Reading Comprehension Questions: Answer Key
1. What is one questions historians ask when they examine a primary source?
Students should list one of the following: Who made the item? When was it
made? Where was it made? Why was it made? What was it made to do?
2. List (2) examples of secondary sources.
Students should list two of the following: Textbook, model, online article,
and reenactment.
3. Why would a video of a wooly mammoth be a secondary source?
Student answer should include the idea that woolly mammoths lived or
became extinct before videos were invented.
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Activity 1.4: Primary and Secondary Sources as Historical Tools