Grade 9 History practice

What is on the worksheet

1. Historical thinking and evidence: which term fits this description? An object made or modified by people that can serve as evidence.

   1. Consequence
   2. Primary source
   3. Archaeology
   4. Artifact

2. Explain why a photograph should be examined for framing and context.

3. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? Cultivation of plants and management of animals for food or other products.

   1. Irrigation
   2. Barter
   3. Surplus
   4. Agriculture

4. Historical thinking and evidence: which term fits this description? Recorded recollections communicated through interviews or spoken accounts.

   1. Oral history
   2. Artifact
   3. Primary source
   4. Historical argument

5. Which question examines consequences rather than causes?

   1. Why was the decision considered?
   2. What pressures preceded it?
   3. What changed after the decision?
   4. Which problems led to debate?

6. Name one way to test a proposed cause using additional evidence.

7. Two witnesses disagree on the time an event began. What should an investigator do?

8. Why do five websites repeating the same unverified account not provide five independent confirmations?

9. Which is a historical question rather than a personal attack?

   1. Who has the most attractive handwriting?
   2. Why is the writer worthless?
   3. What evidence supports this account?

10. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? A state whose headship is not a hereditary monarchy, with arrangements that vary by country and period.

    1. Constitution
    2. Industrialization
    3. Domestication
    4. Republic

11. An archive contains many leaders’ letters but few workers’ accounts. Name a limitation.

12. Why should an omission not automatically be treated as proof that an event did not happen?

13. Does an official document automatically include every perspective?

    1. No.
    2. Yes, by definition.
    3. Only when signed.

14. What does corroborating a claim involve?

15. Which question concerns provenance?

    1. Who created this document and in what context?
    2. How many decorative icons appear?
    3. What colour is the folder only?
    4. Can its title be shortened?

16. Societies and historical change: which term fits this description? A political system extending control over multiple territories or peoples.

    1. Specialization
    2. Empire
    3. Trade route
    4. Irrigation

17. Which wording avoids treating the past as an inevitable path to the present?

    1. Every earlier event existed only to produce today.
    2. Several outcomes were possible given the choices and constraints.
    3. The outcome had to happen exactly this way.
    4. Nobody had choices.

18. Historical thinking and evidence: which term fits this description? The arrangement of events in time order.

    1. Corroboration
    2. Chronology
    3. Oral history
    4. Anachronism

19. Which is stronger corroboration?

    1. One account repeated aloud
    2. A summary with no source
    3. An independently created record that supports a specific detail
    4. Three sites copying the same paragraph

20. Does primary source mean guaranteed unbiased and accurate?

    1. No
    2. Only when very old
    3. Yes, always
    4. Only when handwritten