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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