Mr Moore's Source Analysis and Great Depression Quiz

In source analysis, what does context mainly require you to identify?

• The author’s feelings
• What was happening at the time
• The reliability of the source
• The purpose of the source

Answer explanation

Context asks you to set the source in its historical time and situation.

Which of the following best shows you understand context?

• Describing what happened in the year of the source
• Identifying the emotions in the image
• Stating why the author wanted to persuade the audience
• Saying if the source is biased

Answer explanation

Good context means linking the source to real events, people, and dates.

When explaining message, what is most important?

• How the source makes you feel today
• The exact words or images used in the source
• The hidden meaning of the source to the audience at the time
• The reliability of the author

Answer explanation

Message focuses on what the creator is trying to say to their audience.

Which question best reflects analysing the message of a source?

• “What happened before this source?”
• “What is the author trying to tell people?”
• “Why should we trust this account?”
• “How useful is this to a historian?”

Answer explanation

Message is about what the author communicates, not whether it’s reliable or useful.

The purpose of a source is most closely linked to:

• Why the author created it
• What historical event it refers to
• The exact details in the image
• How reliable the author is

Answer explanation

Purpose is the reason behind why a source was made.

If a government poster encourages people to join the army, its purpose is:

• To inform people of a date
• To persuade people to enlist
• To provide neutral historical evidence
• To criticise the war

Answer explanation

Propaganda posters often had the purpose of persuading behaviour.

The term usefulness in source analysis means:

• How reliable the source is
• What we can learn from the source about the topic
• How biased the author was
• Whether the message is clear

Answer explanation

Usefulness means what historians can gain, even if the source is biased.

A diary entry from a soldier in WWI could be useful because:

• It is always completely accurate
• It gives a personal perspective of events
• It is unbiased evidence
• It explains the purpose of the war

Answer explanation

Diaries give first-hand insights into personal experiences.

Reliability of a source depends on:

• Whether the author agrees with modern historians
• Who created it and why
• The emotions it causes today
• Whether it matches the message

Answer explanation

Reliability considers the author, purpose, and context.

Which situation makes a source less reliable?

• A historian writing 50 years later
• A politician writing propaganda during an election
• A diary written at the time
• An eyewitness account recorded soon after

Answer explanation

Propaganda is less reliable because it is designed to persuade, not inform.