HIST 491 Quiz 1

HIST 491 Quiz 1

HIST 491 Quiz 1

1. According to Lukacs, people cannot identify with mythical gods because
2. To John Lukacs, good historical inquiry deals most directly with
3. According to John Lukacs, good historical writing is most specifically a consequence of
4. The Latin word for “intelligence” means
5. According to Lukacs, in historical writing, there is no absolute relationship between reputation and achievement.
6. According to Lukacs, the only real thing is
7. According to Lukacs, the growing cultural “desire for the real” is best illustrated by
8. John Lukacs believes that a major hindrance to good history is the lack of
9. He said, history “is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
10. Which historian said the following “every new historian, not content with giving new answers to old questions, must revise the questions themselves.”
11. Fea quotes Karl Marx, who said that human action is always held in check by “the circumstances directly encountered, given, and transmitted form the past.” This quotation was given to illustrate a slight contradistinction to the idea that history is
12. According to Fea, which of the following is not given as an appropriate use of history?
13. According to Fea, democracy and consumerism are directly linked to the American value of
14. Pilgrim William Bradford believed that the following was evil:
15. Historian Charles Beard argued in 1913 that the American Founders were motivated by
16. Eugene Genovese famously protested an anti-Vietnam War resolution in the American Historical Association citing that such resolutions would
17. John Fea believes that the best historians
18. According to Fea, the past is equally usable no matter the topic.
19. According to Fea’s interpretation of Nathan Hatch’s Democratization of American Christianity, which of the following was not a trend in the early nineteenth-century expressions of evangelicalism?
20. According to John Fea, empathy in historical study should humble the historian for which of the following reasons?
21. According to Fea, universal or national narratives in history tend to bore students.
22. With which term would you most associate historian Leopold von Ranke?
23. According to Fea, historians do not tend to like this term because it, as another historian notes, is sometimes an attempt to “domesticate the past” so it can be enlisted “for present causes.”
24. According to Fea, students of history tend to search out people like them.
25. According to the American Historical Association (AHA), what is the most popular historical topic of research?
26. What historiographic category does Howard Zinn best fit?
27. A historical narrative that glorifies the present would be called
28. Sam Wineburg calls our natural inclination to find a useful past our
29. According to Fea, this historic school of thought generally argued that “timeless” truths of a distant past could not be applicable to the present or future because of the vast changes in historical context form one age to the other.
30. Harvard historian Albert Bushnell Hart was accused of treason and pro-British propaganda for saying
31. From almost the beginning of time, historical teaching and writing has been an official academic profession.
32. This historian wanted to establish and vindicate Christian orthodoxy, so he wrote with passion and partisanship.
33. This Greek historian wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
34. In the 18th century the German seminar method of history emphasized
35. Which of the following is considered the “Father of History”?
36. Herbert Butterfield said that this element of Whig history in particular created a “gigantic optical illusion.”
37. Herbert Butterfield viewed history as primarily a study of continuity over time.
38. Which of the following best describes Herbert Butterfield’s view of the Protestant Reformation in relation to liberty?
39. Which of the following is not a sign of “Whig” history according to Herbert Butterfield?
40. Which of the following best describes Herbert Butterfield’s view of history?
41. At its most basic, history is about
42. According to Samuel Smith, history is principally a vehicle to accomplish political ends.
43. Who said, “…I am thankful to God incarnate, Jesus Christ, whose entrance into history gives it meaning beyond the reach of empirical investigation.”
44. Which of the following is true about history?
45. Which of the following is the best definition of history according to Samuel Smith?
46. Who said, “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
47. According to Clyde Wilson, Herbert Butterfield believed that so called moral judgments in history were actually
48. According to Clyde Wilson, Whig history is more about presentism than about the past.
49. According to Clyde Wilson, Herbert Butterfield reminds us that man is not
50. According to Clyde Wilson, who is a good example of a historian that did not fall into a Whig interpretation of history.
51. John Fea designates history as “usable” and as a “foreign country.” What does he mean by these designations? How are these designations different, and why are they important in the study of history? (Note: you may wish to address the idea of whether or not history that is a “foreign country” can also be “usable.”)