Sangam Age Quiz 1 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is not one of the sources from which evidence of Indo-Roman trade during the Sangam Age is derived?

Correct Answer: B) The accounts of Chinese and Roman travellers.

2. Which of the following was not one of the better known agricultural products of the Sangam Age?

Correct Answer: D) Wheat.

3. Which of the following institutions did not exist during the Sangam Age?

Correct Answer: B) Slavery.

4. The provinces during the Sangam Age were known as Mandalams and Mandalams were further subdivided into:

Correct Answer: A) Kottam.

5. The date of Sangam age is

Correct Answer: A) 400 A.D. to 500 A.D.

6. Which of the following was not one of the ideas of Sanskrit literature incorporated into Sangam literature?

Correct Answer: C) Worship of Indra as the principal deity.

7. The term Nadukal mentioned in the Sangam literature

Correct Answer: C) Is a reference to a velir chief.

8. Which of the following does not testify to the impact of Aryan culture on the Sangam Age?

Correct Answer: A) The worship of the forest tree and animal deities.

9. The last anthology or group of Sangam literature, known as 'Ten Idylls', is :

Correct Answer: A) Pattupattu.

10. The Greco-Roman merchants visiting South India during the Sangam Age were referred to in the Tamil literature as

Correct Answer: D) Yavanas.

11. The current Tamil designation of the ministers during the Sangam Age was:

Correct Answer: D) Amaichchan or Amaichchar.

12. The Sangam text Tolkappiyam is a work on

Correct Answer: B) Grammar.

13. The Goddess Kannagi, whose many temples were erected during the Sangam Age, was the Goddess of:

Correct Answer: D) Chastity.

14. The richest and biggest land-owning class during the Sangam Age were:

Correct Answer: D) Velas.

15. Which of the following was not one of the popular deities of the Sangam Age?

Correct Answer: B) Ganesha.

16. Monuments (Hero stones) for the dead soldiers bearing their names, which were erected and worshiped during the Sangam Age, were known as:

Correct Answer: C) Both A and B.

17. A good contemporary account of the trade between the Tamil States of the Sangam Age and Greece and Rome has been given in :

Correct Answer: B) Periplus of the Erythrean Sea.

18. With regards to Sangam age history the terms Kurinji, Mullai, Marudam, Neydal and Palai refers to:

Correct Answer: D) The five-fold division of lands.

19. Which of the following non-Aryan social beliefs has been continuing in Tamil Nadu since the Sangam Age?

Correct Answer: B) Wearing of Tali by bride or married woman.

20. Sangam age literature is in language

Correct Answer: C) Tamil.