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