TEXES EC 6 SOCIAL STUDIES
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS REVIEW SHEET
●● The Virginia House of Burgesses was established in Jamestown
(1619) to..
(Hint: the Virginia House of Burgesses was the first democratically
elected legislative body in the British American colonies.)
Answer: function as a form of representative government.
●● The Imperial Forces of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Sunday,
December 7, 1941. Once the attack began, the officer in charge called
President Roosevelt and notified him of the attack. During the
communication, the president was able to hear the noise of the bombs
exploding and the struggle of the battle. Recently, a reporter from the
Dallas Morning News was researching the details of the attack and
found a transcription of the official diary of Emperor Hirohito, where he
indicated the following: "The Imperial forces of Japan destroyed the
American fleet in Hawaii Monday, December 8, 1941." If the attack
occurred on December 7, why did the official document from the
Japanese government indicate that the attack happened on December 8?
Select the statement that best explains this discrepancy.
Answer: There is a one-day difference between the two regions.
, ●● The U.S. Constitution was designed so that no single branch of the
government—executive, judicial, or legislative—could exert full control
over the other two. This unique feature of the Constitution is known as
Answer: checks and balances.
●● Advanced organizers and graphic representations are commonly used
in social studies. What is the advantage of using these strategies to teach
content?
Answer: They make content accessible to all children.
●● The Mayflower Compact was one of the earliest agreements to
Answer: establish a political body and to give that political body the
power to act for the good of the colony
●● A globe is a scale model of the Earth shaped like a sphere. A globe
shows sizes and shapes more accurately than
Answer: a Mercator projection map.
●● The Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians were some
of the civilizations that flourished in Mesopotamia—the land between
the rivers. What rivers are being alluded to in this statement?
Answer: Tigris and Euphrates
●● A compass rose is a design printed on a chart to
COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS REVIEW SHEET
●● The Virginia House of Burgesses was established in Jamestown
(1619) to..
(Hint: the Virginia House of Burgesses was the first democratically
elected legislative body in the British American colonies.)
Answer: function as a form of representative government.
●● The Imperial Forces of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Sunday,
December 7, 1941. Once the attack began, the officer in charge called
President Roosevelt and notified him of the attack. During the
communication, the president was able to hear the noise of the bombs
exploding and the struggle of the battle. Recently, a reporter from the
Dallas Morning News was researching the details of the attack and
found a transcription of the official diary of Emperor Hirohito, where he
indicated the following: "The Imperial forces of Japan destroyed the
American fleet in Hawaii Monday, December 8, 1941." If the attack
occurred on December 7, why did the official document from the
Japanese government indicate that the attack happened on December 8?
Select the statement that best explains this discrepancy.
Answer: There is a one-day difference between the two regions.
, ●● The U.S. Constitution was designed so that no single branch of the
government—executive, judicial, or legislative—could exert full control
over the other two. This unique feature of the Constitution is known as
Answer: checks and balances.
●● Advanced organizers and graphic representations are commonly used
in social studies. What is the advantage of using these strategies to teach
content?
Answer: They make content accessible to all children.
●● The Mayflower Compact was one of the earliest agreements to
Answer: establish a political body and to give that political body the
power to act for the good of the colony
●● A globe is a scale model of the Earth shaped like a sphere. A globe
shows sizes and shapes more accurately than
Answer: a Mercator projection map.
●● The Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians were some
of the civilizations that flourished in Mesopotamia—the land between
the rivers. What rivers are being alluded to in this statement?
Answer: Tigris and Euphrates
●● A compass rose is a design printed on a chart to
