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This section includes 14 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your History knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Match List-I with List-II:List – I(Texts)List – II(Authors)(a) Kavyadarsa(i) Abhinavagupta(b) Ashtadhyayi(ii) Patanjali(c) Mahabhasya(iii) Panini(d) Tantraloka(iv) DandinChoose the correct option from those given below: |
| A. | (a) - (iv), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iii), (d) - (i) |
| B. | (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i) |
| C. | (a) - (iii), (b) - (ii), (c) - (i), (d) - (iv) |
| D. | (a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iv) |
| Answer» C. (a) - (iii), (b) - (ii), (c) - (i), (d) - (iv) | |
| 2. |
Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the options given below:List I (Authors)List II(Works)(a) R. G. Collingwood(i) Colonialism Tradition and Reform: An Analysis of Gandhi's political discourse(b) Bhikhu Parekh(ii) The Idea of History(c) Dipesh Chakravarthy(iii) On History(d) Eric Hobsbawn(iv) The Calling of History |
| A. | (a) - (iii), (b) - (ii), (c) - (i), and (d) - (iv) |
| B. | (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (i) and (d) - (ii) |
| C. | (a) - (ii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv) and (d) - (iii) |
| D. | (a) - (ii), (b) - (iv), (c) - (i) and (d) - (iii) |
| Answer» D. (a) - (ii), (b) - (iv), (c) - (i) and (d) - (iii) | |
| 3. |
Among the following statements which are correct?(a) Historical method is a complex process involving the search for sources of information, its critical evaluation, synthesis and exposition(b) Reasoning should be done if the basis of the proposition is merely conjuncture(c) The cult of 'document' especially the "official document" owes its development largely to Leopold Von Ranke(d) Oswald Spengler's philosophy of history opens with a vehement attack on the European periodization of history into ancient, medieval and modern.Choose the correct answer from the options given below: |
| A. | (a), (b) and (c) only |
| B. | (a), (c) and (d) only |
| C. | (b), (c) and (d) only |
| D. | (a) and (b) only |
| Answer» C. (b), (c) and (d) only | |
| 4. |
Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R)Assertion (A): Pride vanity, sympathy, antipathy, personal rivalry, political differences, social distinctions, religious disputes or patriotic favour could induce certain individuals to distort original records.Reason (R): There remains a grey zone between scholarship and political statements, which perhaps affects historians more than others, because, they have been used from time immemorial to legitimate claims of politicians.In the context of the above statements which of the following is correct? |
| A. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A) |
| B. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A) |
| C. | (A) is true but (R) is false |
| D. | (A) is false but (R) is true |
| Answer» C. (A) is true but (R) is false | |
| 5. |
Given below are two statements - one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R) Assertion (A) : "History" refers to both a subject matter and thought process.Reason (R): Thought process of historical thinking involves raising questions, marshallign evidence, discerning patterns in evidence, and critiquing the narratives written by others.In the context of the above statements. which of the following is correct? |
| A. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A) |
| B. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A) |
| C. | (A) is true but (R) is false |
| D. | (A) is false but (R) is true |
| Answer» B. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A) | |
| 6. |
In 1579, Mahzar was drafted by which of the following scholars? |
| A. | Abul Fazl and Sheikh Mubarak |
| B. | Sheikh Mubarak and Abdum Nabi |
| C. | Abdun Nabi and Badauni |
| D. | Sheikh Mubarak and Faizi |
| Answer» B. Sheikh Mubarak and Abdum Nabi | |
| 7. |
Against whom was "The Maharaj Libel Case" filed by the followers of Vallabhacharta Sect in 1862-63? |
| A. | Karsandas Mulji |
| B. | Dr. Bhau Daji |
| C. | Dhirajram Dalpatram |
| D. | Narmadashankar Lalshankar |
| Answer» B. Dr. Bhau Daji | |
| 8. |
Match List-I with List-II:List – I(Authors)List – II(Articles)(a) Irfan Habib(i) Perhaps the Earliest Ploughed Field So far excavated anywhere in the world(b) B. B. Lal(ii) Imagining River Saraswati – A Defence of common sense(c) R. H. Meadow(iii) Regional interaction in Indus valley urbanization(d) Marcia. A. Fentress(iv) The Domestication and Exploitation of plant and animals in the greater Indus valley Choose the correct option from those given below: |
| A. | (a) - (i), (b) - (iii), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iv) |
| B. | (a) - (iv), (b) - (i), (c) - (ii), (d) - (iii) |
| C. | (a) - (ii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iii), (d) - (iv) |
| D. | (a) - (ii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (iii) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
"History has had assigned to it the task of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of ages to come".Who among the following has so defined history? |
| A. | Carl Becker |
| B. | G.P. Gooch |
| C. | Henry Pirenne |
| D. | J.B. Bury |
| Answer» C. Henry Pirenne | |
| 10. |
From among the following statements regarding the precautions a historian must observe, which one is not correct? |
| A. | He should not introduce in the text what is not said by the author. |
| B. | Facts obtained by direct examination of the document must not be confused with the results obtained by reasoning. |
| C. | If the reasoning leaves any doubt, the conclusion should be drawn by constructive imagination. |
| D. | The historian should not invent what is not already existing |
| Answer» D. The historian should not invent what is not already existing | |
| 11. |
"Once the Ahar Iron is disposed of, all 14 C dates for the earliest iron levels in India appear to cluster around 1000 BC or little earlier" Whose opinion is this? |
| A. | Rakesh Tewari |
| B. | B and R. Allchin |
| C. | Irfan Habib |
| D. | B. Sasikaran |
| Answer» D. B. Sasikaran | |
| 12. |
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Read the statements and choose the correct answer using the code given below.Assertion (A): Historians must be sensitive to moral ideas of today and those prevalent in the past.Reason (R): Distortion in history writing has an element of willfulness or intellectual neglect which excludes innocent misconstrual or misapprehension. |
| A. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A) |
| B. | Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) in not the correct explanation of (A) |
| C. | (A) is true, but (R) is fase |
| D. | (A) is false, but (R) is ture. |
| Answer» C. (A) is true, but (R) is fase | |
| 13. |
Match List-I with List-II:List – I(Authors)List – II(Books)(a) Vera Anstey(i) Economic Development of India(b) B. M. Bhatia(ii) Famines in India(c) D. H. Buchanan(iii) The development of Capitalist Enterprise of India(d) D. R. Gadgil(iv) Industrial Evolution in IndiaChoose the correct option from those given below: |
| A. | (a) - (iii), (b) - (ii), (c) - (i), (d) - (iv) |
| B. | (a) - (i), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iii), (d) - (iv) |
| C. | (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (i), (d) - (ii) |
| D. | (a) - (i), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iv), (d) - (iii) |
| Answer» C. (a) - (iv), (b) - (iii), (c) - (i), (d) - (ii) | |
| 14. |
March List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the code given belowList I(Author)List II(Book)(a) David Arnold(i) Provincializing Europe : Postcolonial Thought and Historical differences(b) Stanley Wolpert(ii) Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India(c) David Kopf(iii) Gndhi's Passion(d) Dipesh Chakrabarty(iv) British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance |
| A. | (a) - (iii), (b) - (iv), (c) - (ii), (d) - (i) |
| B. | (a) - (ii), (b) - (iii), (c) - (iv), (d) - (i) |
| C. | (a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (ii) |
| D. | (a) - (i), (b) - (ii), (c) - (iv), (d) - (iii) |
| Answer» C. (a) - (iii), (b) - (i), (c) - (iv), (d) - (ii) | |