PRELIMS

Question 1

The study of the past.

Answer 1

History

Question 2

It refers to the time period after the invention of written records in a given culture or society.

Answer 2

Another definition of HISTORY

Question 3

Greek word ________ which means “knowledge acquired through inquiry or systematic study”

Answer 3

Historia

Question 4

An act of asking for information

Answer 4

Inquiry

Question 5

A formal inquiry or systematic study.

Answer 5

Investigation

Question 6

Some historians live by the mantra “no document, no history”. What does it mean?

Answer 6

When an event is not translated into a written document it will not be considered as a historical fact.

Question 7

What are the sources of Traditional Historians?

Answer 7

Government records
Chronicler’s accounts
Personal letters

Question 8

Whose sources are these:

Written Records
Songs
Artifacts
Architecture
Interviews

Answer 8

Progressive Historians

Question 9

Define historiography.

Answer 9

it is the history of history. Important for someone who studies history as it teaches the student to be critical.

Question 10

History: The Past, Historiography: how a certain text was written. True or False?

Answer 10

True.

Question 11

An expert in history.

Answer 11

Historian

Question 12

The Annales School of History

Answer 12

An institution that was concerned with social history and studied historical periods longer.

Question 13

What were the disciplines that was combined to history by the Annales School of History?

Answer 13

History of Peasantry, Medicine, and Environment.

Question 14

Ancient Filipinos shared their stories through ______ and ______.

Answer 14

communal songs and epic

Question 15

The most important tools for an historian.

Answer 15

Historical sources.

Question 16

The classification of sources depends on the historical subject being studied not on the time period when the source was produced. True or False?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Classification of sources

Answer 17

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary

Question 18

Sources produced at the same time as the event, period, or subject being studied.

Answer 18

Primary Sources

Question 19

Examples of primary sources.

Answer 19

Minutes of the convention
records of convention
the draft of the constitution
photographs of the event

Question 20

Sources which were produced by an author who used primary sources to produce the material.

Answer 20

Secondary Sources

Question 21

Example of secondary sources

Answer 21

Books that uses primary sources

Question 22

It summarizes the secondary sources.

Answer 22

Tertiary Sources

Question 23

Practice of verifying the authenticity of evidence by examining its physical characteristics such as the quality of paper, type of ink, language ad words used in the material.

Answer 23

External Criticism

Question 24

Examination of the truthfulness of the evidence by validating historical sources.

Answer 24

Internal Criticism