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NSW HSC 2003 : HISTORY EXTENSION

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2003 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N History Extension Total marks 50 Section I General Instructions Reading time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours Write using black or blue pen Pages 2 3 25 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 1 hour for this section Section II Page 4 25 marks Attempt Question 2 Allow about 1 hour for this section 173 Section I 25 marks Attempt Question 1 Allow about 1 hour for this section Answer the question in a writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: present a detailed, logical and well-structured answer to the question use relevant issues of historiography use relevant sources to support your argument Using the Source, answer the question that follows. Source History as Art and as Science Historians in contrast to investigators . . . There are also one or two celebrated in almost any other field of knowledge examples of historians who have very seldom confront their data performed a kind of laboratory directly. The literary or artistic scholar experiment by re-enacting episodes has the poem or painting before him; from the past . . . Samuel Eliot Morison the astronomer scans the heavens proved the accuracy of Columbus through a telescope; the geologist original log by sailing a ship himself tramps the soil he studies; the physicist from Spain to the West Indies. But or chemist runs experiments in his [this] is a dramatic exception to the laboratory. The historian alone is both rule. I think there should be many more wedded to empirical [practical] reality of them, and that historians should Awaiting Copyright Clearance and condemned to view his subject stretch their imaginations to find new matter at second remove. He alone ways of coming closer to the stuff of must accept the word of others before historical experience itself. Yet no he even begins to devise his account. matter how hard they try, historians will seldom have the luck to find methods of This, at least, is true of the conventional proof as neat as . . . the example I have historiography based on records or cited . . . Most of the time, historians documents and a type of historical will continue to be thrown back on the writing that is bound to remain no uncontrolled evidence of written matter how many experimental records. approaches may be tried. Of course, there is the tangible [physical] evidence Moreover, even if we were deluged of archaeological remains. [flooded] with artifacts and could run Source continues on page 3 2 Source (continued) retrospective experiments at will, the History approaches closer to everyday problem of historical knowledge would experience than any other branch of still be with us. For merely to identify knowledge . . . What we conventionally something to label it accurately or to call an event in history is simply a locate it in chronological sequence is segment of the endless web of not to know it in the historian s usual experience that we have torn out of meaning of the term. Historical context for purposes of clearer Awaiting Copyright Clearance knowledge involves meaning . . . For understanding. the present purposes, let us say that meaning is the connectedness of things. To find meaning then, involves Adapted from an excerpt from understanding. In the historian s mind History as Art and as Science, the problems of knowing and of H. STUART HUGHES, understanding are so close as to be Harper and Row, New York, 1964 almost identical . . . Question 1 (25 marks) With reference to the Source and other sources, evaluate the aims and purposes of history. Please turn over 3 Section II 25 marks Attempt Question 2 Allow about 1 hour for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. In your answer you will be assessed on how well you: present a sustained, logical and well-structured response to the question use an appropriate case study present a balanced treatment of the historians and the areas of debate selected for discussion Question 2 (25 marks) Historians constantly reinterpret the past. With reference to the above quotation, assess TWO areas of historical debate that highlight differing interpretations of your chosen case study. Identify your case study at the beginning of your answer. End of paper 4 Board of Studies NSW 2003

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