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Primary and Secondary Sources

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a Primary Source?

a)

Photo

b)

Magazine Article

c)

Textbook

d)

Biography

2.

What is a Primary Source?

a)

Books

b)

Textbooks

c)

Historic Items

d)

Articles

3.

What is a Primary Source?

a)

Historic Clothing

b)

Historic Movies

c)

Historic Fiction

d)

Historian Interviews

4.

Which of these is a Secondary Source

a)

Photos

b)

Interviews

c)

Textbooks

d)

Letters

5.

Which of these is a Secondary Source

a)

Scholarly Articles

b)

Photos

c)

Historic Films

d)

Autobiographies

6.

Which of these is a Secondary Source

a)

Data

b)

Autobiographies

c)

Speeches

d)

Biographies

7.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

8.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

9.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

10.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

11.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

12.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

13.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

14.

What type of Source is this?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

15.

Why do we need to know what type of Source we are looking at?

a)

Primary Sources are more interesting and we only want to have interesting Sources

b)

Different Source types provide different perspectives

c)

We need to have an equal amount of both Sources

d)

We need to know how a Source relates to the topic and if a Source is valuable and valid