Major Trends in Historical Thought and Writing | Set 1
1. Who is the Author of what is History?
Correct : A. e.h.carr
2. In 1989, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, ....................wrote an article
in the National Interest called "The End of History."
Correct : A. francis fukuyama
3. .....................classic novel is ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1899).
Correct : A. joseph conrad's
4. ‘Genealogia’ is the work of ................... of Miletus.
Correct : A. hecataeus
5. ...................... has been called the “father of history.”
Correct : A. herodotus
6. ‘History of the Greco-Persian Wars’ is the work of ...................
Correct : A. herodotus
7. In .................. great work, the History of the Peloponnesian War, which
describes the destructive conflict between Athens and Sparta.
Correct : C. thucydides’
8. ............... , one of the greatest Roman historians, lived through the fall of
the republic and the establishment of the principate by Augustus, the first Roman emperor.
Correct : A. livy
9. ............... two great works—the Annals, and the Histories.
Correct : A. tacitus’
10. The De vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars), written by .............. in the
2nd century.
Correct : A. suetonius
11. The most well-known originator of Roman historiography was .............., also known as the “Founder of Historiography”.
Correct : A. quintus fabius pictor
12. ..............was the founder of the Mughal Empire in India (1526)
Correct : B. babur
13. The first comprehensive history of India entitled History of British
India (1818), was written by ......................
Correct : A. james mill
14. ................ Rajatarangini, written in 12th century Kashmir, is a
remarkable piece of historical literature.
Correct : D. kalhana’s
15. ............... was the court historian of Sultan Alauddin Khalji
Correct : A. kabiruddin
16. Humanism began and achieved fruition first in ..............
Correct : D. italy
17. The fall of Constantinople in ................. AD provided humanism with a
major boost, for many eastern scholars fled to Italy, bringing with them important books and manuscripts and a tradition of Greek scholarship.
Correct : B. 1453
18. ................, whose ‘Praise of Folly’epitomized the moral essence of
humanism in its insistence on heartfelt goodness as opposed to formalistic piety.
Correct : A. desiderius erasmus
19. Francis Bacon was an ..............philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist,
orator and author.
Correct : C. english
20. It was at Cambridge that Francis Bacon first met ............., who was
impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to calling him The Young Lord Keeper.
Correct : C. queen elizabeth
21. James I came to power in England in ...................
Correct : C. 1603
22. During the Restoration, Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit
of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in.................
Correct : D. 1660
23. ...............has been reputed as the "Father of Experimental Science".
Correct : A. francis bacon
24. The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written
in .............. and published in 1620.
Correct : A. latin
25. René Descartes was a ................philosopher, mathematician, and writer
who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.
Correct : D. french
26. ...................has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'.
Correct : C. rené descartes
27. ............... was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Descartes), Indre-et- Loire, France.
Correct : C. descartes
28. In his ‘Discourse on the Method’, ...............attempts to arrive at a
fundamental set of principles that one can know as true without any doubt.
Correct : A. rené descartes
29. Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico was an .............. political
philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist.
Correct : A. italian
30. .................. is best known for his magnum opus, the Scienza Nuova of
1725, often published in English as New Science.
Correct : A. vico
31. The Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of ............
Correct : D. 1688
32. The French Revolution of .......................
Correct : D. 1789.
33. In The Spirit of Laws, .............explored the natural order that he
believed underlay polities as well as economies.
Correct : A. montesquieu
34. ................ preferred form of government was constitutional monarchy, which existed in France before Louis XIV .
Correct : A. montesquieu’s
35. Although the positivist approach has been a recurrent theme in the
history of Western thought, the modern sense of the approach was developed by the philosopher and founding sociologist ................. in the early 19th century.
Correct : D. auguste comte
36. .................first described the epistemological perspective of positivism
in ‘The Course in Positive Philosophy’.
Correct : A. auguste comte
37. Leopold von Ranke was a .............. positivist historian and a founder of
modern source-based history.
Correct : D. german
38. ............was born in Wiehe, then part of the Electorate of Saxony.
Correct : D. ranke
39. In 1814, ...............entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjects
were Classics and Lutheran theology.
Correct : A. ranke
40. ................... introduced a system for understanding the history of
philosophy and the world itself often called ‘dialectic": a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement.
Correct : A. georg wilhelm friedrich hegel
41. .....................usage of the English-language word 'ghost', in his
1590 The Faerie Queene, demonstrates the former, broader meaning of the English-language term.
Correct : A. edmund spenser's
42. Geist is a central concept in ................ The Phenomenology of Spirit .
Correct : A. hegel's
43. In ..................... the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism.
Correct : D. 1847
44. .................... published his theory of human evolution in 1859.
Correct : C. charles darwin
45. ............... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History.
Correct : A. arnold joseph toynbee
46. The Decline of the West is the work of ...................
Correct : D. spengler
47. Oswald Spengler was a …………..philosopher and mathematician.
Correct : A. german
48. ................... most important work,The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
Correct : A. edward gibbon’s
49. ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’is the work of .................
Correct : A. edmund burke
50. The French Revolution: A History (1837) is the work of ...............
Correct : D. thomas carlyle
51. ................... used Carlyle's work as a primary source for the events of
the French Revolution in his novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.
Correct : A. charles dickens
52. .............wrote ‘The French Revolution: A History’ (3 volumes, 1837), as a
historical study concerning oppression of the poor, which was immediately successful.
Correct : A. carlyle
53. .............. historian of science, Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural
formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions—its title alone evincing a stringent structuralist approach.
Correct : C. american
54. Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist Louis
Althusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism."
Correct : A. louis althusser
55. .................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-century
linguistics.
Correct : A. ferdinand de saussure
56. ............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics was
published posthumously in 1916.
Correct : A. ferdinand de saussure’s
57. .................. published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essays
which provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism.
Correct : A. claude lévi-strauss
58. Among ...............many significant publications, The Elementary
Structures of Kinship (1949) and The Savage Mind (1962) exemplify his contributions to anthropology.
Correct : A. claude lévi-strauss’
59. .............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology.
Correct : A. lévi-strauss
60. ....................is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural
History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.
Correct : A. marc leopold benjamin bloch
61. ................published a large work, available in a two-volume English
translation as Feudal Society.
Correct : C. marc leopold benjamin bloch
62. ............ has had lasting influence in the field of historiography through
his unfinished manuscript ‘The Historian's Craft’, which he was working on at his death.
Correct : A. march bloch
63. Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" starting
in 1950 with.....................
Correct : A. jaime vincens vives
64. ........... was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School.
Correct : A. fernand braudel
65. The history of sexuality was treated in depth by the French
philosopher ................ in his final work, the multi-volume Histoire de la sexualité.
Correct : A. michel foucault
66. In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used by
the Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat.
Correct : A. antonio gramsci
67. ..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist
Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime.
Correct : C. antonio gramsci
68. In a notable pre-prison article entitled "The Revolution against Das
Kapital", .................claimed that the October Revolution in Russia had invalidated the idea that socialist revolution had to await the full development of capitalist forces of production.
Correct : D. antonio gramsci
69. ............. most influential work was and remains ‘The Making of the
English Working Class’, published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.
Correct : D. e.p.thompson's
70. In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attacked
the structuralist Marxism.
Correct : A. e. p. thompson
71. .................. book is ‘The Poverty of Historicism’.
Correct : A. karl popper's
72. .................. is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in
the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies.
Correct : A. ranajit guha
73. ................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is
widely considered to be a classic.
Correct : A. ranajit guha’s
74. ....................is an Indian historian and is the author of ‘Swadeshi
Movement’.
Correct : D. sumit sarkar
75. ............... entitled one of his essays "Decline of the Subaltern in
Subaltern Studies", criticizing the turn to Foucauldian studies of power- knowledge that left behind many of the empiricist and Marxist efforts of the first two volumes of Subaltern Studies.
Correct : A. sumit sarkar
76. .................. received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009 for his
contributions to academia.
Correct : A. partha chatterjee
77. ................. is a Joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literary
journal published from Calcutta.
Correct : D. partha chatterjee
78. The Archaeology of Knowledge is a book by the French
philosopher ................
Correct : A. michel foucault
79. HPR Finberg was the first Professor of ...........Local History.
Correct : A. english
80. In ‘On Realism in Art’ Roman ............... argues that literature does not
exist as a separate entity.
Correct : A. jacobson
81. The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan
Nevins and his associates at ..............University.
Correct : A. columbia
82. In 1948, .................., a Columbia University historian, established the
Columbia Oral History Research Office, with a mission of recording, transcribing, and preserving oral history interviews.
Correct : A. alan nevins
83. The original idea of writing micro history came from ................ in the
1970s.
Correct : C. italy
84. ................. New Science (1725) offered an interpretation of history that
turned on the idea of a universal human nature and a universal history .
Correct : A. giambattista vico's
85. Johann Gottfried Herder argues for the historical contextuality of human
nature in his work,Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity (1791).
Correct : A. johann gottfried
86. The philosopher of science ...............stimulated analytic philosophers'
interest in historical knowledge in his essay, “The Function of General Laws in History” (1942).
Correct : A. carl hempel
87. Author of Meta history (1973)is.................
Correct : B. hayden white
88. Author of ‘what is History?
Correct : B. e.h.carr
89. Author of The Idea of History is.................
Correct : B. r.g.collingwood
90. History of Historical Writing was written by ..........
Correct : A. h.e. barnes
91. Nature of History was written by ................
Correct : A. arthur marwick
92. Author of ‘Re- thinking History’ is .........
Correct : A. jenkins keith
93. ‘The Use of History’ was written by ...........
Correct : A. a.l.rouse
94. ‘The Historian's Craft’, is the work of .............
Correct : C. march bloch
95. Who is the author of ‘The Decline of the West ?
Correct : D. spengler
96. ’The Feudal Society’ was written by ..................