Post Test: Historical Thinking Skills
Drag each bar to the correct location on the graph. Use the data provided in the table to complete the graph showing the number of tornadoes that occurred each year in the United States between 1950 and 2010.
1960 - smallest bar 1990 - medium bar 2010 - largest bar
Select the correct answer. When conducting research for forming a hypothesis, which practice should historians follow?
Be open to the idea that the hypothesis might be wrong.
This graph shows the income (in millions) that six countries earn through exports on an annual basis. Which conclusion can be drawn from the data in the graph?
Country C earns the highest income through its exports.
Select the correct text in the passage. Which text in the passage suggests that it is a primary source?
Even though I was a merchant, I was tempted to switch professions.
Select all the correct answers. Which two statements correctly describe how historians place their arguments in historical context?
Historians work to understand the circumstances of those living in the historical time period. AND Historians use a variety of economic and social sources to paint a picture of events.
Select the correct text in the passage. Which words and phrases show that the passage is a reliable source?
History Department at Oxford Uni AND The British Museum
A group of historians are doing research on the causes and effects of the Great Depression in the United States. Each record can be used by a historian who is interested in studying a particular type of cause and effect in the history of that era. Match the records with the correct categories.
Political Causes and Effects -> speeches made by government leaders AND decisions made by the high courts Social Causes and Effects- > a diary written by an ordinary person AND the literacy rate for a particular country Economic Causes and Effects -> bank records and transactions AND records of gold imported into the country
Drag each label to the correct category. Determine which secondary sources are reliable and which are unreliable.
Reliable - encyclopedias, academic textbooks, and history blogs by universities Unreliable - personal history blogs
Identify the type of historical source based on the information provided. A history student is asked to make a video based on the research that he or she is doing on the Mughal dynasty of India.
Secondary
Select the correct answer. What is one reason historians can rely on government records for accurate historical information?
THIS IS WRONG BUT HERE IS WHAT IT IS NOT: because the information in government records has been collected from across the world
Select the correct answer. A historian publishes a paper on the ancient Greek leader Alexander the Great. However, most scholars reject his paper on the basis that the research is not reliable. Which factor could have led to this conclusion?
The paper showed signs of bias and lacked proper citations.
Read the following passage from the diary of a merchant who lived during the spread of a deadly disease known as the Black Plague. Then answer the question. What can you infer from the passage?
The source was created in England after the Black Plague.
Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
historiography, ideologies, and sources (top -> bottom)
A historian wants to compare the causes of death in the people of a particular civilization. She wants to show each cause of death as a percentage to indicate the largest cause of death. Which form of visual representation of data is best suited for this task?
pie chart
Select the correct answer. In 2014, the ALS ice bucket challenge swept through social media. People posted videos of themselves dumping buckets of ice cold water on their heads to raise awareness and funds for ALS, a disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The stunt became an idea that swept through mainstream America and was influenced by the media. Which term describes this scenario that historians could use to understand this event in society?
pop culture
Select the correct answer. What does the poster exemplify?
propaganda
Study the bar graph showing the population of cities of ancient Mesopotamia and the physical size of the empire. Then complete the passage below that analyzes the graph.
unrelated to, 2300 BC, AND 650 BC
Drag each tile to the correct box. Match each discipline with the appropriate historian.
wrote the history of the Arabs... -> Ibn Khaldun first Chinese historian... -> Sima Qian wrote several books on... -> Simon Schama the founder of women's history... -> Gerda Hedwig Lerner regarded as the "father of history"... -> Herodotus
