Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources

Quiz by Elena White, created more than 1 year ago

• A Primary Source is information that was created at the same time as an event or by a person directly involved in the event. Diaries, speeches, letters, official records, autobiographies. • A Secondary Source is information from somewhere else or by a person not directly involved in the event. Encyclopedias, textbooks, book reports.

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Identifying Primary and Secondary Sources

Question 1 of 15

A play showing how Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a lightning storm.

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Question 2 of 15

A short story describing Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla's 'electrical' battle.

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Question 3 of 15

Anne Frank's diary describing her life during World War 2.

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Question 4 of 15

A cartoon showing how Pocahontas met John Smith.

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Question 5 of 15

A text book describing the civil rights movement.

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Question 6 of 15

A news report about the opening of a power plant.

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Question 7 of 15

A scientist explaining what it was like for Buzz Aldrin to walk on the moon.

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Question 8 of 15

A YouTube video describing how the pyramids were built.

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Question 9 of 15

An interview with Alexander Graham Bell about how he invented the telephone.

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Question 10 of 15

A radio broadcast from the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.

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Question 11 of 15

An autobiography about the 40th president, Ronald Reagan.

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Question 12 of 15

A book describing Christopher Columbus sailing to America.

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Question 13 of 15

A famous artist's painting of what cowboy life was probably like.

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Question 14 of 15

A journal by a cowboy about the cattle drives from Texas to Kansas.

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Question 15 of 15

The United States Constitution.

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