History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2022 History (Shift-I)
Match List I with List II. Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
List I
- I. 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers'
- II. 'The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there'
- III. 'Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history'
- IV. 'A page of history is worth a volume of logic'
List II
- A. Arab proverb
- b. L.P. Hartley
- c. Oliver Wendell Holmes
- d. Abraham Lincoln
AI-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d
BI-b, II-a, III-d, IV-c
CI-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c ✓ Correct
DI-a, II-d, III-c, IV-b
Correct answer: (C) I-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c — The correct match is I-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c.
Explanation
★The correct match is I-a, II-b, III-d, IV-c.
★The saying that men resemble their times more than their fathers is an Arab proverb.
★The line that the past is a foreign country is by L.P. Hartley.
★The words 'Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history' are by Abraham Lincoln.
★The remark that a page of history is worth a volume of logic is also by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
★So the pairs are the first quote with the Arab proverb, the second with Hartley, the third with Lincoln, and the fourth with Holmes.
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