Psychohistory is not content to violate the discipline of history ; it alsoviolates the past itself. It denies to the past an integrity and will of itsown, in which people acted out of a variety of motives and in which events hada multiplicity of causes and effects. It imposes upon the past the samedeterminism that it imposes upon the present, thus robbing people and events oftheir individuality and of their complexity. Instead of respecting theparticularity of the past, it assimilates all events, past and present, into asingle deterministic schema that is presumed to be true at all times and in allcircumstances.
1. Which of the following best states the main point of the text?
[A] The approach of psychohistorians to historical study is currently invogue even though it lacks the rigor and verifiability of traditionalhistorical method.
[B] Traditional historians can benefit from studying the techniques andfindings of psychohistorians.
[C] Areas of sociological study such as childhood and work are of littleinterest to traditional historians.
[D] The psychological assessment of an individuals behavior and attitudes is moreinformative than the details of his or her daily life.
2. The author mentions which of the following as a characteristic of thepractice of psychohistorians?
[A] The lives of historical figures are presented in episodic rather thannarrative form.
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