This quiz tests your historical terminology - how well do you know the important words related to history?  Can you get 100%?

 
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1What is an anachronism?
Where you are afraid of spiders
A horrible disease from the middle ages
Where something is totally out of place

2Which of these is an example of an anachronism?
Ice cream van in a picture of a medieval village
Any picture before 1900
A house crawling with spiders

3What is bais?
What a boat needs to make it balance
What is done to a historical description that is anachronistic
Putting across an unfair or unbalanced opinion

4Which of these isn't an example of bias?
Listening to both sides of an argument
Defending Richard III because you like him
Saying history is the best subject in the world

5What does the Latin word 'chronos' mean?
Circle
Old
Time

6What does 'chronology' mean?
Something that happened before 1500
Any history that is boring
In the correct order of time

7Which of these is in the correct chronological order?
William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, Henry II
William the Conqueror, Henry II, Henry VIII
Henry II, William the Conqueror, Henry VIII

8What is evidence?
Proof that something happened
Facts that support a belief
Something made up

9What is an explanation?
What happens when you make a mistake in Chemistry class
Where something is made clear and easier to understand
What a teacher does

10What is hindsight?
Always moaning and groaning - not listening to anyone else, just yourself
Looking backwards all the time, never looking to the future
Using the outcome of events to make decisions about them

11Which of these is an example of hindsight:
Reading about the outbreak of WWII and then saying Europe should have stood up to Hitler at the Munich Conference
Thinking you have an important history exam but as there is no future in history you don't bother revising.
Planning your day extremely carefully, thinking about the potential outcome of each and every event

12What does 'importance' mean?
Something that should be to be ignored
Something that great care should be taken over
Something that means more essays if you don't get it right

13What is an 'interpretation'?
Translating from French to English as someone speaks
Something that is unfair or demonstrates bais
An opinion or belief in something using evidence

14What does 'judgement' mean?
An opinion or decision on a problem, issue or question
Something unfair and incorrect
The final outcome of a battle between two kingdoms

15Why is your 'judgement' important in history?
You always need to make important decisions about your history homework
You often need to make a personal decision based on evidence, like a detective!
You always need to work out the correct answer

16What is an opinion?
A personal belief
Something that makes you cry when it is peeled
A bias judgement

17What is a source?
Something put on chips or sausages that makes them taste nice
A way of understanding something complicated
A person or document providing evidence

18What does contemporary mean?
From the past
From the actual time
From before 1900

19In terms of sources, what does Primary mean?
A source that is contemporary
A source from someone aged 4 to 11 years old
A source that is more important than anything else

20In terms of sources, what does Secondary mean?
Something not as important as Primary
A source that comes from after the time you are studying
A source that is contemporary


 

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