First Long Quiz in GE 2

Full Name (Surname, First name):

Section

• HM 1A
• HM 1B
• HM 1C

1. History involves constructing arguments about past events based on what people documented, whether through written records, cultural artifacts, or oral traditions, during that time.

• True
• False

2. Historians make arguments about the past based on evidence.

• True
• False

3. History in Spanish, French and German is the same word for “news.”

• True
• False

4. Kasaysayan is rooted in two words, salaysay or narrative and saysay or meaning.

• True
• False

5. Kasaysayan is a narrative about current events that holds significance for a particular group of people in a specific time and place.

• True
• False

6. History is a closed book.

• True
• False

7. Secondary sources are immediate firsthand accounts of a topic from people who have a connection with it.

• True
• False

8. Secondary sources are written “after the fact,” at a later date.

• True
• False