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| 1. |
Al-Aqidah Al-Waasitiyyah is written by |
| A. | ibn tymiyyah |
| B. | muhammad abduhu |
| C. | rasheed ridha |
| D. | imam khumaini |
| Answer» B. muhammad abduhu | |
| 2. |
Who was the editor of Al Urwa Al Wutqa |
| A. | hasanul banna |
| B. | muhammad abduhu |
| C. | rasheed ridha |
| D. | jamaluddin al afghani |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
Hasanul Banna was born in the Year: |
| A. | 1923 |
| B. | 1921 |
| C. | 1906 |
| D. | 1902 |
| Answer» D. 1902 | |
| 4. |
The propounder of Pan Islamic Movement |
| A. | saad zaghlool |
| B. | muhammedali |
| C. | jamaluddin al afghani |
| D. | muhammad abduhu |
| Answer» D. muhammad abduhu | |
| 5. |
Ibn Taymiyyah was belonged to ______ school of Jurisprudence |
| A. | hambali |
| B. | maliki |
| C. | shafi |
| D. | hanafi |
| Answer» B. maliki | |
| 6. |
Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab was born in |
| A. | 1806 |
| B. | 1703 |
| C. | 17011 |
| D. | 1888 |
| Answer» C. 17011 | |
| 7. |
Ibn Taymiyyah was born in the city of |
| A. | harran |
| B. | tehran |
| C. | bagdad |
| D. | makkah |
| Answer» B. tehran | |
| 8. |
’The Feudal Society’ was written by .................. |
| A. | Émile durkheim |
| B. | r.g.collingwood |
| C. | march bloch |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» D. lucien febvre | |
| 9. |
Who is the author of ‘The Decline of the West ? |
| A. | edward gibbon |
| B. | arnold joseph toynbee |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | spengler |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
‘The Historian's Craft’, is the work of ............. |
| A. | Émile durkheim |
| B. | paul vidal de la blache |
| C. | march bloch |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» D. lucien febvre | |
| 11. |
‘The Use of History’ was written by ........... |
| A. | a.l.rouse |
| B. | e.p.thompson |
| C. | h.e. barnes |
| D. | r.g.collingwood |
| Answer» B. e.p.thompson | |
| 12. |
Author of ‘Re- thinking History’ is ......... |
| A. | jenkins keith |
| B. | a.l. rouse |
| C. | ranajith guha |
| D. | e.j:,gilbert |
| Answer» B. a.l. rouse | |
| 13. |
Author of The Idea of History is................. |
| A. | e.p.thompson |
| B. | r.g.collingwood |
| C. | h.e.barnes |
| D. | arthur marwick |
| Answer» C. h.e.barnes | |
| 14. |
Nature of History was written by ................ |
| A. | arthur marwick |
| B. | e.sreedharan |
| C. | r.g.collingwood |
| D. | a.l. rouse |
| Answer» B. e.sreedharan | |
| 15. |
History of Historical Writing was written by .......... |
| A. | h.e. barnes |
| B. | r.g.collingwood |
| C. | e.h. carr |
| D. | sheik ali |
| Answer» B. r.g.collingwood | |
| 16. |
Author of ‘what is History? |
| A. | burke peter |
| B. | e.h.carr |
| C. | barnes robert m |
| D. | h. raymond pickard |
| Answer» C. barnes robert m | |
| 17. |
Author of Meta history (1973)is................. |
| A. | louis mink |
| B. | hayden white |
| C. | frank ankersmit |
| D. | ankersmit |
| Answer» C. frank ankersmit | |
| 18. |
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» B. william dray | |
| 19. |
................. New Science (1725) offered an interpretation of history thatturned 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» B. alessandro portelli | |
| 20. |
Johann Gottfried Herder argues for the historical contextuality of humannature in his work,Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity (1791). |
| A. | johann gottfried |
| B. | toynbee |
| C. | wittfogel |
| D. | wilhelm dilthey |
| Answer» B. toynbee | |
| 21. |
The original idea of writing micro history came from ................ in the1970s. |
| A. | russia |
| B. | germany |
| C. | italy |
| D. | china |
| Answer» D. china | |
| 22. |
In 1948, .................., a Columbia University historian, established theColumbia 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» B. david p. boder | |
| 23. |
The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by AllanNevins and his associates at ..............University. |
| A. | columbia |
| B. | oxford |
| C. | newyork |
| D. | cambridge |
| Answer» B. oxford | |
| 24. |
In ‘On Realism in Art’ Roman ............... argues that literature does notexist as a separate entity. |
| A. | jacobson |
| B. | owen flanagan |
| C. | victor shklovsky |
| D. | gérard genette |
| Answer» B. owen flanagan | |
| 25. |
HPR Finberg was the first Professor of ...........Local History. |
| A. | english |
| B. | french |
| C. | spanish |
| D. | dutch |
| Answer» B. french | |
| 26. |
The Archaeology of Knowledge is a book by the Frenchphilosopher ................ |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | jean hyppolite |
| C. | louis althusser |
| D. | owen flanagan |
| Answer» B. jean hyppolite | |
| 27. |
................. is a Joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literaryjournal published from Calcutta. |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | jhumpa lahiri |
| C. | philippe ariès |
| D. | partha chatterjee |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
.................. received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009 for hiscontributions to academia. |
| A. | partha chatterjee |
| B. | sumit sarkar |
| C. | richard j. evans |
| D. | harry hendrick |
| Answer» B. sumit sarkar | |
| 29. |
............... entitled one of his essays "Decline of the Subaltern inSubaltern 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» B. richard j. evans | |
| 30. |
....................is an Indian historian and is the author of ‘SwadeshiMovement’. |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | partha chatterjee |
| C. | philippe ariès |
| D. | sumit sarkar |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India iswidely considered to be a classic. |
| A. | ranajit guha’s |
| B. | sumit sarkar |
| C. | partha chatterjee |
| D. | roger chartier |
| Answer» B. sumit sarkar | |
| 32. |
.................. is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential inthe 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» B. leszek kołakowski | |
| 33. |
.................. book is ‘The Poverty of Historicism’. |
| A. | karl popper's |
| B. | pierre-joseph proudhons |
| C. | gustav schmoller’s |
| D. | werner sombart’s |
| Answer» B. pierre-joseph proudhons | |
| 34. |
In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attackedthe structuralist Marxism. |
| A. | e. p. thompson |
| B. | harold wilson |
| C. | karl marx |
| D. | otto hintze |
| Answer» B. harold wilson | |
| 35. |
............. most influential work was and remains ‘The Making of theEnglish 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» E. | |
| 36. |
In a notable pre-prison article entitled "The Revolution against DasKapital", .................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» E. | |
| 37. |
..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the CommunistParty of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime. |
| A. | leon trotsky |
| B. | edward saïd |
| C. | antonio gramsci |
| D. | vladimir ilyich lenin |
| Answer» D. vladimir ilyich lenin | |
| 38. |
In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used bythe Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat. |
| A. | antonio gramsci |
| B. | homi k. bhabha |
| C. | max weber |
| D. | thorstein veblen |
| Answer» B. homi k. bhabha | |
| 39. |
The history of sexuality was treated in depth by the Frenchphilosopher ................ 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» B. jeremy bentham | |
| 40. |
........... was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. |
| A. | fernand braudel |
| B. | jules michelet |
| C. | stephan thernstrom |
| D. | jeremy bentham |
| Answer» B. jules michelet | |
| 41. |
.............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology. |
| A. | lévi-strauss |
| B. | ferdinand de saussure |
| C. | lucien febvre |
| D. | march bloch |
| Answer» B. ferdinand de saussure | |
| 42. |
Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" startingin 1950 with..................... |
| A. | jaime vincens vives |
| B. | jacques revel |
| C. | philippe ariès |
| D. | roger chartier |
| Answer» B. jacques revel | |
| 43. |
............ has had lasting influence in the field of historiography throughhis 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» B. paul vidal de la blache | |
| 44. |
....................is best known for his pioneering studies French RuralHistory 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» B. lévi-strauss | |
| 45. |
................published a large work, available in a two-volume Englishtranslation as Feudal Society. |
| A. | ferdinand de saussure |
| B. | lévi-strauss |
| C. | marc leopold benjamin bloch |
| D. | lucien febvre |
| Answer» D. lucien febvre | |
| 46. |
Among ...............many significant publications, The ElementaryStructures 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» B. ferdinand de saussure | |
| 47. |
.................. published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essayswhich provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism. |
| A. | claude lévi-strauss |
| B. | ferdinand de saussure’s |
| C. | charles bally |
| D. | albert sechehaye |
| Answer» B. ferdinand de saussure’s | |
| 48. |
............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics waspublished posthumously in 1916. |
| A. | ferdinand de saussure’s |
| B. | charles bally |
| C. | albert sechehaye |
| D. | claude lévi-strauss |
| Answer» B. charles bally | |
| 49. |
.................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-centurylinguistics. |
| A. | ferdinand de saussure |
| B. | karl marx |
| C. | claude lévi-strauss |
| D. | thomas kuhn |
| Answer» B. karl marx | |
| 50. |
Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist LouisAlthusser 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» B. ferdinand de saussure | |