Multiple Choice
Section I - Part A: Multiple Choice | 55 Questions | 55 Minutes | 40% of Exam Score
Questions appear in sets of 2-5.
Students analyze historical texts, interpretations, and evidence.
Primary and secondary sources, images, graphs, and maps are included.
The multiple-choice section will contain a number of sets of questions, with
between two and five questions per set, that ask students to respond to stimulus
material: a primary or secondary source, including texts, images, charts, graphs,
maps, etc. This stimulus material will reflect the types of evidence that historians
use in their research on the past. The set of multiple-choice questions about the
material will draw upon knowledge required by the curriculum framework, and each
question will address one of the learning objectives for the course. While a set may
focus on one particular period of U.S. history, the individual questions within that
set may ask students to make connections to thematically linked developments in
other periods.
Multiple-choice questions will assess students’ ability to reason about the stimulus
material in tandem with their knowledge of the historical issue at hand. The
possible answers for a multiple-choice question will reflect the level of detail
present in the required historical developments found in the concept outline for
the course.
