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What is History?

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the study of history through artifacts, bones, and ruins called?

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

archaeology

d)

point of view

2.

Which word defines the way different people think about or understand something?

a)

era

b)

point of view

c)

history

d)

primary source

3.

Which word means the story of the past?

a)

history

b)

archaeology

c)

era

d)

secondary source

4.

Which term describes a time period set off by some important feature, characteristic, or event?

a)

primary source

b)

history

c)

point of view

d)

era

5.

What is an account of an event by someone who WAS present at the event or an original artifact called?

a)

secondary source

b)

primary source

c)

archaeology

d)

history

6.

What is an account of an event by someone who WAS NOT present at the event or information created later called?

a)

era

b)

history

c)

secondary source

d)

point of view

7.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

a photograph taken of your first day of school

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

8.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

a newspaper article in which the reporter described the events of the Alcoa vs. Maryville football game

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

9.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

a biography of Abraham Lincoln

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

10.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

an artifact from the sunken Titanic

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

11.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

the 4th grade social studies textbook

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

12.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

Martin Luther King's speech "I Have a Dream"

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

13.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

a student's research paper about George Washington

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

14.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

a diary entry from a soldier during the American Revolution

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

15.

Is it a primary or secondary source?

a documentary about the life of Helen Keller

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source