What is History Test?

What is History?

• The study of the past

• The study of past human events

• The study of evidence

• The study of fossils

Why is it important to study History?

• So that we can understand ourselves and our world

• So we can appear clever in conversation

• So that we know

• So that we know what we should do.

True or False: History has to be something that happened long ago.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Remember: History is something that happened 2000 years ago or 2 seconds ago.

Which of the following are sources of history? Select all three correct options.

• Physical evidence

• Visual evidence

• Oral evidence

• Crime scene evidence

• Future predictions

Which of the following is an example of Physical evidence?

• Bones

• Books

• Stories

• Videos

Which of the following is an example of written evidence?

• Fossils

• Textbook

• Legend

• Painting

If a source in unreliable it means that:

• The source contains info we should be careful about taking as fact

• The source will not return the money we leant it

• The source is not a good friend

• The source favours one side more than the other.

If a source is biased it means that:

• It favours one side more than the other

• It cheats

• It has a lot of bias

• I don't know what bias means.

Deliberately confusing question: Is a biased source unreliable?

• Yes

• No

Answer explanation

Of course it is unreliable! If we can't take the information given by a source as fact then it is unreliable. A biased source is twisting the facts, therefore it is unreliable!

What does a historian use when writing history?

• Sources

• Books

• Physical Evidence

• Videos

• All of the above