CH.

2 Kings, Farmers and Towns

1. Who deciphered the Brahmi (a) Vij
and Kharosthi scripts?
(b) Magadh
(a) James John
(c) Panchal
(b) James Prinsep
(d) All the above
(c) Nicholas
5. What was Magadh’s capital in
(d) Edison the 4th century?
2. According to the Buddhist (a) Rajgah
literature, who was the most
(b) Patliputra
famous king?
(c) Rajgiri
(a) Bimbisara
(d) Aang
(b) Chandragupta Maurya
6. Who was the founder of the
(c)Ashok
Mauryan dyansty?
(d) Samudragupta Maurya
(a) Chandragupta Maurya
3. Which century is known as
(b) Ashoka
the transitioning era of the early
Indian history? (c) Vikramaditya
(a) 6th century (d) Ajatshattu
(b) 7th century 7. According to the sources of
Ashoka, he spread the idea of:
(c) 8th century
(a) Dhamma
(d) 10th century
(b) Knowledge
4. Which state was included in
the Mahajanapada? (c) Scholars
(d) Education (b) Copper and Gold
8. Who won the battle with (c) Gold and Silver
Kalinga?
(d) None of the above
(a) Kautilya
12. Who issued gold coins in
(b) Chandragupta Maurya first century for the first time?
(c) Bimbisara (a) Mauryan Rulers
(d) Ashoka (b) Kushana Rulers
9. What title was used by most (c) Chola Rulers
of Kushana rulers?
(d) Gupta Rulers
(a) Devputra
13. What was the title of
(b) Devtulya Ashoka?
(c) Devraj (a) Devapriya
(d) Devnaam (b) Piyadasi
10. Prabhavati Gupta was the (c) (a) and (b)
daughter of which King?
(d) None of the above
(a) Chandragupta Maurya
14. The land donated to the
(b) Chandragupta Il Brahmins is known as:
(c) Vikramaditya (a) Janahaar
(d) Ashoka (b) Agrahaar
11. Which metal coins came in (c) Daan
use in the 6th century as an
(d) Bhet
experiment?
15. Who was Kautilya?
(a) Silver and Copper
(a) Minister of Chandra Gupta
(b) Commander of 19. Who founded the Mauryan
Chandragupta Empire?
(c) Minister of Ashoka (a) Ashoka
(d) Teacher of Ashoka (b) Chandragupta Maurys
16. How many Mahajanapadas (c) Bindusara
were there?
(d) Ajatashatru
(a) 17
20. Sangam is a literature
(b) 14 of__________________languag
e.
(c) 18
(a) Tamil
(d) 16
(b) Malsyam
17. Which of these was the
most powerful Mahajanapada (c) Sanskrit
from 6th to 4th century BCE?
(d) Marathi
(a) Kuru
21. Harishena was the court
(b) Magadha poet of_______.
(c) PanehaLa (a) Samudragupta
(d) Ciandhara (b) Chandragupta II
18. Who appointed Dhamma (c) Ashoka
Mahamatras?
(d) Chandragupta Maurya
(a) Bimbisara
22. Consider the following
(b) Samudraupta statements about the Mauryan
Empire:
(c) Ashoka
(i) There were 5 major political
(d) Pandya
centres in the Empire
(ii) Megasthenes wrote about (c) Ramgaha
the Mauryan Empire in his book
(d) Ramgraha
Indica.
25. Alexander Cunningham
(iii) Ashoka founded the
published a set of Ashokan
Mauryan Empire in 321 B.C.
inscriptions in-
(iv) Ashoka used his resources
(a) 1874
to propagate Buddhism.
(b) 1875
Which of the above statements
is/are correct? (c)1876
(a) (i), (ii) and (ii) (d) 1877
(b) (), (i) and (io) 26. The Arthashastra was
composed by
(c) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(a) Banabhatta
(d) (i), (iii) and (iv)
(b) Kautilya
23. The early Tamil Sangam
literature mentions slaves (c) Ravikirti
known as-
(d) Ashvaghosha
(a) adimai
27. The first ever ruler to
(b) pannai propagate the principles of
Dhamma was-
(C)vellalar
(a) Bimbisara
(d) uzhavar
(b) Chandragupta II
24. The Prakrit name for
present-day Rajgir in Bihar was: (c) Chandragupta Maurya
(a) Rajagaha (d) Ashoka
(b) Rajagraha 28. The first issue of Epigraphia
Indica was published in-
(a) 1885 (c)potte
(b) 1886 (d) sculptor
(c) 1887 32. Megasthenes mentions a
committee with six
(d) 1888
subcommittees of military, of
29. According to a rock which the fifth looked after:
inscription in Sanskrit,
(a) chariots
composed around second
century CE, the Sudarshana lake (b) foot-soldiers
was repaired by a king of the:
(c) horses
(a) Indo-Greeks
(d) transport
(b) Kushanas
33. _________________were
(c) Satavahanas elaborate stone structures in
central and south India in firs
(d) Rudradaman I
millennium BCE.
30. The Pragya Prashasti was
(a) Pannai
composed in_______________.
(b) Megaliths
(a) Sanskrit
(c) Dhamma
(b) Pali
(d) None of the above
(c) Prakrit
34. Who were a clan of nomadic
(d) Brahmi
people living in China?
31. The term ‘Sovanika’ was
(a) Greeks
used in ancient India as
reference to: (b) Kushanas
(a) carpenter (c) Aztecs
(b) goldsmith (d) Maya
35._______ was the owner, (a) Special revenue officers
master or head of a household. appointed by Ashoka for tax
collection
(a) Pannai
(b) Special officers appointed by
(b) Mahamatta
Ashoka for maintaining law and
(c)Dhamma order in the kingdom
(d) Gahapati (c) Special officers appointed by
Ashoka to spread the message
36. Which one of the following
of dhamma
is the author of Arthashastra?
(d) Special officers appointed by
(a) Kalhana
Ashoka to stop the spread of
(b) Kalidasa dhamma
(c) Kautilya 39. Why is the sixth century BCE
often considered a major
(d) Banabhatta
turning point in Indian history?
37. What are big rocks kept on
(a) Emergence of states, cities
the burial in central and south
and towns; use of iron
India called?
(c) Emergence of states, cities
(a) Northern Black Polished
and towns; Dominance of
Ware
Hinduism
(b) Pillars
(c) Dominance of Hinduism; use
(c) Boulders of iron
(d) Megaliths (d) Emergence of Buddhism and
Jainism, Extensive use of Copper
38. Who was Dhamma
Mahamatta? 40. Who composed the Pragya
Prashasti in praise of
Samudragupta?
(a) Prabhavati Gupta
(b) Harisena (a) He deciphered the Brahmi
script used in most of the
(c) Kautilya
Ashokan inscriptions.
(d) Banabhatta
(b) He deciphered the
41. Which of the following is not Kharoshthi script used in most
one of the main features of of the Ashokan inscriptions.
Ashoka’s dhamma?
(c) (a) and (b)
(a) Respect the elders and be
(d) None of these
generous to the Brahmins.
44. Ventures of which of the
(b) consider your religion
following traders were risky but
superior to the other religions.
highly profitable?
(c) Gahapati should respect
(a) Peddlers
members of the family,
relatives, servants, the poor and (b) Seafarers
the slaves
(c) Merchants with caravans of
(d). Follow non-violence bullock carts and pack – animals
42. What were the guilds of the (d) All of the above
merchants and craftsmen
45. Who issued the first coins
called?
bearing the names of rulers?
(a) Shrenis
(a) Mauryans
(b) Ur
(b) Guptas
(c) Adimai
(c) Indo-Greeks
(d) Uzhavar
(d) Satavahanas
43. What is James Prinsep’s
46. Ashoka is mentioned by
contribution in the
which titles in his inscriptions?
development of the Indian
epigraphy? (a) Ashoka, Piyadassi
(b) Masattuvan, Ashoka (d) ii only
(c) Devanampiya, Piryadassi 49. Identify the best reason for
considering King Ashoka as
(d) Devaputra, Piyadassi
‘Devanampiya’ and Piyadassi’
47. Name the language in which by his subjects.
the Ashokan inscriptions were
(a) Ashoka commissioned the
written.
edicts himself
(a) Pali, Prakrit and Greek
(b) He adopted the title of
(b) Pali, Sanskrit and Aramaic ‘Devaputra’.
(c) Prakrit, Aramaic and Greek (c) Epigraphists have concluded
him as devanamapiya.
(d) Pali, Sanskrit and Greek
(d) He did well being of society
48. Consider the following
through Dhamma.
statements regarding Magadha.
50. Which one of the following
(i) Magadha was the most
statements was not a justified
powerful mahajanapada.
reason for Magadha bs
(ii) Initially Pataliputra was the powerful mahajanapada?
capital of Magadha and later it
(a) Magadha was drained by
was shifted to Rajagriha.
several rivers which made the
(iii) Elephants were found in land very fertile.
abundance in the forests of
(b) In Magadha there were rich
Magdha.
deposits of iron ore.
Which of the following
(c) Patliputra, the capital of
statement(s) is/are correct?
Magadha, was fortified.
(a) i and ii
(d) Magadha was ruled by
(b) ii and iii powerful kings.
(C) i and iii
51. The earliest capital of (b) Pali
Magadha was Rajagriha which
(c) Sanskrit
means
(d) Tamil
(a) house of the king
55. The Queen who had
(b) house of the people
independent access to land,
(c) house of the animals against the provisions of
Sanskrit legal texts:
(d) none of the above
(a) Salavati
52. The Greek ambassador to
the court of Chandragupta (b) Vijaya Satakani
Maurya is
(c) Prabhavati Gupta
(a) Megasthenes
(d) Yana Sakasena tel
(b) Kautilya or Chanakya
56. Inscriptions that record gifts
(c) Chandragupta Maurya made to religious institutions
are known as –
(d) None of the above
(a) Elogium inscriptions
53. Kautilya’s Arthshastra is a
book on – (b) Votive inscriptions
(a) Economic relations (c) Honorific inscriptions
(b) Principal and practices of (d) Dedicatory inseriptions
statecraft
57. Numismatic is the study of-
(c) Foreign policy
(a) Numbers
(d) Duties of a king
(b) Pottery
54. The Jatakas were written in
(c) Coins
–
(d) Sculptures
(a) Prakrit
58. The first to issue gold coins (d) Kandhar
were-
62. Which one of the following
(a) Kushanas places has no Ashokan edict?
(b) Satavahanas (a) Firnar
(c) Pandyas (b) Kandhar
(d) Cholas (c) Patliputra
59. What is Gandatindu? (d) Shahbazgarhi
(a) Inscription 63.All of the following
statements regarding
(b) Jataka
inscriptions are correct except
(c) Prashasti
(a) Inscriptions are writing
(d) Shreni or Guild engraved on hard surfaces such
as stone, metal or pottery
60. Asiatic Society of Bengal was
founded in the year- (b) They usually record the
achievements, activities or ideas
(a) 1801
of those who commissioned
(b) 1757 them.
(c) 1784 (c) Inscriptions are virtually
permanent records, some of
(d) 1858
which carry dates.
61. Which of the following is not
(d) The earliest inscriptions
one of the major political
were written in Sanskrit.
centres of Mauryan Empirer ire?
64. All of the following
(a) Taxila
statements regarding Magadha
(b) Tosali are correct except-
(c) Suvarnagiri
(a) Magadha was a region (d) The iron-tipped ploughshare
where agriculture was was used to turn the alluvial soil
especially productive in areas which had high rainfall.
(b) gold mines were accessible 66. Consider the following
and provided resources for statements about
kingdom. Mahajanapadas and mark the
correct statement:
(c) In the fourth century BCE,
the capital was shifted to (a) While most mahajanapadas
Patliputra. were ruled by kings, some
known as ganas or sanghas,
(d) The Ganga and its ributaries
were oligarchies
provided a means of cheap and
convenient (b) Both Mahavira and the
Buddha belonged to such ganas
communication.
(c) Neither a or b
65. All of the following
statements regarding increasing (d) Both a and b
agricultural production in 6th
67. Consider the following
century BCE are correct except –
statements:
(a) Parts of Punjab and
(i) The term Gahapati was often
Rajasthan adopted iron
used to designate small
ploughshare
peasants as well as large
(b) Irrigation was adopted to landlords.
increase agricultural production
(ii) Sangam texts also mention
(c) Production of paddy was different categories of people
dramatically increased by the like vellelar, uzhavar and adimai
introduction of
Which of the above
transplantation. statement(s) is/are correct
about rural societies in
Mahajanapada period?
(a) Only i (ii) They offered homage and
provided military support to
(b) Only ii
rulers.
(c) Both i and i
Which of the above
(d) Neither i nor ii statement(s) is/are correct
about samantas:
68. Consider the following
statements: (a) Only i
(i) Many Mauryan rulers (b) Only ii
adopted the title devaputra, or
(c) Both i and iii
“son of god”
(d) Neither i nor ii
(ii) Kushanas ruled over a vast
kingdom extending from central 70. Which book has mention of
to south India. mauryan administration?
Which of the above (a) Indica
statement(s) is/are correct?
(b) Hindustan
(a) Only i
(c) India
(b) Only ii
(d) none of the abose
(c) Both i and ii
71. Who wrote “King should run
(d) Neither i nor ii the administration with the
help of his ministers even if he
69. Consider the following
is an autocratic ruler”?
statements:
(a) Indica
(i) Samantas maintained
themselves through local (b) Ibn Batuta
resources including control over
(c) Kautiliya
land
(d) Abul Fazl
72. In which of the following are (b) Rajgrahai
Samudragupta’s achievements
(a) Vaishali
mentionedb?
(c) Patliputra
(a) Allahabad pillar inscription.
(d) Takshila
(b) Junagard rock inscription.
(c) Mehrauli iron pillar
inscription.
(d) Allahabad pillar inscription
73. Which one among the
following is not an attribute of
Samudragupta described in
Prayag Prashasti?
(a) Sharp and polished intellect ANSWER KEY
(b) Accomplished sculptor.
1. Who deciphered the Brahmi
(c) Fine musical performances. and Kharosthi scripts?
(d) none of the above (a) James John
74. In Sanskrit plays written (b) James Prinsep
during the Gupta’ period,
(c) Nicholas
women and Sudras speak?
(d) Edison
(a) Sanskrit.
Ans.(b)
(b) Prakrit
2. According to the Buddhist
(c) Pali
literature, who was the most
(d) Devnagri famous king?
75. Which was the capital of (a) Bimbisara
Kushan?
(b) Chandragupta Maurya (c) Rajgiri
(c)Ashok (d) Aang
(d) Samudragupta Maurya Ans.(b)
Ans.(c) 6. Who was the founder of the
Mauryan dyansty?
3. Which century is known as
the transitioning era of the early (a) Chandragupta Maurya
Indian history?
(b) Ashoka
(a) 6th century
(c) Vikramaditya
(b) 7th century
(d) Ajatshattu
(c) 8th century
Ans.(a)
(d) 10th century
7. According to the sources of
Ans.(a) Ashoka, he spread the idea of:
4. Which state was included in (a) Dhamma
the Mahajanapada?
(b) Knowledge
(a) Vij
(c) Scholars
(b) Magadh
(d) Education
(c) Panchal
Ans.(a)
(d) All the above
8. Who won the battle with
Ans.(d) Kalinga?
5. What was Magadh’s capital in (a) Kautilya
the 4th century?
(b) Chandragupta Maurya
(a) Rajgah
(c) Bimbisara
(b) Patliputra
(d) Ashoka
Ans.(d) 12. Who issued gold coins in
first century for the first time?
9. What title was used by most
of Kushana rulers? (a) Mauryan Rulers
(a) Devputra (b) Kushana Rulers
(b) Devtulya (c) Chola Rulers
(c) Devraj (d) Gupta Rulers
(d) Devnaam Ans.(b)
Ans.(a) 13. What was the title of
Ashoka?
10. Prabhavati Gupta was the
daughter of which King? (a) Devapriya
(a) Chandragupta Maurya (b) Piyadasi
(b) Chandragupta Il (c) (a) and (b)
(c) Vikramaditya (d) None of the above
(d) Ashoka Ans.(c)
Ans.(b) 14. The land donated to the
Brahmins is known as:
11. Which metal coins came in
use in the 6th century as an (a) Janahaar
experiment?
(b) Agrahaar
(a) Silver and Copper
(c) Daan
(b) Copper and Gold
(d) Bhet
(c) Gold and Silver
Ans.(b)
(d) None of the above
15. Who was Kautilya?
Ans.(a)
(a) Minister of Chandra Gupta
(b) Commander of (b) Samudraupta
Chandragupta
(c) Ashoka
(c) Minister of Ashoka
(d) Pandya
(d) Teacher of Ashoka
Ans.(c)
Ans.(a)
19. Who founded the Mauryan
16. How many Mahajanapadas Empire?
were there?
(a) Ashoka
(a) 17
(b) Chandragupta Maurys
(b) 14
(c) Bindusara
(c) 18
(d) Ajatashatru
(d) 16
Ans.(b)
Ans.(d)
20. Sangam is a literature
17. Which of these was the of__________________languag
most powerful Mahajanapada e.
from 6th to 4th century BCE?
(a) Tamil
(a) Kuru
(b) Malsyam
(b) Magadha
(c) Sanskrit
(c) PanehaLa
(d) Marathi
(d) Ciandhara
Ans.(a)
Ans.(b)
21. Harishena was the court
18. Who appointed Dhamma poet of_______.
Mahamatras?
(a) Samudragupta
(a) Bimbisara
(b) Chandragupta II
(c) Ashoka (a) adimai
(d) Chandragupta Maurya (b) pannai
Ans.(a) (C)vellalar
22. Consider the following (d) uzhavar
statements about the Mauryan
Ans.(a)
Empire:
24. The Prakrit name for
(i) There were 5 major political
present-day Rajgir in Bihar was:
centres in the Empire
(a) Rajagaha
(ii) Megasthenes wrote about
the Mauryan Empire in his book (b) Rajagraha
Indica.
(c) Ramgaha
(iii) Ashoka founded the
(d) Ramgraha
Mauryan Empire in 321 B.C.
Ans.(a)
(iv) Ashoka used his resources
to propagate Buddhism. 25. Alexander Cunningham
published a set of Ashokan
Which of the above statements
inscriptions in-
is/are correct?
(a) 1874
(a) (i), (ii) and (ii)
(b) 1875
(b) (), (i) and (io)
(c)1876
(c) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(d) 1877
(d) (i), (iii) and (iv)
Ans.(d)
Ans.(b)
26. The Arthashastra was
23. The early Tamil Sangam
composed by
literature mentions slaves
known as- (a) Banabhatta
(b) Kautilya (a) Indo-Greeks
(c) Ravikirti (b) Kushanas
(d) Ashvaghosha (c) Satavahanas
Ans.(b) (d) Rudradaman I
27. The first ever ruler to Ans.(d)
propagate the principles of
30. The Pragya Prashasti was
Dhamma was-
composed in_______________.
(a) Bimbisara
(a) Sanskrit
(b) Chandragupta II
(b) Pali
(c) Chandragupta Maurya
(c) Prakrit
(d) Ashoka
(d) Brahmi
Ans.(d)
Ans.(a)
28. The first issue of Epigraphia
31. The term ‘Sovanika’ was
Indica was published in-
used in ancient India as
(a) 1885 reference to:
(b) 1886 (a) carpenter
(c) 1887 (b) goldsmith
(d) 1888 (c)potte
Ans.(d) (d) sculptor
29. According to a rock Ans.(b)
inscription in Sanskrit,
32. Megasthenes mentions a
composed around second
committee with six
century CE, the Sudarshana lake
subcommittees of military, of
was repaired by a king of the:
which the fifth looked after:
(a) chariots (a) Pannai
(b) foot-soldiers (b) Mahamatta
(c) horses (c)Dhamma
(d) transport (d) Gahapati
Ans.(a) Ans.(d)
33. _________________were 36. Which one of the following
elaborate stone structures in is the author of Arthashastra?
central and south India in firs
(a) Kalhana
millennium BCE.
(b) Kalidasa
(a) Pannai
(c) Kautilya
(b) Megaliths
(d) Banabhatta
(c) Dhamma
Ans.(c)
(d) None of the above
37. What are big rocks kept on
Ans.(b)
the burial in central and south
34. Who were a clan of nomadic India called?
people living in China?
(a) Northern Black Polished
(a) Greeks Ware
(b) Kushanas (b) Pillars
(c) Aztecs (c) Boulders
(d) Maya (d) Megaliths
Ans.(b) Ans.(d)
35._______ was the owner, 38. Who was Dhamma
master or head of a household. Mahamatta?
(a) Special revenue officers 40. Who composed the Pragya
appointed by Ashoka for tax Prashasti in praise of
collection Samudragupta?
(b) Special officers appointed by (a) Prabhavati Gupta
Ashoka for maintaining law and
(b) Harisena
order in the kingdom
(c) Kautilya
(c) Special officers appointed by
Ashoka to spread the message (d) Banabhatta
of dhamma
Ans.(b)
(d) Special officers appointed by
41. Which of the following is not
Ashoka to stop the spread of
one of the main features of
dhamma
Ashoka’s dhamma?
Ans.(c)
(a) Respect the elders and be
39. Why is the sixth century BCE generous to the Brahmins.
often considered a major
(b) consider your religion
turning point in Indian history?
superior to the other religions.
(a) Emergence of states, cities
(c) Gahapati should respect
and towns; use of iron
members of the family,
(c) Emergence of states, cities relatives, servants, the poor and
and towns; Dominance of the slaves
Hinduism
(d). Follow non-violence
(c) Dominance of Hinduism; use
Ans.(b)
of iron
42. What were the guilds of the
(d) Emergence of Buddhism and
merchants and craftsmen
Jainism, Extensive use of Copper
called?
Ans.(a)
(a) Shrenis
(b) Ur Ans.(b)
(c) Adimai 45. Who issued the first coins
bearing the names of rulers?
(d) Uzhavar
(a) Mauryans
Ans.(a)
(b) Guptas
43. What is James Prinsep’s
contribution in the (c) Indo-Greeks
development of the Indian
(d) Satavahanas
epigraphy?
Ans.(c)
(a) He deciphered the Brahmi
script used in most of the 46. Ashoka is mentioned by
Ashokan inscriptions. which titles in his inscriptions?
(b) He deciphered the (a) Ashoka, Piyadassi
Kharoshthi script used in most
(b) Masattuvan, Ashoka
of the Ashokan inscriptions.
(c) Devanampiya, Piryadassi
(c) (a) and (b)
(d) Devaputra, Piyadassi
(d) None of these
Ans.(c)
Ans.(a)
47. Name the language in which
44. Ventures of which of the
the Ashokan inscriptions were
following traders were risky but
written.
highly profitable?
(a) Pali, Prakrit and Greek
(a) Peddlers
(b) Pali, Sanskrit and Aramaic
(b) Seafarers
(c) Prakrit, Aramaic and Greek
(c) Merchants with caravans of
bullock carts and pack – animals (d) Pali, Sanskrit and Greek
(d) All of the above Ans.(c)
48. Consider the following (c) Epigraphists have concluded
statements regarding Magadha. him as devanamapiya.
(i) Magadha was the most (d) He did well being of society
powerful mahajanapada. through Dhamma.
(ii) Initially Pataliputra was the Ans.(d)
capital of Magadha and later it
50. Which one of the following
was shifted to Rajagriha.
statements was not a justified
(iii) Elephants were found in reason for Magadha bs
abundance in the forests of powerful mahajanapada?
Magdha.
(a) Magadha was drained by
Which of the following several rivers which made the
statement(s) is/are correct? land very fertile.
(a) i and ii (b) In Magadha there were rich
deposits of iron ore.
(b) ii and iii
(c) Patliputra, the capital of
(C) i and iii
Magadha, was fortified.
(d) ii only
(d) Magadha was ruled by
Ans.(c) powerful kings.
49. Identify the best reason for Ans.(c)
considering King Ashoka as
51. The earliest capital of
‘Devanampiya’ and Piyadassi’
Magadha was Rajagriha which
by his subjects.
means
(a) Ashoka commissioned the
(a) house of the king
edicts himself
(b) house of the people
(b) He adopted the title of
‘Devaputra’. (c) house of the animals
(d) none of the above
Ans.(a) Ans.(b)
52. The Greek ambassador to 55. The Queen who had
the court of Chandragupta independent access to land,
Maurya is against the provisions of
Sanskrit legal texts:
(a) Megasthenes
(a) Salavati
(b) Kautilya or Chanakya
(b) Vijaya Satakani
(c) Chandragupta Maurya
(c) Prabhavati Gupta
(d) None of the above
(d) Yana Sakasena tel
Ans.(a)
Ans.(c)
53. Kautilya’s Arthshastra is a
book on – 56. Inscriptions that record gifts
made to religious institutions
(a) Economic relations
are known as –
(b) Principal and practices of
(a) Elogium inscriptions
statecraft
(b) Votive inscriptions
(c) Foreign policy
(c) Honorific inscriptions
(d) Duties of a king
(d) Dedicatory inseriptions
Ans.(b)
Ans.(b)
54. The Jatakas were written in
– 57. Numismatic is the study of-
(a) Prakrit (a) Numbers
(b) Pali (b) Pottery
(c) Sanskrit (c) Coins
(d) Tamil (d) Sculptures
Ans.(c) 61. Which of the following is not
one of the major political
58. The first to issue gold coins
centres of Mauryan Empirer ire?
were-
(a) Taxila
(a) Kushanas
(b) Tosali
(b) Satavahanas
(c) Suvarnagiri
(c) Pandyas
(d) Kandhar
(d) Cholas
Ans.(d)
Ans.(a)
62. Which one of the following
59. What is Gandatindu?
places has no Ashokan edict?
(a) Inscription
(a) Firnar
(b) Jataka
(b) Kandhar
(c) Prashasti
(c) Patliputra
(d) Shreni or Guild
(d) Shahbazgarhi
Ans.(b)
Ans.(c)
60. Asiatic Society of Bengal was
63.All of the following
founded in the year-
statements regarding
(a) 1801 inscriptions are correct except
(b) 1757 (a) Inscriptions are writing
engraved on hard surfaces such
(c) 1784
as stone, metal or pottery
(d) 1858
(b) They usually record the
Ans.(c) achievements, activities or ideas
of those who commissioned
them.
(c) Inscriptions are virtually (a) Parts of Punjab and
permanent records, some of Rajasthan adopted iron
which carry dates. ploughshare
(d) The earliest inscriptions (b) Irrigation was adopted to
were written in Sanskrit. increase agricultural production
Ans.(d) (c) Production of paddy was
dramatically increased by the
64. All of the following
introduction of
statements regarding Magadha
are correct except- transplantation.
(a) Magadha was a region (d) The iron-tipped ploughshare
where agriculture was was used to turn the alluvial soil
especially productive in areas which had high rainfall.
(b) gold mines were accessible Ans.(a)
and provided resources for
66. Consider the following
kingdom.
statements about
(c) In the fourth century BCE, Mahajanapadas and mark the
the capital was shifted to correct statement:
Patliputra.
(a) While most mahajanapadas
(d) The Ganga and its ributaries were ruled by kings, some
provided a means of cheap and known as ganas or sanghas,
convenient were oligarchies
communication. (b) Both Mahavira and the
Buddha belonged to such ganas
Ans.(b)
(c) Neither a or b
65. All of the following
statements regarding increasing (d) Both a and b
agricultural production in 6th
Ans.(d)
century BCE are correct except –
67. Consider the following Which of the above
statements: statement(s) is/are correct?
(i) The term Gahapati was often (a) Only i
used to designate small
(b) Only ii
peasants as well as large
landlords. (c) Both i and ii
(ii) Sangam texts also mention (d) Neither i nor ii
different categories of people
Ans.(d)
like vellelar, uzhavar and adimai
69. Consider the following
Which of the above
statements:
statement(s) is/are correct
about rural societies in (i) Samantas maintained
Mahajanapada period? themselves through local
resources including control over
(a) Only i
land
(b) Only ii
(ii) They offered homage and
(c) Both i and i provided military support to
rulers.
(d) Neither i nor ii
Which of the above
Ans.(c)
statement(s) is/are correct
68. Consider the following about samantas:
statements:
(a) Only i
(i) Many Mauryan rulers
(b) Only ii
adopted the title devaputra, or
“son of god” (c) Both i and iii
(ii) Kushanas ruled over a vast (d) Neither i nor ii
kingdom extending from central
Ans.(c)
to south India.
70. Which book has mention of Ans.(a)
mauryan administration?
73. Which one among the
(a) Indica following is not an attribute of
Samudragupta described in
(b) Hindustan
Prayag Prashasti?
(c) India
(a) Sharp and polished intellect
(d) none of the abose
(b) Accomplished sculptor.
Ans.(a)
(c) Fine musical performances.
71. Who wrote “King should run
(d) none of the above
the administration with the
help of his ministers even if he Ans.(b)
is an autocratic ruler”?
74. In Sanskrit plays written
(a) Indica during the Gupta’ period,
women and Sudras speak?
(b) Ibn Batuta
(a) Sanskrit.
(c) Kautiliya
(b) Prakrit
(d) Abul Fazl
(c) Pali
Ans.(c)
(d) Devnagri
72. In which of the following are
Samudragupta’s achievements Ans.(b)
mentionedb?
75. Which was the capital of
(a) Allahabad pillar inscription. Kushan?
(b) Junagard rock inscription. (b) Rajgrahai
(c) Mehrauli iron pillar (a) Vaishali
inscription.
(c) Patliputra
(d) Allahabad pillar inscription
(d) Takshila
Ans.(d)