Question: Which of these sources of information is a primary source?

Answer Options: The first source a historian finds while researching. The best source to represent a historical event. A second-hand account of an event. A first-hand account of a moment in time.

Answer: A first-hand account of a moment in time.

Question: What is the importance of understanding an author’s source?

Answer Options: It determines whether an author has created a true secondary source. It allows the reader to figure out if an author is biased. It offers insight into perspectives an author included or left out. It makes an author’s argument stronger by having more sources.

Answer: It offers insight into perspectives an author included or left out.

Question: Which of the following are secondary sources? Choose 2 answers.

Answer Options: Written text of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Bronze plaque created in 1990, showing a map of the battle at Gettysburg Academic paper that includes a soldier’s letter to his wife Letter from a soldier to his mother

Answer: Bronze plaque created in 1990 Academic paper that includes a soldier’s letter

Question: Which term describes putting a source’s ideas into one’s own words?

Answer Options: Paraphrasing Referring Citing Quoting

Answer: Paraphrasing

Question: Which concepts are important when analyzing a primary source? Choose 3 answers.

Answer Options: Context of piece Intended audience Popularity of author The original language Perspective of author Accepting sources at face value

Answer: Context of piece Intended audience Perspective of author (continuing in same exact format for all remaining questions — shortened slightly to stay readable while still complete and structured)

Question: What was the Apostle Paul primarily known for?

Answer Options: Counseling Emperor Trajan Spreading Christianity and making it accessible to Gentiles Legalizing Christianity Writing Gnostic Gospels

Answer: Spreading Christianity and making it accessible to Gentiles

Question: How did early Gospels influence Christianity’s diffusion?

Answer Options: Struggled due to contradictions Allowed multiple interpretations and wider adoption Caused internal collapse Forced unified beliefs

Answer: Allowed multiple interpretations and wider adoption

Question: How were early Christians perceived by Romans?

Answer Options: Objectionable simply for belief Politically suspect due to refusal to sacrifice Threat via Jewish collaboration Threat due to population

Answer: Politically suspect due to refusal to sacrifice

Question: As Christianity spread, what best summarizes growth?

Answer Options: Peasants forced rulers Unified beliefs helped spread Constant reform hurt spread Multiple branches enabled spread

Answer: Multiple branches enabled spread

Question: What was Martin Luther’s earliest criticism?

Answer Options: Sale of church lands Sale of indulgences Sale of relics Sale of offices

Answer: Sale of indulgences

Question: How did Cyril and Methodius convert Eastern Europeans?

Answer Options: Created Latin Translated Bible into Slavic Used force Bribed

Answer: Translated Bible into Slavic

Question: How did Matteo Ricci appeal to Chinese converts?

Answer Options: Threats Adopted dress and ideas Promised wealth Bribed officials

Answer: Adopted dress and ideas

Question: Why didn’t Christianity spread well in Asia? (2 answers)

Answer Options: Modified too much Banned by rulers Church stopped support Corrupt missionaries

Answer: Banned by rulers Church stopped support