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This set of Trends in Historiography Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Trends In Historiography Set 5

Q1 | The term quasi history refers to explain___________compositions.
  • Post classical
  • classical
  • modern
  • post modern
Q2 | Who made attempts to free history from logography?
  • Thucydides
  • August Comte
  • Herodotus
  • Ibn Khaldun
Q3 | Who called Herodotus as the father of history?
  • Augustus
  • Caesar
  • Cicero
  • Vico
Q4 | Who is also known as the first economic historian in the world?
  • Herodotus
  • St. Augustine
  • Ibn Khaldun
  • Thucydides.
Q5 | Thucydides analysed the economic conditions of which place?
  • Olympia
  • Appolo
  • Athens
  • Sparta
Q6 | ___________historiography is also called as the Church historiography.
  • Modern
  • ancient
  • classical
  • medieval
Q7 | Which historian compared the Science of History with the Science of Culture?
  • Vico
  • Ibn Khaldun
  • St. Augustine
  • Herodotus
Q8 | Who supported the cylindrical theory of history?
  • Ranke
  • St. Augustine
  • Ibn Khaldun
  • vico
Q9 | The idea of history as a social physiscs was put forward by whom?
  • August Comte
  • Ranke
  • Vico
  • Herodotus
Q10 | The contribution of ____ and his followers are known as the Berlin Revolution in History.
  • Ranke
  • Vico
  • August Comte
  • Thucydides
Q11 | The theory of the materialist conception of history is put forward by_____
  • Hegal
  • Engels
  • Marx
  • Toynbee
Q12 | “The Western Question in Greece and Turkey” is the book of ______
  • Arnold J. Toynbee
  • J.B. Bury
  • Marc Bloch
  • E.H. Carr.
Q13 | The study of civilisations is associated with which historian?
  • Karl Marx
  • Arnold Toynbee
  • Marc Bloch
  • J.B. Burry
Q14 | The conceptualisation of the idea of progress is associated with________
  • Toynbee
  • J.B. Burry
  • Marc block
  • Marx
Q15 | Ecole Normale Superiure was established in which country?
  • Germany
  • England
  • Italy
  • France
Q16 | Which historian criticised the periodisation in history?
  • Marc Bloch
  • Bury
  • Descartes
  • Vico.
Q17 | Who is behind the ideas like Geo history and long duree?
  • E.H.Carr
  • Fernand Brudel
  • Lucian Febvre
  • Marc Bloch
Q18 | A History of Soviet Russia is written by________
  • Marc Bloch
  • Bury
  • Descartes
  • E.H.Carr
Q19 | ________was a follower of Maoist group in Paris and later became an admirer of American liberalism.
  • Keith Jenkins
  • Julia kristova
  • Jacques Lacan
  • Francois lyotard
Q20 | ___________ started the First Women’s History course in the world at the New School for Social research.
  • Michael Foucault
  • Felipe Fernandez Armesto
  • Gerda Lerner
  • Jacques Lacan
Q21 | Which among the following is not a work of Gerda Lerner
  • The female Experience
  • Why History Matters
  • History of Sexuality
  • Women and History
Q22 | The work, “Madness and Civilisation” is written by ________
  • Michael Foucault
  • Keith Jenkins
  • Francois lyotard
  • Gerda Lerner
Q23 | ‘Near A Thousand Tables: A History of Food is a path breaking work written by ________
  • Felipe Fernandez Armesto
  • Michael Foucault
  • Keith Jenkins
  • Julia kristova
Q24 | According to Felipe Fernandez Armesto ___________ is the final stage of food history.
  • The Meaning of Eating
  • Feeding the Giants
  • The Edible Horizon
  • Food and Rank
Q25 | Mahabharata contains how many slokas?
  • 50000
  • More than one lack
  • 8800
  • 24000