Historical Thinking Quiz

What type of tools do Historian's use to learn about the past?

• camera

• sources

• computers

A Primary Source is ___________

• A) a document based on primary sources and works of other authors

• B) materials from the time period being studied

• C) the act of underlining, circling, and leaving notes to show what you are thinking when reading a source

• D) the act of determining who created a source, when the source was created, where it was created, and why it was created

A secondary source is ___________

• A) materials from the time period being studies

• B) a document based on a primary source and the work of other authors.

• C) the act of using symbols and notes to show what you are thinking while reading a source

• D) The act of determining who created a source, when it was created, where it was created, and why it was created

_______ is specific information or details found in source.

• A) Primary Source

• B) Secondary Source

• C) Evidence

• D) Annotation

What four questions can we ask ourselves when 'sourcing' a source?

• A) Who wrote the source?

• B) When was the source created?

• C) Where was the source created?

• D) Why was the source created?

• Choices A, B, C, D

Which of the following is not an example of a primary source?

• A) A sarcophagus found in Egypt from 1323 BCE

• B) Teddy Roosevelt's letter President William McKinley during the Spanish American War

• C) A Novel written in 2005 about Alexander the Great who died in in 323 BCE

• D) A photograph of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill during World War 2

Which practice uses notes, underlining, and highlighting to help understand a source better?

• A) Sourcing

• B) Close reading

• C) Researching

• D) Annotating

Which of the following is an example of a secondary source?

• A) A Newspaper article from 1918 discussing the start of the Spanish Flu (1918-1919)

• B) A biography about Genghis Khan (died in 1227) created in 1975

• C) a photograph of President Bill Clinton meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat

• D) a slab of hieroglyphs found in one of the pyramids of Giza in Egypt

Which of the following can serve as a piece of evidence?

• A) A line from Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream speech

• B) a painting

• C) a t-shirt

• D) a statue

Which of the following is not an example of secondary source?

• A) A biography written about Barack Obama in 2015

• B) An article created in 1990 describing the event of the Attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941

• C) a journal entry from Hernan Cortes describing his first encounter with the Aztecs

• D) An essay written in 2003 about the economic impact of the Silk Road (created in 130 BCE)