USH-Historical Thinking Skills Quiz

The same accident looked different to the three witnesses because they each had a different ____________ of the accident.

• Perspective

• Context

• Motive

• Opinion

This term means:
one-sided; unfair favoritism

• evaluate
• accuracy
• perspective
• bias

What should you do when you contextualize sources? 

• Determine when and where the document was created. 
• Determine which document is more reliable. 
• Determine the language(words, phrases, images, symbols) that is used in the document. 
• Determine the author of the document 

Why should we study history? 

• Learn about our past (ancestors, culture, advancements, leaders)
• Learn from our mistakes
• Create a better future
• All of the options are correct.

What is causation?

• determining how one event leads to another

• a particular attitude or way of considering a matter; perspective

• a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief

• a conclusion reached based on evidence and inferences

Written at the time of the event

• primary source
• secondary source

A textbook is an example of a

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Which of these is a synonym for 'credible'?

• unbelievable

• understandable

• believable

The act of comparing pieces of evidence and seeing if they agree or disagree is known as

• Analysis

• Contextualiztion

• Causation and Consequence

• Corroboration

Artifacts, documents, and written or oral descriptions left behind that are analyzed as clues from the past is known as

• Evidence

• Context

• Causation

• Corroboration