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This set of Methodology of History Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Methodology Of History Set 5

Q1 | ………………is otherwise known as ‘argument from silence’.
  • the negative reasoning
  • appendices
  • foot notes
  • oral history
Q2 | ……………., the famous Greek philosopher defined “History as theaccount of the unchanging past”
  • j
  • bury b) francis bacon
  • aristotle
  • thomas carlyle
Q3 | The Renaissance scholar …………defined “History as a discipline thatmakes men wise”
  • elton
  • j.b.bury
  • francis bacon
  • karl popper
Q4 | …………says that “History is nothing but the biography of great men”
  • j
  • bury b) francis bacon
  • thomas carlyle
  • elton
Q5 | ……………….viewed that “History is past politics and present politics isfuture history”.
  • seely
  • j.b.bury
  • elton
  • francis bacon
Q6 | …………….considers “History as the unfolding story of human freedom”.
  • lord acton
  • francis bacon
  • j.b.bury
  • karl marx
Q7 | ………………declared that “History is a science, no less and no more”.
  • karl marx
  • elton
  • j.b.bury
  • francis bacon
Q8 | …………….wrote that “History is a science of man in time”.
  • mark bloch
  • francis bacon
  • j.b.bury
  • elton
Q9 | The Italian historian………says that “all history is contemporary history”.
  • elton
  • j.b.bury
  • croce
  • karl marx
Q10 | ……………..defined history as the presentation, in chronological order ofsuccessive developments in the means and relations of production.
  • francis bacon
  • j.b.bury
  • karl marx
  • d.d.kosambi
Q11 | The concept of Universal History was initiated by the Medieval ArabHistorians …………………
  • elton
  • francis bacon
  • j.b.bury
  • ibn khaldun
Q12 | The term ‘philosophy of history’ was introduced by ……………..
  • karl marx
  • j.b.bury
  • elton
  • voltaire
Q13 | Troeltsch used …………….. to mean a tendency to view all knowledgeand all forms of experience in the context of historical change.
  • historicism
  • plagiarism
  • argument
  • hermeneutics
Q14 | “Origins of historicism” was written by ………………
  • frederick meinecke
  • j.b.bury
  • francis bacon
  • karl popper
Q15 | Who was the author of the book ‘Poverty of Historicism?’
  • karl popper
  • elton
  • thomas carlyle
  • karl marx
Q16 | Karl Marx’s Interpretattion of History generally known as ……………
  • historical materialism
  • plagiarism
  • argument
  • heuristics
Q17 | Who wrote that History of all hitherto existing society is the history ofclass struggles?
  • karl marx
  • elton
  • francis bacon
  • karl popper
Q18 | The concept of Orientalism was developed by the ………………
  • africans
  • asians
  • americans
  • europeans
Q19 | ‘If no evidence survived no fact at all’who said.
  • karl marx
  • karl popper
  • thomas carlyle
  • elton
Q20 | on what is history, why history and rethinking history-these books arewritten by …………………
  • jenkins
  • elton
  • karl popper
  • thomas carlyle
Q21 | ……………., the French historian’s book is ‘what is history for’?
  • jean chesneaux
  • francis bacon
  • thomas carlyle
  • karl marx
Q22 | Christian Thomson was a Danish ………………….
  • archiologist
  • historian
  • epigraphist
  • economist
Q23 | ………..….is the study of coin like objects such as token coins and medals.
  • exonumia
  • hermeneutics
  • synthesis
  • heuristics
Q24 | The study of paper money is called ……………….
  • notaphily
  • ethnography
  • appendices
  • index
Q25 | What distinguishes historians from the collector of historical fact isgeneralization?
  • d.d.kosambi
  • francis bacon
  • thomas carlyle
  • elton