Primary and Secondary Sources

Q. What is a 'source'? What is its importance to historians?

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What Do You Call Your Father’s Father

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She ______ in Chennai Since She Was Eight. Select the Correct Answer.

Q. What are secondary sources for studying history?

1. Secondary sources provide first-hand information about a particular area or event.
2. Secondary sources are sources that are recorded by research and analysis of primary sources.
3. Secondary sources are sources that are found at the end of the excavation by an archaeologist.
4. Secondary sources can only be physical remains like bones, pottery, weapons, etc.

Q. What are primary sources?

1. Primary sources provide first-hand information about a particular area or event.
2. Primary sources are the sources that are found first by an archaeologist.
3. Primary sources can be written matter, like textbooks, which tell us about the past.
4. Primary sources can only be physical remains like bones, pottery, weapons, etc.

Q. The word "manu" in manuscripts stands for

1. hand
2. book
3. tree-bark
4. machine-printed

Q. What were the sources from which historians collected information about the last 250 years of the Indian history?

1. Official records of the British administration
2. Local folklores
3. Tales passed on through generations
4. Through songs and poems

Q. Who will use secondary sources to study about the past?

1. Historians
2. Students
3. Archaeologists
4. Teachers

Q. What are the different types of sources that we have?

1. First source and second source
2. Primary source and second source
3. Primary source and secondary source
4. First source and secondary source

Q. Select the primary source(s) for studying history from the given list.

1. Diary
2. Textbook
3. Currency
4. Weapons

Q. Samir just watched a movie on archaeologists searching for hidden treasure. He also remembers his history chapter, and wonders which of the clues and resources, that the archaeologists were using, were primary sources. Could you help him out by selecting all the primary sources from the given list?

1. The treasure map written by the pirates.
2. The e-book on how to survive in the jungle.
3. The keys of the treasure chest that the pirates hid in the jungle.
4. The mountain climbing gear used by the archaologists.

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Who Wrote the Book Titled RUNS AND RUINS

1. Kapil Dev

2. Sunil Gavaskar

3. Imran Khan

4. None of the Above

Q. Diary of Anne Frank is a book that was written by a young girl, who was living during the second world war, about her experiences. She wrote a diary about her life, and her father made it a book for the world to read. What kind of source is this book?

1. Novel
2. Secondary source
3. Initial source
4. Primary source

Q. Select the secondary sources from the given list.

1. Magazines
2. Inscriptions
3. Textbooks
4. News reports

Q. Select the incorrect source for studying history.

1. Weapons
2. Manuscripts
3. Inscriptions
4. Crops

Q. Which of the following is a material source of history?

1. Monuments
2. Coins
3. Scriptures
4. All of the above

Q. Sachin is writing an essay about a very important King. Which of the following resources can he use to write a very good essay?

1. Textbooks
2. The King's old clothes
3. The King's painting
4. Video games

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what is the meaning of treasure

Q. 'And from close to the ground
Will rise curled green twigs'. See how beautifully the poet visualises the image of curled green twigs. List out other 'visual images' from the poem.

Q. Why they did so?

Q. Pair the sources with the people who use them

1. Historian
2. Archaeologist
3. Student
4. Researcher
5. Textbooks
6. Inscriptions
7. Old weapons
8. Magazine article

Q. What are secondary sources for studying history?

1. Secondary sources provide first-hand information about a particular area or event.
2. Secondary sources are sources that are recorded by research and analysis of primary sources.
3. Secondary sources are sources that are found at the end of the excavation by an archaeologist.
4. Secondary sources can only be physical remains like bones, pottery, weapons, etc.

Q. Select the secondary sources from the given list.

1. Manuscripts
2. Textbooks
3. Youtube Video
4. Inscriptions
5. Cartoons
6. Magazine article
7. Movies
8. Museums

Q. What are primary sources?

1. Primary sources are the sources that are found first by an archaeologist.
2. Primary sources provide first-hand information about a particular area or event.
3. Primary sources can be written matter, like textbooks, which tell us about the past.
4. Primary sources can only be physical remains like bones, pottery, weapons, etc.

Q. Select the incorrect source for studying history.

1. Inscriptions
2. Weapons
3. Crops
4. Manuscripts