Deck 5: History and Historians

Question 1

The term quasi history refers to explain___________compositions.

A)Post classical
B)classical
C)modern
D)post modern

Answer 1

classical

Question 2

Who made attempts to free history from logography?

A)Thucydides
B)August Comte
C)Herodotus
D)Ibn Khaldun

Answer 2

Herodotus

Question 3

Who called Herodotus as the father of history?

A)Augustus
B)Caesar
C)Cicero
D)Vico

Answer 3

Cicero

Question 4

Who is also known as the first economic historian in the world?

A)Herodotus
B)St. Augustine
C)Ibn Khaldun
D)Thucydides.

Question 5

Thucydides analyze the economic conditions of which place?

A)Olympia
B)Appolo
C)Athens
D)Sparta

Question 6

___________historiography is also called as the Church historiography.

A)Modern
B)ancient
C)classical
D)medieval

Question 7

Which historian compared the Science of History with the Science of Culture?

A)Vico
B)Ibn Khaldun
C)St. Augustine
D)Herodotus

Question 8

Who supported the cylindrical theory of history?

A)Ranke
B)St. Augustine
C)Ibn Khaldun
D)vico

Question 9

The idea of history as a social physiscs was put forward by whom?

A)August Comte
B)Ranke
C)Vico
D)Herodotus

Question 10

The contribution of ____ and his followers are known as the Berlin Revolution in History.

A)Ranke
B)Vico
C)August Comte
D)Thucydides

Question 11

The theory of the materialist conception of history is put forward by_____

A)Hegal
B)Engels
C)Marx
D)Toynbee

Question 12

"The Western Question in Greece and Turkey" is the book of ______

A)Arnold J. Toynbee
B)J.B. Bury
C)Marc Bloch
D)E.H. Carr.

Question 13

The study of civilisations is associated with which historian?

A)Karl Marx
B)Arnold Toynbee
C)Marc Bloch
D)J.B. Burry

Question 14

The conceptualisation of the idea of progress is associated with________

A)Toynbee
B)J.B. Burry
C)Marc block
D)Marx

Question 15

Ecole Normale Superiure was established in which country?

A)Germany
B)England
C)Italy
D)France

Question 16

Which historian criticised the periodisation in history?

A)Marc Bloch
B)Bury
C)Descartes
D)Vico.

Question 17

Who is behind the ideas like Geo history and long duree?

A)E.H.Carr
B)Fernand Brudel
C)Lucian Febvre
D)Marc Bloch

Question 18

A History of Soviet Russia is written by________

A)Marc Bloch
B)Bury
C)Descartes
D)E.H.Carr

Question 19

________was a follower of Maoist group in Paris and later became an admirer of American liberalism.

A)Keith Jenkins
B)Julia kristova
C)Jacques Lacan
D)Francois lyotard

Question 20

___________ started the First Women's History course in the world at the New School for Social research.

A)Michael Foucault
B)Felipe Fernandez Armesto
C)Gerda Lerner
D)Jacques Lacan

Question 21

Which among the following is not a work of Gerda Lerner

A)The female Experience
B)Why History Matters
C)History of Sexuality
D)Women and History

Question 22

The work, "Madness and Civilisation" is written by ________

A)Michael Foucault
B)Keith Jenkins
C)Francois lyotard
D)Gerda Lerner

Question 23

'Near A Thousand Tables: A History of Food is a path breaking work written by ________

A)Felipe Fernandez Armesto
B)Michael Foucault
C)Keith Jenkins
D)Julia kristova

Question 24

According to Felipe Fernandez Armesto ___________ is the final stage of food history.

A)The Meaning of Eating
B)Feeding the Giants
C)The Edible Horizon
D)Food and Rank

Question 25

Mahabharata contains how many slokas?

A)50000
B)More than one lack
C)8800
D)24000