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1.

In 1859, …………..'s On the Origin of Species was published.

A. charles darwin
B. heinrich schliemann
C. arthur evans
D. john lloyd stephens
Answer» B. heinrich schliemann
2.

………….is the study of inscriptions.

A. epigraphy
B. archaeology
C. museology
D. numismatics
Answer» B. archaeology
3.

……………….is the study of human culture in historic as well asprehistoric times, by examining the material remains of early human settlements.

A. epigraphy
B. archaeology
C. economics
D. museology
Answer» C. economics
4.

Theory of evolution was developed by …………

A. charles darwin
B. heinrich schliemann
C. john lloyd stephens
D. samuel haven
Answer» B. heinrich schliemann
5.

Who was called ‘father of archaeology’?

A. lewis henry morgan
B. heinrich schliemann
C. edward tylor
D. ciriaco de' pizzicolli
Answer» E.
6.

National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was passed in …………

A. 1966
B. 1866
C. 1934
D. 1946
Answer» B. 1866
7.

………..is a field of study that aims to systematize archaeological measurement.

A. archaeometry
B. geography
C. geology
D. experimental archaeology
Answer» B. geography
8.

…………….is the archaeological study of living people.

A. ethnoarchaeology
B. anthropology
C. indology
D. sinology
Answer» B. anthropology
9.

Who wrote the book ‘The Practice of History’?

A. joan scott
B. hayden white
C. michel foucault
D. g.r.elton
Answer» E.
10.

………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the contentof communication.

A. structuralism
B. indology
C. sinology
D. textual analysis
Answer» E.
11.

Who was the author of ‘Why History’?

A. keith jenkins
B. michel foucault
C. joan scott
D. earl babbie
Answer» B. michel foucault
12.

Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer.

A. africa
B. india
C. america
D. british
Answer» E.
13.

Who was the author of the book ‘The Tudor Revolution in Government?’

A. joan scott
B. michel foucault
C. hayden white
D. g.r.elton
Answer» E.
14.

“The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants”.who said

A. e.h. carr
B. friedrich meinecke
C. r. g. collingwood
D. hugh trevor-roper
Answer» B. friedrich meinecke
15.

Who stated that:"Study the historian before you begin to study thefacts”?

A. e.h. carr
B. r. g. collingwood
C. hugh trevor-roper
D. g.r.elton
Answer» B. r. g. collingwood
16.

The book ‘The Twenty Years' Crisis’ was written by ………………..

A. r. g. collingwood
B. g. m. trevelyan
C. e.h. carr
D. friedrich meinecke
Answer» D. friedrich meinecke
17.

E.H. Carr was born in ……………

A. holland
B. germany
C. london
D. calcutta
Answer» D. calcutta
18.

Who wrote the book what is History?

A. e. h. carr
B. r. g. collingwood
C. g. m. trevelyan
D. friedrich meinecke
Answer» B. r. g. collingwood
19.

……………may refer to a range of perceptions and attitudes evinced by thewestern scholarship towards the Indian civilisation in the 18th and early 19th centuries and since then to a wider intellectual exercise at global level to study and interpret the East in relation to the West.

A. orientalism
B. new historicism
C. structuralism
D. modernism
Answer» B. new historicism
20.

Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ?

A. hold mackenzie
B. wb bayley
C. william jones
D. wh macnaughten
Answer» D. wh macnaughten
21.

The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at …………….

A. madras
B. bombay
C. calcutta
D. bihar
Answer» D. bihar
22.

…………..is a label formulated by American academics to denote theheterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and ‘70s.

A. post-structuralism
B. relativism
C. nihilism
D. extremism
Answer» B. relativism
23.

The Asiatic society was founded in ……………

A. 1784
B. 1788
C. 1789
D. 1794
Answer» B. 1788
24.

The father of orientalism was ……………………

A. j.h harington
B. william carey
C. sir william jones
D. h.h wilson
Answer» D. h.h wilson
25.

…………….. is an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of the time, place, and circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated creation.

A. structuralism
B. new historicism
C. orientalism
D. marxism
Answer» C. orientalism
26.

In 1968, …………….. published “The Death of the Author”

A. foucault
B. roland barthes
C. edmund husserl
D. martin heidegger
Answer» C. edmund husserl
27.

Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ………..

A. deconstruction
B. structuralism
C. post-structuralis
D. anti-humanism
Answer» C. post-structuralis
28.

Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….withstructural anthropology in France.

A. marxism
B. post-structuralism
C. anti-humanism
D. nihilism
Answer» B. post-structuralism
29.

……………… 's book is The Order of Things.

A. michel foucault
B. leonard bloomfield
C. louis hjelmslev
D. alf sommerfelt
Answer» B. leonard bloomfield
30.

Who defined structuralism as "a method and not a doctrine"?

A. jacques derrida
B. jean piaget
C. michel foucaul
D. gilles deleuze.
Answer» C. michel foucaul
31.

The term ….…………….. itself appeared in the works of Frenchanthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and gave rise, in France, to the "structuralist movement", which spurred the work of such thinkers as Louis Althusser, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the structural Marxism of Nicos Poulantzas.

A. structuralism
B. post-structuralism
C. anti-humanism
D. relativism
Answer» B. post-structuralism
32.

The Elementary Structures of Kinship was the work of ……………..

A. claude lévi-strauss
B. jean-pierre bardet
C. georges freche
D. jean-claude perrot
Answer» B. jean-pierre bardet
33.

The most famous thinkers associated with …………. include the linguistRoman Jakobson, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

A. post-structuralism
B. structuralism
C. relativism
D. nihilism
Answer» C. relativism
34.

Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of ………….

A. pierre goubert
B. rutkowski
C. emmanuel le roy ladurie
D. ferdinand de saussure
Answer» E.
35.

…………….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» B. post-structuralism
36.

The leader of the fourth generation of the Annales School is ……………….

A. roger chartier
B. robert mandrou
C. georges duby
D. rené baehrel
Answer» B. robert mandrou
37.

Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" startingin 1950 with……………..

A. jaime vincens vives
B. paul vidal de la blache
C. Émile durkheim
D. fernand braudel
Answer» B. paul vidal de la blache
38.

…………….was the founder of a new Venezuelan historiography basedlargely on the ideas of the Annales School.

A. federico brito figueroa
B. braudel
C. jacques le goff
D. le roy laduries
Answer» B. braudel
39.

Franciszek Bujak and Jan Rutkowski, the founders of modern ……………inPoland.

A. economic history
B. people's history
C. political history
D. military history
Answer» B. people's history
40.

…………..rejected the Marxist idea that history should be used as a toolto foment and foster revolutions.

A. annales school
B. anarchist school
C. romantic school
D. rationalist school
Answer» B. anarchist school
41.

……………..was the co-founder of the Annales School.

A. marc bloch
B. g. m. trevelyan
C. r. g. collingwood
D. e.h. carr
Answer» B. g. m. trevelyan
42.

The journal "Annals of economic and social history" founded in …….

A. 1929
B. 1942
C. 1945
D. 1992
Answer» B. 1942
43.

The Annales School is a highly influential style of historiographydeveloped by …………..historians in the twentieth century.

A. british
B. french
C. american
D. german
Answer» C. american
44.

The ……………encouraged the interdisciplinary approach by which thereader 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» B. anarchists
45.

Charles A.Beard and Carl Becker, J.H.Robinson were the threeimportant spokesman of the American ………………..

A. new history
B. environmentalism
C. deconstructionism
D. micro history
Answer» B. environmentalism
46.

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» E.
47.

"Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum ofinterrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."

A. karl kautsky
B. nikolai bukharin
C. ignacy daszyński
D. karl marx
Answer» E.
48.

‘Das Kapital’ was written by …………..

A. karl marx
B. charles darwin
C. charles woolfson
D. isaac deutscher
Answer» B. charles darwin
49.

Whowrote the book ‘A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’?

A. karl marx
B. eduard bernstein
C. karl kautsky
D. georgi plekhanov
Answer» B. eduard bernstein
50.

Who is the author of ‘The Structure of Social Action’?

A. talcott parsons
B. m. guizot
C. epicurus
D. friedrich engels
Answer» B. m. guizot