1.

Which of the following d) Saadat Khan that emerged in 18th after

statements are correct about declining of Mughals
4. Who was the Mughal Emperor
Bahadur Shah, successor of
when Marathas were defeated a) Bengal
Aurangzeb?
by Afghans led by Ahmad Shah
b) Awadh
1) He was very intolerant Abdali in 1761?
towards Hindu chiefs and rajas. c) Kabul
a) Akbar II
2) He made peace with the tenth d) Hyderabad
b) Shah Alam II
Sikh Guru – Guru Gobind Singh.
9. Which of the following Mughal
c) Muhammad Shah
Select the correct answer using Emperor followed a policy of
the codes below: d) Bahadur Shah Zafar religious intolerance?
a) 1 only 5. Question 5 Which of the 1. Akbar
following were causes of
b) 2 only 2. Aurangzeb
downfall of Mughal Empire?
c) Both 1 and 2 3. Shah Jahan
1) Narrow religious policies of
d) Neither 1 nor 2 Aurangzeb 4. Bahadur Shah Zafar
2. Which of the following 2) Alliance with Rajpoots 10. Who among the following
statements is correct regarding Governor- Generals decided that
3) Rise of Marathas
politics in Delhi court after death Bahadur Shah Zafar would be the
of Aurangzeb in 1707? 4) Infighting among nobles last Mughal emperor and after
his death none of the
1) Nobles became very powerful, Select the correct answer using
descendants would be
sometimes even more influential the codes below:
recognized as a ruler?
than the Mughal Emperor
himself. a) 1, 2 and 3 only
1. Lord Dalhousie
2) Marathas and Rajpoots were b) 1, 3 and 4 only
2. William Bentinck
selectively favoured by the c) 2 and 3 only
nobles. 3. Lord Canning
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
3) Mughal Emperors became 4. Lord Cornwallis
puppets of their own nobles, who 6. Who was the last Mughal
11. The Great Mughals included
in turn became the Kingmakers. Emperor?
Babar, Humayun, Akbar,
Select the correct answer using 1. Babur Jahangir, Shahjahan and
the codes below: Aurangzeb in that chronological
2. Tipu Sultan order. The Mughal emperors who
a) 1 only 3. Aurangzeb came to the throne after the
death of Aurangzeb are called
b) 1 and 3 only 4. Bahadur Shah II the Later Mughals. Arrange the
c) 2 and 3 only 7. The Mughal Empire declined following four Later Mughals in
during ________. their chronological order.
d) 1, 2 and 3
1. First half of 17th century a. Ahmad Shah
3. The famous Koh-i-nur /
Kohinoor diamond was taken 2. First Half of 19th Century b. Bahadur Shah
away from India in 18th century,
3. First half of 18th Century c. Jahandar Shah
during invasion of Delhi by
4. First half of 16th Century d. Mohammad Shah
a) Ahmad Shah Abdali
8. Which of the following was not 1. Ahmad Shah, Bahadur Shah,
b) Nadir Shah
one of the regional kingdoms Jahandar Shah, Mohammad Shah
c) Nizam-ul-Mulk
2. Bahadur Shah, Jahandar Shah, C. Rafi-ud-Daula (D) He died of sickness due to too
Mohammad Shah, Ahmad Shah much consumption of wine
D. Muhammed Shah
3. Bahadur Shah, Mohammad 22. The Mughal Emperor at the
17. Who among the following
Shah, Jahandar Shah, Ahmad time of Nadir Shah’s attack was
Mughal Emperor became the first
Shah
pensioner of the East India (A) Ahmad Shah
4. Jahandar Shah, Mohammad Company?
(B) Alamgir II
Shah, Bahadur Shah, Ahmad Shah
A. Ahmed Shah
(C) Muhammad Shah
12. Who took away the peacock
B. Akbar II
throne built by Shahjahan, from (D) Rafi-ud-Darajat
India? C. Bahadur Shah
23. A group of eunuchs and
1. Ahmad Shah Abdali D. Muhammed Shah ladies dominated in the
Government under
2. Zaman Shah 18. Which of the following
Mughal Emperors granted duty- (A) Muhammad Shah (1719-48)
3. Nadir Shah
free trading facilities to the
(B) Ahmad Shah (1748-54)
4. Shah Suja English in Bengal?
(C) Alamgir (1754-59)
13. Aurangzeb died in the year (A) Akbar
(D) Shah Alam II (1759-1806)
A. 1760 B. 1764 (B) Jahangir
24. Which Mughal emperor is
C. 1707 D. 1700 (C) Bahadur Shah
known by the name of ‘Rangila’?
14. Who called Muazzam as (D) Farrukh Siyar
(A) Farrukh Siyar
Shahi-i- Bekhabar?
19. Who was the last Mughal
(B) Rafi-ud-Darajat
A. Kafi Khan Emperor to sit on Mayur
Singhasan? (C) Muhammad Shah
B. Zulfikar khan
(A) Shah Alam I (D) Rafi-ud-Daula
C. Kam Baksh
(B) Muhammad Shah 8. Which of the following Mughal
D. Nur Jahan
emperors was not allowed to
(C) Bahadur Shah
15. Which of the following enter into Delhi by Wazir
Mughal ruler who tried to create (D) Jahandar Shah Ghaziuddin?
affinity between Sikh and
20. Who succeeded Aurangzeb (A) Alamgir-II
Maratha by granted the right to
after his death in 1707 A.D.?
collect Sardesh Mukhi of Deccan (B) Shah Alam-II
but not Chauth to the Marathas? (A) Bahadur Shah-I
(C) Akbar-II
A. Jahander Shah (B) Jahandar Shah
(D) Bahadur Shah-II
B. Muazzam (C) Muhammad Shah
25. The last Mughal Emperor was
C. Akbar (D) Akbar-II Bahadur Shah. His father’s name
was
D. Farukhsiyar 21. How did the Mughal Emperor
Jahandar Shah’s reign come to an (A) Akbar Shah-I
16. Which Mughal Ruler’s gave
early end?
permission for collecting Chauth (B) Akbar Shah-II
and Sardesh Mukhi on Maratha (A) He was deposed by his Wazir
land to Peshwa Balaji (C) Aurangzeb
Vishwanath? (B) He died due to slip while
(D) Shah Jahan
climbing down steps
A. Farrukhsiyar 26. Who was last Mughal
(C) He was defeated by his
B. Rafi-ud-Darajat emperor of India?
nephew in a battle
(A) Aurangzeb 31. The title 'Raja' was conferred (3) 1743 (4) 1843
on Ram Mohun Roy by the
(B) Bahadur Shah Zafar 37. Which mughal emperor
Mughal emperor
issued a ferman granting The East
(C) Shah Alam
(A) Jahandar Shah India Company the right to trade
(D) Shah Jahan duty free?
(B) Mohammad Shah
27. Which one of the following (1) Akbar
(C) Akbar II
statements is not correct about
(2) Humayun
Bahadur Shah Zafar? (D) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(3) Aurangzeb
(A) He was an emperor without 32. Nadir Shah invaded India in
an empire the year (4) Shah Jahan

(B) Ibrahim Zauq and Asad Ullah (A) 1738 A.D. 38. Under which treaty British
Khan Ghalib were his poetry company got the Diwani right of
(B) 1739 A.D.
teachers Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from
(C) 1740 A.D. Mughal ruler Shah Alam II?
(C) Hasan Askari was his spiritual
guide (D) 1741 A.D. (1) Treaty of Awadh

(D) He received less than one 33. Who among the following (2) Treaty of Alinagar
lakh rupees as pension from East Mughal Kings had sent Raja Ram
(3) Treaty of Calcutta
India Company Mohan Roy as his envoy to
London? (4) Treaty of Allahabad
28. The privileges of free trade
granted to the English East India (a) Alamgir II 39. Who among the following
Company were confirmed in was bestowed with the title of
1717 by Emperor _________. (b) Shah Alam II
‘Sahebe- Alam Bahadur’ by
(c) Akbar II Bahadur Shah during the uprising
A. Bahadur Shah
of 1857?
B. Farrukh-Siyar (d) Bahadur Shah II
(1) Nana Sahib
C. Muhammad Shah 34. Who was the ruler of Delhi
during the battle of Buxar? (2) Birjis Qadr
D. Aurangzeb
(a) Aurangzeb (3) Bakht Khan
29. Which Mughal emperor
(b) Shah Alam I (4) Tantia Tope
granted Diwani to the English
East India Company? (c) Bahadur Shah Zafar 40. Mughal presence in the Red
Ford ceased with the fall of
(A) Bahadur shah II (d) Shah Alam II
(1) Aurangzeb
(B) Shah Alam II 35. The famous Peacock Throne
of Shah Jahan was taken away in (2) Muhammad Shah
(C) Farrukh-Siyar
1739 by
(3) Shah Alam
(D) Zehander Shah
(1) Afghan invader Ahmed Shah
(4) Bahadur Shah ‘Zafar’
30. The East India Company Abdali
secured the Diwani from 41. Who among the following
(2) Persian invader Nadir Shah
Mughal emperors, brought about
(A) Suja-ud-Daulah
(3) Mongol invader Chengiz Khan the fall of Sayyid Brothers?
(B) Aurangzeb
(4) British East India Company (1) Bahadur Shah I
(C) Bahadur Shah I
36. Bahadur Shah (First) was born (2) Rafi-ud-daulah
(D) Shah Alam II in the year _____.
(3) Shah Jahan II
(1) 1543 (2) 1643
(4) Muhammad Shah
42. Name the king who invaded (3) 19 August 1765
Delhi and plundered the
(4) 21 August 1765
Kohinoor Diamond.
47. The last Mughal emperor
(1) Nadir Shah
Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to
(2) Firuz Shah ________ after the 1857 war of
independence.
(3) Mohammed Shah
(1) London
(4) Mohammed Ghori
(2) Kathmandu
43. Bahadur Shah was the
(3) Kabul
(1) last ruler of the Lodis
(4) Rangoon
(2) successor of Shar Shah Suri
48. Which of the following were
(3) last Mughal ruler
the causes for the rapid
(4) successor of the Maratha dissolution of the Mughal
ruler Shivaji empire?

44. The last Mughal Emperor was 1. Degeneration of the Mughal

Bhahadur Shah. His father’s nobility
name was
2. The absence of the Law of
(1) Akbar Shah I Succession

(2) Akbar Shah II 3. Foreign invasion

(3) Aurangzeb Select the correct answer from

the codes given below:
(4) Shahjehan
(a) 2 and 3 only
45. Arrange the following into
chronological order and select (b) 1 and 3 only
the correct answer from the
(c) 3 only
codes given below :
(d) 1, 2 and 3
A. Muhammad Shah
49. ______states are known as
B. Jahandar Shah
the "authorized state" because
C. Alamgir II the Mughal empire was
conquered here.
D. Ahmad Shah
(1) Maratha, Karnataka, Panipat.
Codes :
(2) Karnataka, Sindh, Delhi,
(1) A C D B
(3) Awadh, Bengal, Hyderabad.
(2) B A D C
(4) Bangal, Karnataka, Paanipat.
(3) C A B D
50.
(4) D B C A

46. Emperor Shah Alam II gave

the diwani of Bengal-Bihar and
Orissa to East India Company on

(1) 12 August 1765

(2) 18 August 1765