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This set of Methodology of History Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Methodology Of History Set 1
Q1 | .…………. is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation ofinformation about past events.
- sociology
- economics
- history
- political science
Q2 | One who continually studies and writes about history is known as a ...….
- historian
- archaeologist
- epigraphist
- numimatists
Q3 | Who is considered to be the "father of history"?
- thucydides
- herodotus
- aristotle
- polibius
Q4 | Herodotus is a ………… Historian.
- greek
- chinese
- roman
- french
Q5 | Who regarded history as a "systematic account of a set of naturalphenomena, whether or not chronological ordering was a factor in the account.
- aristotle
- rodney needham
- edmund leach
- judith butler
Q6 | Who defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present andthe past.
- e. h. carr
- marx
- hegal
- spengler
Q7 | Who observed that man’s growth from barbarism to civilization issupposed to be the theme of history?
- jawaharlal nehru
- b.shiekh ali
- keith thomas
- julia kristeva
Q8 | Who called history "a narrative of what civilized men have thought ordone in the past time?
- jacques derrida
- comte
- will durant
- roland barthes
Q9 | Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions whichinclude scientific, imaginative and literary?
- trevelyen
- michel foucault
- hegel
- friedrich nietzsche
Q10 | …………….has rightly remarked,”All good historical writing isuniversal history in the sense that it remembers the universal while dealing with part of it.”
- prof.elton
- george swinton
- thomas fortesque
- james prinsep.
Q11 | Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian.
- russia
- german
- french
- america
Q12 | Who was a founder of the Annales School?
- marc bloch
- edmund husserl
- martin heidegger
- keith thomas
Q13 | Who is author of ‘The Historian’s Craft ‘?
- charles grant
- marc bloch
- edward said
- g. m. trevelyan
Q14 | Who is the author of ‘Religion and the Decline of Magic?’
- keith thomas’
- edmund husserl
- martin heidegger
- emmanuel lévinas
Q15 | 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.
- hugh trevor-roper
- r. g. collingwood
- e.h. carr
- g. m. trevelyan
Q16 | 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?
- jacob burckhardt
- g. m. trevelyan
- r. g. collingwood
- e.h. carr
Q17 | 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.
- cicero
- ferdinand de saussure
- g. m. trevelyan
- r. g. collingwood
Q18 | The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Who said?
- g. m. trevelyan
- marcel mauss
- lévi-strauss
- wright morris
Q19 | History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, andmisfortunes of mankind." Who said?
- roger chartier
- edward gibbon
- antoine meillet
- Émile benveniste
Q20 | There is properly no history; only biography." Is the view of ……………
- ralph waldo emerson
- emmanuel le roy ladurie
- jacques revel
- philippe ariès
Q21 | 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.
- pierre chaunu
- robert mandrou
- livy
- jacques le goff
Q22 | What experience and history teach is this-that people and governmentsnever have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
- hegel
- fernand braudel
- georges duby
- pierre goubert
Q23 | 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.
- lucien febvre
- marc bloch
- fernand braudel
- ernest labrousse
Q24 | 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.
- john bellamy foster
- william l. burton
- michel aglietta
- e. h. carr
Q25 | 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.
- karl marx
- samuel eliot morison
- paul hirst
- barry hindess