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Historiography..

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Greek historian of the fifth century BCE was ____________

a)

Voltaire

b)

Herodotus

c)

Rene Descartes

2.

According to _______________ considering social traditions, trade, economy, agriculture, etc. was also equally important in historiography

a)

Michel Foucault

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

d)

Voltaire

3.

The feminist historiography emphasised not only on the inclusion of women in history but also on the rethinking of the male dominated perspective of history.

a)

False

b)

True

4.

In the historical writings after________ women were portrayed as an independent social class

a)

1990

b)

1980

c)

1975

d)

1880

5.

He called his method, ‘the archaeology of knowledge’

a)

Leopold von Ranké

b)

Voltaire

c)

Michel Foucault

6.

The writings of ___________ helped in establishing the fundamentals of feminism

a)

Sarojini Naidu

b)

Simone de Beauvoir

c)

Karl Marx

7.

History is originally a french term

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The roots of modern historiography are found in the ancient _________ historical writing

a)

Indian

b)

German

c)

Italian

d)

Greek

9.

The Ann ales School was started by French historians

a)

True

b)

False

10.

According to ________ human history is the history of class struggle

a)

Simone de Beauvoir

b)

Leopold von Ranké

c)

Karl Marx

11.

The method of analysis based on opposites like true and false is known as _____________

a)

Dialectics

b)

Antithesis

c)

Leopold theory

12.

The writing of history based on critical examination is known as

a)

Archeology

b)

Historiography

c)

Analysis of lettering

13.

The first university to have an independent department of history is __________

a)

Annales School

b)

Gottingen University

14.

The tradition of recording historical event can be traced back to ___________ civilization in Mesopotamia

a)

harappan

b)

Sumer

c)

European

d)

Greek

15.

Hegel was a ___________ philosopher

a)

Indian

b)

Greek

c)

German

d)

French

16.

He criticised imaginative narration of history

a)

Leopold von Ranké

b)

Voltaire

c)

Hegel

d)

Karl Marx

17.

A treatise written by Karl Marx is

a)

The secret of world history

b)

Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences

c)

Das Kapital

d)

The Archaeology of knowledge

18.

Historical research methods are ________

a)

Collecting historical information

b)

Critical examination of resources

c)

understanding the references

d)

All of the above

19.

A new thesis that was proposed on the basis the thesis and antithesis was ___________________

a)

Dialectics

b)

Synthesis

c)

None of the above

d)

Both

20.

History presents a graph of mankind’s journey with the help of past human deeds, is one of the characteristics of modern history

a)

False

b)

True