

• This is a secondary source because the plan was made, after workers had gotten their rights.

• This is a secondary source because it was written after the Mexican Revolution.

Determine the BEST reasoning explaining WHY the statement is a PRIMARY or SECONDARY source:

The movie "Hidden Figures" (2016) that details the story of 3 Black women that worked at NASA and helped create a project to send a man into space in the 1960s.

• This is a primary source because it talks about the 1960s.

• This is a primary source because it discusses a particular place and time in history.

• This is a secondary source because it is a movie, not a documentary.

• This is a secondary source because it is a movie telling the story through acting, and they are not the original people.

Determine the BEST reasoning explaining WHY the statement is a PRIMARY or SECONDARY source:

An image capturing the 1968 Summer Olympics hosted in Mexico City.

• This is a primary source because it captures a specific moment in history.

• This is a primary source because it is a photograph.

• This is a secondary source because the image was black and white and is now in color.

• This is a secondary source because there is no video recording, only a picture.