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Thinking Like A Historian

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

decade: ten years :: century : _____

a)

1000 years

b)

a lot of years

c)

100 years

d)

10,000 years

2.

Mr. Smith went to the library and took out a book for researching the Roman Empire. Mr. Smith is most likely a _______.

a)

doctor

b)

vegetarian

c)

point of view

d)

historian

3.

Rudy Riptide is a famous news reporter. On his latest assignment, he was in NYC reporting on a new bridge being being constructed out of Playdough. He took a ton of pictures and write a news story. He produced a _________

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

effect

d)

cause

4.

Middle school teacher, Ms. Martin, heard about a new bridge in San Diego that is made entirely out of Playdough. She researched this information and then she created a Google Slides presentation to show her students. She has never been to this city in California but she did find a pretty funny comic. Her the comic image is a ____________.

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

c)

chronological order

d)

century

5.

This is an example of a/an_________.

a)

century

b)

primary source

c)

historical fiction

d)

timeline

6.

Which definition fits the underlined term BEST: chronological order?

a)

the way someone looks at an issue, event, or a person

b)

a time period of 100 years

c)

a sequence of events in the order that they happened

d)

an event or action that makes things happen

7.

Which of the following is the BEST definition for this underline term: cause?

a)

the way someone looks at an issue, event or person

b)

a sequence of events in the order that they happened

c)

an event that is the result of something else happening

8.

Carly Carnival has a ton of social studies homework. She needs to read a chapter on the Roman Empire. Her history book contains topics and subtopics, diagrams, bold vocabulary words, an image of the Colosseum, and a timeline of emperors. We can BEST describe her book as having:

a)

text features

b)

primary sources

c)

lots of stuff

d)

text structures

9.

1. A chapter that is organized by cause and effect

2. A paragraph that explains the Great Wall of China in chronological order

3. An article that uses compare and contrast of Greek and Roman gods

These are examples of different types of :

a)

point of view

b)

text structures

10.

History is _____________.

a)

the study of middle school social studies

b)

writing a paragraph about cells

c)

the study of events that happened in the past

d)

the way someone looks at a person, an issue, or and event

11.

At 8:03 Dr. Cranium unlocked his office. At 9:24 his first patient arrived.

After he ate his lunch, he returned some emails. Then he had seven more patients between 12:45 and 4:30. After closing his office for the day, he went home, walked his dog, ate dinner with his family, and watched a very boring move. The last thing he did yesterday was go to bed. This paragraph was written in the following text structure:

a)

casue and effect

b)

problem solution

c)

English

d)

chronological order

12.

Mr. and Mrs. Hodgepodge love thunderstorms because they are meteorologists; they study and analyze storms.

Ms. Wonder and her sister thow-up when a storm is near. When the sisters were little, a bolt of lightning hit a tree in their yard and the tree landed on their roof. Now they are afraid of storms.

The Wonders and the Hodgepodges see severe weather differently.

This is an example of ___________.

a)

weird people

b)

the weather channel

c)

chronological order

d)

point of view