This document contains a test booklet with 40 multiple choice questions related to geographical thought. The questions cover topics like influential geographers such as Carl Ritter, Paul Vidal de la Blache and their contributions. It also includes questions about concepts like determinism, regional geography and the work of geographers like Mackinder, Haggett and Chorley. The document provides the answers to each question.

1. Geographical Thought (17GEO24C1)
Multiple Choice Questions with Answers
Test Booklet No. – 04
Kuldip Singh Kait, Ph. D. (JNU, New Delhi),
Associate Professor
Government College for Girls, Sector-14, Gurugram, Haryana
INDIA
Academic Session: 2019-20

2. 1.Who was the father of modern human geography?
(A) Richthofen
(B) Alexander Von Humboldt
(C) Carl Ritter
(D) Friedrich Ratzel
2. Who was the father of neo-determinism?.
(A) Blach
(B) Carl Ritter
(C) Albrecht Penck
(D) Griffith Taylor
3. Who is not a French Geographer out of the followings?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Friedrich Ratzel
4. Who is the founder of Human Geography?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Friedrich Ratzel

3. 5. Who gave the concept of possiblism?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Friedrich Ratzel
6. Who laid the foundation of possiblism?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Humboldt
(C) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(D) Friedrich Ratzel
7. Who presented the concept of ‘Stop and Go’?
(A) Herodotus
(B) Hacataeus
(C) Griffith Taylor
(D) Friedrich Ratzel
8. To which country Richthofen belongs?
(A) France
(B) U. K.
(C) U. S. A.
(D) Germany
9. Who is the exponent of Regional Geography?
(A) Friedrich Ratzel
(B) Carl Troll
(C) Humboldt
(D) Carl Ritter

4. 10. To which country Eratosthenes belongs?
(A) France
(B) U. K.
(C) U. S. A.
(D) Hellenic (Greece)
11. To which country Kant belongs?
(A) France
(B) U. K.
(C) U. S. A.
(D) Germany
12. To which country Peter Haggett belongs?
(A) France
(B) U. K.
(C) U. S. A.
(D) Germany
13. To which country Richard Hartshorn belongs?
(A) France
(B) U. K.
(C) U. S. A.
(D) Germany

5. 14. Which of the following statements regarding Kant’s view on origin of earth is true?
(A) Kant introduced the Newtonian Law gravitation in his theory
(B) Kant developed his theory accepting the principle of conservation of angular momentum
(C) Though Laplace put forward the nebular hypothesis of origin of the Earth, Kant is regarded by many as the
real propounder of nebular hypothesis
(D) All the above statements
15. Name the French Scholar, who criticised the method of representation of population and other data in the
administrative units??
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Phillippe Buache
16. Name the French Scholar, who advocated that the right approach for representation of geographical data is in
the frame of natural regions?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Phillippe Buache
17. Name the French Scholar, who proposed a division of national territory into natural regions?
(A) Baron Coquebert
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Phillippe Buache

6. 18. Who advocated that the river basin is the best kind of natural regions?
(A) Baron Coquebert
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Phillippe Buache
19. Who published the first edition of Atlas Generale Vidal Lablache?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Albert Demangeon
20. Who is the author of “Tableau de la Geography de la France’?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Albert Demangeon
21. Who opposed the idea of drainage basin as a unit of study?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(C) Elisee Reclus
(D) Albert Demangeon

7. 22. Name the French scholar and son-in-law of Vidal de Lablache, who gave the final shape to Lablache’s
monumental work ‘Human Geography’?
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Emmanual de Martonne
(C) Emmanual Kant
(D) Albert Demangeon
23. In which book, Lablache started with aims and objectives of Human Geography; the principal of Terrestrial
Unity, and the concept of Man and Environment (milieu); Man as Geographical Factor, the Patterns of
Civilisations; Circulation (means of transport); Cultural Regions and Cities?
A. Annales de geographie
B. Atlas Generale Vidal Lablache
C. Human Geography
D. Tableau de la Geography de la France
24. Who is rightly considered the father of Human Geography, as he who advocated and preached for
‘Possiblism’?.
(A) Jean Brunhes
(B) Emmanual de Martonne
(C) Paul Vidal de la Blache
(D) Albert Demangeon
25. To which country Vidal de la Blache belongs?
(A) U. K.
(B) U. S. A.
(C) Germany
(D) France

8. 26. Name the author of “Geographie Humaine: essai de Classification Positive’ ?
A. Ellen C. Sample
B. Jean Brunhes
C. Richthofen
D. Humboldt
27. Who wrote nineteen volumes of ‘Nouvelle Geographie Universelle’ and six volumes of L’homme et la terre’
A. Elisee Reclus
B. Humboldt
C. Richthofen
D. Penck
28. Name the student and son-in-law of Paul Vidal de Lablache who wrote “Traits de Geographie Physique, La France
Physique’ and inspired many French geographers to work in the field of physical geography?
A. Emmanual De Martonne
B. Albrecht Penck
C. Carl Troll
D. Elisee Reclus
29. Who started his carrier as a school teacher and while teaching at Picardy, he produced a monograph entitled “La
Picardie et les regions veisines”?
(A) Albrecht Penck
(B) Albert Demangeon
(C) Ellen C. Sample
(D) Elisee Reclus

9. 30. The radical thinking in geography is focussed on
A. Attempt to engage the discipline in socially relevant issues
B. Only surface manifestations of societal irregularities
C. The premise that progress is independent of the material conditions
D. The mental images that the decision-makers have of the environment
31. Who among the followings gave the concept of ‘Rimland’ theory?
A. L. Dudley Stamp
B. Richard R. Chorley
C. Spykman
D. Peter Haggett
32. The concept of the Geographical Pivot of History was proposed by
A. Mackinder
B. Martin
C. Kropotkin
D. Herbert J. Fluere
33 Which one of the following is not a supporter of the theory of determinism?
A. Wolfgang Hartake
B. R. Hartshorne
C. O.H.K. Spate
D. All the above

10. 34. Who among the following is an advocate of idealism in geography?
A. Guelke
B. Gilbert
C. Samuels
D. Pocock
35. Who quoted “History must be treated geographically and all geography must be treated historically”
A. Herodotus
B. Ptolemy
C. Al-Biruni
D. Hippanchut
36. Whose main contribution in geography was ”The art of map making”?
A. Herodotus
B. Ptolemy
C. Al-Biruni
D. Hippanchut
37. Who among the following contributed most in mathematical, physical and regional geography?
A. Herodotus
B. Ptolemy
C. Al-Biruni
D. Hippanchut

11. 38. Name the geographers who wrote “Frontiers in Geographical Teachings”?
A. Peter Hagget and Richard J. Chorley
B. H. J. Mackinder and Spykman
C. Ratzel and Darwin
D. Humboldt and Ritter
39. Who wrote ‘Models in Human Geography’?
A. H. J. Mackinder and Spykman
B. Peter Hagget and Richard J. Chorley
C. Ratzel and Darwin
D. Humboldt and Ritter
40. Who wrote ‘Locational Analysis in Human Geography’?
A. H. J. Mackinder and Spykman
B. Ratzel and Darwin
C. Peter Hagget and Richard J. Chorley
D. Humboldt and Ritter

12. Multiple Choice Questions with answers
Test Booklet No. - 04
Geographical Thought (17GEO24C1)
Q. No. Answer Q. No. Answer Q. No. Answer Q. No. Answer
1. D 11. D 21. B 31. C
2. D 12. B 22. B 32. A
3. D 13. C 23. C 33. D
4. B 14. D 24. C 34. A
5. B 15. D 25. D 35. A
6. C 16. D 26. B 36. B
7. C 17. A 27. A 37. C
8. D 18. D 28. A 38. A
9. D 19. B 29. B 39. B
10. D 20. B 30. C 40. C