Deck 1: Historical Figures and Perspectives

Question 1

.…………. is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events.

A)sociology
B)economics
C)history
D)political science

Answer 1

history

Question 2

One who continually studies and writes about history is known as a ...….

A)historian
B)archaeologist
C)epigraphist
D)numimatists

Answer 2

historian

Question 3

Who is considered to be the "father of history"?

A)thucydides
B)herodotus
C)aristotle
D)polibius

Answer 3

herodotus

Question 4

Herodotus is a ………… Historian.

A)greek
B)chinese
C)roman
D)french

Question 5

Who regarded history as a "systematic account of a set of natural phenomena, whether or not chronological ordering was a factor in the account."

A)aristotle
B)rodney needham
C)edmund leach
D)judith butler

Question 6

Who defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present and the past."

A)e. h. carr
B)marx
C)hegal
D)spengler

Question 7

Who observed that man's growth from barbarism to civilization is supposed to be the theme of history?"

A)jawaharlal nehru
B)b.shiekh ali
C)keith thomas
D)julia kristeva

Question 8

Who called history "a narrative of what civilized men have thought or done in the past time?"

A)jacques derrida
B)comte
C)will durant
D)roland barthes

Question 9

Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions which include scientific, imaginative and literary?

A)trevelyen
B)michel foucault
C)hegel
D)friedrich nietzsche

Question 10

…..........has rightly remarked,"All good historical writing is universal 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.

Question 11

Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian.

A)russia
B)german
C)french
D)america

Question 12

Who was a founder of the Annales School?

A)marc bloch
B)edmund husserl
C)martin heidegger
D)keith thomas

Question 13

Who is author of 'The Historian's Craft '?

A)charles grant
B)marc bloch
C)edward said
D)g. m. trevelyan

Question 14

Who is the author of 'Religion and the Decline of Magic?'

A)keith thomas'
B)edmund husserl
C)martin heidegger
D)emmanuel lévinas

Question 15

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

Question 16

"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

Question 17

Who said "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates 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

Question 18

"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

Question 19

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Who said?

A)roger chartier
B)edward gibbon
C)antoine meillet
D)Émile benveniste

Question 20

"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

Question 21

"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 set out 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

Question 22

"What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."

A)hegel
B)fernand braudel
C)georges duby
D)pierre goubert

Question 23

"Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and 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

Question 24

"The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate 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

Question 25

"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