Lesson Y8-U03-L10

Y8-U03-L10 Whose Story Is It? Avoiding the 'Single Story' Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 9

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U03-L10, Whose Story Is It? Avoiding the 'Single Story': 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 9: Year 8: Development and Global Inequality, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is a 'single story' about a place?

    • A place or group shown as only one thing, so the full picture is missed
    • A story told in only one language, so readers in other countries miss it
    • A fairy tale set in a single country, told to children at bedtime
    • A source written by one author about many places, with one viewpoint

  2. Who warned about the danger of a single story?

    • Hans Rosling
    • Kofi Annan
    • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • Malala Yousafzai

  3. What is bias in a source?

    • When a source is written in a foreign language, so readers find it hard
    • When a source is older than ten years, so its facts are out of date
    • When a source uses a map instead of words, so it is harder to read
    • When a source leans one way and does not give a fair, balanced view

  4. What does the reliability of a source mean?

    • How much we can trust the source to be accurate and truthful
    • How many pictures the source contains, and what colours they use
    • How many people have shared the source online, and how far it spread
    • How long the source takes to read through from beginning to end

  5. What is a stereotype?

    • A carefully checked statistic from a government, published each year
    • A photo of a country's landscape at one time of year, taken in summer
    • A detailed map of a city's business districts, with street names marked
    • A fixed, oversimple idea about a place or group that is often unfair

  6. In the WHO-WHAT-HOW method, what does the WHO question ask?

    • What colours were used and who edited it
    • How much the source cost and who sold it
    • Where the source was printed and what size it is
    • Who made the source and why, meaning its purpose

  7. What is the purpose of a charity advert showing a place's hardship?

    • To teach pupils the scale of a map
    • To raise donations by showing need
    • To attract tourists with beach photos
    • To sell hotel rooms to visitors

  8. What is the purpose of a tourism website showing beaches?

    • To teach pupils the history of colonial borders
    • To raise donations by showing hardship
    • To record every death in a conflict
    • To attract visitors and holiday money

  9. A charity advert shows only crowded slums in Lagos and asks for donations. Is it biased?

    • No, because a real photo cannot be biased
    • Yes, because the photo must be fake and should be discarded
    • Yes, because it is real but one-sided, showing only need to raise money
    • No, because charities always tell the whole truth

  10. A tourism site shows only beaches and hotels in Lagos. What is most likely missing?

    • Everyday life, inequality and the ordinary communities of the city
    • The exact date the city was founded, and the first people who lived there
    • The price of petrol at the nearest garage, which changes each week
    • The name of the local football club, and the team's home ground

  11. A news report covers only conflict in one region. What is the best judgement?

    • It must be fake because it covers only one region, so it can be dismissed
    • It is the complete truth about the whole country, so no check is needed
    • It is useless and nobody should read it, since one region cannot count
    • It may be accurate but one-sided, so it should be checked against other sources

  12. Which statement is an example of a single story?

    • Nigeria has both informal housing and a business district
    • Lagos has slums as well as a stock exchange
    • Developing countries are all the same
    • A country can have poverty and fast growth at once

  13. Why do geographers use more than one source?

    • Two sources always contradict each other, so neither is used
    • Each source leaves something out, so together they give a fuller picture
    • Using one source is always illegal in geography
    • More sources make facts more expensive to check

  14. A poster shows only the poverty of a country. Which question tests its reliability?

    • What colour is the poster's main border?
    • How large is the printed poster in size?
    • How recent and accurate is the information it gives?
    • Who designed the font on the poster?

  15. A source says 'Everyone in the village is poor'. What is the best response?

    • Accept it, because one source is always enough to give a complete picture
    • Reject all sources about villages completely, since none can be trusted
    • Check other sources to see whether this gives a fair, balanced picture
    • Repeat it, because it is short and clear and sounds convincing to readers

  16. Evaluate: 'A charity advert is too biased to ever be useful in geography.' How far do you agree?

    • Disagree, because charity adverts are always completely accurate in every detail shown
    • Agree, because any biased source is always useless to a geographer studying places
    • Agree, because charities never show real places at all, so their adverts are fake
    • Disagree, because it shows what a charity wants people to see, which is useful if read with care

  17. Assess why a 'success' story can be just as misleading as a 'poverty' story.

    • It is always accurate because success stories are always checked by independent experts
    • It is misleading only if the country is in Europe, since the rest of the world is not covered
    • It cannot mislead because it is positive, and positive stories are always honest ones
    • It hides real problems, such as inequality and poverty, that still exist alongside the progress

  18. Explain how looking at a map of Lagos helps to avoid a single story.

    • A map shows the variety of the city, with informal areas and business districts side by side
    • A map is always biased, so it cannot show any variety of places or people at all
    • A map shows only roads and railway lines, so it hides everyone who lives in the city
    • A map proves that one area is the whole city, so the rest can be safely ignored

  19. Which conclusion is the most balanced about Nigeria?

    • Nigeria is the same everywhere, so one photo is enough to describe all of the country
    • Nigeria is entirely poor and has nothing else to show, so there is no progress at all
    • Nigeria is entirely wealthy with no problems at all, so poverty does not exist
    • Nigeria has serious poverty in places, and also fast-growing cities, industry and culture

  20. A pupil says 'a photo of one village proves the whole country is poor'. What is the best correction?

    • One photo shows one place, so it cannot prove the whole country is poor
    • Photos only ever show whole countries, not villages, so the claim is correct
    • Photos are never allowed as evidence in geography, so the claim is simply rejected
    • The photo is old, so the claim must be true for the whole of the country today

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