This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient India – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient India Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Upanishads are separated from the Brahmanas by treatises called..... A) Epics. B) Aranyakas. C) Vedas. D) Puranas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aranyakas. 2. An elaborate system of municipal administration had been established by A) Skanda Gupta. B) Chandragupta Maurya. C) Kanishka. D) Harshavardhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandragupta Maurya. 3. Which important industry show signs of having thrived in Lothal? A) Aircraft manufacture. B) Terracota toys. C) Pottery. D) Shipbuilding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shipbuilding. 4. Which of the following Sanskrit language? A) Indo-Greeks. B) Kushanas. C) Guptas. D) Mauryas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Guptas. 5. The main occupation of the Aryans was A) Seafaring. B) Weaving. C) Agriculture. D) Trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agriculture. 6. Who among the following is known for his work on medicine during the Gupta Period? A) Shaunaka. B) Susruta. C) Sudraka. D) Saumilla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Susruta. 7. Which of the following was the centre of inland trade of the Satavahanas? A) Nasik. B) Srikakulam. C) Surat. D) Tagara. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tagara. 8. Who among the following had popularized the theory of the Arctic region as the original home of the Aryans? A) Dr S Radhakrishnan. B) Max Muller. C) GK Gokhale. D) BG Tilak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) BG Tilak. 9. Of the following who was the hero of a famous drama Malvlkagnimitra written by Kalidasa? A) Agnimitra. B) Vasumitra. C) Pushyamitra. D) Vajramitra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agnimitra. 10. Who was the founder of the Pala Dynasty of Bengal? A) Mahipala. B) Mahendrapala. C) Dharmapala. D) Gopala. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gopala. 11. Mudra Rakshas is a work of Vishakhadutta. This work was depicted which of the following? A) Chadragupta Maurya & Dhruva Devi. B) Mauryas & Nandas. C) Campaigns of Chandragupta Maurya. D) Campaigns of Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mauryas & Nandas. 12. Which of the following Vedas is rendered musically? A) Sama Veda. B) Rig Veda. C) Atharva Veda. D) Yajur Veda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sama Veda. 13. Who had got the Konark Sun Temple constructed? A) Rajendra Chola. B) Kanishka. C) Narasimha Deva II. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narasimha Deva II. 14. Partha was the name of which of the following character in Mahabharta? A) Krishna. B) Yudhisthara. C) Bhima. D) Arjuna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arjuna. 15. Whose general was Appolodotus? A) Euthydemus. B) Antichos. C) Demetrius. D) Diodotus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demetrius. 16. Which of the following was not one of the actual cause for the decline of the Mauryan empire? A) Ashoka's pacifist policies. B) Division of the empire after Ashoka. C) Foreign aggressions particularly Greek. D) Economic and financial crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ashoka's pacifist policies. 17. Which of the following forms of land tenure denoted an entire village being donated to Brahmins? A) Brahmadeya. B) Zamindari. C) Devadana. D) Jagir. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmadeya. 18. The Shrimad Bhagvata Gita contains..... chapters and.....Sanskrit slokas or couplets. A) 16, 600. B) 18, 700. C) 14, 500. D) 20, 800. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 18, 700. 19. Aihole Inscription is ascribed to which of the following rulers? A) Kharvela. B) Pulkeshin II. C) Rudradaman. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pulkeshin II. 20. The dynasty that excelled itself as a naval power was that of the A) Hoysalas. B) Cheras. C) Cholas. D) Pallavas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cholas. 21. Who was the Greek ambassador in the court of Chandragupta Maurya? A) Megasthanes. B) Seleucos. C) Menander. D) Demetrias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Megasthanes. 22. Which among the following was referred to as Buvan Chakshu in Early vedic era? A) Earth. B) Fire. C) Moon. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fire. 23. The worship of idols started in India in the ..... period. A) Kushan. B) Maurya. C) Pre-Aryan. D) Gupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gupta. 24. The rulers of a dynasty of the Deccan who were supposed to be Brahmanas and staunch supporters of Brahmanism were A) Rashtrakutas. B) Chalukyas. C) Vakatakas. D) Satavahanas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satavahanas. 25. Coins made of metal first appeared in A) Age of the Buddha. B) Age of the Mauryas. C) Later Vedic Age. D) Harappan Civilisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Age of the Buddha. 26. The name Buddha means A) Sacred. B) Divine. C) Learned. D) Enlightened. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enlightened. 27. Nalanda University was founded by which of the following? A) Kumaragupta. B) Skandagupta. C) Samudragupta. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kumaragupta. 28. What is Ettuthokai? A) A writing tool during sangam Era. B) A collection of poems. C) A dynasty during sangam era. D) A series of sports plays during Sangam Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A collection of poems. 29. Establishment of Svetambara as a separate sect within Jainism was resulted at.....? A) Rajgriha. B) Vallabhi. C) Ujjaini. D) Sanchi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vallabhi. 30. The Golden age of the "Gupta Literary Renaissance" is said to be the reign of whom among the following? A) Chandragupta I. B) Chandragupta II. C) Kumaragupta. D) Skandgupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandragupta II. 31. The proceedings of the Third Buddhist Council led to the issue of Edict? A) Sanchi. B) Bhabra. C) Sarnath. D) Kalinga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarnath. 32. The fourth Buddhist council had compiled an encyclopaedia of Buddhist philosophy, called A) Mahavibhasha Sutra. B) Jatakas. C) Sutralankara. D) Madhyamika Sutra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahavibhasha Sutra. 33. Who were Manu, Yajnavalkya, Narada and Brihaspati? A) Law givers of ancient India. B) Gods of Vedic religion. C) Buddhist scholars and logicians. D) Celebrated mathematicians and astronomers of ancient India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Law givers of ancient India. 34. Ashoka's claim to be one of the greatest rulers in world history life in the fact that A) His aims covered both the religious and secular aspects of life. B) He worked for the material moral and spiritual uplift of the people. C) After a single conquest he dedicated himself completely to the cause of peace. D) He attempted to unify the people of different castes and communities into a bound of common moral ideal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After a single conquest he dedicated himself completely to the cause of peace. 35. Which among the following correctly described the plot of the Indian Play Mudra Rakshasha? A) Conflicts between Demons (Rakshasha) and Gods (Deva). B) Romantic Love story of a demon and a princess. C) Story of a young Arya Man and a Court Dancer. D) Intrigues at the time of accession of Chandragupta Maurya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intrigues at the time of accession of Chandragupta Maurya. 36. Two popular Assemblies of the Vedic period were A) Sabha and Mahasabha. B) Mahasabha and Ganasabha. C) Sabha and Samiti. D) Ur and Kula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sabha and Samiti. 37. The philosophical essence, "The world is but God manifest and God is my own soul" may be traced to the A) Puranas. B) Manusmriti. C) Vedas. D) Upanishadas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Upanishadas. 38. The 'Saptanga Theory of State' (Theory of Seven Limbs of the State) was propounded by : A) Kalhana in Rajatarangini. B) Banabhatta in Harshacharita. C) Manu in Manusmriti. D) Kautilya in Arthashastra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kautilya in Arthashastra. 39. Which among the following pairs is NOT correctly matched? (Traveler - During reign of King) A) Megasthenes - Chandragupta Maurya. B) Deimachos - Asoka. C) Hsuan -Tsang - Harshavardhana. D) Fa-Hien - Chandragupta II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deimachos - Asoka. 40. There are similarities between the seals found at Mohenjo-Daro and..... A) China. B) Egypt. C) Sumeria. D) Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sumeria. 41. The first ruler of the Satavahanas was A) Simuka. B) Sri Satakarni. C) Nahapana. D) Govinda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simuka. 42. In whose reign did the visit of Saint Thomas take place? A) Maues. B) Gondophernes. C) Kanishka. D) Menander. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gondophernes. 43. The most common animal figure found at all the Harappan sites is A) Tiger. B) Cow. C) Unihorn bull. D) Bull. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unihorn bull. 44. Who was not among the scholars patronized by Kanishka? A) Nagarjuna. B) Birbal. C) Ashvaghosha. D) Parsva. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birbal. 45. Four mattas in the four corners of India were founded by.....? A) Madhavacharya. B) Bhaskaracharya. C) Ramanujacharya. D) Shankaracharya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shankaracharya. 46. The archaeologist to initially discover the Mohenjo-Daro site of the Indus Valley Civilization was A) Sir John Marshall. B) Daya Ram Sahni. C) Sir Martimir Wheeler. D) Rakhal Das Banerji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rakhal Das Banerji. 47. The greatest claim to fame of the Satavahanas is on account of A) Pursuing a tolerant religious policy and giving common patronage to Buddhism and Brahmanism. B) Adoption of Prakrit as their court language in preference to Sanskrit. C) Great economic prosperity and brisk inland and foreign trade. D) Great contribution to Indian art as evident from the art of Amravati and Nagarjunakonda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great economic prosperity and brisk inland and foreign trade. 48. One of the founder kings of a ruling dynasty of North India elected by the people was A) Chandradeva of the Gahadavala dynasty. B) Gopala of the Pala dynasty. C) Ajayaraj of the Chauhan dynasty. D) Jeja or Jejja of the Chandeka dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gopala of the Pala dynasty. 49. The greatest Buddhist commentator of the Buddhist canonical literature has been A) Buddhaghosha. B) Ashvaghosha. C) Nagarjuna. D) Vasumitra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ashvaghosha. 50. The Practice of Polyandry was common in which of the following in ancient India? A) Shakas. B) Hunas. C) Kushanas. D) Greeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hunas. 51. Kalhana's Rajatarangini is a work on the history of A) Gujarat. B) Bengal. C) Kashmir. D) Malwa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kashmir. 52. St Thomas died a martyr at..... A) Goa. B) Bombay. C) Madras. D) Surat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madras. 53. The Atharva Veda does not discuss the ideal of A) Upasana. B) Moksha. C) Karma. D) Jnana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moksha. 54. The temple of Konark was built by Narasimha of the: A) Ganga Dynasty. B) Chola Dynasty. C) Vijaynagar Empire. D) Maratha Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ganga Dynasty. 55. What was the name of the judges and judicial officers in Satvahana Dynasty? A) Rajukas. B) Amatya. C) Gamika. D) Bhoja. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rajukas. 56. Which of the following was not the port of the Satavahanas? A) Puhar. B) Kalyan. C) Sopra. D) Barukkacha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puhar. 57. The aim of Ashoka's Dhamma was A) Subtle conquest. B) Religious domination. C) A casteless society. D) Non-violence and peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-violence and peace. 58. Who among the following had written "Rajavalipataka" ? A) Kalhana. B) Pandit Jonaraja. C) Pandit Shrivara. D) Pandit Prajabhatta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pandit Prajabhatta. 59. Ashoka has been particularly Influenced by the Buddhist monk A) Ambhi. B) Upagupta. C) Asvaghosha. D) Vasubandhu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Upagupta. 60. Painted Grey ware" was used in which of the following era? A) Early Vedic Era. B) Later Vedic Era. C) Harappan Era. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Later Vedic Era. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesAncient India Quiz 1Ancient India Quiz 2Ancient India Quiz 3Ancient India Quiz 4Ancient India Quiz 6Ancient India Quiz 7Ancient India Quiz 8Ancient India Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books