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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History) .
| 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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