This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient India – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient India Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is known as the Jain Temple City? A) Girnar. B) Allahabad. C) Rajagriha. D) Varanasi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Girnar. 2. The sage who is considered to have Aryanised southern India was A) Vasishta. B) Vishwamitra. C) Agastya. D) Yagnavalkya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agastya. 3. What is the name of the preaching mudra of gesture, in Which the Buddha is depicted delivering his first sermon, In the Gandhara Sculptures? A) Abhaya. B) Dharmachakra. C) Dhyana. D) Bhumisparsha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dhyana. 4. Under which of the following trees, Buddha got enlightment? A) Ficus benghalensis. B) Ficus religiosa. C) Ficus microcarpa. D) Ficus elastica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ficus religiosa. 5. Name the ruler whose reign was a witness to both Vardhaman Mahavira and the Buddha preaching their respective doctrines? A) Udayin. B) Bimbisara. C) Ajatashatru. D) Harshvardhana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bimbisara. 6. The successors of the Satavahanas in the Deccan were the A) Vakatakas. B) Kadambas. C) Rashtrakutas. D) Chalukyas of Badami. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vakatakas. 7. River Chenab was known is ancient times as A) Parushni. B) Satudri. C) Himadri. D) Asikru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asikru. 8. A Gupta king has been called an Indian Napoleon and he was also an accomplished poet and musician (player of Veena) who was he? A) Samudragupta. B) Kumargupta. C) Chandragupta II. D) Skandagupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samudragupta. 9. Satavahana rule was extended to the Coromandal Coast by A) Sri Yajna Satakarni. B) Pulumayi II. C) Sri Satakarni. D) Simuka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pulumayi II. 10. The Hindu social sacraments such as marriage etc. are performed on the basis of the rituals described in the A) Rigveda. B) Yajurveda. C) Grihyasutras. D) Upanishad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grihyasutras. 11. The earlier Buddhist sculptures had shied away from depicting the image of the Buddha, except through such symbols as A) Footprints. B) The Bodhi Tree. C) Stupas. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 12. Who erected the Garuda pillar at Besnagar? A) Bhagabhadra. B) Heliodorus. C) Menander. D) Antialkidas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bhagabhadra. 13. Outside India, Buddhism was first accepted in A) China. B) Japan. C) Sri Lanka. D) Tibet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sri Lanka. 14. Who among the following rulers had embraced Jainism? A) Chandragupta Maurya. B) Bindusara. C) Ajatashatru. D) Pulakesin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chandragupta Maurya. 15. Which of the following was the first metal to be discovered and used as tools by humans? A) Iron. B) Gold. C) Tin. D) Copper. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Copper. 16. The Eight-fold path was enunciated by A) The Buddha. B) Mahavira. C) Nehru. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Buddha. 17. In Greek texts, who among the following has been mentioned as Amitrochates? A) Bimbisara. B) Bindusara. C) Kautilya. D) Asoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bindusara. 18. Which of the following is the single most important source of the history of Ashoka? A) Sri Lankan chronicles Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa. B) Buddhist works Divyavadana and Ashokavadana. C) Inscriptions of Ashoka. D) Archaeological Sources and the Puranas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inscriptions of Ashoka. 19. The Rigvedic Aryans were governed by a A) Tribal republic. B) Form of democracy. C) Monarchical government. D) Rule by elders. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monarchical government. 20. The only Veda to have been rendered musically is A) The Rig Veda. B) The Sama Veda. C) The Yajur Veda. D) The Atharva Veda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Sama Veda. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesAncient India Quiz 1Ancient India Quiz 2Ancient India Quiz 3Ancient India Quiz 5Ancient India Quiz 6Ancient India Quiz 7Ancient India Quiz 8Ancient India Quiz 9Ancient India Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books