Question 1

Nature of History was written by ................

Accepted Answer

A)  arthur marwick
B)  e.sreedharan
C)  r.g.collingwood
D)  a.l. rouse A

Question 2

The modern concept of oral history was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his associates at ..............University.

Accepted Answer

A)  columbia
B)  oxford
C)  newyork
D)  cambridge A

Question 3

................. New Science (1725) offered an interpretation of history that turned on the idea of a universal human nature and a universal history .

Accepted Answer

A)  giambattista vico's
B)  alessandro portelli
C)  ranke's
D)  spengler's A

Question 4

'The Use of History' was written by ...........

Accepted Answer

A)  a.l.rouse
B)  e.p.thompson
C)  h.e. barnes
D)  r.g.collingwood

Question 5

HPR Finberg was the first Professor of ...........Local History.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

The philosopher of science ...............stimulated analytic philosophers' interest in historical knowledge in his essay, "The Function of General Laws in History" (1942).

Accepted Answer

A)  carl hempel
B)  william dray
C)  michael scriven
D)  alan donagan

Question 7

.................. received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009 for his contributions to academia.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

Author of The Idea of History is.................

Accepted Answer

A)  e.p.thompson
B)  r.g.collingwood
C)  h.e.barnes
D)  arthur marwick

Question 9

Author of 'what is History?

Accepted Answer

A)  burke peter
B)  e.h.carr
C)  barnes robert m
D)  h. raymond pickard

Question 10

Johann Gottfried Herder argues for the historical contextuality of human nature in his work,Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity (1791).

Accepted Answer

A)  johann gottfried
B)  toynbee
C)  wittfogel
D)  wilhelm dilthey

Question 11

In 1948, .................., a Columbia University historian, established the Columbia Oral History Research Office, with a mission of recording, transcribing, and preserving oral history interviews.

Accepted Answer

A)  alan nevins
B)  david p. boder
C)  m. van?k
D)  m. otáhal

Question 12

'The Feudal Society' was written by ..................

Accepted Answer

A)  Émile durkheim
B)  r.g.collingwood
C)  march bloch
D)  lucien febvre

Question 13

The Archaeology of Knowledge is a book by the French philosopher ................

Accepted Answer

A)  michel foucault
B)  jean hyppolite
C)  louis althusser
D)  owen flanagan

Question 14

Author of Meta history (1973)is.................

Accepted Answer

A)  louis mink
B)  hayden white
C)  frank ankersmit
D)  ankersmit

Question 15

Who is the author of 'The Decline of the West ?

Accepted Answer

A)  edward gibbon
B)  arnold joseph toynbee
C)  thomas carlyle
D)  spengler

Question 16

In 'On Realism in Art' Roman ............... argues that literature does not exist as a separate entity.

Accepted Answer

A)  jacobson
B)  owen flanagan
C)  victor shklovsky
D)  gérard genette

Question 17

................. is a Joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literary journal published from Calcutta.

Accepted Answer

A)  michel foucault
B)  jhumpa lahiri
C)  philippe ariès
D)  partha chatterjee

Question 18

The original idea of writing micro history came from ................ in the 1970s.

Accepted Answer

A)  russia
B)  germany
C)  italy
D)  china

Question 19

History of Historical Writing was written by ..........

Accepted Answer

A)  h.e. barnes
B)  r.g.collingwood
C)  e.h. carr
D)  sheik ali

Question 20

'The Historian's Craft', is the work of .............

Accepted Answer

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

Exam 4: General Laws in History and the Philosopher of Science