History Gr: 10 Topic: 01 Module Test paper - 02

1.     SOURCES OF STUDYING HISTORY

1B. FOREIGN SOURCES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING HISTORY

TESTING COMPREHENSION-02

TIME: 40 mints                Answer all questions                  100 marks

Question Nos. 01 and 04-17 carry 05 Marks. 

Question 02 carries 13 Marks and Question 03 carries 12 Marks.

01.  Name the Indian texts which include information about Sri Lanka.

02.  Draw up chart showing the records made by people who visited Sri Lanka and the names of the authors.

03.  Write out the names of the reports made by foreigners who have never visited Sri Lanka and their names.

04.  State the importance of literary sources.

05.  Stale the manner in which archaeological sources are mainly divided.

06.  What is meant by Epigraphy?

07.  What are rock inscriptions?

08.  Rock inscriptions can be categorized according to the rocks they are written on. Name them.

09.  For what was Brahmin inscriptions used?

10.  Name the coins used in Sri Lanka

11.  What are the factors that show that coins needed for the country were made here?

12.  Name the foreign coins found in Sri Lanka.

13.  What type of ruins are regarded as archaeological sources?

14.  How are the past drawings, sculpture and carvings useful to us?

15.  How are antiquities important to us?

16.  State the benefits of learning history.

17.  Why archaeological sources should be preserved.