Quiz on Sources

Which of these answer choices is a primary source?

• Magazine Article

• History Textbook

• Biography

• Autobiography

Fill in the blank: Once you find the claim it is important that you find _______________ to support the claim. Choose multiple answers. (There are two)

• Proof

• Evidence

• Opinions

• Guesses

• Assumptions

Which of these answer choices is a secondary source?

• Diary

• Biography

• Speech

• Letter

Liam is a student and is reading about the Holocaust. He decides to consider what it would be like to be Jewish during the Holocaust, which historical thinking skill did Mario use?

• Sourcing

• Contextualization

• Close Reading

• Corroboration

Lisa is reading the Declaration of Independence and finds the claim that "All men are created equal". Which historical thinking skill did Lisa use?

• Corroboration

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

Mario is a historian trying to compare and contrast two documents from the Second Century, he finds that the documents have opposing views. Which historical thinking skill did Mario use?

• Sourcing

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

• Corroboration

Jamie is reading an article and starts to feel like she cannot trust the article. So she asks herself: Who wrote this and when was it written? Which historical thinking skill did Jamie use?

• Sourcing

• Corroboration

• Close Reading

• Contextualization

A source created about an event or time-period by someone who was there

• Primary

• Secondary

Something made about an event or time period by someone who was not there

• Primary

• Secondary

Which of the terms matches this description: "Getting information from multiple sources to find out where the sources agree and disagree."

• sourcing
• contextualization
• corroboration
• close reading