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Historical Thinking skills

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The following questions represent which Historical Thinking skill?

What do other documents say? Do the documents agree? If not, why? What are other possible documents? What documents are most reliable?

a)

Contextualization

b)

Corroboration

c)

Close Reading

d)

Sourcing

2.

Perspective is:

a)

facts

b)

point of view

c)

discover / reveal

3.

To find out:

a)

Identify

b)

Hypothesize

c)

Evaluate

d)

Analyze

4.

Evaluate

a)

to reach a conclusion based on an assumption

b)

investigate

c)

to examine / judge carefully

d)

discover/reveal

5.

Evidence

a)

proof

b)

disagreements

c)

discover/reveal

d)

examine/judge carefully

6.
An artifact, document, diary, manuscript, or other source of information created at the time of study is a .... 
a)
Primary Source
b)
Secondary Source  
7.
Which document is a secondary source? 
a)
Research findings on video gaming's effects
b)
Population statistics from the U.S Census Bureau  
c)
An almanac 
d)
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address  
8.
When analyzing sources, what should you read first? 
a)
Source information
b)
Context information 
c)
Content information 
d)
Corroborate information
9.
Why should we study history? 
a)
Learn about our past (ancestors, culture, advancements, leaders)
b)
Learn from our mistakes
c)
Create a better future
d)
All of the options are correct.
10.
Which of the following is a con of a primary source?
a)
Multiple perspectives presented
b)
Real human emotions
c)
Too many historical voices
d)
Usually biased
11.
Primary sources are always more reliable and credible than secondary sources.
a)
True
b)
False
12.
Multiple Accounts and Perspectives
a)
help us get an accurate picture of the past
b)
are original documents and objects created at the time of study.
c)
identify and answer questions about the origins of the source.
d)
locate events and sources in time and space.
13.
Context
a)
helps us get an accurate picture of the past
b)
is original documents and objects created at the time of study.
c)
identifies and answers questions about the origins of the source.
d)
locates events and sources in time and space.
14.

Definition: fit to be trusted or relied on

a)

perspective

b)

reliable

c)

persuade

15.

Definition: a source of information that discusses information originally presented elsewhere

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

evidence

d)

claim

e)

account

16.

Definition: something which shows that something else is true

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

evidence

d)

claim

e)

account

17.

Definition: Finding out who created a source, when, where, and why it was created in order to see if it is reliable

a)

Sourcing

b)

Contextualization

c)

Close Reading

d)

Corroboration

18.

Definition: support or evidence that makes a case more certain

a)

Sourcing

b)

Contextualization

c)

Close Reading

d)

Corroboration

19.

Definition: a position from which something is considered or evaluated

a)

perspective

b)

reliable

c)

persuade

20.

Definition: a source of information that was created by a witness during the time period being studied

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

evidence

d)

claim

e)

account

21.

The act of thinking like a historian by utilizing historical thinking skills such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading is known as....

a)

Historical Thinking

b)

Reliability

c)

Purpose

d)

Perspective

22.

Bias

a)

a person's role in an event (i.e. a witness or a person in a fight

b)

comes from people who were not present at the event

c)

first hand account of events

d)

an unreasoned, emotional judgment about people or events

23.

Historical Context is known as

a)

the events that led to an event; includes the imte period and larger historical trends as well as causes

b)

where a historical event took place and why it took place there; includes location, location relative to other places, geographic features, and climate