This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Exam Based > Miscellenous Questions – Quiz 78 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscellenous Questions Quiz 78 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Hindus believe that good and evil: A) Are separate forces forever in conflict. B) Are contained in all things, even the gods. C) Contend for control of men's lives. D) Are limited only to things of this world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are contained in all things, even the gods. 2. "Malacca cannot live without Cambay, or Cambay without Malacca, if they are to be very rich and very prosperous." This comment was made in the context of Asian trade by A) Barbosa. B) Linschoten. C) Tome Pires. D) Varthemea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tome Pires. 3. Which of the following tombs is placed in the centre of a large garden and resembles as a prototype of the Taj Mahal? A) Akbar's tomb at Sikandara. B) Humayun's tomb at Delhi. C) Itmaduddaula's tomb at Agra. D) Shershah's tomb at Sasaram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humayun's tomb at Delhi. 4. To which Sakha does the published Rigveda Samhita belong? A) Sakala. B) Sankhayana. C) Asvalayan. D) Sawnaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sakala. 5. Who among the following was fond of slaves? A) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq. B) Mohammed-bin-Tughlaq. C) Alauddin Khalji. D) Firoz Shah Tughlaq. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Firoz Shah Tughlaq. 6. Which one of the following sculptures does not belong to the Mauryan period? A) Rampurva bull. B) Dhauli elephant. C) Sarnath lion capital. D) Standing Buddha from Mathura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Standing Buddha from Mathura. 7. 'Niralamba Saraswati (Saraswati is now without support)' thus lamented a poet at the demise of A) Mihira Bhoja. B) Chandela Kirtivarma. C) Bhoja Paramara. D) Chahmana Visaladeva. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bhoja Paramara. 8. A notable disciple of Sree Narayana Guru introduced Guru's visions and ideals to the western world. A) Kumaranasan,. B) K.Madhavan. C) Nataraja Guru,. D) Chattambi Swamikal,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nataraja Guru,. 9. Which one of the following statements about the teaching of Kabir is not correct? A) He believed in universal love. B) He was not against pilgrimage and idol worship. C) He emphasized on one God and the spread of devotionalism. D) He did not consider it necessary to abandon the normal life of a householder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was not against pilgrimage and idol worship. 10. The earliest literate in India was in Sanskrit. It was learnt by A) Writing. B) Orally. C) Memorizing. D) Singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Orally. 11. When Alexander attacked India in the Northwest India there existed? A) Only republican states. B) Only monarchical states. C) Both monarchical & republican states. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both monarchical & republican states. 12. Which of the following was a republic in sixth century B.C.? A) Vrijian state. B) None of these. C) Magadha. D) Avanti. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vrijian state. 13. During which period, the great epics of Ramayan and Mahabharat were given the final form? A) Gupta period. B) Post Maurya period. C) Maurya period. D) Nanda period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gupta period. 14. The Rigvedic hymns can be treated as being historically fairly authentic because A) Their composition was contemporary with the period described. B) They are the earliest of the Vedic literature. C) The events described in them are corroborated by Avesthan Gathas. D) They give a chronological account of the historical events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are the earliest of the Vedic literature. 15. Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the given rulers of ancient India? A) Ashoka-Kanishka-Milinda. B) Ashoka-Milinda-Kanishka. C) Milinda-Ashoka-Kanishka. D) Milinda-Kanishka-Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ashoka-Milinda-Kanishka. 16. One of the following Mauryan provinces, which had a foreign (Yavana-Greek) Governor, was: A) Eastern province- Tosali. B) Western province- Ujjain. C) Saurashtra- Junagarh. D) Southern province- Suvarngiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saurashtra- Junagarh. 17. Dalhousie has been regarded as the maker of modern India because he brought about reforms and made a beginning in many fields. Which one among the following was not one of his schemes of reforms? A) Establishment of a public works department. B) Construction of railways and the introduction of telegraph and postal services. C) Factories Act to improve the condition of Indian labor. D) Educational reforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Factories Act to improve the condition of Indian labor. 18. In the adminstration of the ummayads the court language was: A) French. B) German. C) Arabics. D) Persian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) German. 19. 'Hijrat' the Muslim era began in A) 622 A.D. B) 600 A.D. C) 630 A.D. D) 612 A.D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 622 A.D. 20. The founder of Daoism was: A) Laozi. B) Xunzi. C) Zhuangzi. D) Mencius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laozi. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesMiscellenous Questions Quiz 1Miscellenous Questions Quiz 2Miscellenous Questions Quiz 3Miscellenous Questions Quiz 4Miscellenous Questions Quiz 5Miscellenous Questions Quiz 6Miscellenous Questions Quiz 7Miscellenous Questions Quiz 8Miscellenous Questions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books