Reading in Philippine History Q1

A person who studies the events of the past.

• Evidence

• Herstory

• Historian

• Historical Research

Which of the following is best classified as a source other than a relic?

• a legal record

• a monument

• a piece of furniture

• an original painting

The process that a researcher uses to verify that the contents of a document are accurate is known as ___?

• External Critisim

• External Validity

• Internal Criticism

• Internal Validity

If a researcher uses a tape of legend from a Tribal elder as a source of data, he is using a data source know as a(n)

• document

• oral statement

• relic

• secondary source

Which of the following is most likely to be a primary source?

• a film about battlefield maneuvers in the Civil Wars

• a miner's letter home during the Gold Rush

• a poem expressing miner's feelings

• an article about educational theory in the early 1900s

Which of the following is most likely to be a secondary source?

• a book about educational theory in the early 1900s.

• a frontier family photograph.

• a soldier's letter home during the Korean War.

• minutes from a university faculty meeting held in 1892.

A (a)   source is one prepared by an individual who was a participant in, or a direct witness to, the event that is being described.

A (a)   source is a document prepared by an individual who was not a direct witness to an event, but who obtained his or her description of the event from someone else.

Refers to the genuineness of the documents a researcher uses in a historical study.

• External Criticism

• Internal Criticism

• Journal

• Memoir

Refers to the accuracy of the contents of a document.

• External Criticism

• Secondary Source

• Primary Source

• Internal Criticism