Question 1
1 out of 1 points
According to Pascal, Kirkegaard, and Lukacs, pure truth
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Answer: Belongs only to God
Question 2
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John Lukacs has observed that his former students remember this the most:
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Answer: How to think
Question 3
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According to Lukacs, in historical writing, there is no absolute relationship between
reputation and achievement.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 4
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John Lukacs believes that a major hindrance to good history is the lack of
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Answer: Curiosity
Question 5
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The Latin word for “intelligence” means
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Answer: To read into something
Question 6
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According to Lukacs, people cannot identify with mythical gods because
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Answer: They are not like us
Question 7
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John Lukacs believes that the notions of absolute objectivity and absolute
subjectivity are both true.
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 8
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According to Lukacs, ancient historians did not
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Answer: a and b
Question 9
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Which of the following are not part of historian Stephanie Lawson’s outline of
historical presentism?
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Answer: The past is valuable for the past’s sake
Question 10
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Sam Wineburg called the practice of historical thinking
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Answer: An unnatural act
Question 11
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In his history of the United States, this historian portrayed America as a Christian
nation with the purpose of expanding liberty and democracy throughout the world.
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Answer: George Bancroft
Question 12
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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.
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Answer: Cambridge School
Question 13
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John Fea believes that some characters in history, such as slaveholders, deserve no
historical “empathy.”
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 14
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According to Fea, which of the following is not given as an appropriate use of
history?
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Answer: Divine interpretation
Question 15
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A historical narrative that glorifies the present would be called
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Answer: Whig History
Question 16
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He said, history “is the lie commonly agreed upon.”
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Answer: Voltaire
Question 17
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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?
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Answer: Embraced a theology informed by common
sense
Question 18
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All of the following are part of Thomas Andrews’s and Flannery Burke’s “five C’s” of
historical interpretation EXCEPT
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Answer: Continuity
Question 19
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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.”9 This
quotation was given to illustrate a slight contradistinction to the idea that history is
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Answer: About contingency
Question 20
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Pilgrim William Bradford believed that the following was evil:
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Answer: Capitalism
Question 21
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With which term would you most associate historian Leopold von Ranke?
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Answer: Historicism
Question 22
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While empathy as it relates to historical thinking is the search for authentic
understanding, sympathy . . .
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Answer: Involves a deeper emotional
attachment
Question 23
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According to Fea, universal or national narratives in history tend to bore students.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 24
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According to Fea, democracy and consumerism are directly linked to the American
value of
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Answer: Progress
Question 25
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9To Fea, the past never changes, but history does change.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 26
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John Fea believes that all historians are
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Answer: Revisionists
Question 27
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Eugene Genovese famously protested an anti-Vietnam War resolution in the
American Historical Association citing that such resolutions would
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Answer: Unnecessarily politicize the historical profession.
Question 28
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According to Fea’s interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville, democracy tends to cause
individuals to
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Answer: Turn their backs on the
past
Question 29
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According to Fea, the past is equally usable no matter the topic.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 30
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John Fea believes that the best historians
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Answer: Are story tellers
Question 31
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This historian wanted to establish and vindicate Christian orthodoxy, so he wrote with
passion and partisanship.
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Answer:
[None
Given]
Question 32
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Which of the following is considered the “Father of History”?
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Answer: Herodotus
Question 33
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According to Dr. Michael Davis, a basic definition of “historiography” is
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Answer: A and B
Question 34
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This Greek historian wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
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Answer: 9Thucydides
Question 35
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In the 189th9century the German seminar method of history emphasized
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Answer: History as science
Question 36
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Herbert Butterfield viewed history as primarily a study of continuity over time.
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Answer:
Fals
e
Question 37
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According to Butterfield, “true historical fervor” is generated by
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Answer: Love of the past for the sake of the past
Question 38
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Which of the following is not a sign of “Whig” history according to Herbert Butterfield?
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Answer: Complexity
Question 39
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Which of the following best describes Herbert Butterfield’s view of history?
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Answer: A labyrnthine network
Question 40
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Which of the following best describes Butterfield’s view of moral judgments in
history?
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Answer: The historian could make moral judgments as long as he clearly shows
them as originating from his own bias
Question 41
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Which of the following is true about history?
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Answer: All of the above
Question 42
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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.”
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Answer: Aldous Huxley
Question 43
1 out of 1 points
Which of the following is the best definition of history according to Samuel Smith?
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Answer: The honest interpretation of the
past
Question 44
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Who said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their
own understanding of their history”?
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Answer: George Orwell
Question 45
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John Lukacs said that “History is the ___________ of mankind.”
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Answer: Memory
Question 46
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Who said, “…I am thankful to God incarnate, Jesus Christ, whose entrance into
history gives it meaning beyond the reach of empirical investigation.”
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Answer: Samuel Smith
Question 47
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According to Clyde Wilson, history should not be seen as a morality play.
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Answer:
Tru
e
Question 48
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According to Clyde Wilson, being a good historian makes you a
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Answer: A good citizen
Question 49
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According to Clyde Wilson, who is a good example of a historian that did not fall into
a Whig interpretation of history.
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Answer: Jacob Burkhart
Question 50
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According to Clyde Wilson, what would be another term to describe “Whig” history?
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Answer: Progressive
Question 51
Needs Grading
John Fea designates history as “usable” and as a “foreign country.”9 What does he
mean by these designations?9 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.”)9
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Answer:
According to Fea, part of the historian’s vocation is to debunk context-free
explorations of the past by looking closely at the evidence, exploring the
larger social and cultural context in which words are used, and exposing these
fallacies to the general public. ''People did things differently in the past, and
so studying the past, and the people in the past, is like visiting or studying a
foreign country. Historians must always keep in mind the culture and belief
systems of this foreign country as they interpret their sources and draw
conclusions about their meaning.' Fea points out that all history is usable (or
should be at least be useful) or else what would be the point of studying it?'
Therefore, if all history is usable, then even history that is like a totally foreign
country to our current cultural context is also useable.' However, Fea explains
that though we are all in search of a usable past—a past that we can consume
or put to good use as we live our lives in the present – 'sometimes the past is
not easily consumable.' Similarly, the past often forces us to confront
characters or events that seem utterly strange to us.' However, even history
that seems irrelevant is useful if one takes the time to understand it.''Any
historical investigation of the past requires two important virtues: empathy
and humility. Empathy requires the historian to step into the shoes of
historical actors in order to see the world as they did, to understand them on
their own terms and not ours. Empathy is all about understanding. It is an
attempt to discover why a particular individual in the past acted in the way
that he or she did. It might even mean exploring such actions in an attempt to
grasp how he or she reflects the mentality of all of those living in that time
and how such a mentality differs from our own. Humility is ultimately an
acknowledgment of one’s limits and the realization that there are some things
about the world that we cannot know fully. History, perhaps more than any
other discipline, teaches this sense of limits. History teaches humility in the
sense that the past can sometimes shame us.''It reminds us of the inherent
weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow
human beings are capable of horrendous things.
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