1. For what main reason does a government establish laws?
- A. To make sure people have access to interesting historical documents
- B. To provide safety and fairness for everyone in the community
- C. To decide what goods a factory should produce
- D. To tell people what to buy at the store
2. Which of the following is an example of a service that a local government often provides for its community?
- A. Selling video games and toys at a store
- B. Building and taking care of public parks
- C. Deciding what clothes everyone should wear
- D. Choosing which movies are shown in theaters
3. Which of these questions would a political scientist be most interested in answering?
- A. How are leaders chosen to run a city?
- B. What did people in the past use for money?
- C. Why does it rain more in one area than another?
- D. How much does it cost to make a pencil?
4. A city decides to build a new bridge. What would a political scientist focus on?
- A. Which government group made the law to build it
- B. The total cost of the steel and concrete used for the bridge
- C. A map showing where the new bridge will connect two parts of the city
- D. How bridges have changed in design over the last century
5. What group is in charge of making laws and providing services like fixing roads in a town?
- A. A group of historians
- B. The government
- C. A team of geographers
- D. The local grocery store
6. A historian is studying ancient Rome. Which of these would NOT be a useful clue from the past?
- A. A new comic book about Roman gladiators
- B. A piece of an old Roman pot
- C. A stone tablet with Roman laws on it
- D. The ruins of an ancient building in Rome
7. What does the study of history help us understand?
- A. How to predict the future
- B. Stories about people and events from the past
- C. The rules of science and math
- D. How animals communicate with each other
8. A historian is often compared to a detective because they both...
- A. work for the government.
- B. search for clues to solve a mystery.
- C. focus only on recent events.
- D. create maps of new places.
9. Which of these is an example of an artifact that a historian would study?
- A. A television show made this year
- B. A plan for a future city
- C. An old coin from a thousand years ago
- D. A cloud in the sky
10. If a historian wanted to learn about the life of a soldier during a war, which item would be the most helpful written record?
- A. A recent movie about the war
- B. A collection of letters the soldier sent home
- C. A new video game set during that time
- D. A modern history textbook chapter