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Primary And Secondary Sources
Test Description: Determine whether each item is a primary (firsthand account) or secondary (secondhand account).
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Key words such as I, me, my, we, and us.
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary source
2) Key words such as they, he, she, them, and they
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
3) Biography
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
4) Autobiography
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
5) A newspaper article describing last week's tornado
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
6) Website telling about life in the first settlement of Jamestown, VA
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
7) An interview with an eyewitness to a fire
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
8) An author telling how he came up with characters for his new book
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
9) Your friend's parents telling you about life in the 1800s
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
10) Diary entry written by Anne Frank about the hardship of Jews during the Holocaust
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
11) Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. from his speech
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
12) Dictionary
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
13) A letter written from a son to his mother during war time
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
14) An encyclopedia entry on the American eagle
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
15) Science textbook
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
16) A fossil of a dinosaur
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
17) The passage is based on the author's personal experience
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
18) The passage is based on the author's research
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
19) An original writing or artwork
A
Secondary Source
B
Primary Source
20) A scientific experiment to find the cure for a disease
A
Primary Source
B
Secondary Source
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