TOK Quiz 1

Which of the following is NOT included as Area of Knowledge?

• Human Sciences

• History

• Biology

• Mathematics

Knowledge from history includes

• Events happened in the past

• Find Evidence from past to interpret the events

• Option A only

• Option A and B

Which of the following could be considered as one of the knowledge issues from History

• Knowledge derived from history can never be certain

• historical knowledge is not purly speculative

• Historians cannot perform experiments to confirm their hypothesis

• All the above

Historians base their claims mostly based on

• Evidence

• Objectivity of the issue

• Power

• Culture

What are the methods used by historians to create knowledge?

• Story telling

• Experimentation

• Evidence from primary and secondary resources

• Case studies

Which are the moral issues involved in the study of history?

• Historian may be biased

• Historian may deliberately omit /mainipulate evidences

• Historian may not get enough evidence to prove his/her knowledge claim

• All of the above

Which of the following can be considered knowledge issue from history?

• Can we access truth from the past?

• How objective can our knowledge about human behaviour be?

• How much evidence is needed before we make generalisations?

• How ethical is it for dominant groups to produce knowledge about the behaviours of other groups?

I can identify knowledge issues from history

• All the time

• Most of the time

• Sometimes

• Still confused