QUIZ ON SOURCES OF HISTORY

____________________ are the working materials a historian uses in writing about the past.

• History

• Types of history

• Sources of history

• Storytelling

_____________________are information passed through verbal means or words of mouth.

• Written sources

• Oral sources

• Writings

• A document

What are simply documentary sources or information called?

• Oral sources

• Written sources

• A television program

• A radio programme

___________________ are considered as original pieces of information

• Secondary Sources

• Primary Sources

• Tertiary Sources

• Aggregates of Primary and Secondary sources

Diaries, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents are examples of _________________________

• tertiary sources

• primary sources

• secondary sources

• oral sources

___________________ are based on primary sources.

• Original sources

• Secondary sources

• Tertiary sources

• Written sources

Scholarly or popular books and articles, lists of sources, i.e. bibliographies, reference books, and textbooks are examples of __________________________

• primary sources

• secondary sources

• tertiary sources

• Oral sources

One of the following option is not an importance of Sources of History.

• They help historians to dig into the past of societies.

• They do not help historians to validate the past

• They help historians to interpret the past.

• They help historians to debunk erroneous views about Africa, such as European and Arabic views about the African past.

One of the following is an importance of the Sources of History.

• They help historians to validate the past.

• They are not useful materials

• They do not help historians in anyway

• They do not help historians debunk erroneous views

____________________ does not present any new information.

• Primary sources

• secondary sources

• Tertiary sources

• Written sources