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Exam : State Eligibility Test
Subject : History
Year : 2017 Feb
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State Eligibility Test History Question Paper :

Time : 120 Minutes

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1. “A man without memory and self knowledge is a man adrift , so a Society without memory and self knowledge would be a society adrift” Who said this about the values of History
A) Herodotus
B) Thucydides
C) R.G. Collingwood
D) Arthur Marwick

2. “History is the record of human society, a world civilization, of the changes that take place in the nature of that society, such as savagery and group solidarity”. This was how amedieval historian defined History in 1379. Identify him
A) St. Augustine
B) Mohibdul Hasan
C) Ibn Khaldun
D) Voltaire.

3. Summarizing discussions in a book, K.P.Choudhary defined History “as the scientific study of past happenings in all their aspects, in the life of a social group, in the light of present happenings.” Pick out the title of the book and its publishers from the codes below:
A) Teaching History – Sage
B) The Murder of History in Pakistan – Vangaurd
C) Teaching of History – Vikas
D) Effective Teaching of History in India – NCERT

4. H.G. Wells defined History thus:
A) History is the science of men in time
B) History is past politics
C) History is an investigation into human affairs on the move
D) Human History is in essence a history of ideas.

5. A historian sought to link Science, History and Art by noting that they all depend on metaphor, on the recognition of patterns, on the relation that something is like something else. Who said this in his book The Landscape of History?
A) Paul Johnson
B) John Lewis Gaddis
C) James C. Scott
D) John Prest

6. J.E.Swain said that “Napoleon’s Moscow expedition cannot be reproduced in a laboratory, as the determination of the physical properties of water may be”. This shows that:
A) History is sui generis
B) There are limitations of History as a science
C) History is an art
D) History is a fable agreed upon.

7. He is believed to have coined the phrase ‘Philosophy of History’. He wrote the book The Age of Louis XIV. Identify him
A) Will Durant
B) Voltaire
C) Arnold Toynbee
D) Fernand Braudel

8. A correlation exists between History and other subjects. Match the statements in I with the author in II and choose the correctly matched pair from the codes below:
List I List II
a. Without a geographical basis the makers 1. Jules Michelet of history seem to be walking on air
b. History without Political Science has no fruit, 2. John Seely Political science without History has no root
c. Sociology is the study of what is social in History 3. Henry Berr d. Today no historian could write a biographical 4. Arthur Marwick study without betraying something of the influence of Freudian and post Freudian psychology
Codes:
A) a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
B) a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
C) a-2, b-4, c-3, d-1
D) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2

9. Who authored the book Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History?
A) Erik Erikson
B) Eric Fromm
C) Erik Hobsbawn
D) Philip Sprat

10. “The sole criterion of truth available to us in history… is the internal coherence of the beliefs we erect on that foundation”. This is how a historian ends his chapter titled ‘Truth and Fact in History’. Identify the author and his book
A) M.G.S. Narayanan – Calicut the City of Truth Revisited
B) H.C. Hockett – The Critical Method in Historical Research
C) W.H.Walsh – Introduction to the Philosophy of History
D) Patrick Gardiner – Philosophy of History

11. Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): Historians approach the past each with their own philosophical ideas and this greatly influence their writing.
Reason (R): This makes their writing very subjective.
In the context of the above, which one of the following is correct?
A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C) (A) is true but (R) is false
D) (A) is false but (R) is true

12. Who said that ‘a cause is a convenient figure of speech for any one of a number of factors which helps to explain why a historical event happened?
A) Carl G. Gustavson
B) Richard Hofstadter
C) Karl Popper
D) Karl Marx

13. Who edited the book What is History now?
A) A.L.Rowse
B) E.H.Carr
C) Mark Donnelly
D) David Cannadine

14. Who wrote the book The Poverty of Theory?
A) E.P.Thompson
B) Isaiah Berlin
C) Michael Oakeshott
D) Terry Eagleton

15. Who according to Gottschalk, belonged to the school of generalization that have validity for prediction or control?
A) Descriptive Historians
B) Interpretative Historians
C) Nomothetic Historians
D) Philosopher Historians