Name: Grade: VI Date:

Subject: Social science

How a Historian Works

A. Choose the correct option:

1. Which is the characteristic of a Primary source?

a. It is second hand information
b. It is an analysis of another article
c. It can be an interpretation of sources
d. It is made up of original material only

2. Which is a characteristic of a secondary source?

a. It will be the diary of a person
b. It will attempt to describe a piece of art
c. It provides data such as census statistics
d. It will be an original piece of artwork

3. Secondary sources will offer the following except

a. Analysis
b. First hand information
c. Interpretation
d. Criticism

4. The Internet is considered which of the following

a. Primary source
b. Secondary source
c. Both
d. Neither

5 Which of the following is not a primary source?

a. Biography
b. Court transcripts
c. Census statistics
d. Recorded Speeches

B. Read the following examples of sources. Place a tick on the ones that are SECONDARY
SOURCES.

____1. Diary kept by Major Rathod, a soldier in the Indian Army, published in a collection of Penguin papers.

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____2. Photograph of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar taken in 1920.

____3. Newspaper article about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi published in 1948.

____4. Television mini-series about President Pratibha Patil’s life.

____ 5. Scrapbook kept by Mrs. Lakshmi Iyer in 1883 with copies of recipes and household hints.

____ 6. Photograph album containing pictures of classmates at Medical Institute in 1923.

____ 7. Article about Sarojini Naidu, in People Magazine, 198.8

____ 8. Will by Mr. Naidu, 1896.

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