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This section includes 5672 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your UPSC IAS Exam knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 651. |
…………….., simply is any meeting for an exchange of ideas. |
| A. | plagiarism |
| B. | seminar |
| C. | hermeneutics |
| D. | synthesis |
| Answer» C. hermeneutics | |
| 652. |
…………….. is a written document describing the findings of someindividuals or group. |
| A. | plagiarism |
| B. | report |
| C. | synthesis |
| D. | generalisation |
| Answer» C. synthesis | |
| 653. |
The word …………….. comes from the Latin word for kidnapping. |
| A. | plagiarism |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | synthesis |
| D. | heuristics |
| Answer» B. hermeneutics | |
| 654. |
A ………….. is an invalid argument that appears valid or a validargument with distinguished assumptions. |
| A. | plagiarism |
| B. | fallacy |
| C. | hermeneutics |
| D. | synthesis |
| Answer» C. hermeneutics | |
| 655. |
…………….asserts that the truth of the conclusion is supported bypremise. |
| A. | inductive argument |
| B. | synthesis |
| C. | generalisation |
| D. | appendices |
| Answer» B. synthesis | |
| 656. |
……………..is course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth orfalsehood. |
| A. | plagiarism |
| B. | logical argument |
| C. | ethnographic research |
| D. | quantitative research |
| Answer» C. ethnographic research | |
| 657. |
…………..is not gossip, hearsay or rumer; it is history of the people,created by the people |
| A. | oral history |
| B. | argument |
| C. | synthesis |
| D. | generalisation |
| Answer» B. argument | |
| 658. |
Alessandro Fortelli was an ………………. |
| A. | oral historian |
| B. | hermeneutist |
| C. | ethnographist |
| D. | sociolist |
| Answer» B. hermeneutist | |
| 659. |
What distinguishes historians from the collector of historical fact isgeneralization? |
| A. | d.d.kosambi |
| B. | francis bacon |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | elton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 660. |
The study of paper money is called ………………. |
| A. | notaphily |
| B. | ethnography |
| C. | appendices |
| D. | index |
| Answer» B. ethnography | |
| 661. |
………..….is the study of coin like objects such as token coins and medals. |
| A. | exonumia |
| B. | hermeneutics |
| C. | synthesis |
| D. | heuristics |
| Answer» B. hermeneutics | |
| 662. |
Christian Thomson was a Danish …………………. |
| A. | archiologist |
| B. | historian |
| C. | epigraphist |
| D. | economist |
| Answer» B. historian | |
| 663. |
……………., the French historian’s book is ‘what is history for’? |
| A. | jean chesneaux |
| B. | francis bacon |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» B. francis bacon | |
| 664. |
on what is history, why history and rethinking history-these books arewritten by ………………… |
| A. | jenkins |
| B. | elton |
| C. | karl popper |
| D. | thomas carlyle |
| Answer» B. elton | |
| 665. |
‘If no evidence survived no fact at all’who said. |
| A. | karl marx |
| B. | karl popper |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | elton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 666. |
The concept of Orientalism was developed by the ……………… |
| A. | africans |
| B. | asians |
| C. | americans |
| D. | europeans |
| Answer» E. | |
| 667. |
Who wrote that History of all hitherto existing society is the history ofclass struggles? |
| A. | karl marx |
| B. | elton |
| C. | francis bacon |
| D. | karl popper |
| Answer» B. elton | |
| 668. |
Karl Marx’s Interpretattion of History generally known as …………… |
| A. | historical materialism |
| B. | plagiarism |
| C. | argument |
| D. | heuristics |
| Answer» B. plagiarism | |
| 669. |
Who was the author of the book ‘Poverty of Historicism?’ |
| A. | karl popper |
| B. | elton |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» B. elton | |
| 670. |
“Origins of historicism” was written by ……………… |
| A. | frederick meinecke |
| B. | j.b.bury |
| C. | francis bacon |
| D. | karl popper |
| Answer» B. j.b.bury | |
| 671. |
Troeltsch used …………….. to mean a tendency to view all knowledgeand all forms of experience in the context of historical change. |
| A. | historicism |
| B. | plagiarism |
| C. | argument |
| D. | hermeneutics |
| Answer» B. plagiarism | |
| 672. |
The term ‘philosophy of history’ was introduced by …………….. |
| A. | karl marx |
| B. | j.b.bury |
| C. | elton |
| D. | voltaire |
| Answer» E. | |
| 673. |
The concept of Universal History was initiated by the Medieval ArabHistorians ………………… |
| A. | elton |
| B. | francis bacon |
| C. | j.b.bury |
| D. | ibn khaldun |
| Answer» E. | |
| 674. |
……………..defined history as the presentation, in chronological order ofsuccessive developments in the means and relations of production. |
| A. | francis bacon |
| B. | j.b.bury |
| C. | karl marx |
| D. | d.d.kosambi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 675. |
The Italian historian………says that “all history is contemporary history”. |
| A. | elton |
| B. | j.b.bury |
| C. | croce |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» D. karl marx | |
| 676. |
…………….wrote that “History is a science of man in time”. |
| A. | mark bloch |
| B. | francis bacon |
| C. | j.b.bury |
| D. | elton |
| Answer» B. francis bacon | |
| 677. |
………………declared that “History is a science, no less and no more”. |
| A. | karl marx |
| B. | elton |
| C. | j.b.bury |
| D. | francis bacon |
| Answer» D. francis bacon | |
| 678. |
…………….considers “History as the unfolding story of human freedom”. |
| A. | lord acton |
| B. | francis bacon |
| C. | j.b.bury |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» B. francis bacon | |
| 679. |
……………….viewed that “History is past politics and present politics isfuture history”. |
| A. | seely |
| B. | j.b.bury |
| C. | elton |
| D. | francis bacon |
| Answer» B. j.b.bury | |
| 680. |
…………says that “History is nothing but the biography of great men” |
| A. | j |
| B. | bury b) francis bacon |
| C. | thomas carlyle |
| D. | elton |
| Answer» D. elton | |
| 681. |
The Renaissance scholar …………defined “History as a discipline thatmakes men wise” |
| A. | elton |
| B. | j.b.bury |
| C. | francis bacon |
| D. | karl popper |
| Answer» D. karl popper | |
| 682. |
……………., the famous Greek philosopher defined “History as theaccount of the unchanging past” |
| A. | j |
| B. | bury b) francis bacon |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | thomas carlyle |
| Answer» D. thomas carlyle | |
| 683. |
………………is otherwise known as ‘argument from silence’. |
| A. | the negative reasoning |
| B. | appendices |
| C. | foot notes |
| D. | oral history |
| Answer» B. appendices | |
| 684. |
The historian is expected to use ……………..only when he has no otherreliable sources available. |
| A. | argument |
| B. | oral history |
| C. | plagiarism |
| D. | deductive method |
| Answer» E. | |
| 685. |
………………., if used quite logically and unbiased, could be helpful toilluminate the dark aspects of historical reconstruction. |
| A. | deductive method |
| B. | appendices |
| C. | index |
| D. | foot notes |
| Answer» B. appendices | |
| 686. |
The historian has to take up …………….to know the unknown with thehelp of the information already received from the available records. |
| A. | oral history |
| B. | deductive method |
| C. | plagiarism |
| D. | secondary sources |
| Answer» C. plagiarism | |
| 687. |
…………….. is a process through which a historian tries to know what isnot known to him, on the basis of available materials. |
| A. | appendices |
| B. | constructive reasoning |
| C. | glossary |
| D. | index |
| Answer» C. glossary | |
| 688. |
…………. is an element of historical method, attempted to fill the gapswhich a historian finds in his collected materials for the reconstruction of history. |
| A. | oral history |
| B. | reasoning |
| C. | argument |
| D. | appendices |
| Answer» C. argument | |
| 689. |
……………is the study of history in a geographically local context and itoften concentrates on the local community. |
| A. | local history |
| B. | tertiary evidences |
| C. | oral history |
| D. | secondary sources |
| Answer» B. tertiary evidences | |
| 690. |
……….is also known as ‘framing a formula’ or deducing a general law. |
| A. | generalization |
| B. | oral history |
| C. | secondary sources |
| D. | argument |
| Answer» B. oral history | |
| 691. |
………………is the broad conclusion of a work which will naturallyindicate the essence of the study. |
| A. | tertiary evidences |
| B. | generalization |
| C. | oral history |
| D. | plagiarism |
| Answer» C. oral history | |
| 692. |
……………are neither the sources of information transmitted by onewho was neither a participant nor an eyewitness of the original event. |
| A. | oral history |
| B. | secondary sources |
| C. | argument |
| D. | index |
| Answer» C. argument | |
| 693. |
The first hand accounts of experimentation and investigation, originalworks, reports etc. could be treated as ………………. |
| A. | tertiary evidences |
| B. | primary sources |
| C. | oral history |
| D. | secondary sources |
| Answer» C. oral history | |
| 694. |
A person who works in archives is called an ……………… |
| A. | archivist |
| B. | archaeologist |
| C. | historian |
| D. | epigraphists |
| Answer» B. archaeologist | |
| 695. |
………….are the bedrock of historical knowledge, infact the basic rawmaterials for the reconstruction of history. |
| A. | the primary sources |
| B. | secondary sources |
| C. | tertiary evidences |
| D. | reasoning |
| Answer» B. secondary sources | |
| 696. |
In 1931 the ………… Academy launched the Sylloge NummorumGraecorum publishing collections of Ancient Greek coinage. |
| A. | american |
| B. | french |
| C. | german |
| D. | british |
| Answer» E. | |
| 697. |
The American Numismatic Society was founded in …………… |
| A. | 1858 |
| B. | 1862 |
| C. | 1875 |
| D. | 1885 |
| Answer» B. 1862 | |
| 698. |
The Royal Numismatic Society was founded in …………… |
| A. | 1836 |
| B. | 1846 |
| C. | 1861 |
| D. | 1863 |
| Answer» B. 1846 | |
| 699. |
The first book on coins was ‘De Asse et Partibus’ (1514) by ……… |
| A. | guillaume budé |
| B. | keith jenkins |
| C. | edward tylor |
| D. | lewis henry morgan |
| Answer» B. keith jenkins | |
| 700. |
……………… is the study or collection of coins. |
| A. | numismatics |
| B. | epigraphy |
| C. | archaeology |
| D. | museology |
| Answer» B. epigraphy | |