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This document provides an assessment for students to test their understanding of key concepts related to history and historical sources. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions about primary and secondary sources, historical criticism, objectivity and subjectivity in historical writings, and the importance of historical analysis. Students are asked to match terms to definitions, provide examples of different source types, explain concepts in short paragraphs, and identify descriptions of historical source validation techniques. The assessment aims to evaluate students' knowledge of how historians work with sources and write about the past.

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Zildjian

This document provides an assessment for students to test their understanding of key concepts related to history and historical sources. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions about primary and secondary sources, historical criticism, objectivity and subjectivity in historical writings, and the importance of historical analysis. Students are asked to match terms to definitions, provide examples of different source types, explain concepts in short paragraphs, and identify descriptions of historical source validation techniques. The assessment aims to evaluate students' knowledge of how historians work with sources and write about the past.

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Before starting with this module, let us see what you already know about

history, primary and secondary sources, and historical criticism. Answer the

questions below.

Name:_______________________________ Date:_______

Course & Year: _______________________ Score: ______

Directions: Match the items in column A with the items in column B. write the letter

of the correct answer on the space provided before each number.

A B

___G___ 1. Incompleteness of records has A. Versimilititude

limited man’s knowledge of history B. Historia

____F__ 2. These are raw materials out of which C. interpretative

history may be written. D. historical impartiality

____J_ 3. This historical method historians investigate, E. historiography

collects and examine sources F. Artifacts or documents

____A__ 4. Historian’s ability to reconstruct historical G. limitation of historical


knowledge

events. Knowledge H. Aristotle

I. Historical method

____H__ 5. Historians aim searching the truth, J. Historical analysis

authenticity and plausibility. I. historical method K. Historical Bias

___F___ 6. Objects or things that have since been J. historical analysis

forgotten or the experience of generation K. historical bias

long dead

___E___7. The practice of historical writing

___K___ 8. Learning by inquiry

___C___ 9. Historical objectivity

___I___ 10. The process of critically examining and


analyzing the records and survivals of the past.

Distinguish between primary and secondary sources of historical data.

Give at least 10 examples under each category.

Primary Sources Secondary sources of historical data


Examples of primary sources Examples of Secondary sources
1.Diaries 1. Bibliographies
2.Journals 2.Biographical works
3.Letters 3. Reference books, including dictionaries,
encyclopedias, and atlases
4.Newspapers 4. Articles from magazines, journals, and
newspapers after the event
5.Magazines articles 5. Indexes and abstracts
6.Government records 6. Textbooks
7.Photographs 7. Commentaries and treatises
8.Map 8. Works of criticism and interpretation
9.Postcards 9. History books and other popular or scholarly
books
10.Posters 10. Literature reviews and review articles (e.g.,
movie reviews, book reviews)

Give a concise explanation/discussion on the following items.

1. How important historical writings are to a person, group/race, and country?

Explain.

_ it is important because historical writings of their country, person and country gives them pride and
helps them learn from past historical mistakes.

2. Discuss the importance of historical analysis.

_ By doing the historical analysis, We can have some examination of evidences in coming to an
understanding from our past We can also understand those facts why things really happens .We might
also have conclusions and what is really happen on our history with an correct statement.

3. How do you give meaning to a so called “history? Explain.

for him history is also called the past because it is the happening in the past that the expert study it to
know what is the phenomenon in the past.

4. Explain the difference between factual history and speculative history.

_ Factual History-it can be proven it is real,facts rather than theories


Speculative History

-based on guessing or opinions

-it can lead to controversies

-proposes concepts or interpretations that do not exist

5. What are the benefits of using primary sources?

You can benefit and develop knowledge, skills, and analytical abilities.

6. Do you affirm that primary sources are superior to secondary sources?

Explain.

_Yes Because without the primary sources we can't know if the document we have is factual and
correct. It also gives us the basis of an argument if we witnessed it individually.

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of accessing secondary

sources?

The advantage is you have an informaion that was gathered and compiled already and the

disadvantage: might contain errors.

8. What is historical criticism? Discuss the importance of historical criticism.

__ Historical criticism, literary criticism in the light of historical evidence or based on the context in
which a work was written, including facts about the author’s life and the historical and social
circumstances of the time. This is in contrast to other types of criticism, such as textual and formal, in
which emphasis is placed on examining the text itself while outside influences on the text are
disregarded. New Historicism is a particular form of historical criticism. See also literary criticism. The
primary goal of historical criticism is to discover the text's primitive or original meaning in its original
historical context and its literal sense

9. Do you believe that writing history is subjective? Why? Explain.

Yes writing history is almost subjective because subjectivity referred as it is a belonging to, proceeding
from, or relating to the mind of the thinking subject and not the nature of the object being considered  It
is related to or emanating from a person's emotion, prejudices and etc and lastly, bias stand for as a
mental tendency or an irrational preference or prejudice or influence
____________________________________________________________

10. How can the writings of history be objective? Explain.

Historical writings as supposed to the writings of history is only as objective as the author commits to. If
the author has some truth or interpretation in mind that narrative that narrative is constructed and
subjective.

Assessment

You are almost there! Let us check what you have learned about this

topic.

Name: _________________________________ Date:_____________

Course & Year:___________________________ Score: __________

Identify what is being described in the following items.

External criticism 1. It determines the authenticity of the source

Internal criticism 2. This is considered as hoax or misrepresentation from the

Genuine document.

Isographies 3. It is a dictionary of biography that gives examples of handwriting

Historical criticism 4. This criticism deals with more important matters than the external form

Primary source 5. These are original historical sources.

MATERIALS EVIDENCE 6. This evidence is considered as material evidence.

Diplomatic source 7. Historians consider these sources as document/record and

existing legal situation as the best source.


Written sources history 8. These historical sources are materials by nature.

Social documents 9. A product of record keeping of a bureau which contains information.

Secondary sources 10. These are materials made by people long after the events being described had
taken place.

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