EXERCISE 1.

Name: DELOS SANTOS, THERESA MARIE P. Date: 11/ 10/ 2021

Course and Year: BSECE-2 Score:

Match the item in column A with the item in column B. Write the letter of the correct
answer in the space provided before the number.

A B

1. Incompleteness of record has limited man’s

A. Verisimilitude
knowledge of history. G
B. Historia
2. There are raw materials out of which history may
C. Interpretative
be written. F
D. Historical Impartiality
3. This historical method historian instigate, collect
E. Historiography
and examines sources. J
F. Artifacts or Documents
4. Historian ability to reconstruct historical events. E
G. Limitation of historical
5. Historian aim of searching the truth, authenticity
knowledge
and plausibility. A
H. Aristotle
6. Object or things that have since been forgotten or
I. Historical Method
the experience of generation being dead
J. Historical Analysis
7. The practice of historical writing. E
K. Historical Bias
8. Learning by inquiry
9. Historical objectivity
10. The process of critically examining and analyzing
the records and survival of the past. E
EXERCISE 1.2

Name: Date:

Course and Year: Score:

Give concise explanation/ discussion of the following items.

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

2. Discuss the importance of historical analysis

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

4. Explain the difference between factual history and speculative history

EXERCISE 1.3

Name: Date:

Course and Year: Score:

Encircle the letters of your sources

1. These are original historical sources.

A. E C. Primary Sources
B. Descriptive sources D. Interpretative Sources
2. This evidence is considered as material evidence
A. Recordings C. Diaries
B. Archeological D. Books
3. Historian console these inquires as document/ records and existing legal
evidence as the best source
A. Relics C. Oral sources
B. Remains D. Diplomatic sources
4. The third part of diplomatic source. The attention of those reasonable for
the documents, which map to the author, writer, composer and witnessed to
the
A. M C. Contest
B. Protocol D. Negotiable
5. These historical sources are material by nature
A. Unwritten sources C. Written sources
B. Reliable source D. Talons
6. The product of record keeping of history which serve as information
A. Minutes C. Formulas
B. Social documents D. Content
7. This is a examples of primary sources
A. Newspapers C. Painting
B. Electronic data D. Tape records
8. What is the historical track typically composed to inform
A. Narrative C. Judicial tracks
B. Literature D. Scientific track
9. These are material made by people long after the events being
A. Primary source C. Scientifics sources
B. Diplomatic source D. Secondary sources
10. Which is not example of primary source
A. W C. A birth certificate
B. Letters D. A photograph
EXERCISE 1.4

Name: Date:

Course and Year: Score:

Give concise explanation/ discussion of the following items.

1. What are the benefits of using primary sources

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

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of accessing secondary sources?

EXERCISE 1.5

Name: Date:

Course and Year: Score:

Identify what is being described in the following items.

1. It determines the authenticity of the source

2. This is considered of or misinterpretation from the
genuine document.
3. It is a dictionary of biography that gives examples of handwriting.
4. It is historical real that has been subject of special study of expert
5. This means that the historical texts are primitives and historical context
in the primitive sense.
6. This criticism deals with more important matters than the external form
7. This refers to the time’s century when historical criticism was properly
formed
8. It determines the historicity of the fact contained in the document
9. This refers so the time/ century when historical typewriting was
invented
10. This refers to the era when historical forgery was not known
EXERCISE 1.7

Name: Date:

Course and Year: Score:

Give concise explanation/ discussion of the following items.

1. What is historical criticism?

2. Discuss the importance of historical criticism?

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

4. How can the writing of history be objective? Explain

EXERCISE 1.8

Name: Date:

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A. Identify/define the following terms

1. History

2. Historical writings

3. Verisimilitude

4. Historiography

5. Historical analysis

6. Paleography

7. Diplomatic

8. Sigillography

9. Historical criticism

10. Test of authenticity

B. Distinguish between primary and secondary sources of historical data. Give at
least 10 examples under each category.

Primary Sources Secondary Sources

Examples of primary sources Examples of secondary sources

1 1

2 2

3 3

4 4

5 5

6 6

7 7

8 8

9 9

10 10