Test Your Knowledge Skills! Primary And Secondary Sources
Test your knowledge skills!
- 1.You have in your hands a copy of a speech given by important person X who was a key player in the history you are examining. It is a: (Choose the BEST answer)
- A.
Valid source
- B.
Invalid Source
- C.
Reliable source
- D.
Primary source
- E.
Secondary source
- 2.Which of these 4 choices would be the most reliable source for information on the effects of heroin use?
- A.
An article from the CDC website about the loing-term effects of heroin use.
- B.
An article from the DEA newsletter containing statistics about heroin use by urban males 10-25.
- C.
A newspaper article about the arrest of a heroin dealer.
- 3.What is a primary source?
- A.
A source used often
- B.
A source found in an important book like an encyclopedia
- C.
A source created at the time of an event by an individual who was there
- D.
A source created after an event has happened
- 4.What is a secondary source?
- A.
A source which is someone's second choice to use for research
- B.
A source created after an event has happened by someone not present at the event
- C.
A second piece of information written about an event
- D.
A source created at the time of an event
- 5.Which of the following is a secondary source?
- A.
A textbook chapter on World War II and its famous battles
- B.
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech
- C.
A photograph of an immigrant family arriving at Ellis Island
- D.
A journal kept by a soldier during the American Revolution
- 6.A book about the war where the author says things like "I was drafted at age 18..."; "I flew to Vietnam a few months later..."; "We fought in five battles..."
- A.
Primary
- B.
Secondary
- 7.A biography of General Westmoreland (who commanded American forces in Vietnam) written by one of his officers.
- A.
Primary
- B.
Secondary
- 8.A biography of General Westmoreland by an author who didn't know the general, and drew on other sources for their information.
- A.
Primary
- B.
Secondary
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