| Post Name | LECTURER IN HISTORY |
|---|---|
| Department | COLLEGIATE EDUCATION |
| Question Paper Code | 052/2014 |
| Date of Test | 29 April 2014 |
| Medium of Question | ENGLISH |
| Exam Type | OMR Examination |
| Total Questions | 100 |
1
The ‘concept of historical time’ was developed by :
Answer
B. Fernand Braudel
2
‘Bhakhars’ are:
Answer
C. Marathi chronicles
3
The work declared “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of the class |
struggle” is :
Answer
A. Communist Manifesto
4
The principle ‘Wie es eigentlich gewesen ist’ was advocated by :
Answer
B. Leopold Von Ranke
5
Who authored the work ‘The Idea of History’?
Answer
B. R.G. Collingwood
6
The school of historiography regarded history as ‘Social Physics’ is :
Answer
B. Positivism |
7
The term ‘Philosophy of history’ was coined by : r |
Answer
C. Voltaire
8
Who defined history as “Philosophy teaching by examples"?
Answer
D. Dionysius
9
Who wrote the work “Mugadhima’”
Answer
A. Ibn Khaldun
10
Who calls history ‘The Queen of Sciences’?
Answer
D. Zia-ud-din Berani
11
Egyptis popularly called as ‘The Gift of Nile". Who for the first time referred to it so?
Answer
A. Herodotus
12
Who deciphered the Cuneiform script of Sumerians?
Answer
D. Henry Rawilson
13
The year in which the Turks conquered the Byzantine territories :
Answer
A. AD 1453
14
Who named the southern tip of Africa ‘The Cape of Storms’?
Answer
C. Barthlomeu Diaz
15
The Oath of Tennis court is considered as the real beginning of French revolution. When was
the oath taken?
Answer
C. 20June 1789
16
Who headed the UN commission to Korea in 1947?
Answer
B. K.P.S. Menon
17
Name the German philosopher who is said to have influenced Hilter in his racist ideologies
and authored the book ‘Thus Spake Zarathushtra” :
Answer
C. Friedrich Nietzsche
18
Don Quixote was a novel of the renaissance period in which the author poked fun at the
medieval knights and their ideas of chivalry. Who is the author of this literary work?
Answer
D. Cervantes
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19
Mesopotamian civilization is one of the oldest civilizations of the world. What does the term ‘Mesopotamia’ mean :
Answer
B. The land between two rivers
20
Name the treaty by which the island of Hong Kong was ceded to the British :
Answer
A. Treaty of Nanking
21
What is meant by shrenibala?
Answer
D. fighting force maintained by guilds
22
Prayagaprasasti is an inscription engraved on the Ashokan Pillar at Allahabad. It deals with :
Answer
B. Gupta period
23
The Sanskrit work Malatimadhava was written by :
Answer
Question Cancelled
24
The earliest farming village in the Indian subcontinent :
Answer
A. Mehrgarh
25
Sangam literature work Tolkappium deals with :
Answer
B. Grammar
26
First Buddhist Council was held at :
Answer
C. Rajagriha
27
The excavation at Mohenjodaro was conducted by :
Answer
D. R.D. Banerjee & Sir John Marshall
28
The religion founded by Akbar :
Answer
D. Din-i-Ilahi
29
The founder of Jainism :
Answer
Question Cancelled
30
Name the book written by Magesthanese :
Answer
C. Indica
31
Which of the following companies was initially known as ‘Merchant Adventurers’?
Answer
C. English East India Company
32
Who was the leader of Young Bengal Movement?
Answer
B. Henry Derozio
33
Who among the following was not associated with Justice Party?
Answer
A. C. Sankaran Nair
34
Give the correct ascending chronological sequence of the following events :
a. Quit India Movement
b. Chouri-Choura Incident
c. Ist Round Table Conference
d. Surat split
Answer
D. dbca
35
Which one of the following was not part of Gandhiji’s Constructive Programme?
Answer
A. Non-payment of taxes
36
Who among the following was asked 5 preach from the pulpit of Jama Masjid at Delhi as a token of Hindu-Muslim Unity during Non-Cooperation Movement?
Answer
C. Swami Shradanand
37
Which of the following newspaper of colonial period was not a nationalist paper?
Answer
Question Cancelled
38
Who among the following was not included among the INA officers tried at Red Fort in 1945?
Answer
A. Tej Bahadur Sapru
39
Which of the following is the book written by John Ruskin that had influenced Gandhiji?
Answer
C. ‘Un to His Last’
40
Who was the Defence Minister of India when Goa was liberated and integrated with India?
Answer
B. V.K. Krishna Menon
41
The Megalithic culture in Kerala is :
Answer
D. Iron Age Culture
42
Writing of Local History got importance in Kerala:
Answer
Question Cancelled
43
The main factor which led to the expansion of agriculture in ancient Tamilakam was :
Answer
Question Cancelled
44
‘Munimadas’ in ancient Kerala refers to :
Answer
B. The Caves of meditation of Buddhist and Jainist Monks
45
The first reference about the Devadasi System in Kerala is found in :
Answer
C. Chokur Inscription of 932 AD
46
‘Viruthy Lands’ in Medieval Kerala was :
Answer
A. Land allotted to temple officials
47
The Vedic Schools within the Temples in Kerala are known as :
Answer
D. Salas
48
The Medieval Trade Guild of Syrian Christians in Kerala was :
Answer
B. Manigramam
49
Revathi Pattathanam is :
Answer
C. Competitive debate in traditional knowledge
50
The famous Astronomer in the court of Second Chera ruler, Stanu Ravi was :
Answer
D. Sankaranarayana
51
Who was the British Resident at the time of Veluthampi’s revolt?
Answer
A. Macaulay
52
Who was the founder editor of the magazine Yukthivadi?
Answer
D. Sahodaran Ayyappan
53
The first English Medium School in Trivandrum was established during the period of :
Answer
A. Swathi Thirunal
54
The content of Rajyasamajaram was :
Answer
B. Religious
55
Who was known as Valiya Kapithan?
Answer
D. De Lannoy
56
Sadhujana Paripalana Sangham was founded by :
Answer
D. Ayyankali
57
Who among the following was referred as Holly Man of 1921 Malabar Rebellion?
Answer
C. Ali Musliyar
58
Who among the following was elected as the acting president of Travancore State Congress in 1942?
Answer
C. Accamma Cherian
59
Who was the First Prime Minister of Kochi?
Answer
D. Panampilly Govinda Menon
60
Who among the following was the most important leader of Travancore Youth League?
Answer
B. Ponnara Sreedharan
61
Which of the following is one of the features of Enlightenment historiography?
Answer
B. A sense of unity of all human history
62
Name the journal which, at the outset, stated that the first task should be ‘to represent the true method of historical research and to point out the deviations therefrom’ :
Answer
D. Historische Zeitschrift
63
Who among the following advocated ‘positivism of the document?
Answer
Question Cancelled
64
Who defined Post-Modernism as ‘incredulity towards all metanarratives’?
Answer
B. Jean Lyotard
65
Who among the following represented the Frankfurt School of Historiography?
Answer
A. Theodor W.Adorno
66
The Annales, which made rupture in historical understanding, was characterized by :
Answer
D. All of the above
67
To Arnold J. Toynbee which of the following was responsible for the genesis of civilizations :
Answer
C. Challenge and Response
68
Name the historian who introduced the concept of ‘employment’ as central to the understanding of historical narrative :
Answer
Question Cancelled
69
The methodology adopted by Lewis Bernstein Namier for historical analysis is best known as :
Answer
C. Prosopography
70
Who authored the book, ‘Invisible Women, Visible Histories : Gender, Society and Polity in North India (Seventh to Twelfth Century A.D.’?
Answer
B. Devika Rangachari
71
Which of the following sampling method is preferred for studying heterogeneous population?
Answer
B. Stratified sampling
72
A test that examine subjects’ thoughts and thought processes is :
Answer
A. Cognitive test
73
Which of the following is most appropriate about discussion part of a research paper?
Answer
B. Explain how the findings concur with that of others
74
The process of collecting and analyzing information to develop or enhance a theory is :
Answer
A. Basic research
75
If you want to determine whether and to what degree a relationship exists between two or more variables what kind of study you have to do?
Answer
B. Correlation
76
Creating a class room climate conducive to develop positive self concept in students is by :
Answer
D. All the above
77
Which of the following teacher will be liked most?
Answer
B. A teacher who make teaching learning process enjoyable
78
An instructional model that identifies the major variable in the teaching learning process includes :
Answer
D. All the above
79
The extent of teachers’ subject matter and pedagogical expertise indicates the teachers :
Answer
C. Competency
80
What will be the impact of interactive teaching?
Answer
D. It will make teaching learning process effective, democratic and friendly
81
The term socialist has been inserted in the preamble by the ———————— Amendment Act of the Constitution.
Answer
B. 42
82
Right for freedom to form Association is provided in ———————— Article of the Constitution.
Answer
C. 19(1)(c)
83
Money Bill can be introduced in :
Answer
A. Lok Sabha
84
Legislative council of a State :
Answer
C. Can be abolished by the Parliament based on the resolution passed by the majority of the Legislative Assembly
85
Which of the following statement is true?
(1) The President can make a proclamation declaring emergency only when he receives in writing the decision of the Union Cabinet to this effect
(2) The president could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of internal disturbance
(3) The president could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of Armed Rebellion
(4) The president could make a proclamation declaring emergency on the ground of threat of External Aggression
Answer
B. 1, 3, 4
86
According to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 Child mean the person who
has not completed his —-—————- year of age.
Answer
D. 14
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87
What is the penalty for the refusal of the RTI application by the Public information Officer?
Answer
D. Re, 26,000
88
Which of the following statement is not true?
Answer
C. No child shall be permitted to work between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.
89
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act,
2013 :
(1) Protects women working in that place
(2) Protects any women who enters the work place like clients, customer, etc.
(3) Protects all the employees who are working there
(4) Protects only women working in government institutions
Answer
A. land 2
90
Whoever contravenes the provisions of $.24 of the Water (Prevention and Control of
Pollution) Act, prohibition on use of stream or well for disposal of polluting matter shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than :
Answer
D. 14 year but which may extend to 6 years and with fine
91
In which novel of Kesava Dev ‘Pappu’ appears as the main character?
Answer
A. QOdayil Ninnu
92
The First editor of ‘Swadeshabhimani daily :
Answer
D. G.P. Govinda Pilla
93
Who organised ‘Misrabhojanam’?
Answer
B. Sahodaran Ayyappan
94
‘Pattini Jatha’ led by :
|
Answer
C. AK. Gopalan
95
Who took Prime role in the publication of ‘Rajyasamacharam’?
Answer
B. Dr. Herman Gundert
96
The Chief guest on the occassion of 65'* Republic day celebration :
Answer
A. Shinzo Abe
97
Which amount the following diseases is eradicated through immunisation programme in
India?
Answer
A. Polio
98
Who inaugurated the new Kerala legislative assembly building in 1998?
Answer
C. K.R. Narayanan
99
The Minister who presented and passed the Land reformation act of Kerala in 1969:
Answer
Question Cancelled
100
The bowler to take Sachin’s wicket in his last teat :
Answer
B. Narsingh Deo Narine
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