Q.1
If you time-travelled back to Victorian England and met a child your age, which question would you ask to find out more about life at the time?
  • What time is it?
  • What day is it?
  • What is your day to day life like?
  • Who is your best friend?
Q.2
If you saw an ancient vase in a museum, which questions wouldn't help you learn more about it?
  • What material is it made from and what was stored in it?
  • Where was it made, and by whom?
  • How old is it and who owned it?
  • How long has it been at the museum and what day was it found?
Q.3
The Great Fire of London began in a baker's shop inWhich question would not help you find out more about this event?
  • How did the fire spread?
  • How did the fire start?
  • What did the bakery look like?
  • How did the fire affect people's lives?
Q.4
How do historians find out more about artifacts from the past?
  • By reading about them in a book
  • By phoning the owners and asking about them
  • By making up stories and pretending they are true
  • By asking questions about who owned them, what they are made from and what they were used for
Q.5
Which of the following is not a sensible history question?
  • What was life like in time gone by?
  • What day is it tomorrow?
  • How are our lives different today from 100 years ago?
  • How have people from history changed our world?
Q.6
When we read an account of an event from history, what's the most important question to ask?
  • What day was it written on?
  • What sort of pen was it written with?
  • What kind of paper is it written on?
  • Is this true?
Q.7
Which of the following would mean you probably would not go down in the history books?
  • Inventing something amazing and life-changing
  • An amazing act of bravery
  • Living a quiet, ordinary sort of life
  • Changing the way things are done so that lots of people are much better off
Q.8
Imagine you find, in your attic, a very old photograph of a lady. What sort of question might you ask about it?
  • Why am I not in the photograph?
  • Will someone take my photograph one day?
  • What day was the photograph taken?
  • Who is the lady and are we related to each other?
Q.9
When historians and archeologists find ancient jewelry, what question would they probably not ask?
  • Who saw the jewelry?
  • What kind of person wore the jewelry and how wealthy were they?
  • What is the jewelry made from?
  • What kinds of tools may have been used to make the jewelry?
Q.10
If you met someone who had painted a portrait of a famous person from history, which of the following would be a sensible question to ask?
  • Which is your favorite color?
  • What was the famous person really like?
  • What time of day did you paint it?
  • What day did you paint it on?
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