Deck 5: Past Politics and Future History

Question 1

………………is otherwise known as 'argument from silence'.

A)the negative reasoning
B)appendices
C)foot notes
D)oral history

Answer 1

the negative reasoning

Question 2

The Renaissance scholar …………defined "History as a discipline that makes men wise"

A)elton
B)j.b.bury
C)francis bacon
D)karl popper

Answer 2

francis bacon

Question 3

……………….viewed that "History is past politics and present politics is future history".

A)seely
B)j.b.bury
C)elton
D)francis bacon

Answer 3

seely

Question 4

…………….considers "History as the unfolding story of human freedom".

A)lord acton
B)francis bacon
C)j.b.bury
D)karl marx

Question 5

………………declared that "History is a science, no less and no more".

A)karl marx
B)elton
C)j.b.bury
D)francis bacon

Question 6

…………….wrote that "History is a science of man in time".

A)mark bloch
B)francis bacon
C)j.b.bury
D)elton

Question 7

The Italian historian………says that "all history is contemporary history".

A)elton
B)j.b.bury
C)croce
D)karl marx

Question 8

….........defined history as the presentation, in chronological order of successive developments in the means and relations of production.

A)francis bacon
B)j.b.bury
C)karl marx
D)d.d.kosambi

Question 9

The concept of Universal History was initiated by the Medieval Arab Historians …………………

A)elton
B)francis bacon
C)j.b.bury
D)ibn khaldun

Question 10

The term 'philosophy of history' was introduced by ……………..

A)karl marx
B)j.b.bury
C)elton
D)voltaire

Question 11

Troeltsch used …………….. to mean a tendency to view all knowledge and all forms of experience in the context of historical change.

A)historicism
B)plagiarism
C)argument
D)hermeneutics

Question 12

"Origins of historicism" was written by ………………

A)frederick meinecke
B)j.b.bury
C)francis bacon
D)karl popper

Question 13

Who was the author of the book 'Poverty of Historicism?'

A)karl popper
B)elton
C)thomas carlyle
D)karl marx

Question 14

Karl Marx's Interpretattion of History generally known as ……………

A)historical materialism
B)plagiarism
C)argument
D)heuristics

Question 15

Who wrote that History of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles?

A)karl marx
B)elton
C)francis bacon
D)karl popper

Question 16

The concept of Orientalism was developed by the ………………

A)africans
B)asians
C)americans
D)europeans

Question 17

'If no evidence survived no fact at all'who said.

A)karl marx
B)karl popper
C)thomas carlyle
D)elton

Question 18

on what is history, why history and rethinking history-these books are written by …………………

A)jenkins
B)elton
C)karl popper
D)thomas carlyle

Question 19

….........., the French historian's book is 'what is history for'?

A)jean chesneaux
B)francis bacon
C)thomas carlyle
D)karl marx

Question 20

Christian Thomson was a Danish ………………….

A)archiologist
B)historian
C)epigraphist
D)economist

Question 21

…........is the study of coin like objects such as token coins and medals.

A)exonumia
B)hermeneutics
C)synthesis
D)heuristics

Question 22

The study of paper money is called ……………….

A)notaphily
B)ethnography
C)appendices
D)index

Question 23

What distinguishes historians from the collector of historical fact is generalization?

A)d.d.kosambi
B)francis bacon
C)thomas carlyle
D)elton