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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) .
| 1. |
Who is the Author of what is History? |
| A. | e.h.carr |
| B. | edward said |
| C. | r.g.collingwood |
| D. | herodotus |
| Answer» 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." |
| A. | francis fukuyama |
| B. | clifford geertz |
| C. | kenneth stamp |
| D. | leila ahmed |
| Answer» A. francis fukuyama | |
| 3. |
.....................classic novel is ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1899). |
| A. | joseph conrad's |
| B. | conal furay |
| C. | michael j. salevouris |
| D. | chinua achebe |
| Answer» A. joseph conrad's | |
| 4. |
‘Genealogia’ is the work of ................... of Miletus. |
| A. | hecataeus |
| B. | herodotus |
| C. | sophocles |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. hecataeus | |
| 5. |
...................... has been called the “father of history.” |
| A. | herodotus |
| B. | xenophon |
| C. | polybius |
| D. | thucydides |
| Answer» A. herodotus | |
| 6. |
‘History of the Greco-Persian Wars’ is the work of ................... |
| A. | herodotus |
| B. | aeschylus |
| C. | euripides |
| D. | polybius |
| Answer» A. herodotus | |
| 7. |
In .................. great work, the History of the Peloponnesian War, which describes the destructive conflict between Athens and Sparta. |
| A. | polybius’ |
| B. | herodotus’ |
| C. | thucydides’ |
| D. | aristotle’s |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | livy |
| B. | pericles |
| C. | alexander the great |
| D. | herodotus |
| Answer» A. livy | |
| 9. |
............... two great works—the Annals, and the Histories. |
| A. | tacitus’ |
| B. | livy |
| C. | pericles |
| D. | julius caesar |
| Answer» A. tacitus’ | |
| 10. |
The De vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars), written by .............. in the 2nd century. |
| A. | suetonius |
| B. | st. augustine |
| C. | edward gibbon |
| D. | thomas carlyle |
| Answer» A. suetonius | |
| 11. |
The most well-known originator of Roman historiography was .............., also known as the “Founder of Historiography”. |
| A. | quintus fabius pictor |
| B. | cato the elder |
| C. | livy |
| D. | pericles |
| Answer» A. quintus fabius pictor | |
| 12. |
..............was the founder of the Mughal Empire in India (1526) |
| A. | jahangir |
| B. | babur |
| C. | abul fazl |
| D. | abdul hamid lahori |
| Answer» B. babur | |
| 13. |
The first comprehensive history of India entitled History of British India (1818), was written by ...................... |
| A. | james mill |
| B. | sir william jones |
| C. | macaulay |
| D. | st. augustine |
| Answer» A. james mill | |
| 14. |
................ Rajatarangini, written in 12th century Kashmir, is a remarkable piece of historical literature. |
| A. | r.c. majumdar’s |
| B. | athula’s |
| C. | jadunath sarkar’s |
| D. | kalhana’s |
| Answer» D. kalhana’s | |
| 15. |
............... was the court historian of Sultan Alauddin Khalji |
| A. | kabiruddin |
| B. | kalhana |
| C. | confucius |
| D. | athula |
| Answer» A. kabiruddin | |
| 16. |
Humanism began and achieved fruition first in .............. |
| A. | india |
| B. | germany |
| C. | japan |
| D. | italy |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | 1443 |
| B. | 1453 |
| C. | 1458 |
| D. | 1488 |
| Answer» B. 1453 | |
| 18. |
................, whose ‘Praise of Folly’epitomized the moral essence of humanism in its insistence on heartfelt goodness as opposed to formalistic piety. |
| A. | desiderius erasmus |
| B. | francis bacon |
| C. | john walsall |
| D. | francis bacon |
| Answer» A. desiderius erasmus | |
| 19. |
Francis Bacon was an ..............philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author. |
| A. | french |
| B. | japanese |
| C. | english |
| D. | american |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | sir amias paulet |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | queen elizabeth |
| D. | henry viii |
| Answer» C. queen elizabeth | |
| 21. |
James I came to power in England in ................... |
| A. | 1503 |
| B. | 1558 |
| C. | 1603 |
| D. | 1625 |
| Answer» C. 1603 | |
| 22. |
During the Restoration, Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in................. |
| A. | 1556 |
| B. | 1560 |
| C. | 1578 |
| D. | 1660 |
| Answer» D. 1660 | |
| 23. |
...............has been reputed as the "Father of Experimental Science". |
| A. | francis bacon |
| B. | william hepworth dixon |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | giambattista vico |
| Answer» A. francis bacon | |
| 24. |
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in .............. and published in 1620. |
| A. | latin |
| B. | english |
| C. | french |
| D. | dutch |
| Answer» A. latin | |
| 25. |
René Descartes was a ................philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. |
| A. | american |
| B. | british |
| C. | dutch |
| D. | french |
| Answer» D. french | |
| 26. |
...................has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'. |
| A. | gottfried leibniz |
| B. | baruch spinoza |
| C. | rené descartes |
| D. | jean-jacques rousseau |
| Answer» C. rené descartes | |
| 27. |
............... was born in La Haye en Touraine (now Descartes), Indre-et- Loire, France. |
| A. | galileo |
| B. | isaac beeckman |
| C. | descartes |
| D. | francis bacon |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | rené descartes |
| B. | giambattista vico |
| C. | isaac beeckman |
| D. | baruch spinoza |
| Answer» A. rené descartes | |
| 29. |
Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Vico was an .............. political philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist. |
| A. | italian |
| B. | french |
| C. | german |
| D. | chinese |
| Answer» A. italian | |
| 30. |
.................. is best known for his magnum opus, the Scienza Nuova of 1725, often published in English as New Science. |
| A. | vico |
| B. | rené descartes |
| C. | baruch spinoza |
| D. | montesquieu |
| Answer» A. vico | |
| 31. |
The Enlightenment beginning in Britain's Glorious Revolution of ............ |
| A. | 1558 |
| B. | 1568 |
| C. | 1658 |
| D. | 1688 |
| Answer» D. 1688 | |
| 32. |
The French Revolution of ....................... |
| A. | 1679 |
| B. | 1683 |
| C. | 1779 |
| D. | 1789. |
| Answer» D. 1789. | |
| 33. |
In The Spirit of Laws, .............explored the natural order that he believed underlay polities as well as economies. |
| A. | montesquieu |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | louis xiv |
| D. | wilhelm dilthey |
| Answer» A. montesquieu | |
| 34. |
................ preferred form of government was constitutional monarchy, which existed in France before Louis XIV . |
| A. | montesquieu’s |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | wilhelm dilthey |
| D. | max weber |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | Émile durkheim |
| B. | chaucer |
| C. | henri de saint-simon |
| D. | auguste comte |
| Answer» D. auguste comte | |
| 36. |
.................first described the epistemological perspective of positivism in ‘The Course in Positive Philosophy’. |
| A. | auguste comte |
| B. | georg simmel |
| C. | Émile durkheim |
| D. | ranke |
| Answer» A. auguste comte | |
| 37. |
Leopold von Ranke was a .............. positivist historian and a founder of modern source-based history. |
| A. | french |
| B. | italian |
| C. | american |
| D. | german |
| Answer» D. german | |
| 38. |
............was born in Wiehe, then part of the Electorate of Saxony. |
| A. | georges duby |
| B. | pierre goubert |
| C. | robert mandrou |
| D. | ranke |
| Answer» D. ranke | |
| 39. |
In 1814, ...............entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjects were Classics and Lutheran theology. |
| A. | ranke |
| B. | thucydides |
| C. | livy |
| D. | dionysius |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | georg wilhelm friedrich hegel |
| B. | karl marx |
| C. | engels |
| D. | trotsky |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | edmund spenser's |
| B. | hegel ‘s |
| C. | trotsky’s |
| D. | socrates ‘ |
| Answer» A. edmund spenser's | |
| 42. |
Geist is a central concept in ................ The Phenomenology of Spirit . |
| A. | hegel's |
| B. | socrates’ |
| C. | plato’s |
| D. | aristotle’s |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | 1747 |
| B. | 1768 |
| C. | 1837 |
| D. | 1847 |
| Answer» D. 1847 | |
| 44. |
.................... published his theory of human evolution in 1859. |
| A. | edward gibbon |
| B. | frederick engels |
| C. | charles darwin |
| D. | spengler |
| Answer» C. charles darwin | |
| 45. |
............... is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History. |
| A. | arnold joseph toynbee |
| B. | edward gibbon |
| C. | spengler |
| D. | hegel |
| Answer» A. arnold joseph toynbee | |
| 46. |
The Decline of the West is the work of ................... |
| A. | edward gibbon |
| B. | arnold joseph toynbee |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | spengler |
| Answer» D. spengler | |
| 47. |
Oswald Spengler was a …………..philosopher and mathematician. |
| A. | german |
| B. | french |
| C. | italian |
| D. | spanish |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | edward gibbon’s |
| B. | laurence echard |
| C. | william howel |
| D. | j. c. stobart |
| Answer» A. edward gibbon’s | |
| 49. |
‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’is the work of ................. |
| A. | edmund burke |
| B. | edmund spenser |
| C. | carlyle |
| D. | winston churchill |
| Answer» A. edmund burke | |
| 50. |
The French Revolution: A History (1837) is the work of ............... |
| A. | winston churchill |
| B. | edward gibbon |
| C. | edmund burke |
| D. | thomas carlyle |
| Answer» D. thomas carlyle | |
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