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This set of Methodology of History Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Methodology Of History Set 3

Q1 | 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.
  • post-structuralism
  • structuralism
  • relativism
  • nihilism
Q2 | 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.
  • structuralism
  • post-structuralism
  • anti-humanism
  • relativism
Q3 | The Elementary Structures of Kinship was the work of ……………..
  • claude lévi-strauss
  • jean-pierre bardet
  • georges freche
  • jean-claude perrot
Q4 | Who defined structuralism as "a method and not a doctrine"?
  • jacques derrida
  • jean piaget
  • michel foucaul
  • gilles deleuze.
Q5 | ……………… 's book is The Order of Things.
  • michel foucault
  • leonard bloomfield
  • louis hjelmslev
  • alf sommerfelt
Q6 | Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ………..
  • deconstruction
  • structuralism
  • post-structuralis
  • anti-humanism
Q7 | Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….withstructural anthropology in France.
  • marxism
  • post-structuralism
  • anti-humanism
  • nihilism
Q8 | …………..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.
  • post-structuralism
  • relativism
  • nihilism
  • extremism
Q9 | In 1968, …………….. published “The Death of the Author”
  • foucault
  • roland barthes
  • edmund husserl
  • martin heidegger
Q10 | …………….. 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.
  • structuralism
  • new historicism
  • orientalism
  • marxism
Q11 | ……………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.
  • orientalism
  • new historicism
  • structuralism
  • modernism
Q12 | The father of orientalism was ……………………
  • j.h harington
  • william carey
  • sir william jones
  • h.h wilson
Q13 | The Asiatic society was founded in ……………
  • 1784
  • 1788
  • 1789
  • 1794
Q14 | The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at …………….
  • madras
  • bombay
  • calcutta
  • bihar
Q15 | Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ?
  • hold mackenzie
  • wb bayley
  • william jones
  • wh macnaughten
Q16 | Who wrote the book what is History?
  • e. h. carr
  • r. g. collingwood
  • g. m. trevelyan
  • friedrich meinecke
Q17 | E.H. Carr was born in ……………
  • holland
  • germany
  • london
  • calcutta
Q18 | The book ‘The Twenty Years' Crisis’ was written by ………………..
  • r. g. collingwood
  • g. m. trevelyan
  • e.h. carr
  • friedrich meinecke
Q19 | Who stated that:"Study the historian before you begin to study thefacts”?
  • e.h. carr
  • r. g. collingwood
  • hugh trevor-roper
  • g.r.elton
Q20 | “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
  • e.h. carr
  • friedrich meinecke
  • r. g. collingwood
  • hugh trevor-roper
Q21 | Who was the author of the book ‘The Tudor Revolution in Government?’
  • joan scott
  • michel foucault
  • hayden white
  • g.r.elton
Q22 | Who wrote the book ‘The Practice of History’?
  • joan scott
  • hayden white
  • michel foucault
  • g.r.elton
Q23 | Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer.
  • africa
  • india
  • america
  • british
Q24 | Who was the author of ‘Why History’?
  • keith jenkins
  • michel foucault
  • joan scott
  • earl babbie
Q25 | ………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the contentof communication.
  • structuralism
  • indology
  • sinology
  • textual analysis