Sources

Sources

Assessment

Passage

Social Studies

4th Grade

Hard

Created by

Emma M Smith

Used 5+ times

FREE Resource

5 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a primary source?

A firsthand account of an event

A secondhand account of history

A biography or textbook

A fictional story

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

A journal entry from 1767

A modern history textbook

A biography of Marqués de Rubí

A fictional novel about Spanish Texas

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the purpose of Mission Rosario according to the secondary source?

To make peace with American Indians

To expand Spanish territory

To convert Indians to Christianity

To trade with the French

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How can you identify a secondary source?

It is a secondhand account of history

It is written by someone present at the event

It uses the present tense to describe events

It is an artifact from the event

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What question should you ask to determine if a source is primary?

Is this source from the event itself?

Does the writer use the past tense?

Is this a biography or textbook?

Is this a fictional story?