PSC HSST History SR for SC/ST Model Questions and Answers

26. In India the first law for transplantation of Human organs was passed in the year
(A) 2011 (B) 2009
(C) 1998 (D) 1994
Answer: D

27. As per the Mihir Shah Committee Report, the average annual days of work per person generated under MGNREGA since inception has never exceeded.
(A) 46 days (B) 52 days
(C) 57 days (D) 66 days
Answer: C

28. Which are the special target groups in Antyodaya Anna Yojana ?
(A) Poorest of the poor (B) Poor and non-poor
(C) Backward classes (D) None of these
Answer: A

29. Which was the first country in the world to have enacted a legislation for providing for citizens ‘RTI’ ?
(A) Switzerland (B) France
(C) Sweden (D) USA
Answer: C

30. The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 was enacted in consonance with which of the following provisions of the Constitution of India ?
(A) Right to healthy environment, construed as a part of Right to Life under Article 21
(B) Provision of grants for raising the level of administration in scheduled areas for the welfare of STs under Article 275(1)
(C) Powers and functions of Grama Sabha as mentioned under Article 243(A)
(D) None of the above
Answer: A

31. ‘All history is contemporary history’. Who defined history thus ?
(A) Collingwood (B) Karl Marx
(C) Beneditto Croce (D) Peter Burke
Answer: C

32. Toponomy is the study of
(A) Inscriptions (B) place names
(C) Seals (D) Fossils
Answer: B

33. The scientific study of seals is called
(A) Epigraphy (B) Archaeology
(C) Diplomatic (D) Sigillography
Answer: D

34. Which among the following is meant for proving the authenticity of the document ?
(A) External criticism (B) Internal criticism
(C) Synthetic operation (D) None of the above
Answer: A

35. Stratigraphy is associated with
(A) Archaeology (B) Epigraphy
(C) Paleography (D) None of the above
Answer: A

36. ‘Long Duree’ is the concept popularised by
(A) Ladurie (B) Philip Aries
(C) Fernand Braudel (D) Roger Chartier
Answer: C

37. Who among the following is not a Marxist historian ?
(A) George Rude (B) Perry Anderson
(C) E. P. Thompson (D) Edward Gibbon
Answer: D

38. Which of the following books deals with the history of Menochio, a village miller of 15th century Italy ?
(A) Cheese and worms (B) Montaillou
(C) The Great Cat Massacre (D) None of the above
Answer: A

39. Which of the following historians is not associated with the Feudalism Debate in Indian Historiography ?
(A) D. D. Kosambi (B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) Herbans Mukhia (D) R. S. Sharma
Answer: B

40. Which of the following is not a work of Sumith Sarkar ?
(A) Modern India
(B) The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal
(C) Writing Social History
(D) A possible India
Answer: D

41. Altamira, the historical site from where cave paintings prehistoric period have been discovered is located in
(A) France (B) England
(C) Germany (D) Spain
Answer: D

42. The term ‘Urban Revolution’ was used by Gordon childe in his book
(A) What Happened in History
(B) New Light on the most Ancient Near East
(C) Man Makes Himself
(D) The Bronze Age
Answer: C

43. Who among the following deciphered the Cuneiform script ?
(A) Champollion (B) Rawlinson
(C) James Prinsep (D) Arthur Evans
Answer: B

44. ‘The Great Transformation’ is written by
(A) Karl Polyani (B) Marshall Sahlin
(C) Perry Anderson (D) Elman R. Service
Answer: A

45. Who were the ‘Samurais’ ?
(A) Warlords of Japan (B) Members of Warrior class
(C) Buddhist Monks (D) Landlords of Japan
Answer: B

46. What is Niagara movement ?
(A) A movement for Women’s emancipation
(B) A movement for white slave emancipation
(C) A movement for Negro emancipation
(D) A movement for Red Indian Women’s freedom
Answer: C

47. Hitler’s invasion of Soviet union was given the code name
(A) Operation Thunder (B) Operation Sky Lion
(C) Operation Sea Lion (D) Operation Barbarossa
Answer: D

48. The Book through which Copernicus propounded the notion that sun is at the centre of the universe
(A) ‘The Revolution of Heavenly Bodies’
(B) ‘Novum Organum’
(C) ‘Principia Mathematica’
(D) ‘The Discourse on Method’
Answer: A

49. ‘Kitab-al-Ibar’ (Universal History) is the work of
(A) Ibn Khaldun (B) Ibn Batuta
(C) Al-Masudi (D) Albiruni
Answer: A

50. Which of the following automobile company is associated with Adolf Hitler ?
(A) Ford (B) Volks wagen
(C) Nissan (D) Honda
Answer: B