Question 1

Herodotus is a ………… Historian.

Accepted Answer

A)  greek
B)  chinese
C)  roman
D)  french A

Question 2

Who is author of 'The Historian's Craft '?

Accepted Answer

A)  charles grant
B)  marc bloch
C)  edward said
D)  g. m. trevelyan B

Question 3

"The past is useless. That explains why it is past." Who said?

Accepted Answer

A)  g. m. trevelyan
B)  marcel mauss
C)  lévi-strauss
D)  wright morris D

Question 4

Who regarded history as a "systematic account of a set of natural phenomena, whether or not chronological ordering was a factor in the account."

Accepted Answer

A)  aristotle
B)  rodney needham
C)  edmund leach
D)  judith butler

Question 5

Who defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present and the past."

Accepted Answer

A)  e. h. carr
B)  marx
C)  hegal
D)  spengler

Question 6

Who said "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity."

Accepted Answer

A)  cicero
B)  ferdinand de saussure
C)  g. m. trevelyan
D)  r. g. collingwood

Question 7

"The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present."

Accepted Answer

A)  john bellamy foster
B)  william l. burton
C)  michel aglietta
D)  e. h. carr

Question 8

Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian.

Accepted Answer

A)  russia
B)  german
C)  french
D)  america

Question 9

.…………. is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events.

Accepted Answer

A)  sociology
B)  economics
C)  history
D)  political science

Question 10

"What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."

Accepted Answer

A)  hegel
B)  fernand braudel
C)  georges duby
D)  pierre goubert

Question 11

"There is properly no history; only biography." Is the view of ……………

Accepted Answer

A)  ralph waldo emerson
B)  emmanuel le roy ladurie
C)  jacques revel
D)  philippe ariès

Question 12

"To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions." Who said?

Accepted Answer

A)  jacob burckhardt
B)  g. m. trevelyan
C)  r. g. collingwood
D)  e.h. carr

Question 13

Who observed that man's growth from barbarism to civilization is supposed to be the theme of history?"

Accepted Answer

A)  jawaharlal nehru
B)  b.shiekh ali
C)  keith thomas
D)  julia kristeva

Question 14

Who is the author of 'Religion and the Decline of Magic?'

Accepted Answer

A)  keith thomas'
B)  edmund husserl
C)  martin heidegger
D)  emmanuel lévinas

Question 15

One who continually studies and writes about history is known as a ...….

Accepted Answer

A)  historian
B)  archaeologist
C)  epigraphist
D)  numimatists

Question 16

Who is considered to be the "father of history"?

Accepted Answer

A)  thucydides
B)  herodotus
C)  aristotle
D)  polibius

Question 17

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Who said?

Accepted Answer

A)  roger chartier
B)  edward gibbon
C)  antoine meillet
D)  Émile benveniste

Question 18

Who was a founder of the Annales School?

Accepted Answer

A)  marc bloch
B)  edmund husserl
C)  martin heidegger
D)  keith thomas

Question 19

Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions which include scientific, imaginative and literary?

Accepted Answer

A)  trevelyen
B)  michel foucault
C)  hegel
D)  friedrich nietzsche

Question 20

"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid."

Accepted Answer

A)  pierre chaunu
B)  robert mandrou
C)  livy
D)  jacques le goff

Exam 1: Historical Figures and Perspectives