This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following works, included in Vaipulyasutras (nine canonical books of M ahayanists), is a typical Mahayana work containing all the characteristic features of that school? A) Saddharmapundarika. B) Lankavatara. C) Suvarnaprabhasa. D) Lalitavistara. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saddharmapundarika. 2. The city of Constantinople is now called ..... A) Athens. B) Sarajevo. C) Byzantium. D) Istanbul. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Byzantium. 3. Who is regarded as the 'Father of Modern India'? A) M. G. Ranade. B) Keshav Chandra Sen. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Ram Mohan Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ram Mohan Roy. 4. Which sufl saint's dargah is at Ajmer? A) Muinudclin Chishti. B) Baba Farid. C) Salim Chishti. D) Hazrat Nizamuddin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muinudclin Chishti. 5. Who said the following "the only lesson required in India at present is to learn how to die and the only way to teach is by dying ourselves. Therefore, I die and glory in my martyrdom" ? A) Khudiram Bose. B) Chandra Shekhar Azad. C) Madan Lal Dhingra. D) Aurbindo Ghosh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madan Lal Dhingra. 6. The chief ideas of worship during the Rajput age were A) Brahma and Ganesha. B) Ram and Krishna. C) Brahma and Sun. D) Vishnu and Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vishnu and Shiva. 7. What was the most important cause of the invasion of Mahmud of Ghazni? A) To gain possession of the wealth of India. B) To destroy idolatry. C) To spread Islam into India. D) To establish a Muslim State in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To gain possession of the wealth of India. 8. The sung rulers were followers of A) Jainism. B) Saivism. C) Buddhism. D) Bhagvatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bhagvatism. 9. The core of the middle class, which emerged in Bengal, was of A) Zamindars. B) Bankers. C) Merchants. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zamindars. 10. 'Chahalghani' under IItutmish represented..... A) The elite cadre of slave officers under him. B) His Turkish slave's. C) General cadre of slaves. D) Slaves inherited by him from his predecessors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His Turkish slave's. 11. The term Aryan, Indo-Aryan or Indo-European denotes a .....concept? A) Religious. B) Linguistic. C) Cultural. D) Racial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linguistic. 12. Who trained to Sambhaji? A) Kashibai. B) Jijabai. C) Saibai. D) Tarabai. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jijabai. 13. When did Akbar abolish Jaziya? A) 1566. B) 1565. C) 1564. D) 1563. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1564. 14. Who of the following was the last of the Mauryas, assassinated by his commander-in-chief, Pushyamitra, the founder of the Shunga dynasty? A) Brihadratha. B) Shatadhanvan. C) Samprati. D) Devavarman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brihadratha. 15. Which one of the following was not included in the 'Asta Pradhan' of Shivaji? A) Vakiyanavis. B) Majmudar. C) Vakeel. D) Sumant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vakeel. 16. Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his actions in India? A) Lord Wavell. B) Lord Ripon. C) Lord Hastings. D) Lord Cornwallis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Hastings. 17. Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance System in India? A) Lord Dalhousie. B) Lord Ripon. C) Lord Wellesley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Wellesley. 18. Which statement is not the advocacy of Nirguna Saints? A) It advocated the worshipped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna. B) It is the concept of a formless God, which has no attributes or quality. C) It conceived as Ishvara, the personal and purely spiritual aspect of the Godhead, beyond all names and forms (nama-rupa), and is to be apprehended only by inner (mystical) experience. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It advocated the worshipped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna. 19. The Kharosthi script was derived from A) Cuniform script. B) Pictograph. C) Aramaic. D) Brahmi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aramaic. 20. The author of Kadambari who was also contemporary of Flarsha was A) Banabhatta. B) Mayur. C) Jayasena. D) Divakar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banabhatta. Next →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesMiscellenous Questions Quiz 2Miscellenous Questions Quiz 3Miscellenous Questions Quiz 4Miscellenous Questions Quiz 5Miscellenous Questions Quiz 6Miscellenous Questions Quiz 7Miscellenous Questions Quiz 8Miscellenous Questions Quiz 9Miscellenous Questions Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books