Top 50+ Solved Understanding the Past MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge.
a. bibliography
b. historiography
c. epistemology
d. episteme
Q. is the chronological record of what humans beings thought aspired and acted for.
a. prehistory
b. militory history
c. economic history
d. history
Q. refers to both the study of the methodology of historians and the development ofhistory as a discipline, and also to a body of historical work on a particular subject
a. historiography
b. prehistory
c. militory history
d. economic history
Q. and define historiography as "the study of the way history has been and is written –the history of historical writing... When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians."
a. furay and salevouris
b. charels and clark
c. marx and weber
d. none of these
Q. The famous historian known to be the “father of history” is.
a. furay
b. salevouris
c. charels
d. cicero
Q. The ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum,Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC).
a. herodotus
b. cicero
c. voltaire
d. none of these
Q. The major works of Marcus Tullius Cicero is.
a. de oratore
b. de re publica
c. de legibus
d. all of these
Q. Theauthor of the book The Histories—the masterpiece work in produced in Latin andacquired its modern meaning of "history".
a. herodotus
b. cicero
c. voltaire
d. none of these
Q. is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority onit,who is concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time.
a. politician
b. historian
c. economist
d. philosopher
Q. Chronology is derived from word chronologia, means the science of arranging events intheir order of occurrence in time.
a. latin & greek
b. greek
c. french
d. latin
Q. The periodical arrangement of events in the order of it’s occurrence is called.
a. periodization
b. bibliography
c. historiography
d. chronology
Q. Who derived the term Middle Ages as one of the notable term of historical period.
a. petrarch
b. voltaire
c. cicero
d. herodotus
Q. The Italian scholar who is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "DarkAges”.
a. petrarch
b. voltaire
c. cicero
d. herodotus