What Is History? Part 2 Question Preview (ID: 52942)


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How does understanding the past help us today?
a) Understanding the past helps us understand the world today.
b) Understanding the past helps us pass High School.
c) Understanding the past doesn't help us today - Mrs. Tharp just believes that it does. :)
d)

What is the effect of studying and preserving our history?
a) We pass down our culture and heritage to future generations.
b) We understand who we are.
c) We can move on to High School.
d)

Why is it important to learn about other cultures unlike our own?
a) Understanding other cultures helps us understand why other people think the way they do and the struggles they faced.
b) It's not important it's just interesting.
c) It's important to learn why we do the things we do.
d)

What can understanding the perspectives of people living at the time teach you?
a) It can teach you to respect and understand different opinions.
b) It can teach you about yourself.
c) It can teach you that your opinion is wrong.
d)

How does knowing the past help you understand issues today?
a) Some problems today have roots in the past.
b) It really doesn't help me.
c) It will be helpful if a time machine is developed.
d)

What are fossils?
a) A part or an imprint of something that was once alive.
b) Objects that were created by human beings.
c) old things of no value.
d)

What are artifacts?
a) Objects that were created by human beings.
b) A part or an imprint of something that was once alive.
c) Old things of no value.
d)

What kind of writings do historians study?
a) Historians study carved writings, typed wrings.
b) Historians study History textbooks.
c) Historians study writings of modern day history teachers.
d)

What is a primary source?
a) An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event.
b) Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.
c) Information made up by people interested in the event.
d)

What is a secondary source?
a) Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.
b) Information gathered by someone who was there.
c) Information made up by people interested in the event.
d)

Why might historians not interpret past events in the same way?
a) Because they form different opinions about the primary sources they study.
b) Because they just like to sell different history books.
c) Because they don't know how.
d)

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