MEDIEVAL INDIA MCQS SET 46

MEDIEVAL INDIA MCQS SET 46

1. The Gandhara School of Art had been established in ______India.
(a) Central
(b) North-eastern
(c) Southern
(d) North-western
Ans: (d)

2. The architectural raw material generally used in Akbar's period was
(a) Marble
(b) Brick
(c) Limestone
(d) Redstone
Ans: (d)
 
3. Where had Qutub-ud-din Aibak eot conatructed the Adhai-din-ka Jhonpra (Hut of Two-and-a-half- Days)?
(a) Agra
(b) Ajmer
(c) Delhi
(d) Fatehpur Sikri
Ans: (b)

4. Who is the author of Padmawat?
(a) Faizi
(b) Abul Fazl
(c) Malik Mohammad Jaysai
(d) Amir Khusrau
Ans: (c)
 
5. The world's greatest traveller of pre-modern times, believed to have put behind him a distance of over 73000 miles and visited territories the equivalent of about 44 modern countries, is
(a) Marco Polo
(b) Fahien
(c) Ibn-Batuta
(d) Hiuen Tsang
Ans: (a)
 
6. The first Sultan of Delhi who had introduced the Practice of Sijda was
(a) Balban
(b) Alauddin Khalji
(c) Iltutmish
(d) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq
Ans: (a)
 
7. The Mughal emperor who had died owing to a sudden call from the staircase was
(a) Babar
(b) Shah Jahan
(c) Humayun
(d) Aurangzeb
Ans: (c)

8. Who among the following had got the Upanishads translated into Persian?
(a) Akbar
(b) Abul Fazl
(c) Jahangir
(d) Dara Shukoh
Ans: (d)
 
9. Who is the saint to have written the famous Bijak?
(a) Sant Kabir
(b) Kalidasa
(c) Harisena
(d) Tulsidas
Ans: (a)

10. Which literary figure of the Gupta period is referred to as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Vishakhadatta
(b) Harisena
(c) Kalidasa
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)