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| 751. |
‘Poverty of Historicism’ was written by ……………… |
| A. | mao zedong |
| B. | daszynski |
| C. | hermann diamand |
| D. | karl popper |
| Answer» E. | |
| 752. |
………………..is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basicsignificance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical place and local culture. |
| A. | anarchism |
| B. | historical materialism |
| C. | dialectical materialism |
| D. | historicism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 753. |
Positivism was founded by …………………. |
| A. | karl popper |
| B. | g. b. vico |
| C. | michel de montaigne |
| D. | auguste comte |
| Answer» E. | |
| 754. |
Who introduced the term "positivism"? |
| A. | auguste comte |
| B. | g. w. f. hegel |
| C. | franz boas |
| D. | lenin |
| Answer» B. g. w. f. hegel | |
| 755. |
……………emerged in response to the inability of speculativephilosophy (e.g. Classical German Idealism) to solve philosophical problems which had arisen as a result of scientific development. |
| A. | nihilism |
| B. | relativism |
| C. | positivism |
| D. | anarchism |
| Answer» D. anarchism | |
| 756. |
"The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory.He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact."Who said? |
| A. | yosef hayim yerushalmi |
| B. | frederick jackson turner |
| C. | jürgen habermas |
| D. | ranke |
| Answer» B. frederick jackson turner | |
| 757. |
"History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is." |
| A. | r. g. collingwood |
| B. | sigmund freud |
| C. | friedrich nietzsche |
| D. | g. m. trevelyan |
| Answer» B. sigmund freud | |
| 758. |
"History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, and fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything,possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes." |
| A. | karl marx |
| B. | samuel eliot morison |
| C. | paul hirst |
| D. | barry hindess |
| Answer» B. samuel eliot morison | |
| 759. |
"History is more or less bunk." |
| A. | leopold von ranke |
| B. | e.h. carr |
| C. | henry ford |
| D. | r. g. collingwood |
| Answer» D. r. g. collingwood | |
| 760. |
"The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor toemancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present." |
| A. | john bellamy foster |
| B. | william l. burton |
| C. | michel aglietta |
| D. | e. h. carr |
| Answer» E. | |
| 761. |
"Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxesand contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life." |
| A. | lucien febvre |
| B. | marc bloch |
| C. | fernand braudel |
| D. | ernest labrousse |
| Answer» D. ernest labrousse | |
| 762. |
"What experience and history teach is this-that people and governmentsnever have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." |
| A. | hegel |
| B. | fernand braudel |
| C. | georges duby |
| D. | pierre goubert |
| Answer» B. fernand braudel | |
| 763. |
"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly setout for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid." |
| A. | pierre chaunu |
| B. | robert mandrou |
| C. | livy |
| D. | jacques le goff |
| Answer» D. jacques le goff | |
| 764. |
"There is properly no history; only biography." Is the view of …………… |
| A. | ralph waldo emerson |
| B. | emmanuel le roy ladurie |
| C. | jacques revel |
| D. | philippe ariès |
| Answer» B. emmanuel le roy ladurie | |
| 765. |
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, andmisfortunes of mankind." Who said? |
| A. | roger chartier |
| B. | edward gibbon |
| C. | antoine meillet |
| D. | Émile benveniste |
| Answer» C. antoine meillet | |
| 766. |
"The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Who said? |
| A. | g. m. trevelyan |
| B. | marcel mauss |
| C. | lévi-strauss |
| D. | wright morris |
| Answer» E. | |
| 767. |
"To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions." Who said? |
| A. | jacob burckhardt |
| B. | g. m. trevelyan |
| C. | r. g. collingwood |
| D. | e.h. carr |
| Answer» C. r. g. collingwood | |
| 768. |
Who said “History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; itilluminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity." |
| A. | cicero |
| B. | ferdinand de saussure |
| C. | g. m. trevelyan |
| D. | r. g. collingwood |
| Answer» B. ferdinand de saussure | |
| 769. |
Who said "Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves." |
| A. | hugh trevor-roper |
| B. | r. g. collingwood |
| C. | e.h. carr |
| D. | g. m. trevelyan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 770. |
Who is the author of ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic?’ |
| A. | keith thomas’ |
| B. | edmund husserl |
| C. | martin heidegger |
| D. | emmanuel lévinas |
| Answer» B. edmund husserl | |
| 771. |
Who is author of ‘The Historian’s Craft ‘? |
| A. | charles grant |
| B. | marc bloch |
| C. | edward said |
| D. | g. m. trevelyan |
| Answer» C. edward said | |
| 772. |
Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions whichinclude scientific, imaginative and literary? |
| A. | trevelyen |
| B. | michel foucault |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | friedrich nietzsche |
| Answer» B. michel foucault | |
| 773. |
Who was a founder of the Annales School? |
| A. | marc bloch |
| B. | edmund husserl |
| C. | martin heidegger |
| D. | keith thomas |
| Answer» B. edmund husserl | |
| 774. |
…………….has rightly remarked,”All good historical writing isuniversal history in the sense that it remembers the universal while dealing with part of it.” |
| A. | prof.elton |
| B. | george swinton |
| C. | thomas fortesque |
| D. | james prinsep. |
| Answer» B. george swinton | |
| 775. |
Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian. |
| A. | russia |
| B. | german |
| C. | french |
| D. | america |
| Answer» D. america | |
| 776. |
Who called history "a narrative of what civilized men have thought ordone in the past time?" |
| A. | jacques derrida |
| B. | comte |
| C. | will durant |
| D. | roland barthes |
| Answer» D. roland barthes | |
| 777. |
Who observed that man’s growth from barbarism to civilization issupposed to be the theme of history?" |
| A. | jawaharlal nehru |
| B. | b.shiekh ali |
| C. | keith thomas |
| D. | julia kristeva |
| Answer» B. b.shiekh ali | |
| 778. |
Who defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present andthe past." |
| A. | e. h. carr |
| B. | marx |
| C. | hegal |
| D. | spengler |
| Answer» B. marx | |
| 779. |
Who is considered to be the "father of history"? |
| A. | thucydides |
| B. | herodotus |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | polibius |
| Answer» C. aristotle | |
| 780. |
Who regarded history as a "systematic account of a set of naturalphenomena, whether or not chronological ordering was a factor in the account." |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | rodney needham |
| C. | edmund leach |
| D. | judith butler |
| Answer» B. rodney needham | |
| 781. |
Herodotus is a ………… Historian. |
| A. | greek |
| B. | chinese |
| C. | roman |
| D. | french |
| Answer» B. chinese | |
| 782. |
One who continually studies and writes about history is known as a ...…. |
| A. | historian |
| B. | archaeologist |
| C. | epigraphist |
| D. | numimatists |
| Answer» B. archaeologist | |
| 783. |
.…………. is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation ofinformation about past events. |
| A. | sociology |
| B. | economics |
| C. | history |
| D. | political science |
| Answer» D. political science | |
| 784. |
Socialist history f French Revolution was published in |
| A. | 1921 |
| B. | 1900 |
| C. | 1897 |
| D. | 1789. |
| Answer» C. 1897 | |
| 785. |
Dravidian elements in Indian culture is a work of |
| A. | slater |
| B. | eliot |
| C. | huntington |
| D. | kossambi. |
| Answer» B. eliot | |
| 786. |
Castein India ,its nature,Functions and origins was published |
| A. | 1976 |
| B. | 1946 |
| C. | 1989 |
| D. | 1965. |
| Answer» C. 1989 | |
| 787. |
Sir Charles Eliot’s classic is.... |
| A. | castein india ,its nature,functions and origins |
| B. | the clash of civilizations |
| C. | hinduism and budhism |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 788. |
Nesfield focuses on............in his writing |
| A. | caste system |
| B. | ) social history |
| C. | feminist history |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. ) social history | |
| 789. |
The End of History is a prediction on changing world by.... |
| A. | s.huntington |
| B. | fukuyama |
| C. | machiavelli |
| D. | toyenbee. |
| Answer» B. fukuyama | |
| 790. |
The Clash of Civilizations is a master piece work done by |
| A. | s.huntington |
| B. | fukuyama |
| C. | machiavelli |
| D. | toyenbee. |
| Answer» B. fukuyama | |
| 791. |
Orientalism is a work of .... |
| A. | edward said |
| B. | abdel-malek |
| C. | cahen |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. abdel-malek | |
| 792. |
The term Post modern was coined by |
| A. | lyotard |
| B. | evans |
| C. | elton |
| D. | carr. |
| Answer» B. evans | |
| 793. |
The voices of the past is related to ...... |
| A. | foucault |
| B. | thompson |
| C. | davis |
| D. | cunningham. |
| Answer» D. cunningham. | |
| 794. |
.The post modern condition was written by...... |
| A. | lyotard |
| B. | evans |
| C. | elton |
| D. | carr. |
| Answer» B. evans | |
| 795. |
The making of English working class is a work of |
| A. | foucault |
| B. | thompson |
| C. | davis |
| D. | sarkar. |
| Answer» C. davis | |
| 796. |
Natalie Davis is a......historian. |
| A. | gender history |
| B. | social history |
| C. | feminist history |
| D. | none of these. |
| Answer» D. none of these. | |
| 797. |
Symbolic Capital is related to........ |
| A. | foucault |
| B. | bourdieu |
| C. | darrida |
| D. | none of these. |
| Answer» C. darrida | |
| 798. |
.Moksha means .... |
| A. | salvation |
| B. | struggle |
| C. | morality |
| D. | none of these. |
| Answer» B. struggle | |
| 799. |
The Nyaya system of philosophy accepts four..... |
| A. | pramanas |
| B. | pradans |
| C. | margas |
| D. | none of these. |
| Answer» B. pradans | |
| 800. |
the Upanishads were composed between..... |
| A. | 800-600 |
| B. | 800-700 |
| C. | 800-900 |
| D. | 800-500. |
| Answer» B. 800-700 | |