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This document appears to be a quiz from a "Readings in Philippine History" course at the University of Saint Louis School of Education, Arts, Sciences & Health. The quiz covers key concepts in the meaning, relevance and sources of history. It contains multiple choice and true/false questions testing students' understanding of what constitutes primary and secondary sources, and the significance of history for understanding the past, present and future, as well as nationalism.

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University of Saint Louis

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS, SCIENCES & HEALTH


Readings in Philippine History

QUIZ 1: Meaning, Relevance and Sources of History

NAME: DATE: SCORE:

I. Alternative Response: Study whether each statement is correct or incorrect. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE
if otherwise. Use the space provided before each tem for your answer.

1. In a contemporary perspective, artifacts and interviews are rich sources to unveil the past.
2. Artifacts are relics of human happenings.
3. History extracts absolute and exact judgment about the past.
4. In the contemporary times, the absence of a written document of an indigenous group means its people are
of no history.
5. Primary sources are characterized by their content and have to be available in original format.
6. Primary sources need not to be original.
7. Primary sources offer an inside view of a particular event.
8. Restricting historical evidence as exclusively written discriminates other social classes.
9. The account of Santiago Alvarez about the Tejeros Convention is a secondary source.
10. The available written records about Philippine history substantiates the past of the whole country.
11. The contemporary defines history as reconstruction of the surviving records of the past.
12. The historical sources are historian’s most important research tools.
13. The Latin etymological meaning of history supports the discipline’s contemporary definition as inclusive.

14. The presentation of facts about a certain event is history.


15. Though it interprets and analyzes primary sources, secondary sources also provide an inside view of a
particular event.

II. Simple Recall I: Study each of the statements below and identify from the below pool of options which significance of history
each describes. Write the CAPITAL LETTER of your answer on the space provided before each item..
A. Projecting the Future
B. Promoting Nationalism and Patriotism
C. Explaining Causes of Things and Events
D. Interpreting Conditions of a Given Space and Time
E. Bridging the Gap Between the Present and the Past

16. History asserts the rich culture of a nation and many positive characteristics of its people.
17. A detailed knowledge of the past guides a person towards present and future intelligent actions.
18. The similarities between the past and the present may lead to rhyming scenarios in the succeeding times.
19. It is through examining its historical roots that the nature and extent of the contemporary societal problems
is best understood.
20. The contemporary characteristics of the Filipinos are explained through understanding their experiences as
a people.

III. Simple Recall II: Each item is an example of a historical source. Classify each item according to type of historical sources.
Write capital letter A if the item is a primary source, and B if it is a secondary source

21. Life stories in Drama Anthologies


22. Prenuptial video of DongYan
23. Press conference proceedings of President Rodrigo Duterte
24. Printed conversations of significant lovers in Facebook Messenger
25. Reenactment of Criminal Cases in Imbestigador or Ipaglaban Mo
University of Saint Louis
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS, SCIENCES & HEALTH
Readings in Philippine History

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