This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Medieval > The Mughal Kings – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Mughal Kings Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one among the following books was authored by a lady of the Mughal Royal House? A) Akbar Nama. B) Humayun Nama. C) Babur Nama. D) Badshah Nama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humayun Nama. 2. Which Mughal officer helped Humayun capture the fort of Chunargarh from Sher Shah? A) Hindal. B) Rumi Khan. C) Dilwar Khan. D) Mahabat Khan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rumi Khan. 3. In the Mughal administration, Muhtasib was A) A military officer. B) An officer incharge of public morals. C) The head of the department of correspondence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An officer incharge of public morals. 4. Which of the following schools of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period? A) The Golconda School. B) The Rajput School. C) The Bijapur School. D) The Kangra School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Bijapur School. 5. Which jeweller foreign traveller of the Mughal period has left a detailed account of Takht-i-Taus (Peacock throne)? A) 'Omrah' Danishmand Khan. B) Geronimo Verroneo. C) Austin of Bordeaux. D) Travernier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Travernier. 6. The Mughal Emperor, who built the Peacock Throne? A) Nadirshah. B) Shah Jahan. C) Aurangazeb. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shah Jahan. 7. Which Mughal Emperor's tomb was not in India A) Jahangir. B) Humayun. C) Shajahan. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jahangir. 8. Which of the following was NOT a characteristic feature of Mughal architecture? A) Walled forts. B) Gardens. C) Stupas. D) Monumental buildings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stupas. 9. Which Mughal ruler constructed A new city called as Din Panah on the bank of Yamuna river? A) Aurangzeb. B) Humayun. C) Babur. D) Jahangir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humayun. 10. The Mughal fireman of free trade in Bengal was granted to the English in A) 1696. B) 1650. C) 1717. D) 1756. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1717. 11. Mughal paintings were reached its zenith of progress during the reign of? A) Jahangir. B) Babur. C) Aurangazeb. D) Shahjahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jahangir. 12. Tobacco cultivation was introduced in the Deccan by the Portuguese during the 16th century. Tobacco smoking reached the Mughal Court because of which one of the following? A) The Mughal ambassador to Bijapur, Mirza Asad baig introduced it to Akbar. B) The farmers who took tobacco cultivation introduced this to the Mughal Court. C) The Portuguese missionaries introduced it into the Mughal Court. D) The soldiers of the Deccan spread this among the Mughal nobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The soldiers of the Deccan spread this among the Mughal nobility. 13. The last Mughal Emperor was A) Akbar. B) Noor Jehan. C) Babur. D) Bahadur Shah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bahadur Shah. 14. Which of the statements given below about the Mughal rule in India is false? A) Peasant communities were a united and homogeneous group. B) Most regions produced two crops in a year. C) The State encouraged these crops that brought in more revenue. D) There was an abundance of food grain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peasant communities were a united and homogeneous group. 15. Who among the following Mughal princess produced a 'diwan' (collection of poems) with the name 'Makhi'? A) Humayun's sister Gulbadan Begum. B) Shah Jahan's daughter Roshanara. C) Aurangzeb's daughter Zibunnisa. D) Shah Jahan's daughter Jahanara. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aurangzeb's daughter Zibunnisa. 16. The Mughal emperor who issued a firman to the English East-India Company in 1717 to trade freely in Bengal was A) Bahadur Shah. B) Farrukh Siyar. C) Jahandar Shah. D) Shah Alam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farrukh Siyar. 17. Who among the following Mughal Emperors was half Rajput? A) Akbar Jahan & Jahangir. B) Shah Jahan & Aurangzeb. C) Shah Jahan & Jahangir. D) Jahangir & Humayun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shah Jahan & Jahangir. 18. During the Mughal period, what was Narnal or light artillery? A) One carried on elephant back. B) One carried on camel back. C) One carried by man. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One carried by man. 19. Mughal culture came mainly from: A) Persia. B) Central Asia. C) Arabia. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persia. 20. Bhakta Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal ruler? A) Shahjahan. B) Akbar. C) Jahangir. D) Babur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jahangir. 21. The author of "Parties and Politics in Mughal Court" is? A) Satish Chandra. B) Nurul Hasan. C) Irfan Habib. D) Athar Ali. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satish Chandra. 22. Which Mughal emperor abolished the old custom of Sizda? A) Akbar. B) Shahjahan. C) Bahadurshah. D) Aurangzeb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shahjahan. 23. Who was the last Mughal emperor? A) Bahadur Shah-II. B) Ahmad Shah. C) Shah Alam-II. D) Akbar-II. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bahadur Shah-II. 24. Who gave the Kitab of Mirza Raja to Jaisingh in Mughal Empire? A) Jahangir. B) Shahjahan. C) Akbar. D) Aurangzeb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shahjahan. 25. The contemporary source that provides satisfitical data immensely valuable to the study of economy of the Mughal Empire is the A) Tabaqat-i-Akbari. B) Ain-i-Akbari. C) Tuhfah-i-Akbarshahi. D) Badshahnama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ain-i-Akbari. 26. Who among the following Mughal rulers has been called as the 'Prince of Builders? ' A) Jehangir. B) Babar. C) Shahjehan. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shahjehan. 27. Which of the following Mughal emperors spent a greater part of his reign to overthrow the Deccan Kingdoms? A) Shahjahan. B) Akbar. C) Aurangzeb. D) Jahangir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aurangzeb. 28. Which was the chief or main region of copper mines in Mughal period? A) Bihar. B) Bengal. C) Rajasthan. D) Agra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rajasthan. 29. With reference to the Mughal administration, which one of the following statements is NOT correct? A) The censorship of public morals was under the charge of Muhtasib. B) The Mughal artillery was under the charge of Mir-i- Atish. C) The imperial household was under the charge of Mir Manzil. D) Supervision over the lands granted by the Emperors or princes to pious men, scholars, and monks was under the charge of the chief Sadr. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The imperial household was under the charge of Mir Manzil. 30. Which one among the following depicts the correct meaning of the term Tins-i-Kamil concerning crops in Mughal India? A) Coarse crop. B) Crop grown, in the arid. C) Cash crop. D) Paddy crop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cash crop. 31. The rulers of which of the following was/ were called tarafdar by the Mughal Monarchs? A) Gujarat. B) Golconda. C) Bijapur and Golconda. D) Ahmadnagar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bijapur and Golconda. 32. Which Mughal Ruler's permitted collecting Chauth and Sardesh Mukhi on Maratha land to Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath? A) Muhammed Shah. B) Rafi-ud-Darajat. C) Farrukhsiyar. D) Rafi-ud-Daula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Farrukhsiyar. 33. Who was proclaimed as Mughal emperor by Asaf Khan on Jahangir's death to ensure Khurram's (Shahjahan's) enthronement? A) Shahryar. B) Hoshang. C) Dawar Baksh. D) Tahmurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dawar Baksh. 34. The offsprings of which Mughal emperor were born in a Sufi's Khanqah instead of the Mughal haram? A) Akbar. B) Humayun. C) Shahjahan. D) Aurangzeb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shahjahan. 35. Who among the following Mughal kings had sent Raja Ram Mohan Roy as his envoy to London? A) Shah Alam II. B) Alamgir II. C) Bahadur Shah II. D) Akbar II. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shah Alam II. 36. Who was the last Mughal emperor to sit on the peacock throne? A) Muhammad Shah. B) Bahadur Shah Zafar. C) Jahandar Shah. D) Shah Alam-I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muhammad Shah. 37. Which contemporary Mughal historian of the age of Akbar had prepared a list of charges calling him an enemy of Islam? A) Nizamuddin Ahmad. B) Niamtullah. C) Abbas Khan Sarwani. D) Badauni. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Badauni. 38. How did the Mughal Emperor Jahandarshah's reign, come to an early end? A) He was defeated by his nephew in a battle. B) He was deposed by his Wazir. C) He died of sickness due to drinking. D) He died due to a slip while climbing down the steps. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was defeated by his nephew in a battle. 39. Which Mughal emperor enrolled Guru Govind Singh into Mughal service? A) Mohammed Shah. B) Bahadur Shah I. C) Jahandar Shaha. D) Faurkh Siyyar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bahadur Shah I. 40. Which Mughal emperor stopped the practice of Forceful conversion of prisoners of war? A) Aurangzeb. B) Shah Jahan. C) Jahangir. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Akbar. 41. Which of the following Mughal ruler who tried to create an affinity between Sikh and Maratha by granted the right to collect Sardesh Mukhi of Deccan but not Chauth to the Marathas? A) Muazzam. B) Jahander Shah. C) Akbar. D) Farukhsiyar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muazzam. 42. In Mughal paintings one notices the adoption of the principles of foreshortening whereby near and distant people and things could be placed in perspective. This was due to the influence of the- A) Dutch. B) British. C) Portuguese. D) Danish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Portuguese. 43. Which mughal emperor was a good veena player? A) Akbar. B) Jahangir. C) Aurangazeb. D) Shahjahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aurangazeb. 44. Which one of the following indicates the correct chronological order of the Later Mughal Emperors? A) Farrukh Siyar, Bahadur Shah-I, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah. B) Bahadur Shah-I, Farrukh Siyar, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah. C) Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah. D) Jahandar Shah, Bahadur Shah-l, Muhammad Shah, Farrukh Siyar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah. 45. From which Mughal Emperor did John Middenhall tried to obtain a farman for trade in Gujarat? A) Akbar. B) Jahangir. C) Aurangzeb. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Akbar. 46. The founder of the Mughal Empire was: A) Lodi. B) Babur. C) Jahan. D) Akbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Babur. 47. Early English trade with Mughal India was blocked by the influence of the: A) Portuguese Jesuits. B) Dutch. C) Muslim clergy. D) Spanish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Portuguese Jesuits. 48. Who among the foreign travellers describes how the 'Ganges water' was carried in copper vessels for Mughal Emperors to drink? A) Sir Thomas Roe. B) Edward Terry. C) Thomas Coryat. D) Ralph Fitch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edward Terry. 49. Which of the following statement is related to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb? A) Promoted religious toleration. B) Replaced many Hindu temples with mosques. C) Converted to Hinduism. D) Presided over an era of religious harmony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Replaced many Hindu temples with mosques. 50. Who among the following was named as Zinda Pir or Living Saint in Mughal period? A) Jahangir. B) Akbar. C) Aurangzeb. D) Babur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aurangzeb. 51. During the Mughal rule the Qazi-ul-Quzat was A) Censor of Public morals. B) Incharge of charities. C) Chief judge of the empire. D) Head of the Finance department. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chief judge of the empire. 52. Who of the Mughal rulers understood the significance of Rajputs and tried to win them? A) Jahangir. B) Akbar. C) Aurangzeb. D) Shahjahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Akbar. 53. Identify the name of the wife of the Mughal Emperor who is believed to have sabotaged the work of the rebels by acting as an informer to the British. A) Fatima Begum. B) Mumtaz Mahal. C) Hazrat Mahal. D) Zeenat Mahal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zeenat Mahal. 54. In Mughal period Zamindars were A) Jagirdars. B) Revenue plunders. C) Land owners. D) Labourers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Land owners. 55. Who among the following Mughal Emperors, granted permission to trade of tax in the territories of Bengal. Hyderabad and Gujarat to the British? A) Farrukh-siyar. B) Aurangzeb. C) Muhammad Shah. D) Bahadur Shah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farrukh-siyar. 56. Which mughal Emperor introduced "Duaspa-Sihaspa" method in Mansabdari System? A) Jabangir. B) Aurangzeb. C) Akbar. D) Shahjahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jabangir. 57. Who was the Mughal emperor at the time of Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion of India? A) Shah Alam-I. B) Bahadur Shah-I. C) Shah Alam-II. D) Bahadur Shah-II. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shah Alam-I. 58. Which Mughal Emperor increased more number of Rajput and Maratha Mansabdars in his reign? A) Aurangzeb. B) Akbar. C) Jahangir. D) Shajahan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aurangzeb. 59. The Mughal Empire reached its zenith of expansion under A) Humayun. B) Shahjehan. C) Akbar. D) Aurangazeb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aurangazeb. 60. Khalsa in Mughal rule meant A) The Land belonging to Emperor. B) All royal system. C) Land from where revenue was collected for royal treasure. D) Religious Land grant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Land belonging to Emperor. 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