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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.
| 701. |
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 | |
| 702. |
………….is the study of inscriptions. |
| A. | epigraphy |
| B. | archaeology |
| C. | museology |
| D. | numismatics |
| Answer» B. archaeology | |
| 703. |
……………….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 | |
| 704. |
Theory of evolution was developed by ………… |
| A. | charles darwin |
| B. | heinrich schliemann |
| C. | john lloyd stephens |
| D. | samuel haven |
| Answer» B. heinrich schliemann | |
| 705. |
Who was called ‘father of archaeology’? |
| A. | lewis henry morgan |
| B. | heinrich schliemann |
| C. | edward tylor |
| D. | ciriaco de' pizzicolli |
| Answer» E. | |
| 706. |
National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was passed in ………… |
| A. | 1966 |
| B. | 1866 |
| C. | 1934 |
| D. | 1946 |
| Answer» B. 1866 | |
| 707. |
………..is a field of study that aims to systematize archaeological measurement. |
| A. | archaeometry |
| B. | geography |
| C. | geology |
| D. | experimental archaeology |
| Answer» B. geography | |
| 708. |
…………….is the archaeological study of living people. |
| A. | ethnoarchaeology |
| B. | anthropology |
| C. | indology |
| D. | sinology |
| Answer» B. anthropology | |
| 709. |
Who wrote the book ‘The Practice of History’? |
| A. | joan scott |
| B. | hayden white |
| C. | michel foucault |
| D. | g.r.elton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 710. |
………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the contentof communication. |
| A. | structuralism |
| B. | indology |
| C. | sinology |
| D. | textual analysis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 711. |
Who was the author of ‘Why History’? |
| A. | keith jenkins |
| B. | michel foucault |
| C. | joan scott |
| D. | earl babbie |
| Answer» B. michel foucault | |
| 712. |
Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer. |
| A. | africa |
| B. | india |
| C. | america |
| D. | british |
| Answer» E. | |
| 713. |
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. | |
| 714. |
“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 | |
| 715. |
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 | |
| 716. |
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 | |
| 717. |
E.H. Carr was born in …………… |
| A. | holland |
| B. | germany |
| C. | london |
| D. | calcutta |
| Answer» D. calcutta | |
| 718. |
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 | |
| 719. |
……………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 | |
| 720. |
Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ? |
| A. | hold mackenzie |
| B. | wb bayley |
| C. | william jones |
| D. | wh macnaughten |
| Answer» D. wh macnaughten | |
| 721. |
The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at ……………. |
| A. | madras |
| B. | bombay |
| C. | calcutta |
| D. | bihar |
| Answer» D. bihar | |
| 722. |
…………..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 | |
| 723. |
The Asiatic society was founded in …………… |
| A. | 1784 |
| B. | 1788 |
| C. | 1789 |
| D. | 1794 |
| Answer» B. 1788 | |
| 724. |
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 | |
| 725. |
…………….. 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 | |
| 726. |
In 1968, …………….. published “The Death of the Author” |
| A. | foucault |
| B. | roland barthes |
| C. | edmund husserl |
| D. | martin heidegger |
| Answer» C. edmund husserl | |
| 727. |
Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ……….. |
| A. | deconstruction |
| B. | structuralism |
| C. | post-structuralis |
| D. | anti-humanism |
| Answer» C. post-structuralis | |
| 728. |
Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….withstructural anthropology in France. |
| A. | marxism |
| B. | post-structuralism |
| C. | anti-humanism |
| D. | nihilism |
| Answer» B. post-structuralism | |
| 729. |
……………… 's book is The Order of Things. |
| A. | michel foucault |
| B. | leonard bloomfield |
| C. | louis hjelmslev |
| D. | alf sommerfelt |
| Answer» B. leonard bloomfield | |
| 730. |
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 | |
| 731. |
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 | |
| 732. |
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 | |
| 733. |
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 | |
| 734. |
Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of …………. |
| A. | pierre goubert |
| B. | rutkowski |
| C. | emmanuel le roy ladurie |
| D. | ferdinand de saussure |
| Answer» E. | |
| 735. |
…………….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 | |
| 736. |
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 | |
| 737. |
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 | |
| 738. |
…………….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 | |
| 739. |
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 | |
| 740. |
…………..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 | |
| 741. |
……………..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 | |
| 742. |
The journal "Annals of economic and social history" founded in ……. |
| A. | 1929 |
| B. | 1942 |
| C. | 1945 |
| D. | 1992 |
| Answer» B. 1942 | |
| 743. |
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 | |
| 744. |
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 | |
| 745. |
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 | |
| 746. |
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. | |
| 747. |
"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. | |
| 748. |
‘Das Kapital’ was written by ………….. |
| A. | karl marx |
| B. | charles darwin |
| C. | charles woolfson |
| D. | isaac deutscher |
| Answer» B. charles darwin | |
| 749. |
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 | |
| 750. |
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 | |