Question 1

In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used by the Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat.

Accepted Answer

A)  antonio gramsci
B)  homi k. bhabha
C)  max weber
D)  thorstein veblen A

Question 2

Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist Louis Althusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism."

Accepted Answer

A)  louis althusser
B)  ferdinand de saussure
C)  claude lévi-strauss
D)  thomas kuhn A

Question 3

..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime.

Accepted Answer

A)  leon trotsky
B)  edward saïd
C)  antonio gramsci
D)  vladimir ilyich lenin C

Question 4

............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics was published posthumously in 1916.

Accepted Answer

A)  ferdinand de saussure's
B)  charles bally
C)  albert sechehaye
D)  claude lévi-strauss

Question 5

.............wrote 'The French Revolution: A History' (3 volumes, 1837), as a historical study concerning oppression of the poor, which was immediately successful.

Accepted Answer

A)  carlyle
B)  isaac asimov
C)  thomas kuhn
D)  edmund spenser

Question 6

Among ...............many significant publications, The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949) and The Savage Mind (1962) exemplify his contributions to anthropology.

Accepted Answer

A)  claude lévi-strauss'
B)  ferdinand de saussure
C)  lucien febvre
D)  march bloch

Question 7

.............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology.

Accepted Answer

A)  lévi-strauss
B)  ferdinand de saussure
C)  lucien febvre
D)  march bloch

Question 8

............. most influential work was and remains 'The Making of the English Working Class', published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.

Accepted Answer

A)  stuart hall's
B)  perry anderson's
C)  raymond williams'
D)  e.p.thompson's

Question 9

.............. historian of science, Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions-its title alone evincing a stringent structuralist approach.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

....................is an Indian historian and is the author of 'Swadeshi Movement'.

Accepted Answer

A)  michel foucault
B)  partha chatterjee
C)  philippe ariès
D)  sumit sarkar

Question 11

................... used Carlyle's work as a primary source for the events of the French Revolution in his novel 'A Tale of Two Cities'.

Accepted Answer

A)  charles dickens
B)  robert jaulin
C)  winston churchill
D)  edmund burke

Question 12

............ has had lasting influence in the field of historiography through his unfinished manuscript 'The Historian's Craft', which he was working on at his death.

Accepted Answer

A)  march bloch
B)  paul vidal de la blache
C)  Émile durkheim
D)  lucien febvre

Question 13

.................. is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies.

Accepted Answer

A)  ranajit guha
B)  leszek ko?akowski
C)  tony judt
D)  partha chatterjee

Question 14

In a notable pre-prison article entitled "The Revolution against Das Kapital", .................claimed that the October Revolution in Russia had invalidated the idea that socialist revolution had to await the full development of capitalist forces of production.

Accepted Answer

A)  joseph stalin
B)  machiavelli
C)  benito mussolini
D)  antonio gramsci

Question 15

In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attacked the structuralist Marxism.

Accepted Answer

A)  e. p. thompson
B)  harold wilson
C)  karl marx
D)  otto hintze

Question 16

................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is widely considered to be a classic.

Accepted Answer

A)  ranajit guha's
B)  sumit sarkar
C)  partha chatterjee
D)  roger chartier

Question 17

.................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-century linguistics.

Accepted Answer

A)  ferdinand de saussure
B)  karl marx
C)  claude lévi-strauss
D)  thomas kuhn

Question 18

............... entitled one of his essays "Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies", criticizing the turn to Foucauldian studies of power- knowledge that left behind many of the empiricist and Marxist efforts of the first two volumes of Subaltern Studies.

Accepted Answer

A)  sumit sarkar
B)  richard j. evans
C)  harry hendrick
D)  partha chatterjee

Question 19

................published a large work, available in a two-volume English translation as Feudal Society.

Accepted Answer

A)  ferdinand de saussure
B)  lévi-strauss
C)  marc leopold benjamin bloch
D)  lucien febvre

Question 20

....................is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.

Accepted Answer

A)  marc leopold benjamin bloch
B)  lévi-strauss
C)  ferdinand de saussure
D)  lucien febvre

Exam 3: Notable Figures and Works in History and Historiography