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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. |
................... used Carlyle's work as a primary source for the events of the French Revolution in his novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’. |
| A. | charles dickens |
| B. | robert jaulin |
| C. | winston churchill |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | carlyle |
| B. | isaac asimov |
| C. | thomas kuhn |
| D. | edmund spenser |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | british |
| B. | french |
| C. | american |
| D. | dutch |
| Answer» C. american | |
| 54. |
Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist Louis Althusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism." |
| A. | louis althusser |
| B. | ferdinand de saussure |
| C. | claude lévi-strauss |
| D. | thomas kuhn |
| Answer» A. louis althusser | |
| 55. |
.................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-century linguistics. |
| A. | ferdinand de saussure |
| B. | karl marx |
| C. | claude lévi-strauss |
| D. | thomas kuhn |
| Answer» A. ferdinand de saussure | |
| 56. |
............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics was published posthumously in 1916. |
| A. | ferdinand de saussure’s |
| B. | charles bally |
| C. | albert sechehaye |
| D. | claude lévi-strauss |
| Answer» A. ferdinand de saussure’s | |
| 57. |
.................. published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essays which provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism. |
| A. | claude lévi-strauss |
| B. | ferdinand de saussure’s |
| C. | charles bally |
| D. | albert sechehaye |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | claude lévi-strauss’ |
| B. | ferdinand de saussure |
| C. | lucien febvre |
| D. | march bloch |
| Answer» A. claude lévi-strauss’ | |
| 59. |
.............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology. |
| A. | lévi-strauss |
| B. | ferdinand de saussure |
| C. | lucien febvre |
| D. | march bloch |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | marc leopold benjamin bloch |
| B. | lévi-strauss |
| C. | ferdinand de saussure |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» A. marc leopold benjamin bloch | |
| 61. |
................published a large work, available in a two-volume English translation as Feudal Society. |
| A. | ferdinand de saussure |
| B. | lévi-strauss |
| C. | marc leopold benjamin bloch |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | march bloch |
| B. | paul vidal de la blache |
| C. | Émile durkheim |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» A. march bloch | |
| 63. |
Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" starting in 1950 with..................... |
| A. | jaime vincens vives |
| B. | jacques revel |
| C. | philippe ariès |
| D. | roger chartier |
| Answer» A. jaime vincens vives | |
| 64. |
........... was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. |
| A. | fernand braudel |
| B. | jules michelet |
| C. | stephan thernstrom |
| D. | jeremy bentham |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | jeremy bentham |
| C. | e.p. thompson |
| D. | g. m. trevelyan. 68.gender history gained prominence after it was conceptualized |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | antonio gramsci |
| B. | homi k. bhabha |
| C. | max weber |
| D. | thorstein veblen |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | leon trotsky |
| B. | edward saïd |
| C. | antonio gramsci |
| D. | vladimir ilyich lenin |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | joseph stalin |
| B. | machiavelli |
| C. | benito mussolini |
| D. | antonio gramsci |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | stuart hall’s |
| B. | perry anderson’s |
| C. | raymond williams’ |
| D. | e.p.thompson's |
| Answer» D. e.p.thompson's | |
| 70. |
In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attacked the structuralist Marxism. |
| A. | e. p. thompson |
| B. | harold wilson |
| C. | karl marx |
| D. | otto hintze |
| Answer» A. e. p. thompson | |
| 71. |
.................. book is ‘The Poverty of Historicism’. |
| A. | karl popper's |
| B. | pierre-joseph proudhons |
| C. | gustav schmoller’s |
| D. | werner sombart’s |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | ranajit guha |
| B. | leszek kołakowski |
| C. | tony judt |
| D. | partha chatterjee |
| Answer» A. ranajit guha | |
| 73. |
................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is widely considered to be a classic. |
| A. | ranajit guha’s |
| B. | sumit sarkar |
| C. | partha chatterjee |
| D. | roger chartier |
| Answer» A. ranajit guha’s | |
| 74. |
....................is an Indian historian and is the author of ‘Swadeshi Movement’. |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | partha chatterjee |
| C. | philippe ariès |
| D. | sumit sarkar |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | sumit sarkar |
| B. | richard j. evans |
| C. | harry hendrick |
| D. | partha chatterjee |
| Answer» A. sumit sarkar | |
| 76. |
.................. received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009 for his contributions to academia. |
| A. | partha chatterjee |
| B. | sumit sarkar |
| C. | richard j. evans |
| D. | harry hendrick |
| Answer» A. partha chatterjee | |
| 77. |
................. is a Joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literary journal published from Calcutta. |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | jhumpa lahiri |
| C. | philippe ariès |
| D. | partha chatterjee |
| Answer» D. partha chatterjee | |
| 78. |
The Archaeology of Knowledge is a book by the French philosopher ................ |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | jean hyppolite |
| C. | louis althusser |
| D. | owen flanagan |
| Answer» A. michel foucault | |
| 79. |
HPR Finberg was the first Professor of ...........Local History. |
| A. | english |
| B. | french |
| C. | spanish |
| D. | dutch |
| Answer» A. english | |
| 80. |
In ‘On Realism in Art’ Roman ............... argues that literature does not exist as a separate entity. |
| A. | jacobson |
| B. | owen flanagan |
| C. | victor shklovsky |
| D. | gérard genette |
| Answer» A. jacobson | |
| 81. |
The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his associates at ..............University. |
| A. | columbia |
| B. | oxford |
| C. | newyork |
| D. | cambridge |
| Answer» 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. |
| A. | alan nevins |
| B. | david p. boder |
| C. | m. vaněk |
| D. | m. otáhal |
| Answer» A. alan nevins | |
| 83. |
The original idea of writing micro history came from ................ in the 1970s. |
| A. | russia |
| B. | germany |
| C. | italy |
| D. | china |
| Answer» 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 . |
| A. | giambattista vico's |
| B. | alessandro portelli |
| C. | ranke’s |
| D. | spengler’s |
| Answer» 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). |
| A. | johann gottfried |
| B. | toynbee |
| C. | wittfogel |
| D. | wilhelm dilthey |
| Answer» 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). |
| A. | carl hempel |
| B. | william dray |
| C. | michael scriven |
| D. | alan donagan |
| Answer» A. carl hempel | |
| 87. |
Author of Meta history (1973)is................. |
| A. | louis mink |
| B. | hayden white |
| C. | frank ankersmit |
| D. | ankersmit |
| Answer» B. hayden white | |
| 88. |
Author of ‘what is History? |
| A. | burke peter |
| B. | e.h.carr |
| C. | barnes robert m |
| D. | h. raymond pickard |
| Answer» B. e.h.carr | |
| 89. |
Author of The Idea of History is................. |
| A. | e.p.thompson |
| B. | r.g.collingwood |
| C. | h.e.barnes |
| D. | arthur marwick |
| Answer» B. r.g.collingwood | |
| 90. |
History of Historical Writing was written by .......... |
| A. | h.e. barnes |
| B. | r.g.collingwood |
| C. | e.h. carr |
| D. | sheik ali |
| Answer» A. h.e. barnes | |
| 91. |
Nature of History was written by ................ |
| A. | arthur marwick |
| B. | e.sreedharan |
| C. | r.g.collingwood |
| D. | a.l. rouse |
| Answer» A. arthur marwick | |
| 92. |
Author of ‘Re- thinking History’ is ......... |
| A. | jenkins keith |
| B. | a.l. rouse |
| C. | ranajith guha |
| D. | e.j:,gilbert |
| Answer» A. jenkins keith | |
| 93. |
‘The Use of History’ was written by ........... |
| A. | a.l.rouse |
| B. | e.p.thompson |
| C. | h.e. barnes |
| D. | r.g.collingwood |
| Answer» A. a.l.rouse | |
| 94. |
‘The Historian's Craft’, is the work of ............. |
| A. | Émile durkheim |
| B. | paul vidal de la blache |
| C. | march bloch |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» C. march bloch | |
| 95. |
Who is the author of ‘The Decline of the West ? |
| A. | edward gibbon |
| B. | arnold joseph toynbee |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | spengler |
| Answer» D. spengler | |
| 96. |
’The Feudal Society’ was written by .................. |
| A. | Émile durkheim |
| B. | r.g.collingwood |
| C. | march bloch |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» C. march bloch | |
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