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1. .…………. is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of
information about past events.
a) Sociology b) Economics c) History d) Political Science
2. One who continually studies and writes about history is known as a ...….
a) Historian b) archaeologist c) Epigraphist d) Numimatists
3. Who is considered to be the "father of history"?
a) Thucydides b) Herodotus c) Aristotle d) Polibius
4. Herodotus is a ………… Historian.
a) Greek b) Chinese c) Roman d) French
5. Who regarded history as a "systematic account of a set of natural
phenomena, whether or not chronological ordering was a factor in the
account."
a) Aristotle b) Rodney Needham c) Edmund Leach d) Judith Butler
6. Who defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present and
the past."
a) E. H. Carr b) Marx c) Hegal d) Spengler
7. Who observed that man’s growth from barbarism to civilization is
supposed to be the theme of history?"
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) B.Shiekh Ali c) Keith Thomas d) Julia Kristeva
8. Who called history "a narrative of what civilized men have thought or
done in the past time?"
a)Jacques Derrida b) Comte c) Will Durant d) Roland Barthes
9. Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions which
include scientific, imaginative and literary?
a)Trevelyen b) Michel Foucault c) Hegel d) Friedrich Nietzsche
10. …………….has rightly remarked,”All good historical writing is
universal history in the sense that it remembers the universal while
dealing with part of it.”
a)Prof.Elton b) George Swinton c) Thomas Fortesque d) James prinsep.
11. Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian.
a) Russia b) German c) French d) America
12. Who was a founder of the Annales School?
a)Marc Bloch b) Edmund Husserl c) Martin Heidegger d) Keith Thomas
13. Who is author of ‘The Historian’s Craft ‘?
a) Charles grant b) Marc Bloch c) Edward Said d) G. M. Trevelyan
14. Who is the author of ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic?’
a)Keith Thomas’ b) Edmund Husserl
c) Martin Heidegger d) Emmanuel Lévinas
15. Who said "Since history has no properly scientific value, its only
purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if
they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical
learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves."
a) Hugh Trevor-Roper b) R. G. Collingwood
c) E.H. Carr d) G. M. Trevelyan
16. "To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a
different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible
ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served
for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly
different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different
conclusions." Who said?
a)Jacob Burckhardt b) G. M. Trevelyan
c) R. G. Collingwood d) E.H. Carr
17. Who said “History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it
illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life,
and brings us tidings of antiquity."
a)Cicero b) Ferdinand de Saussure
c) G. M. Trevelyan d) R. G. Collingwood
18. "The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Who said?
a)G. M. Trevelyan b) Marcel Mauss c) Lévi-Strauss d) Wright Morris
19. "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and
misfortunes of mankind." Who said?
a)Roger Chartier b) Edward Gibbon
c) Antoine Meillet d) Émile Benveniste
20. "There is properly no history; only biography." Is the view of ……………
a)Ralph Waldo Emerson b) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
c) Jacques Revel d) Philippe Ariès
21. "The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history
you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set
out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your
country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base
things rotten through and through, to avoid."
a)Pierre Chaunu b) Robert Mandrou
c) Livy d) Jacques Le Goff
22. "What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments
never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles
deduced from it."
a)Hegel b) Fernand Braudel c) Georges Duby d) Pierre Goubert
23. "Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework
of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes
and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the
unity of life."
a)Lucien Febvre b) Marc Bloch
c) Fernand Braudel d) Ernest Labrousse
24. "The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to
emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the
key to the understanding of the present."
a)John Bellamy Foster b) William L. Burton
c) Michel Aglietta d) E. H. Carr
25. "History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, and fights no
battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything,
possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses
men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing
but the activity of men pursuing their purposes."
a)Karl Marx b) Samuel Eliot Morison
c) Paul Hirst d) Barry Hindess
26. "History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means
knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to
be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the
person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing
what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they
try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value
of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what
man is."
a)R. G. Collingwood b) Sigmund Freud
c) Friedrich Nietzsche d) G. M. Trevelyan
27. "History is more or less bunk."
a)Leopold von Ranke b) E.H. Carr c) Henry Ford d) R. G. Collingwood
28. "The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory.
He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived
intact."Who said?
a)Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi b) Frederick Jackson Turner
c) Jürgen Habermas d) Ranke
29. ……………emerged in response to the inability of speculative
philosophy (e.g. Classical German Idealism) to solve philosophical
problems which had arisen as a result of scientific development.
a)nihilism b) relativism
c) Positivism d) anarchism
30. Who introduced the term "positivism"?
a)Auguste Comte b) G. W. F. Hegel c) Franz Boas d) Lenin
31. Positivism was founded by ………………….
a)Karl Popper b)G. B. Vico c) Michel de Montaigne d) Auguste Comte
32. ………………..is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basic
significance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical
place and local culture.
a)Anarchism b) Historical materialism
c) dialectical materialism d) Historicism
33. ‘Poverty of Historicism’ was written by ………………
a)Mao Zedong b) Daszynski c) Hermann Diamand d) Karl Popper
34. Who is the author of ‘The Structure of Social Action’?
a) Talcott Parsons b) M. Guizot c) Epicurus d) Friedrich Engels
35. Whowrote the book ‘A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’?
a)Karl Marx b) Eduard Bernstein c) Karl Kautsky d) Georgi Plekhanov
36. "Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of
interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
a)Karl Kautsky b) Nikolai Bukharin c) Ignacy Daszyński d) Karl Marx
37. ‘Das Kapital’ was written by …………..
a)Karl Marx b) Charles Darwin c) Charles Woolfson d) Isaac Deutscher
38. A group of American historians who were dissatisfied with the
exclusively Political, constitutional and military emphasis of 19th
century historical writings, advocated the theory of ………………
a) Multiculturalism b) anarchism c) feminism d) New history
39. Charles A.Beard and Carl Becker, J.H.Robinson were the three
important spokesman of the American ………………..
a)New history b) environmentalism
c) Deconstructionism d) Micro history
40. The ……………encouraged the interdisciplinary approach by which the
reader of history they argued, should get the benefit of the knowledge
from other disciplines also.
a)New Historians b) anarchists c) Orientalists d) Deconstructionists.
41. The Annales School is a highly influential style of historiography
developed by …………..historians in the twentieth century.
a)British b) French c) American d) German
42. The journal "Annals of economic and social history" founded in …….
a)1929 b) 1942 c) 1945 d) 1992
43. ……………..was the co-founder of the Annales School.
a) Marc Bloch b) G. M. Trevelyan c) R. G. Collingwood d) E.H. Carr
44. …………..rejected the Marxist idea that history should be used as a tool
to foment and foster revolutions.
a) Annales School b) anarchist School
c) Romantic school d) rationalist School
45. Franciszek Bujak and Jan Rutkowski, the founders of modern ……………in
Poland.
a)Economic history b) people's history
c) political history d) Military history
46. …………….was the founder of a new Venezuelan historiography based
largely on the ideas of the Annales School.
a)Federico Brito Figueroa b) Braudel
c) Jacques Le Goff d) Le Roy Laduries
47. Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" starting
in 1950 with……………..
a) Jaime Vincens Vives b) Paul Vidal de la Blache
c) Émile Durkheim d) Fernand Braudel
48. The leader of the fourth generation of the Annales School is ……………….
a) Roger Chartier b) Robert Mandrou c) Georges Duby d) René Baehrel
49. …………….is an intellectual movement that developed in France in the
1950s and 1960s, in which human culture is analyzed semiotically (i.e.,
as a system of signs).
a)Structuralism b) post-structuralism c) extremism d) Marxism
50. Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of ………….
a)Pierre Goubert b) Rutkowski
c) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie d) Ferdinand de Saussure
51. The most famous thinkers associated with …………. include the linguist
Roman Jakobson, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the
psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the philosopher and historian Michel
Foucault, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic
Roland Barthes.
a)post-structuralism b) Structuralism c) relativism d) nihilism
52. The term ….…………….. itself appeared in the works of French
anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and gave rise, in France, to the
"structuralist movement", which spurred the work of such thinkers as
Louis Althusser, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the
structural Marxism of Nicos Poulantzas.
a)Structuralism b) post-structuralism c) anti-humanism d) relativism
53. The Elementary Structures of Kinship was the work of ……………..
a)Claude Lévi-Strauss b) Jean-Pierre Bardet
c) Georges Freche d) Jean-Claude Perrot
54. Who defined structuralism as "a method and not a doctrine"?
a) Jacques Derrida b) Jean Piaget c) Michel Foucaultd) Gilles Deleuze.
55. ……………… 's book is The Order of Things.
a)Michel Foucault b) Leonard Bloomfield
c) Louis Hjelmslev d) Alf Sommerfelt
56. Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ………..
a)deconstruction b) Structuralism c) post-structuralismd) anti-humanism
57. Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….with
structural anthropology in France.
a) Marxism b) post-structuralism c) anti-humanism d) nihilism
58. …………..is a label formulated by American academics to denote the
heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to
international prominence in the 1960s and ‘70s.
a)Post-structuralism b) relativism c) nihilism d) extremism
59. In 1968, …………….. published “The Death of the Author”
a)Foucault b) Roland Barthes c) Edmund Husserl d) Martin Heidegger
60. …………….. is an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based
on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of
the time, place, and circumstances of its composition rather than as an
isolated creation.
a)structuralism b) New Historicism c) Orientalism d) Marxism
61. ……………may refer to a range of perceptions and attitudes evinced by the
western scholarship towards the Indian civilisation in the 18th and early
19th centuries and since then to a wider intellectual exercise at global
level to study and interpret the East in relation to the West.
a)Orientalism b) New Historicism c) structuralism d) Modernism
62. The father of orientalism was ……………………
a)J.H Harington b) william Carey c) Sir William jones d) H.H Wilson
63. The Asiatic society was founded in ……………
a)1784 b) 1788 c) 1789 d) 1794
64. The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at …………….
a)Madras b) Bombay c) Calcutta d) Bihar
65. Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ?
a)Hold Mackenzie b) WB Bayley c) William Jones d) WH Macnaughten
66. Who wrote the book what is History?
a)E. H. Carr b) R. G. Collingwood
c) G. M. Trevelyan d) Friedrich Meinecke
67. E.H. Carr was born in ……………
a)Holland b) Germany c) London d) Calcutta
68. The book ‘The Twenty Years' Crisis’ was written by ………………..
a)R. G. Collingwood b) G. M. Trevelyan
c) E.H. Carr d) Friedrich Meinecke
69. Who stated that:"Study the historian before you begin to study the
facts”?
a)E.H. Carr b) R. G. Collingwood c) Hugh Trevor-Roper d) G.R.Elton
70. “The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are
like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean;
and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance, but mainly
on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he
chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the
kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the
kind of facts he wants”.who said
a)E.H. Carr b) Friedrich Meinecke
c) R. G. Collingwood d) Hugh Trevor-Roper
71. Who was the author of the book ‘The Tudor Revolution in Government?’
a) Joan Scott b) Michel Foucault c) Hayden White d) G.R.Elton
72. Who wrote the book ‘The Practice of History’?
a) Joan Scott b) Hayden White c) Michel Foucault d) G.R.Elton
73. Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer.
a)Africa b) India c) America d) British
74. Who was the author of ‘Why History’?
a) Keith Jenkins b) Michel Foucault c) Joan Scott d) Earl Babbie
75. ………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content
of communication.
a)structuralism b) Indology c) Sinology d) Textual analysis
76. …………….is the archaeological study of living people.
a)Ethnoarchaeology b) Anthropology c) Indology d) Sinology
77. ………..is a field of study that aims to systematize archaeological
measurement.
a)Archaeometry b) geography c) geology d) Experimental archaeology
78. National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was passed in …………
a)1966 b) 1866 c) 1934 d) 1946
79. Who was called ‘father of archaeology’?
a)Lewis Henry Morgan b) Heinrich Schliemann
c) Edward Tylor d) Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli
80. Theory of evolution was developed by …………
a)Charles Darwin b) Heinrich Schliemann
c) John Lloyd Stephens d) Samuel Haven
81. In 1859, …………..'s On the Origin of Species was published.
a)Charles Darwin b) Heinrich Schliemann
c) Arthur Evans d) John Lloyd Stephens
82. ……………….is the study of human culture in historic as well as
prehistoric times, by examining the material remains of early human
settlements.
a)Epigraphy b) Archaeology c) Economics d) Museology
83. ………….is the study of inscriptions.
a)Epigraphy b) Archaeology c) Museology d) Numismatics
84. ……………… is the study or collection of coins.
a)Numismatics b) Epigraphy c) Archaeology d) Museology
85. The first book on coins was ‘De Asse et Partibus’ (1514) by ………
a) Guillaume Budé b) Keith Jenkins
c) Edward Tylor d) Lewis Henry Morgan
86. The Royal Numismatic Society was founded in ……………
a)1836 b) 1846 c) 1861 d) 1863
87. The American Numismatic Society was founded in ……………
a)1858 b) 1862 c) 1875 d) 1885
88. In 1931 the ………… Academy launched the Sylloge Nummorum
Graecorum publishing collections of Ancient Greek coinage.
a)American b) French c) German d) British
89. A person who works in archives is called an ………………
a)Archivist b) Archaeologist c) Historian d) Epigraphists
90. ………….are the bedrock of historical knowledge, infact the basic raw
materials for the reconstruction of history.
a) The Primary sources b) Secondary sources
c) Tertiary evidences d) Reasoning
91. The first hand accounts of experimentation and investigation, original
works, reports etc. could be treated as ……………….
a)Tertiary evidences b) Primary sources
c) Oral History d) Secondary sources
92. ……………are neither the sources of information transmitted by one
who was neither a participant nor an eyewitness of the original event.
a)Oral History b) Secondary sources c) Argument d) Index
93. ………………is the broad conclusion of a work which will naturally
indicate the essence of the study.
a)Tertiary evidences b) Generalization c) Oral History d) Plagiarism
94. ……….is also known as ‘framing a formula’ or deducing a general law.
a) Generalization b) Oral History c) Secondary sources d) Argument
95. ……………is the study of history in a geographically local context and it
often concentrates on the local community.
a)Local history b) Tertiary evidences
c) Oral History d) Secondary sources
96. …………. is an element of historical method, attempted to fill the gaps
which a historian finds in his collected materials for the reconstruction
of history.
a)Oral History b) Reasoning c) Argument d) Appendices
97. …………….. is a process through which a historian tries to know what is
not known to him, on the basis of available materials.
a)Appendices b) Constructive reasoning c) Glossary d) Index
98. The historian has to take up …………….to know the unknown with the
help of the information already received from the available records.
a)Oral History b) Deductive method c) Plagiarism d) Secondary sources
99. ………………., if used quite logically and unbiased, could be helpful to
illuminate the dark aspects of historical reconstruction.
a)Deductive method b) Appendices c) Index d) Foot notes
100. The historian is expected to use ……………..only when he has no other
reliable sources available.
a) Argument b) Oral History c) Plagiarism d) Deductive method
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