Memory is described by historians as:
a) psychological
b) cultural
c) sociological
d) both a & b

Which of the following are one of the traditional distinctions between intellectual and social history as described by Roger Chartier?
a) High culture vs Popular culture
b) Political vs Social
c) Non-fiction vs Fiction
d) All of the above

Professor Galbraith stated the study of history is considered:
a) propaganda
b) fascinating
c) lies
d) evidence

According to Patrick Joyce, modernism is the thought of writing this kind of history
a)Unknown history
b)Grand narratives
c)Social History
d)Secret Societies

Meta-narrative is defined as this
a)The background information prior to and after a historical narrative.
b)A grand movement of information and people known to society.
c)A grand schema for organizing the interpretation and writing of history.
d)A story within a story, in another story, holding a story with a story in it, waiting for the grand narrative to collapse in another story.

Which fields of study would use memory as a focus of special interest?
a) Oral history
b) Holocaust Studies
c) Anthropology
d) a & b

Which of the following are goals of cultural history as described by Mark Poster?
a) to trace the construction of an autonomous agent
b) to estimate the extent to which a postmodern cultural figure may be emerging.
c) both a & b
d) neither

Michael Howard states that historians are considered the unacknowledged ______ of mankind
a) scripters
b) authors
c) legislators
d) describers

Patrick Joyce sets out to show the importance of post-modernist thought in history through three challenges
a)3-point, Field goal, and the Balkans
b)Classical Challenges, Modernity Challenges, and Nuclear Challenges
c)Identity, Classical, and War
d)Structure, Modernity, and Identity

Without historical knowledge, Peter Laslett writes, we could…
a)Write stories about people stealing important historical artifacts.
b)We could easily understand one another, and have peace reign forever.
c)We could not understand ourselves in contrast with our ancestors.
d)We could better structure Great Britain with a stronger army and kickstart imperialism again.

Memory, as described by Peter Nora is:
a) a reconstruction of what is no longer
b) living, evolving, and created by societies
c) the faculty of the mind by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
d) a representation of the past

Robert Danton describes cultural history as:
a) an interpretive science
b) an objective science
c) a physical science

Primary professional responsibility is to keep history clear and
a) dry
b) untainted
c) precise
d) accurate

Joan Scott states that the goal of historians of women in the 1970s and 1980s was to do this with history
a)Integrate women into history.
b)To develop a new history, separate from history.
c)To make a religion.
d)Ransom history, and sell it to the highest bidder.

Laslett writes of the similarities of people of the past and his present in 1965, but how many historians often state separations between the two. He writes that it was likely due to the horrors of this event, which split up families and their children.
a)Industrialization
b)The French Revolution
c)Norman Invasion of 1066
d)The Great War

Which of the following would be an example of a lieux de memoire?
a) A museum
b) Language
c) Traditions
d) All of the above

Robert Danton believes which of the following approaches should be used as a model for cultural history studies?
a) anthropological
b) psychological
c) sociological

What group did Howard Zinn focus his essay on?
a) Women studies
b) Latin American Studies
c) Chinese studies
d) Black studies

Joan Scott writes: “Those who draw on the teachings of _____ argue that power must be understood in the terms of the discursive processes which produce difference.”
a)The Declaration of Independence
b)Aristotle
c)Nietzsche
d)Poststructuralism

According to Lerner, although it is part of American culture, what does America's framework NOT consist of
a) manifest destiny
b) liberal politics
c)white superiority
d)laissez-faire

Gerda Lerner states that historians were always part of which class?
a) middle class
b) elite
c) lower class
d) all of the above

Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob wrote that the word postmodernism means this. Pg 238
a)The development of theories and explanations in society and history
b)There can be no straightforward passageway to the world outside the text.
c)The jump from the 20th century to the 21st
d)There is a way of researching history that is perfect, and it is the job of historians to find it.

According to Lerner, the problem of discontinuities is greater in this generation than others because of the extinction of humankind due to:
a) viruses
b)nuclear war
c)nuclear bombs
d)mass shootings