(SS) Massachusetts Our Home - Lesson 1 Topics
  • 1. What is an almanac?
A) a book of information about weather and places
B) a drawing that represents an area of land
C) a book of words with lists of other words that mean about the same thing
D) a book of information on many subjects and people
  • 2. What is an encyclopedia?
A) a book of words with lists of other words that mean about the same thing
B) a drawing that represents an area of land
C) a book of information about weather and places
D) a book of information on many subjects and people
  • 3. What is a map?
A) a book of information on many subjects and people
B) a book of information about weather and places
C) a book of words with lists of other words that mean about the same thing
D) a drawing that represents an area of land
  • 4. What is a thesaurus?
A) a book of words with lists of other words that mean about the same thing
B) a book of information about weather and places
C) a book of information on many subjects and people
D) a drawing that represents an area of land
  • 5. What is a biography?
A) the story of a person's life
B) a picture book of all the presidents
C) a story about famous places in history
D) a story about animals who can talk
  • 6. History is:
A) the story of the future
B) the story of the past
C) a quest for information
D) a place close to home
  • 7. What is not a good way to study history?
A) visit a historic site
B) study artifacts
C) ask questions
D) read a biography
E) watching television
  • 8. What do we call a WOMAN who is admired or remembered for something?
A) archeologist
B) famous
C) heroine
D) a legend
E) journalist
  • 9. Something used by a person from the past is:
A) a lesson
B) a century
C) an explorer
D) an artifact
E) a story
  • 10. Which date falls in the 17th century?
A) 2001
B) 1654
C) 1832
D) 1392
E) 1792
  • 11. Which word means close to home?
A) country
B) local
C) distant
D) urban
E) suburban
  • 12. How many years is a century?
A) 100
B) 1,000
C) 1
D) 10
  • 13. How many years is a decade?
A) 1,000
B) 10
C) 100
D) 6 months
  • 14. A place where history is made is called:
A) an artifact
B) a log
C) an historic site
D) social studies
  • 15. If you wanted to learn how to say a word, what would you use:
A) an almanac
B) a map
C) an encyclopedia
D) a dictionary
  • 16. If you wanted to find how many people live in New York you would use:
A) a thesaurus
B) the television
C) an almanac
D) a map
  • 17. The year 1492 is in what century:
A) the 15th century
B) the 19th century
C) the 18th century
D) the 13th century
  • 18. Something that hasn't happend yet takes place:
A) now
B) in the past
C) in the future
D) before
E) during
  • 19. An object, picture, or design that stands for something is called
A) a map
B) a lesson
C) a symbol
D) a hero
E) a biography
  • 20. What is the best reason to bury a time capsule?
A) to store things that you will need
B) to pretend you are from the future
C) to keep things that you don't want to lose
D) to teach people from the future what life was like today
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