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CCEA A2 2 Historical Investigations and Interpretations overview quiz quiz

15questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What does the CCEA A2 2 unit primarily test?

  2. What proportion of the full A level is the A2 2 unit worth?

  3. Which assessment objective dominates the A2 2 interpretations question?

  4. What is the first step when given a historian's interpretation?

  5. Why do historians reach different interpretations of the same controversy?

  6. Where do the marks in the interpretations question mainly come from?

  7. Which Act of Parliament put the partition of Ireland on the statute book?

  8. What did the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 do regarding the north?

  9. What happened to the Boundary Commission in 1925?

  10. Which interpretation stresses Ulster unionist agency as the cause of partition?

  11. Which interpretation stresses British policy as the cause of partition?

  12. What does the 'two traditions' interpretation of partition argue?

  13. What common mistake caps an A2 2 interpretations answer?

  14. What should a top-band A2 2 answer do before declaring an interpretation convincing?

  15. Which distinction often underlies competing interpretations of partition?