History Skills 02

1. Someone who excavates historical sites is called what?

   • Anthropologist
   • Archaeologist
   • Archaeopteryx
   • Archivist

2. A historian may be said to do what with evidence?

   • Internalise it
   • Interpolate it
   • Interpret it
   • Interrogate it

3. What is an anachronism?

   • A book about a historical figure
   • A huge fear of spiders
   • A reason for going to war
   • Something placed in the wrong time period

4. Which of these is not a primary source?

   • A photo of the World War One trenches
   • Anne Frank's diary
   • Bones in a burial chamber
   • Last week's newspaper article about the slave trade

5. Historians use what to show events in order?

   • Calendar line
   • Chronoline
   • Lifeline
   • Timeline

6. What term means a source produced after an event?

   • Consequential
   • Fake
   • Secondary
   • Subsidiary

7. What is a hypothesis?

   • A historical error
   • A possible explanation
   • A Roman central heating system
   • A source that has been damaged

8. Which period of history came immediately before the Middle Ages?

   • The Black Ages
   • The Classical Age
   • The Dark Ages
   • The Doomsdays

9. Objects as evidence are known as what?

   • Aristofacts
   • Artefacts
   • Factoids
   • Factotums

10. Which of these is the correct chronological order?

    • Stuarts, Tudors, Victorians, Georgians
    • Tudors, Georgians, Stuarts, Victorians
    • Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians
    • Tudors, Stuarts, Victorians, Georgians

Quiz written by Jan Crompton