From the free UGC NET History Mock Test 10 — Unit 10: Historical Method, Research, Methodology, and Historiography unit-wise mock test — real question, real answer, real explanation.
What does the citation abbreviation op. cit. (operato citato) stand for?
In the work cited previously (by the same author, but not in the immediately preceding footnote) ✓
In the original text
Without publisher location
See above chapter
"Op. cit." (opere citato) refers back to a work already cited earlier, but not immediately before, in the text.
The term Anachronism in historical writing refers to:
Placing an event, person, item, or idea in a chronological period where it does not belong ✓
Omitting crucial dates from a narrative
Translating ancient texts incorrectly
Overemphasizing economic factors over cultural ones
Anachronism means placing a person, event, or idea in a time period to which it does not actually belong.
In historical methodology, Oral History relies primarily on which technique to gather historical evidence?
Audio-recorded interviews, oral testimonies, personal narratives, and recollections of living individuals ✓
Deciphering folk inscriptions on temple walls
Analyzing folk poetry in printed anthologies
Translating colonial police diaries
Oral History gathers evidence through recorded interviews, testimonies and personal recollections of living witnesses.
The philosophical concept of Presentism in historiography is defined as:
The tendency to judge past actions, events, and figures solely using modern contemporary standards and attitudes ✓
Studying only contemporary history
Believing that history is cyclical
Rejecting archival primary sources
Presentism is the error of judging past events and people purely by today's values and standards.
The book On History and major essays on British Marxist historiography were authored by which prominent historian?
Eric Hobsbawm ✓
E.P. Thompson
Christopher Hill
Perry Anderson
Eric Hobsbawm's On History collects his major essays on the British Marxist historiographical tradition.
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Itihaaskar — UGC NET/JRF & UPSC History Optional notes by Parveen Malik (B.Tech. (CSE), M.A. (History), History JRF). Also spelt Itihaskar.
