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CTET Primary Source — practice questions

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A primary source is created at what time relative to the events studied?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a primary source for a historian?Read the answer and worked solution →Another name for a primary source is what?Read the answer and worked solution →Sources that interpret, analyze or comment on primary sources are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Accounts written after the fact with the benefit of hindsight are generally what?Read the answer and worked solution →In source classification, an encyclopedia or dictionary is typically which level?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the purpose of a tertiary source such as a dictionary?Read the answer and worked solution →How should the terms primary and secondary be understood?Read the answer and worked solution →A memoir is a primary source when it is used to study what?Read the answer and worked solution →A memoir turns secondary when used to study what?Read the answer and worked solution →A book review giving the reviewer's own judgment is a primary source for what?Read the answer and worked solution →In social sciences, primary sources also include what?Read the answer and worked solution →In scientific literature, the primary literature is what?Read the answer and worked solution →In religious history, primary sources include which of these?Read the answer and worked solution →Charters and legal documents that follow a set format are what kind of written source?Read the answer and worked solution →Registers of births and tax records are examples of which type of written source?Read the answer and worked solution →Diaries, films and biographies that tell a story or message are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which can also be a primary source?Read the answer and worked solution →When a historian's own books are studied for a biography of that historian, they are what?Read the answer and worked solution →Where are many primary sources kept?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the gathering of primary sources for publication called?Read the answer and worked solution →What is Arthur Marwick's view of primary sources in history?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is a history using only secondary sources weak?Read the answer and worked solution →Older primary sources are often hard to use because they are what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is a primary source not always better than a secondary one?Read the answer and worked solution →Secondary sources can correct errors because they are often what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why may eyewitness accounts be unreliable?Read the answer and worked solution →An official government report can still mislead if what happened to it?Read the answer and worked solution →What problem of secondary sources do primary sources avoid?Read the answer and worked solution →In a secondary source, the original information is treated how?Read the answer and worked solution →

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A primary source is created at what time relative to the events studied?

  1. At the time under study
  2. Only after scholars review it
  3. During a later reinterpretation
  4. Long after the events ended
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Correct answer: A. At the time under study

A primary source is an original source created at the time under study.

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Which of these is a primary source for a historian?

  1. An encyclopedia overview
  2. A summary written decades later
  3. A scholar's review of past studies
  4. A diary kept during the events
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Correct answer: D. A diary kept during the events

A diary written at the time of the events is an original document, so it is a primary source.

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Another name for a primary source is what?

  1. Indirect source
  2. Tertiary source
  3. Derived source
  4. Original source
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Correct answer: D. Original source

A primary source is also called an original source.

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