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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. |
.…………. 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 | |
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