Using Primary and Secondary Sources

Question 1

What are the characteristics of primary sources? Choose four correct answers.They are created by someone who saw or lived through an event.They have been examined and explained by modern historians.They show firsthand knowledge of the time period.They have not been interpreted by someone else.They were written years after an event occurs.They are from the time period.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They are created by someone who saw or lived through an event.; They show firsthand knowledge of the time period.; They have not been interpreted by someone else.; They are from the time period.

Question 2

Which part of the passage is irrelevant to understanding the effects of the eruption?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“even by supporting them with large stones”

Question 3

What makes this statement an opinion?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It expresses the writer’s personal feelings.

Question 4

What would be needed to verify this story?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

evidence to corroborate the details

Question 5

Which part of the passage is essential to understanding the effects of the eruption?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“the shore was considerably enlarged”

Question 6

Whose point of view is the story told from?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Columbus’s

Using Primary and Secondary Sources Answers

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