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Week Two Skill Activity

Complete the activity on the skill-building materials assigned for the week.

Question 1.Your textbook is a primary source

•   True
• False  

Question 2.Examples of primary sources are

•   personal letters written at the time of a historical event or by someone who personally witnessed the event   
•   your textbook   
•   a scholarly article written about the event many years later   
•   a newspaper or magazine article written about the event many years later

Question 3.In addition to primary sources, historians also use the work of other historians to understand historical events 

•   True
•   False 

Question 4.An oral history interview about the Great Depression with someone who was a teenager during the Great Depression is a primary source 

•   True
•   False      

Question 5.Media accounts in the past

•   were completely accurate   
•   can give us an understanding of the social and cultural attitudes of the time   
•   were never biased   
•   all of the above   

Question 6.A primary source

•   must be found in the university library   
•   is a historian’s interpretation of a historical event   
•   is the main source that you plan to use in a research project   
•   is a document or artifact that was created at the time of a historical event or by someone who personally witnessed it.   

Question 7.Historians use primary sources to build on the work of other historians

•   True
• False
  

Question 8.A scholarly journal article written 20 years after a historical event is a primary source 

•   True
• False

Question 9.:All of the above primary sources must be created at the time of a historical event EXCEPT

•   magazine articles   
•   video   
•   memoirs   
•   all of the above   

Question 10.Primary sources are documents or artifacts that were created at the time of a historical event or by someone who personally witnessed it.  

•   True
•   False