Written Sources

Q.

How will the information historians get from old newspapers be different from that found in police reports?

Q. Media is generally considered to be the _______________ pillar of democracy.

1. first
2. second
3. third
4. fourth

Q. Newspapers serve as a ________ source of History.

1. written
2. oral
3. archaeological
4. They are not sources.

Q. What does PTI stand for?

1. Population Trust of India
2. Population Transport of India
3. Press Transport of India
4. Press Trust of India

Q. Which of the following sentences are not true regarding the classification of the sources of History?

1. Stamps serve as archaeological sources.
2. Books serve as literary sources.
3. Buildings serve as archaeological sources.
4. The Ramayana serves as an archaeological source.

Q. Who founded India’s first Philatelic Bureau?

1. Warren Hastings
2. Winston Churchill
3. Jal Cooper
4. Thomas Munro

Q. Zainab is writing an essay on Mahatma Gandhi. She decides to go to the library to get more information about his life. The librarian tells her that the library only has literary sources. She wonders where she can go, to use both literary and archaeological sources.

Which of the following places do you think she can visit?

1. Museum
2. Archive
3. Library
4. Bookstore

Q. Winston Churchill described Mahatma Gandhi as a ‘seditious Middle Temple Lawyer’ now ‘posing as a half-naked fakir’. What provoked such a comment and what does it tell you about the symbolic strength of Mahatma Gandhi’s dress?

Q. Which of the following occasions could warrant a commemorative stamp?

1. The coronation of a new monarch.
2. The birth of a nation.
3. The start of a new TV show.
4. The release of a new phone.

Q. India 2000 is published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Department.

1. True
2. False

Q. The Press Trust of India began satellite broadcasting for news around the country in the .

1. 1990s
2. 2000s
3. 1970s
4. 1980s

Q.
Which of the following inferences is true about this stamp?

1. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India.
2. The flag of India is flying high on a pedestal, symbolising India's independence.
3. It was issued to celebrate the Indian Independence Day on 15 August 1947.
4. Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of Nation.

Q. Pop the bubbles containing the written sources of history.

1. Journals
2. Newspaper
3. Radio
4. Periodical
5. Offical Documents
6. Television
7. Encyclopedias
8. Telephones

Q. To celebrate Jal Cooper's contributions, the Indian Government issued the ‘Jal Cooper’ stamp in 1977.

1. True
2. False

Q. Your grandfather hands you a copy of the autobiography of his father. What kind of source would it be if you were to infer historical data from it?

1. Written source
2. Oral source
3. Audio-visual source
4. Material source

Q. Newspapers are only published in English.

1. True
2. False

Q.
Which of the following inferences drawn here do you think is wrong about this stamp?

1. It depicts the first Air India International flight on 8 June 1948.
2. It was issued almost a year after independence of India.
3. It is a commemorative stamp.
4. It shows that Mahatma Gandhi was the Father of the Nation.