Assessment

ASSESSMENT 2

Name: __________________Course/Year/Section: ___________ Score: _________

A. TRUE OR FALSE

Direction: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if the statement is wrong
about the different historical sources and criticism. Write your answer on the spaces provided
before the number.

________1. A primary source is one prepared by an individual who was a participant in, or a
direct witness to, the event that is being described.
________2. A secondary source is a document prepared by an individual who was not direct
witness to an event.
________3. Content analysis is a primary method of data analysis in historical research.
________4. External criticism refers to the genuineness of the documents a researcher uses
in a historical study.
________5. Internal Criticism pertains to the accuracy or truthfulness of information in a
document.
________6. Most of historical source material can be grouped into four basic categories:
documents, numerical records, oral statements and relics.
________7. Historical Significance is the process used to evaluate what was significant
about selected events, people, and developments in the past.
________8. Bias is an inclination of temperament or outlook to present or hold a partial
perspective and a refusal to even consider the possible merits of alternative points of view.
________9. This does not mean that tertiary sources have no value, merely that they include
the potential for an additional layer of bias.
________10. Relics are any objects whose physical or visual characteristics can provide
some information about the past.

B. MATCHING TYPE

Direction: Match each of the following terms with the correct definition. Write your answer
on the spaces provided before the no.

a. Archive f. Memoir
b. Autobiography g. Museums
c. External criticism h. Primary Sources
d. Internal criticism i. Secondary Sources
e. Journal f. Tertiary Sources

___1. It refers to the genuineness of the documents.

___2. It refers to the accuracy of the contents and documents.
___3. A collection of collective artifacts and other objects, cultural and historical.
___4. A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or sources.
___5. A self- written account of the life of oneself.
___6. An index or textual consolidation of primary and secondary sources.
___7. A document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented.
___8. Information about events recorded at the time of those events.
___9. A collection of important records about place or an organization.
___10. A personal record of experience kept on a regular basis.