WorksheetsSources Flocabularys
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
Which of the following is not considered a primary source?
a diary entry
a biography
a letter
a photograph
Which of the following is not considered a secondary source?
an encyclopedia entry
a textbook
a magazine article
an interview
A primary source is created by someone who
read about an event.
made up an event from their imagination.
was present at an event.
heard about an event from a witness.
The lyric “We know what it was like for Jane / ’Cause her interpretation comes from her brain” most likely describes a ________ source.
primary
secondary
Which of these is a secondary source?
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
John Adams by David McCullough
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Which of these is a primary source?
a rap song about Harriet Tubman
a photograph of Harriet Tubman
an essay about Harriet Tubman
a documentary film about Harriet Tubman
Which type of source can include the author’s personal opinions or bias?
primary source
secondary source
both
neither
True or False: Secondary sources often draw from one or more primary sources.
True
False
Read the following excerpt from Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.
Every Sunday on his way to church, young Vincent would pass the headstone carved with the name he shared. Did he feel as if his dead brother were the rightful Vincent, the one who would remain perfect in his parents' hearts, and that he was merely an unsatisfactory replacement? That might have been one of the reasons he spent so much of his life feeling like a lonely outsider, as if he didn't fit anywhere in the world.
Which type of source does this passage represent?
primary
secondary
Read the following excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass.
“I have observed this in my experience of slavery that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man.”
How could you use this passage in your research?
as a primary source that describes slavery from Douglass’s perspective
as a primary source that describes slavery from the perspective of Douglass’s owner
as a secondary source that analyzes the history of slavery in Maryland
as a secondary source that criticizes how slaves were treated
What is another term for a document created at the time of or by a person who was present at a historical event?
primary source
fictional account
secondary source
unreliable resource
Read the following excerpt from The Great Rogue: A Biography of Captain John Smith by Paul Lewis.
[Pocahontas] first steps onto the stage in 1617, a few months after she and her husband, John Rolfe, arrived in England. A charming, attractive, and exceptionally intelligent young woman, she created a sensation everywhere she went. Not only was she the daughter of a king and the first [Native American] woman ever to visit the British Isles, but as a convert to Christianity, she aroused interest in circles that would otherwise have ignored her.
How could you use the above source in your research?
as a primary source that gives Pocahontas’s perspective
as a primary source that recounts Pocahontas’s visit from the British perspective
as a secondary source that gives background on Pocahontas’s visit to England
as a secondary source that offers a theory that Pocahontas was not famous during her lifetime
Based on the excerpt below from the The Great Rogue: A Biography of Captain John Smith, which of the following is a theory that Paul Lewis has come up with about Pocahontas?
[Pocahontas] first steps onto the stage in 1617, a few months after she and her husband, John Rolfe, arrived in England. A charming, attractive, and exceptionally intelligent young woman, she created a sensation everywhere she went. Not only was she the daughter of a king and the first [Native American] woman ever to visit the British Isles, but as a convert to Christianity, she aroused interest in circles that would otherwise have ignored her
She was married to John Rolfe.
Many people would probably have ignored her if she wasn’t a Christian.
She was the first Native American woman to visit England.
She arrived in England in 1617.
A letter from a jailed Freedom Rider in the 1960s to his parents describing treatment in southern jails would be an example of a
primary source
secondary source
Providing context for an event involves
recounting it in your research without explaining it.
explaining how the event would affect events in the future.
finding out exactly what happened at the moment in question.
giving background information about what else was happening at the time.
The lyric “Historians research more than just the word of one / To learn all sides of history” most closely means that
historians are satisfied after looking at one source.
only one historian is needed to research any given event.
historians use multiple accounts to get the fullest picture of events.
historians think that if two people have the same observations, they must be true.
Which of the following examples illustrates how the past helps us make sense of the present or future?
Josephine loves studying the Civil War because it is the only war America officially fought against itself.
Marcus studies ancient humans because he’s interested in how humans built tools without technology.
Sullivan is taking a trip to India, but he says he doesn’t need to study the history and culture of the region in order to understand it.
Carolina researches zoning laws and immigration history, which helps her better understand why her neighborhood is mostly Puerto Rican.
