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Ancient History (Test Series PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY ‘tg kW lsySD ’ku ,d ftn gS’?Mh0 vkj0 ‘lj ’ MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-202001-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com TEST SERIES – 05 1. Which of the following Gupta emperors is 1) Samudragupta represented on his coins as playing the lute or 2) Kumaragupta I veena? 3) Chandragupta I a) Chandragupta I c) Samudragupta 4) Skandagupta b) Chandragupta II d) Skandagupta 5) Ghatotkachagupta 2. Pick out the first and the last Gupta rulers 6) Chandragupta II respectively from below? select the correct answer from the course given Chandragupta I and Vainyagupta a) below b) Samudragupta and Vishnugupta a) 5, 3, 1, 6, 2, 4 c) 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 3 c) Srigupta and Bhanugupta b) 3, 4, 1, 2, 6, 5 d) 2, 1, 4, 6, 5, 3 d) Srigupta and Vishnugupta 10. who was the first Gupta King to take the title of 3. Who started the Gupta Era? maharajadhiraja? a) Srigupta c) Chandragupta I a) Srigupta c) Samudragupta b) Samudragupta d) Chandragupta II b) Chandragupta I d) Chandragupta II 4. Who is the author of the Allahabad pillar 11. Which Gupta king issued Kumardevi type of inscription of Samudragupta? coins? a) Ravi Kirti c) Kalidas a) Chandragupta I c) Chandragupta II Harisena d) Vatsabhatta b) b) Samudragupta I d) Skandgupta 5. who among the following Gupta rulers repaired 12. Name the Gupta king who called himself as the Subhadrasana lake? Lichchhavi-dauhitra and parakramana? a) Samudragupta c) Chandragupta II a) Samudragupta c) kumaragupta I b) Skandagupta d) b) Chandragupta II d) Skandgupta Bhanugupta 13. Who was the Gupta king who is said to have which Gupta Emperor issued the largest 6. exterminated the Republican states in Punjab? number of inscriptions? a) Samudragupta c) kumaragupta I a) Buddhagupta c) b) Chandragupta II d) Skandgupta Samudragupta 14. The Gupta ruler who finally defeated the shakas b) Chandragupta II d) Kumaragupta I of Ujjain is ? 7. which Gupta emperor is said to have founded a) Samudragupta c) kumaragupta I Nalanda University? b) Chandragupta I d) Skandgupta a) Skandagupta c) Purugupta 15. during whose reign did the Hunas start posing a b) Buddhagupta d) threat to the Gupta Empire? Kumaragupta I a) kumaragupta I c) Bhanugupta 8. After the fall of Roman empire, with whom did b) Skandagupta d) Vishnugupta Indian Business man mainly trade? 16. The Vakatakas ruler who allied with a) Central Asia c) West Asia Chandragupta II was? China d) South-East Asia b) a) Rudrasena II c) Pravarasena 9. Arrange the following Gupta Emperor in the the b) Rudrashinha III d) Vindhyshakti chronological order? HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 05) Page 1 PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY ‘tg kW lsySD ’ku ,d ftn gS’?Mh0 vkj0 ‘lj ’ MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-202001-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com 17. Which of the following statement about 24. Pick out the correct statement? Chandragupta II are untrue? a) In ancient India, Guptas issued the largest a) He married a naga princess Kubernaga number of gold coins. and gave his daughter Prabhavatigupta in b) After the conquest of Gujarat, Guptas marriage to the vakataka king rudrasena issued a good number of silver coins.] II. c) Guptas issued more copper coins than the b) He assumed the title of Vikramaditya. Kushanas. c) Fa-Hsien visited India during his time. d) Guptas had good trade contacts with d) Chandragupta II is called the Napoleon of Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire. India. 25. Pick out the incorrect statement? 18. The word ‘Visht’ meant?” a) The supermacy of the brahmans a) Forced labour c) Rights of slaves continued into the Gupta period. b) Irrigation tax d) Property of women b) The Guptas were Originally Vaishyas. 19. Civil and criminal law were for the first time c) Vaishyas involved themselves in clearly demarcated in? agriculture, industry, trade. a) Gupta Period c) Post-Gupta age d) The position of sudras declined in the b) Post-Mauryan age d) Mauryan age Gupta period. 20. the most important officer in the Gupta empire 26. From which inscription of the Gupta period do were? we come to know about the imergence of the a) Kumaramatyas c) Customs officers kayashthas as a class? b) Senapati d) Priests a) Damodarpur copper plate inscription. 21. uparika in the Gupta period was in charge of b) Allahabad pillar inscription. which unit? c) Airan inscription of Bhanugupta a) Bhukti c) Vithi d) Mathura inscription b) Vishaya d) Grama 27. The first inscription evidence of sati is in? 22. Expansion of agriculture took place on the a) Damodarpur copper plate inscription. largest scale in which period? b) Allahabad pillar inscription. a) Pre-Mauryan age c) Post-Mauryan age c) Airan inscription of Bhanugupta b) Mauryan age d) Gupta age d) Mathura inscription 23. which of the following is correctly matched? 28. The characteristic pottery type of Gupta period List I List II is? 1. Kshetra Cultivated land a) Red ware c) Black on Red ware 2. Khila Waste land b) Black and Red ware d) Painting grey ware 3. Aprahata Forest land 29. The image of Vishnu in the form of a great boar 4. Vasti Pastuer land (Varaha) is seen at the entrance of which cave? Select the correct answer from the codes a) Udayagiri in malwa given below: b) Udayagiri in Orissa a) 1, 2, 4 c) 1, 2, 3, 4 c) Ratnagiri in Maharashtra b) 1, 2, 3 d) 2, 3, 4 d) Hathigumpa in Orissa HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 05) Page 2 PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY ‘tg kW lsySD ’ku ,d ftn gS’?Mh0 vkj0 ‘lj ’ MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-20200 1-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com 30. The earliest reference to Lord Krishana comes d) Isa Upanishad from which book? 38. Which of the Republican states in the Post- a) Satapatha brahmana Mauryan period patronised Shaivism? b) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad a) Audumburas c) Yaudehyas c) Chandogya Upanishad b) Kunindas d) All of above d) Aitreya Brahmana 39. The Vakataka king who wrote the book 31. Which book equates Krishna with vishnu? ‘Setubanda’ was? a) Mahabharata c) Parsistaparvan a) Pravarasena I c) Rudrasena I b) Chandogya Upanishad d) Ken upanishad b) Pravarasena II d) Prithivsena 32. Alwars who were vaishnavaite saints were 40. The vakatakas are generally seen to belong to popular in which part of india? which varna? a) South India c) Bengal a) Brahmanas c) Vaishyas b) Kashmir d) Gujarat b) Kshatriyas d) Damodarsena 33. The concept of trinity of Gods of Hindus 41. Who was founder of Vakataka dynasty? became popular in which period ? a) Vindyashakti c) Pravarasena I a) Later Vedic Period b) Prithivsena d) Damodarsena b) Post-Mauryan period 42. Which Vakataka ruler Suffered defeat at the c) Mauryan period hands of samudragupta? d) Gupta period a) Pravarasena I c) Rudrasena I 34. Pick out the incorrect statement? b) Prithivsena d) Damodarsena a) Bhagavatism was marked bhakti and 43. Which of the following statement about the Ahimsa Vakatakas is incorrect? b) Vishnu was not mantioned in the Rig Veda a) The Vakatakas promoted the expansion of c) Bhagavatism overshadowed Mahyana agriculture. Buddhism by Gupta times. b) The Vakatakas gave innumerable land d) Gupta kings as Samudragupta and donations to brahmins and this in the long chandragupta II patronised Vaishnavism. term led to feudalism. 35. Which foreigner states that surasenis of c) The Vakatakas patronised trade and mathura are shaivites? commerce. a) Deimachus c) Pliny d) The Vakatakas like the satavahanas issued b) Megas thenes d) Justin many coins. 36. How many times is the word Shiva mentioned 44. Pick out the incorrect statement? in the Rig Veda? a) The vakatakas being Brahmins persecuted a) One c) Seven the Buddhist and Jain traders. b) Three d) Zero b) Kalidasa wrote meghadutam in 37. The earliest reference to shiva is found from Pravarasen II’s court. which text? c) A Vakataka ruler Saravasen wrote the a) Chandogya Upanishad book Harivijaya. b) Svetesvatara Upanishad d) Vakatakas issued their inscription in c) Ken Upanishad Prakrit Language. HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 05) Page 3 PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY ‘tg kW lsySD ’ku ,d ftn gS’?Mh0 vkj0 ‘lj ’ MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-202001-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com 45. The royal emblem used by the Guptas Was? 49. Assertion (A): The Shudras in the Gupta period a) Gaurda c) Bull were permitted to listen to the Ramayana, b) Varaha d) Lakshmi Mahabharata and the Puranas. Reason (R): The economic status of the shudras DIRECTIONS: - improved in the Gupta period and they were The following items consist of two mainly represented as agriculturists. statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) And 50. Assertion (A): The higher varnas in the Gupta the other labelled as Reason (R). You are the period become more polygamous and more examine these two statements carefully and property minded. decided if the Assertion (A) and the Reason (R) Reason (R): The number of the higher varnas in are individually true and if so, whether the the Gupta period came to acquire more and Reason is correct explanation of the Assertion. more land. Select your answer to these items using the codes given below and mark your answer sheer accordingly. a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. b) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A. c) A is true but R is false. d) A is false but R is true. 46. Assertion (A): trade and commerce were on the general in decline during the Gupta period.
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