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History: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - History Skills 2 (Questions)

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Excavations are carried out by skilled people to find out about history. The Great Pyramid of Cheops took 100,000 men 20 years to construct using 2,300,000 stone blocks which weighed an average of two tons each.

Try our second History Skills quiz.

1. Someone who excavates historical sites is called what?
[ ] Anthropologist
[ ] Archaeologist
[ ] Archaeopteryx
[ ] Archivist
2. A historian may be said to do what with evidence?
[ ] Internalize 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
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History: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - History Skills 2 (Answers)
1. Someone who excavates historical sites is called what?
[ ] Anthropologist
[x] Archaeologist
[ ] Archaeopteryx
[ ] Archivist
2. A historian may be said to do what with evidence?
[ ] Internalize it
[ ] Interpolate it
[x] 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
[x] Something placed in the wrong time period
e.g. a Roman soldier with an AK47 rifle
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
[x] Last week's newspaper article about the slave trade
The article was written long after the event
5. Historians use what to show events in order?
[ ] Calendar line
[ ] Chronoline
[ ] Lifeline
[x] Timeline
6. What term means a source produced after an event?
[ ] Consequential
[ ] Fake
[x] Secondary
[ ] Subsidiary
7. What is a hypothesis?
[ ] A historical error
[x] 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
[x] The Dark Ages
[ ] The Doomsdays
The Dark Ages were approximately 600-1000 AD
9. Objects as evidence are known as what?
[ ] Aristofacts
[x] Artefacts
[ ] Factoids
[ ] Factotums
10. Which of these is the correct chronological order?
[ ] Stuarts, Tudors, Victorians, Georgians
[ ] Tudors, Georgians, Stuarts, Victorians
[x] Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians
[ ] Tudors, Stuarts, Victorians, Georgians
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