1. .…………. is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of
information about past events.
Correct : C. history
2. One who continually studies and writes about history is known as a ...….
Correct : A. historian
3. Who is considered to be the "father of history"?
Correct : B. herodotus
4. Herodotus is a ………… Historian.
Correct : A. greek
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."
Correct : A. aristotle
6. Who defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present and
the past."
Correct : A. e. h. carr
7. Who observed that man’s growth from barbarism to civilization is
supposed to be the theme of history?"
Correct : A. jawaharlal nehru
8. Who called history "a narrative of what civilized men have thought or
done in the past time?"
Correct : C. will durant
9. Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions which
include scientific, imaginative and literary?
Correct : A. trevelyen
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.”
Correct : A. prof.elton
11. Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian.
Correct : C. french
12. Who was a founder of the Annales School?
Correct : A. marc bloch
13. Who is author of ‘The Historian’s Craft ‘?
Correct : B. marc bloch
14. Who is the author of ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic?’
Correct : A. keith thomas’
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."
Correct : 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?
Correct : B. g. m. trevelyan
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."
Correct : A. cicero
18. "The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Who said?
Correct : D. wright morris
19. "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and
misfortunes of mankind." Who said?
Correct : B. edward gibbon
20. "There is properly no history; only biography." Is the view of ……………
Correct : A. ralph waldo emerson
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."
Correct : C. livy
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."
Correct : A. hegel
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."
Correct : C. fernand braudel
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."
Correct : 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."
Correct : A. karl marx
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."
Correct : A. r. g. collingwood
27. "History is more or less bunk."
Correct : C. henry ford
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?
Correct : A. yosef hayim yerushalmi
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.
Correct : C. positivism
30. Who introduced the term "positivism"?
Correct : A. auguste comte
31. Positivism was founded by ………………….
Correct : 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.
Correct : D. historicism
33. ‘Poverty of Historicism’ was written by ………………
Correct : D. karl popper
34. Who is the author of ‘The Structure of Social Action’?
Correct : A. talcott parsons
35. Whowrote the book ‘A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’?
Correct : A. karl marx
36. "Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of
interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
Correct : D. karl marx
37. ‘Das Kapital’ was written by …………..
Correct : A. karl marx
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 ………………
Correct : D. new history
39. Charles A.Beard and Carl Becker, J.H.Robinson were the three
important spokesman of the American ………………..
Correct : A. new 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.
Correct : A. new historians
41. The Annales School is a highly influential style of historiography
developed by …………..historians in the twentieth century.
Correct : B. french
42. The journal "Annals of economic and social history" founded in …….
Correct : A. 1929
43. ……………..was the co-founder of the Annales School.
Correct : A. marc bloch
44. …………..rejected the Marxist idea that history should be used as a tool
to foment and foster revolutions.
Correct : A. annales school
45. Franciszek Bujak and Jan Rutkowski, the founders of modern ……………in
Poland.
Correct : A. economic history
46. …………….was the founder of a new Venezuelan historiography based
largely on the ideas of the Annales School.
Correct : A. federico brito figueroa
47. Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" starting
in 1950 with……………..
Correct : A. jaime vincens vives
48. The leader of the fourth generation of the Annales School is ……………….
Correct : A. roger chartier
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).
Correct : A. structuralism
50. Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of ………….
Correct : 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.
Correct : B. structuralism
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.
Correct : A. structuralism
53. The Elementary Structures of Kinship was the work of ……………..
Correct : A. claude lévi-strauss
54. Who defined structuralism as "a method and not a doctrine"?
Correct : B. jean piaget
55. ……………… 's book is The Order of Things.
Correct : A. michel foucault
56. Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ………..
Correct : B. structuralism
57. Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….with
structural anthropology in France.
Correct : A. marxism
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.
Correct : A. post-structuralism
59. In 1968, …………….. published “The Death of the Author”
Correct : B. roland barthes
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.
Correct : B. new historicism
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.
Correct : A. orientalism
62. The father of orientalism was ……………………
Correct : C. sir william jones
63. The Asiatic society was founded in ……………
Correct : A. 1784
64. The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at …………….
Correct : C. calcutta
65. Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ?
Correct : C. william jones
66. Who wrote the book what is History?
Correct : A. e. h. carr
67. E.H. Carr was born in ……………
Correct : C. london
68. The book ‘The Twenty Years' Crisis’ was written by ………………..
Correct : C. e.h. carr
69. Who stated that:"Study the historian before you begin to study the
facts”?
Correct : A. e.h. carr
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
Correct : A. e.h. carr
71. Who was the author of the book ‘The Tudor Revolution in Government?’
Correct : D. g.r.elton
72. Who wrote the book ‘The Practice of History’?
Correct : D. g.r.elton
73. Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer.
Correct : D. british
74. Who was the author of ‘Why History’?
Correct : A. keith jenkins
75. ………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content
of communication.
Correct : D. textual analysis
76. …………….is the archaeological study of living people.
Correct : A. ethnoarchaeology
77. ………..is a field of study that aims to systematize archaeological measurement.
Correct : A. archaeometry
78. National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was passed in …………
Correct : A. 1966
79. Who was called ‘father of archaeology’?
Correct : D. ciriaco de' pizzicolli
80. Theory of evolution was developed by …………
Correct : A. charles darwin
81. In 1859, …………..'s On the Origin of Species was published.
Correct : A. charles darwin
82. ……………….is the study of human culture in historic as well as
prehistoric times, by examining the material remains of early human settlements.
Correct : B. archaeology
83. ………….is the study of inscriptions.
Correct : A. epigraphy
84. ……………… is the study or collection of coins.
Correct : A. numismatics
85. The first book on coins was ‘De Asse et Partibus’ (1514) by ………
Correct : A. guillaume budé
86. The Royal Numismatic Society was founded in ……………
Correct : A. 1836
87. The American Numismatic Society was founded in ……………
Correct : A. 1858
88. In 1931 the ………… Academy launched the Sylloge Nummorum
Graecorum publishing collections of Ancient Greek coinage.
Correct : D. british
89. A person who works in archives is called an ………………
Correct : A. archivist
90. ………….are the bedrock of historical knowledge, infact the basic raw
materials for the reconstruction of history.
Correct : A. the primary sources
91. The first hand accounts of experimentation and investigation, original
works, reports etc. could be treated as ……………….
Correct : B. primary sources
92. ……………are neither the sources of information transmitted by one
who was neither a participant nor an eyewitness of the original event.
Correct : B. secondary sources
93. ………………is the broad conclusion of a work which will naturally
indicate the essence of the study.
Correct : B. generalization
94. ……….is also known as ‘framing a formula’ or deducing a general law.
Correct : A. generalization
95. ……………is the study of history in a geographically local context and it
often concentrates on the local community.
Correct : A. local history
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.
Correct : B. reasoning
97. …………….. is a process through which a historian tries to know what is
not known to him, on the basis of available materials.
Correct : B. constructive reasoning
98. The historian has to take up …………….to know the unknown with the
help of the information already received from the available records.
Correct : B. deductive method
99. ………………., if used quite logically and unbiased, could be helpful to
illuminate the dark aspects of historical reconstruction.
Correct : A. deductive method
100. The historian is expected to use ……………..only when he has no other
reliable sources available.