150+ Methodology of History Solved MCQs

1.

.…………. is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events.

A. sociology
B. economics
C. history
D. political science
Answer» C. history
2.

One who continually studies and writes about history is known as a ...….

A. historian
B. archaeologist
C. epigraphist
D. numimatists
Answer» A. historian
3.

Who is considered to be the "father of history"?

A. thucydides
B. herodotus
C. aristotle
D. polibius
Answer» B. herodotus
4.

Herodotus is a ………… Historian.

A. greek
B. chinese
C. roman
D. french
Answer» 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."

A. aristotle
B. rodney needham
C. edmund leach
D. judith butler
Answer» A. aristotle
6.

Who defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present and the past."

A. e. h. carr
B. marx
C. hegal
D. spengler
Answer» A. e. h. carr
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
Answer» A. jawaharlal nehru
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
Answer» C. will durant
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
Answer» 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.”

A. prof.elton
B. george swinton
C. thomas fortesque
D. james prinsep.
Answer» A. prof.elton
11.

Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian.

A. russia
B. german
C. french
D. america
Answer» C. french
12.

Who was a founder of the Annales School?

A. marc bloch
B. edmund husserl
C. martin heidegger
D. keith thomas
Answer» A. marc bloch
13.

Who is author of ‘The Historian’s Craft ‘?

A. charles grant
B. marc bloch
C. edward said
D. g. m. trevelyan
Answer» B. marc bloch
14.

Who is the author of ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic?’

A. keith thomas’
B. edmund husserl
C. martin heidegger
D. emmanuel lévinas
Answer» 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."

A. hugh trevor-roper
B. r. g. collingwood
C. e.h. carr
D. g. m. trevelyan
Answer» 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
Answer» 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."

A. cicero
B. ferdinand de saussure
C. g. m. trevelyan
D. r. g. collingwood
Answer» A. cicero
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
Answer» 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
Answer» B. edward gibbon
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
Answer» 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."

A. pierre chaunu
B. robert mandrou
C. livy
D. jacques le goff
Answer» 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."

A. hegel
B. fernand braudel
C. georges duby
D. pierre goubert
Answer» 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."

A. lucien febvre
B. marc bloch
C. fernand braudel
D. ernest labrousse
Answer» 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."

A. john bellamy foster
B. william l. burton
C. michel aglietta
D. e. h. carr
Answer» 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
Answer» 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."

A. r. g. collingwood
B. sigmund freud
C. friedrich nietzsche
D. g. m. trevelyan
Answer» A. r. g. collingwood
27.

"History is more or less bunk."

A. leopold von ranke
B. e.h. carr
C. henry ford
D. r. g. collingwood
Answer» 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?

A. yosef hayim yerushalmi
B. frederick jackson turner
C. jürgen habermas
D. ranke
Answer» 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.

A. nihilism
B. relativism
C. positivism
D. anarchism
Answer» C. positivism
30.

Who introduced the term "positivism"?

A. auguste comte
B. g. w. f. hegel
C. franz boas
D. lenin
Answer» A. auguste comte
31.

Positivism was founded by ………………….

A. karl popper
B. g. b. vico
C. michel de montaigne
D. auguste comte
Answer» 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
Answer» D. historicism
33.

‘Poverty of Historicism’ was written by ………………

A. mao zedong
B. daszynski
C. hermann diamand
D. karl popper
Answer» 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
Answer» A. talcott parsons
35.

Whowrote the book ‘A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’?

A. karl marx
B. eduard bernstein
C. karl kautsky
D. georgi plekhanov
Answer» A. karl marx
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
Answer» D. karl marx
37.

‘Das Kapital’ was written by …………..

A. karl marx
B. charles darwin
C. charles woolfson
D. isaac deutscher
Answer» 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 ………………

A. multiculturalism
B. anarchism
C. feminism
D. new history
Answer» 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
Answer» 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.

A. new historians
B. anarchists
C. orientalists
D. deconstructionists.
Answer» A. new historians
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
Answer» B. french
42.

The journal "Annals of economic and social history" founded in …….

A. 1929
B. 1942
C. 1945
D. 1992
Answer» A. 1929
43.

……………..was the co-founder of the Annales School.

A. marc bloch
B. g. m. trevelyan
C. r. g. collingwood
D. e.h. carr
Answer» A. marc bloch
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
Answer» A. annales 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
Answer» A. economic 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
Answer» A. federico brito figueroa
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
Answer» A. jaime vincens vives
48.

The leader of the fourth generation of the Annales School is ……………….

A. roger chartier
B. robert mandrou
C. georges duby
D. rené baehrel
Answer» 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).

A. structuralism
B. post-structuralism
C. extremism
D. marxism
Answer» A. structuralism
50.

Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of ………….

A. pierre goubert
B. rutkowski
C. emmanuel le roy ladurie
D. ferdinand de saussure
Answer» 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
Answer» 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.

A. structuralism
B. post-structuralism
C. anti-humanism
D. relativism
Answer» A. structuralism
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
Answer» A. claude lévi-strauss
54.

Who defined structuralism as "a method and not a doctrine"?

A. jacques derrida
B. jean piaget
C. michel foucaul
D. gilles deleuze.
Answer» B. jean piaget
55.

……………… 's book is The Order of Things.

A. michel foucault
B. leonard bloomfield
C. louis hjelmslev
D. alf sommerfelt
Answer» A. michel foucault
56.

Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ………..

A. deconstruction
B. structuralism
C. post-structuralis
D. anti-humanism
Answer» B. structuralism
57.

Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….with structural anthropology in France.

A. marxism
B. post-structuralism
C. anti-humanism
D. nihilism
Answer» 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.

A. post-structuralism
B. relativism
C. nihilism
D. extremism
Answer» A. post-structuralism
59.

In 1968, …………….. published “The Death of the Author”

A. foucault
B. roland barthes
C. edmund husserl
D. martin heidegger
Answer» 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.

A. structuralism
B. new historicism
C. orientalism
D. marxism
Answer» 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.

A. orientalism
B. new historicism
C. structuralism
D. modernism
Answer» A. orientalism
62.

The father of orientalism was ……………………

A. j.h harington
B. william carey
C. sir william jones
D. h.h wilson
Answer» C. sir william jones
63.

The Asiatic society was founded in ……………

A. 1784
B. 1788
C. 1789
D. 1794
Answer» A. 1784
64.

The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at …………….

A. madras
B. bombay
C. calcutta
D. bihar
Answer» C. calcutta
65.

Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ?

A. hold mackenzie
B. wb bayley
C. william jones
D. wh macnaughten
Answer» C. william jones
66.

Who wrote the book what is History?

A. e. h. carr
B. r. g. collingwood
C. g. m. trevelyan
D. friedrich meinecke
Answer» A. e. h. carr
67.

E.H. Carr was born in ……………

A. holland
B. germany
C. london
D. calcutta
Answer» C. london
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
Answer» C. e.h. carr
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
Answer» 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

A. e.h. carr
B. friedrich meinecke
C. r. g. collingwood
D. hugh trevor-roper
Answer» A. e.h. carr
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
Answer» 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
Answer» D. g.r.elton
73.

Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer.

A. africa
B. india
C. america
D. british
Answer» D. british
74.

Who was the author of ‘Why History’?

A. keith jenkins
B. michel foucault
C. joan scott
D. earl babbie
Answer» A. keith jenkins
75.

………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication.

A. structuralism
B. indology
C. sinology
D. textual analysis
Answer» D. textual analysis
76.

…………….is the archaeological study of living people.

A. ethnoarchaeology
B. anthropology
C. indology
D. sinology
Answer» A. ethnoarchaeology
77.

………..is a field of study that aims to systematize archaeological measurement.

A. archaeometry
B. geography
C. geology
D. experimental archaeology
Answer» A. archaeometry
78.

National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was passed in …………

A. 1966
B. 1866
C. 1934
D. 1946
Answer» A. 1966
79.

Who was called ‘father of archaeology’?

A. lewis henry morgan
B. heinrich schliemann
C. edward tylor
D. ciriaco de' pizzicolli
Answer» D. ciriaco de' pizzicolli
80.

Theory of evolution was developed by …………

A. charles darwin
B. heinrich schliemann
C. john lloyd stephens
D. samuel haven
Answer» A. charles darwin
81.

In 1859, …………..'s On the Origin of Species was published.

A. charles darwin
B. heinrich schliemann
C. arthur evans
D. john lloyd stephens
Answer» 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.

A. epigraphy
B. archaeology
C. economics
D. museology
Answer» B. archaeology
83.

………….is the study of inscriptions.

A. epigraphy
B. archaeology
C. museology
D. numismatics
Answer» A. epigraphy
84.

……………… is the study or collection of coins.

A. numismatics
B. epigraphy
C. archaeology
D. museology
Answer» A. numismatics
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
Answer» A. guillaume budé
86.

The Royal Numismatic Society was founded in ……………

A. 1836
B. 1846
C. 1861
D. 1863
Answer» A. 1836
87.

The American Numismatic Society was founded in ……………

A. 1858
B. 1862
C. 1875
D. 1885
Answer» A. 1858
88.

In 1931 the ………… Academy launched the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum publishing collections of Ancient Greek coinage.

A. american
B. french
C. german
D. british
Answer» D. british
89.

A person who works in archives is called an ………………

A. archivist
B. archaeologist
C. historian
D. epigraphists
Answer» A. archivist
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
Answer» A. the primary sources
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
Answer» 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.

A. oral history
B. secondary sources
C. argument
D. index
Answer» B. secondary sources
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
Answer» B. generalization
94.

……….is also known as ‘framing a formula’ or deducing a general law.

A. generalization
B. oral history
C. secondary sources
D. argument
Answer» A. generalization
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
Answer» 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.

A. oral history
B. reasoning
C. argument
D. appendices
Answer» 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.

A. appendices
B. constructive reasoning
C. glossary
D. index
Answer» 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.

A. oral history
B. deductive method
C. plagiarism
D. secondary sources
Answer» B. deductive method
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
Answer» A. deductive method
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
Answer» D. deductive method
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