History
Basics
Choice Questions
Multiple
1. Which among the following dynasties is known to have given
the largest grant of villages to the temples and Brahamans?
[A] Pratihara
[B] Gupta
[C] Pala
[D]Saatvahana
2. Rigveda was written during which among the following ages?
[A] Stone Age
[B] Copper Age
[C] Iron Age
[D]All of them
3. For the first time in Indian History, the description of
the State Administration was found for which among the
following periods?
[A] Gupta Period
[B] Maurya Period
[C] Shunga Period
[D]Saatvahana Period
4. Who among the following is ascribed for the work
[A] Kalidasa
[B] Vishakhadatta
[C] Kautilya
[D]Bhatrihari
Mudrarakshaha?
5. Which among the following kings have been linked to the
Sudaman Caves ?
[A] Ashoka
[B] ChandraGupta Maurya
[C] Bindusar
[D]Bimbisar
6. What was the function of
[A] To Collect Revenue
[B] To Work as a Judge
[C] Leadership of Army
Samharta
in Mauryan Administration?
[D]Delivering Justice
7. “All Indians are Free and not even one of them is a slave”
Who among the following has observed the above about the
Mauryan Empire?
[A]Megasthenes
[B]Huen Tsang
[C]Asoka
[D]Strabo
8. Which among the following was the first investigated pillar
of Askoa?
[A] Delhi Meerut Pillar
[B] Barbara cave
[C] Dhauli
[D]Sarnath
9. Pushyamitra Shunga, who was originally a Senapati of the
Mauryan empire and assassinated the last Mauryan Emperor
Brihadrath in 185 BC was a ____?
[A] Brahaman
[B] Kshatriya
[C] Vaishya
[D]Shudra
10. There is only one edict, in which Ashoka refers himself as
King of Magadha (Laja Magadhe. Identify the edict from the
following:
[A] Minor Rock Edict of Mashi
[B] The Queens edict
[C] Bhabhru Edict
[D]Dhauli Pillar Inscription
11. At which among the following places, Chandragupta Maurya
spent his last days ?
[A] Nalanda
[B] Ujjain
[C] Shravana Belgola
[D]Kashi
12. Ceylon became a stronghold of which among the following
branches of Buddhism?
[A] Mahayan
[B] Hinayan
[C] Mahendra
[D]Theravada
13. Who among the following was King of Magadha, at the time
of Mahaparinirvana of Gautam Buddha?
[A] Bimbisara
[B] Udayi
[C] Ajatshatru
[D]Chandragupta Maurya
14. Ashvaghosha, who has written the marvelous work
“Buddhacharita” was a court poet of which among the following
kings?
[A] Ashoka
[B] Kanishka
[C] Samudragupta
[D]Ajatshatru
15. Who among the following kings was a contemporary of both
Mahavira and Buddha ?
[A] Ajatshatru
[B] Nandivardhana
[C] Bimbisara
[D]Asoka