World History: Understanding History.

1.What is History?

• A. It is the study to understand what we are today.

• B. It is the study of what people did and said in the past.

• C. It is a study of past which helps us to understand the present.

• D. It is the study of the past, particularly people and events of the past.9

2. A historian is a person who

• A. Writes history

• B. Reads history

• C. Studies history

• D. Records history

3. Which of the following is known as the ' Father of History'?

• A. Dionysius

• B. Xenophon

• C. Herodotus

• D. Ranke

4. Which of the definations given below was defined by 'Thomas Carlyle' of Scotland?

• A. It is the biography of great men.

• B. It is philosophy teaching by examples.

• C. It is the knowledge of the past as it really happened.

• D. It is an unendinh dialogue between the present and the past.

5. What does the Greek word ' historia 'mean ?

• A. Keeping records of the past events.

• B. Finding the truth or collecting information.

• C. Finding evidences to understand the past.

• D. Investigation carried out to find out the truth.

6. Which one of the following is NOT the characteristic of history?

• A. Ideas

• B. Future

• C. Time and space

• D. Interpretations.

7. The first people to study history seriously were _______.

• A. The ancient Greeks

• B. An English

• C. A Scottish

• D. The Persians.

8. Which of the following is NOT among the questions asked by historians?

• A. What happened ?

• B. When did it happen?

• C. Why did it happen?

• D. When will it happen again?

9. Following are the importance of studying history EXCEPT

• A. It tell us the about the important events in the past

• B. It helps us to understand deeply our culture and origin.

• C. It makes us better person in the present.

• D. It imparts the skills of inquiry , reasoning and interpretation.

10. A nation where the idea of fraternity , equality and liberty was born.

• A. Greece

• B. Rome

• C. France

• D. India