Question 1

...............has been reputed as the "Father of Experimental Science".

Accepted Answer

A)  francis bacon
B)  william hepworth dixon
C)  descartes
D)  giambattista vico A

Question 2

The first comprehensive history of India entitled History of British India (1818), was written by ......................

Accepted Answer

A)  james mill
B)  sir william jones
C)  macaulay
D)  st. augustine A

Question 3

René Descartes was a ................philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.

Accepted Answer

A)  american
B)  british
C)  dutch
D)  french D

Question 4

................, whose 'Praise of Folly'epitomized the moral essence of humanism in its insistence on heartfelt goodness as opposed to formalistic piety.

Accepted Answer

A)  desiderius erasmus
B)  francis bacon
C)  john walsall
D)  francis bacon.

Question 5

In .................. great work, the History of the Peloponnesian War, which describes the destructive conflict between Athens and Sparta.

Accepted Answer

A)  polybius'
B)  herodotus'
C)  thucydides'
D)  aristotle's

Question 6

'Genealogia' is the work of ................... of Miletus.

Accepted Answer

A)  hecataeus
B)  herodotus
C)  sophocles
D)  aristotle

Question 7

Francis Bacon was an ..............philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator and author.

Accepted Answer

A)  french
B)  japanese
C)  english
D)  american

Question 8

The fall of Constantinople in ................. AD provided humanism with a major boost, for many eastern scholars fled to Italy, bringing with them important books and manuscripts and a tradition of Greek scholarship.

Accepted Answer

A)  1443
B)  1453
C)  1458
D)  1488

Question 9

.....................classic novel is 'Heart of Darkness' (1899).

Accepted Answer

A)  joseph conrad's
B)  conal furay
C)  michael j. salevouris
D)  chinua achebe

Question 10

............... was the court historian of Sultan Alauddin Khalji

Accepted Answer

A)  kabiruddin
B)  kalhana
C)  confucius
D)  athula

Question 11

Who is the Author of what is History?

Accepted Answer

A)  e.h.carr
B)  edward said
C)  r.g.collingwood
D)  herodotus

Question 12

It was at Cambridge that Francis Bacon first met ............., who was impressed by his precocious intellect, and was accustomed to calling him The Young Lord Keeper.

Accepted Answer

A)  sir amias paulet
B)  aristotle
C)  queen elizabeth
D)  henry viii

Question 13

...................... has been called the "father of history."

Accepted Answer

A)  herodotus
B)  xenophon
C)  polybius
D)  thucydides

Question 14

............... two great works-the Annals, and the Histories.

Accepted Answer

A)  tacitus'
B)  livy
C)  pericles
D)  julius caesar

Question 15

The most well-known originator of Roman historiography was .............., also known as the "Founder of Historiography".

Accepted Answer

A)  quintus fabius pictor
B)  cato the elder
C)  livy
D)  pericles

Question 16

Humanism began and achieved fruition first in ..............

Accepted Answer

A)  india
B)  germany
C)  japan
D)  italy

Question 17

In 1989, after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, ....................wrote an article in the National Interest called "The End of History."

Accepted Answer

A)  francis fukuyama
B)  clifford geertz
C)  kenneth stamp
D)  leila ahmed

Question 18

............... , one of the greatest Roman historians, lived through the fall of the republic and the establishment of the principate by Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

Accepted Answer

A)  livy
B)  pericles
C)  alexander the great
D)  herodotus

Question 19

The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in .............. and published in 1620.

Accepted Answer

A)  latin
B)  english
C)  french
D)  dutch

Question 20

James I came to power in England in ...................

Accepted Answer

A)  1503
B)  1558
C)  1603
D)  1625

Exam 1: Famous Authors and Works in History