This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Exam Based > Written – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Written Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ramayan in Tamil was written by A) Kamban. B) Kulhan. C) Jayangondur. D) Kalladanor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kamban. 2. Who among the following leaders of the Revolt of 1857 wrote to the French emperor "The acts of injustice and perjury of the English Government blaze on all sides like the rays of the sun? A) Bahadur Shah. B) Nana Sahib. C) Tatyana Tope. D) Birjis Qadr. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nana Sahib. 3. Who wrote Vasavdatta-Nalyadhara? A) Bhasa. B) Vakpati. C) Vatsyayan. D) Subaudhu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subaudhu. 4. Shakuntalum was written by A) Ka1idasa. B) Bhasa. C) Kamban. D) Ashvagosha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ka1idasa. 5. Name the person who wrote the history of Aurangzeb in total secrecy. What was the name of the work? A) Mirza Muhammad Kazim's Alamgir naham. B) Muhammad Saqi's Masir-i-Alamgiri. C) Aquil Khan Razi's Zafar Namah-i-Alamgiri. D) Khafi Khan's Munta Khab-ul-Lubar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muhammad Saqi's Masir-i-Alamgiri. 6. The contents of Allahabad Pillar inscription of Samudragupta were written by A) Harisena. B) Vishakhadatta. C) Kalidas. D) Virasen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harisena. 7. Harivamsa Purana was written by A) Vishaka Datta. B) Kamandaka. C) Sudraka. D) Jinasena Suri. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jinasena Suri. 8. Who wrote the "Kumara Sambavam" A) Kambar. B) Seikkilas. C) Kalidas. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalidas. 9. Who wrote a commentary on the Brahma sutras refuted Shari Kara and offered an interpretation based on the theistic ideas? A) Nimbarka. B) Ramanuja. C) Madhva. D) Vallabhacharya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ramanuja. 10. Who had written the book "Tuzuk-i-jahangiri" ? A) Mulla Daud. B) Abdul Haq. C) Jahangir. D) Abul fazal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jahangir. 11. Kaumudi Mahotsava was written by A) Sudraka. B) Vajjika. C) Vishaka Dutta. D) Kamandaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vajjika. 12. Who wrote Tarikh-ul-Hind? A) Al-uthi. B) Alberuni. C) Hasan-un-Nizami. D) Minhajuddin-bin-Sirajuddin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alberuni. 13. Who wrote 'Devi Chandra Guptam'? A) Sudraka. B) Vajjika. C) Kamandaka. D) Visakha Datta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Visakha Datta. 14. Who wrote Tughlaqnama? A) Abul Fazl. B) Abu Nasr Utbi. C) Hasan Nizami. D) Amir Khusrau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amir Khusrau. 15. Who wrote the history of Aurangzeb's reign in total secrecy because of the emperor's opposition to it and what was the name of that historical work? A) Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab. B) Muhammad Saqi's Masir-i-Alamgiri. C) Aquil Khan Razi's Zafar Nama-i-Alamgir. D) Mirza Muhammad Kazim's Alamgir Nama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab. 16. Who wrote 'Siddhanta Siromani'? A) Brahma Gupta. B) Varahamihira. C) Bhaskaracharya. D) Aryabhatta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bhaskaracharya. 17. Who is the writer of 'Tabqat-i-Akbari'? A) Abul Fazl. B) Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad. C) Badauni. D) Khwand Mir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad. 18. Who wrote Gita Govinda A) Tuka Ram. B) Purandava Das. C) Tulsi Das. D) Jayadeva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jayadeva. 19. In which language did Babar wrote his Autobiography? A) Farsee. B) Arabi. C) Turki. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turki. 20. Which one of the following scripts of an-cient India was written from right to left? A) Brahmi. B) Sharada. C) Nandnagari. D) Kharoshti. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kharoshti. 21. Rig Veda is believed by the historians to have been written when it was A) Bronze Age. B) Copper Age. C) Beginning of IronAge. D) Stone Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beginning of IronAge. 22. The earliest inscriptions were written in which language? A) Tamil. B) Pali. C) Prakrit. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prakrit. 23. Who wrote Tamil Ramayana A) Seikkilas. B) Karikala. C) Kambar. D) Kalidas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kambar. 24. Who wrote the book' A Gift to monotheists'? A) Mahadev Govind Ranade. B) Ramkrishna Bhandarkar. C) David Hare. D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy. 25. Who wrote Shiksha Ashtak which was called as the cream of the Shastras? A) Kabir. B) Chaitanya. C) Mirabai. D) Tulsidas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chaitanya. 26. Who wrote the biography of Chaitanya? A) Krishnadasa Kaviraja. B) Namadeva. C) Shankar Dev. D) Both A & B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Krishnadasa Kaviraja. 27. Who wrote Dasa Sloki, which deals with three realities (tri-tattava)Brahma (Krishna), soul (Chit) and matter (Achit)? A) Nimbarka. B) Ramanuja. C) Madhva. D) Vallabhacharya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nimbarka. 28. 'A Forgotten Empire', written by the renowned historian Robert Sewell is about which one of the following empires? A) Mughal empire. B) Vijayanagar empire. C) Kushan empire. D) Mauryan empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vijayanagar empire. 29. 'Dipavamsa' was written in A) Prakrit. B) Pali. C) Sanskrit. D) Arabic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pali. 30. The medieval Indian writer who refers to the discovery of America is : A) Malik Muhammad Jayasi. B) Raskhan. C) Abul Fazl. D) Amir Khusrau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abul Fazl. 31. Who wrote a book 'Return of the Aryans'? A) Bhagavan Das Gidvani. B) L.D. Kalla. C) Avinash Chandra Das. D) D.S. Trivedi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bhagavan Das Gidvani. 32. HUMAYUNAMA was written by? A) Bairam Khan. B) Gulbadan Begum. C) Humayun. D) Mirza Kamran. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gulbadan Begum. 33. Who wrote Poverty and UnBritish Rule in India A) R.C Datt. B) Charlies Wood. C) M.N Roy. D) Dadabai Navaroji. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dadabai Navaroji. 34. Who had written the book "poverty and un-British rule in India" ? A) R.N. Dutta. B) Dada Bhai Naoroji. C) S.C Bose. D) R.D.Das. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dada Bhai Naoroji. 35. The medieval Indian literary work 'Darbar-i- Akbari' was written by A) Muhammad Hussain. B) Amir Khusrau. C) Malik Muhammad Jayasi. D) Abul Fazl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muhammad Hussain. 36. The well known literature of Iran was written by A) Hamurabi. B) Ziathustra. C) Scylax. D) Cyrus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ziathustra. 37. "There was little sympathy in spite of loud professions of loyalty. Moderate and Extremist alike learnt with satisfaction of German victories. There was no love for Germany of course. Only the desire to see our rulers humbled." Who among the following wrote this? A) Gandhi. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) ' C.R. Das. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jawaharlal Nehru. 38. Who wrote Futuhat-i-Ferozshahi? A) Alberuni. B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq. C) Ibn Batuta. D) Utbi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq. 39. Who wrote 'Aryabhattiyam' Suryasiddhanta'? A) Aryabhatta. B) Baskara. C) Brahma Gupta. D) Varahamihira. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aryabhatta. 40. Who among the following ladies wrote a historical account during the Mughal period? A) Jahanara Begum. B) Zebun-nissah Begum. C) Noorjahan Begum. D) Gulbadan Begum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gulbadan Begum. 41. The Greek historian who wrote about Alexander's Indian invasion A) Socrates. B) Arien. C) Ajastru. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arien. 42. Kamasutra was written by A) Vishakadatta1. B) Vatsyayana. C) Vajjika. D) Kalhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vatsyayana. 43. Rajatarangini was written by A) Devadatta. B) Bharavi. C) Kalhana. D) Dhandi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalhana. 44. The Surya Siddhanta is written by A) Visakhadatta. B) Vishnusarma. C) Varahamihira. D) Aryabhata. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aryabhata. 45. Who wrote Charaka Samhitha A) Kautiliya. B) Charaka. C) Aryabatta. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charaka. 46. Who wrote Khanda-Khadyaka? A) Brahma Gupta. B) Aryabhatta. C) Varahamihira. D) Baskara. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahma Gupta. 47. 'Bijak' was written by A) Chaitanya. B) Dadu. C) Guru Nanak. D) Kabir. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kabir. 48. Who wrote the Book entitled 'Ghulamgiri'? A) M. P. Pillai. B) B. R. Ambedkar. C) Jyotiba Phule. D) Narayan Guru. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jyotiba Phule. 49. Which of the following Upnishads is written in prose? A) Isa. B) Katha. C) Svetasvatara. D) Brihadaranyaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brihadaranyaka. 50. Which writer (s) blame Gandhiji for paralyzing and demoralizing the Non-co-operation Movement? A) Nationalist. B) Marxist. C) Imperialist. D) (A) & (B) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (A) & (B) Both. 51. Al-Qanun - Fil tib was written by; A) Al- yaqubi. B) Ibn-ishq. C) Almasudi. D) Ibn Sina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Al- yaqubi. 52. Who wrote "Raja Tharangini" A) Kambar. B) Kalidas. C) Karikala. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 53. Who was the writer of Rukmini Swayamwar Hastamalak, which was comprised 764 owees and based on a 14-shlok Sanskrit hymn with the same name by Shankaracharya? A) Mirabai. B) Tukaram. C) Ramananda. D) Eknath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eknath. 54. The account of the local Administration was written in A) Mudrarakshasa. B) Vishnu Purana. C) Arthashastra. D) Account of Magasthanese. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Account of Magasthanese. 55. Ashokan inscriptions of Mansehra and Shahbazgadhi are written in A) Prakrit language, Brahmi script. B) Aramaic language, Kharoshthi script. C) Prakrit language, Kharoshthi script. D) Prakrit-Aramaic language, Brahmi script. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aramaic language, Kharoshthi script. 56. Which Tamil poet wrote Ramayana in the Tamil language? A) Kapilar. B) Kamban. C) Pulamaipithan. D) Perumal Rasu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kamban. 57. Nitisara was written by A) Kamandaka. B) Sudraka. C) Vajjika. D) Vishaka Datta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kamandaka. 58. Manu Smriti is standard work written during. A) Sunga age. B) Mauryan Age. C) Later vedic period. D) Gupta age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sunga age. 59. Who wrote 'Amarakosha'? A) Bhasa. B) Vishakha Dutta. C) Vatsyayana. D) Amar Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amar Singh. 60. Which of the following saint wrote Sri-Bhasya? A) Ramanuja. B) Vallabh. C) Tukaram. D) Eknath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ramanuja. 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