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11 12 History Winmeen Test Sheets Line by Line Questions 1 11 th 12 th History Winmeen Test Sheets 11th History Lesson 4 Questions in English 4] The Guptas 1. In the period from c. 300 to 700 CE which 7. Whose achievements was written in Mehrauli kingdom emerged as a great power and Iron Pillar inscription? achieved the political unification of a large part a) Bindusara of the India? b) Asoka a) Mauryan kingdom c) Samudragupta b) Gupta kingdom d) Chandragupta I c) Mughal kingdom 8. Whose personality and achievements were d) Delhi sultan described in Allahabad Pillar inscription? 2. Which type of government began to take root a) Bindusara during Gupta period? b) Asoka a) Feudalism c) Samudragupta b) Socialism d) Chandragupta I c) Democratic 9. Who composed Samudragupta’s personality d) Anarchism and achievements in 33 lines? 3. Which class living standard reached a peak a) Harisena during Gupta period? b) Harsha a) Upper class c) Kalidasa b) Middle class d) Pulakeshin c) Lower class 10. Chandragupta I, who was the third ruler of d) All the above the Gupta dynasty married to whom? 4. How many types of sources are there for a) Asandhimitra reconstructing the history of the Gupta period? b) Padmavati a) Two c) Kumaradevi b) Four d) Subhadrangi c) Three 11. Arrange the following rulers in chronological d) Five order 5. Which poet wrote Mudrarakshasam a Sanskrit 1) Samudragupta play? 2) Ghatotkacha a) Bhavabhuti 3) Chandragupta I b) Vishakadutta 4) Sri Gupta c) Bharavi a) 2 – 1 – 4 – 3 d) Bindusara b) 2 – 4 – 1 – 3 6. Which Chinese traveller account for literature c) 3 – 1 – 2 – 4 source of Gupta kingdom? d) 4 – 2 – 3 – 1 a) Fa Hien 12. When Chandragupta I appointed his son b) Yijing Samudragupta to succeed him? c) Xuan Zang a) 370 CE d) Zheng He b) 341 CE Line By Line Questions 1 11 th 12 th History Winmeen Test Sheets c) 335 CE 17. Which Lanka ruler sent presents and d) 327 CE requested permission from Samudragupta to 13. Which of the following statement regarding build a Buddhist monastery at Gaya? Samudragupta is incorrect a) Pandukabhaya 1) Four northern kings were conquered mainly b) Valagamba in the area around Delhi and western Uttar c) Vijayabahu Pradesh. Twelve kings of the western half of the d) Meghavarman Ganges Plain were violently uprooted. 18. Samudragupta perform which animal 2) The kings of the south and the east were sacrifice ritual to proclaim his military forced to pay homage, and from the places conquests? mentioned, it appears that Samudragupta a) Buffalo campaigned down the eastern coast as far as b) Pig Kanchipuram. c) Horse 3) The forest kings (tribal chiefs of Central India d) Deer and the Deccan) were forced to pay tribute. The kings of Assam and Bengal in eastern India and 19. Samudragupta is an ardent follower of which those of small kingdoms in Nepal and the Punjab religious form? also paid tribute by submission a) Shaivism a) Only 1 b) Vaishnavism b) Only 1 and 2 c) Buddhism c) Only 3 d) Jainism d) All 1, 2 and 3 20. Who held the title of maharaja-adhiraja 14. How many Republics in Rajasthan, including (great king over other kings)? the Malavas and Yaudheyas, were forced to a) Chandragupta II accept Gupta’s suzerainty? b) Asoka a) Five c) Samudragupta b) Seven d) Chandragupta I c) Nine 21. Samudragupta coins bear the insignia of him d) Twelve playing which instrument? 15. Who among the following foreign kings a) Ghatam didn’t paid tribute to Samudragupta? b) Vina a) The Daivaputra Shahanushahi c) Table b) The Khmer d) Flute c) The Sakas 22. Who came to power after Samudragupta, d) King of Sri Lanka ruled from 375 to 415 CE? 16. Samudragupta’s Campaign broke the power a) Chandragupta II of the tribal republics in Rajasthan regions that b) Bindusara led to repeated invasions of whom? c) Ashoka a) Huns d) Skandagupta b) Timurid 23. Chandragupta is also known as ______ c) Seljuk a) Veer Raja d) Ottoman b) Thig Maharaja c) Vikramaditya Line By Line Questions 2 11 th 12 th History Winmeen Test Sheets d) Bhoja b) Chandragupta II 24. What was the capital of Chandragupta II? c) Samudragupta a) Magadha d) Asoka b) Pataliputra 30. Who was the great Sanskrit poet in the court c) Mathura of Chandragupta II? d) Varanasi a) Kalidasa 25. Chandragupta II married off his daughter b) Amarasimha Prabhavati to whom? c) Dhanvantari a) Palava prince d) Banabhatta b) Saka prince 31. Which Buddhist scholar from China, visited c) Kadambas prince India during Chandragupta II reign? d) Vakataka prince a) Yijing 26. Which of the following statement regarding b) Xuan Zang Chandragupta II is correct? c) Fa Hien 1) Chandragupta II conquered Deccan and d) Fotudeng Bengal by defeating the Saka rulers who had 32. Chandragupta II was the first Gupta ruler to reigned for about four centuries in the region issue which coins? 2) After establishing himself in eastern and a) Gold coins western India, Chandragupta II defeated b) Silver coins northern rulers like the Huns, Kambojas and c) Copper coins Kiratas. He was a great conqueror and an able d) Bronze coins administrator as well. 33. Who founded the Nalanda University? a) Only 1 a) Chandragupta I b) Only 2 b) Kumara Gupta I c) Both 1 and 2 c) Skanda Gupta d) None d) Chandragupta II 27. The kingdom’s prosperity grew out of its trade links with which Empire outside India 34. Who was the last great king of the Gupta during Chandragupta II? dynasty? a) Roman empire a) Chandragupta I b) Egypt empire b) Kamara Gupta c) Ottoman empire c) Chandragupta II d) Mongol empire d) Skanda Gupta 28. Which of the following is not the other name 35. Which Gupta king was also called of Chandragupta II? Sakraditya? a) Devagupta a) Chandragupta I b) Sakraditya b) Kumara Gupta c) Vikrama c) Skanda Gupta d) Sakari d) Vishnu Gupta 29. Who was given the title “Kaviraja” because 36. The recurrence invasion of whom strained of his love for poetry and music? Kumara Gupta empire’s coffers? a) Chandragupta I a) Huns Line By Line Questions 3 11 th 12 th History Winmeen Test Sheets b) Ottomans c) Both 1 and 2 c) Romans d) None d) Arabs 42. Which of the following is not the tittle given 37. Who was the last recognised king of the for Harisena, composer of the Allahabad Gupta line? prashasti? a) Chandragupta I a) Kumaramatya b) Kumara Gupta b) Sandhivigrahika c) Skanda Gupta c) Mahadandanayaka d) Vishnu Gupta d) Bhindayanka 38. Which of the following is not the title 43. The Allahabad prashasti refers to an assumed by kings during Gupta age? assembly or council, presumably of ministers, a) Maharajadhiraja which was known as the ______ b) parama-bhattaraka a) Mantir c) parameshvara b) Sabha d) bhramaneshwar c) Alaya 39. Which king is compared to Purusha d) Vasa (Supreme Being) in the Allahabad inscription? 44. The high-ranking judicial or military officers a) Chandragupta I were called ______ b) Chandragupta II a) Mahadandanayakas c) Samudragupta b) Mahasandhivigrahika d) Kumara Gupta c) Bhramanthiyaga 40. Which term occurs in six Vaishali seals, d) Sandhanayaks which suggests that this title represented a high- 45. Which of the following statement is ranking officer associated with an office of his incorrect? own? 1) The Allahabad prashasti refers to six a) Kumaramatya mahadandanayakas. All these suggest that these b) Bharavata posts were hereditary by nature. c) Paramasila 2) Another person had a designation mahashvapati (commander of the cavalry), d) All the three indicating military functions 41. Which of the following statement is correct? a) Only 1 1) The designation “amatya” occurs on several b) Only 2 Bita seals, and the “kumaramatya” seems to have been pre-eminent among amatyas and c) Both 1 and 2 equivalent in status to princes of royal blood. d) None 2) Kumaramatyas were attached to the king, 46. The minister for peace and war were called crown prince, revenue department or a _____ province. One of the Vaishali seals refers to a a) Mahadandanayakas kumaramatya who seems to have been in b) Mahasandhivigrahika charge of the maintenance of the sacred c) Bhramanthiyaga coronation tank of the Lichchavis d) Sandhanayaks a) Only 1 47. The Gupta Empire was divided into b) Only 2 provinces known as ____ Line By Line Questions 4 11 th 12 th History Winmeen Test Sheets a) Uru c) Nilam b) Bhuktis d) Peta c) Grama 53. At the village level, villagers chose d) Pariksha functionaries such as _____ 48. What was the designation of Governors who a) Bhuktis administrated deshas or bhuktis? b) Daivata a) Uparikas c) Mantrin b) Jawans d) Gramika c) Thilagas 54. Which of the following statement is correct? d) Peernals 1) The Damodarpur copper plate of the reign of 49. Which pillar inscription of Budhagupta, dated Chandragupta I mentions an ashtakula- Gupta year 165 CE, refers to maharaja adhikarana (a board of eight members) headed Surashmichandra as a lokpala? by the mahattara. a) Mehrauli Iron pillar 2) Mahattara has a range of meanings including b) Allahabad pillar village elder, village headman, and head of a family community. c) Eran pillar a) Only 1 d) Ashoka pillar b) Only 2 50. Which of the following statement is correct? c) Both 1 and 2 1) Uparika carried on the administration “with the enjoyment of the rule consisting of horses d) None and soldiers not elephants they are reserved for 55. The Sanchi inscription of whose time of only kings”, indicating his control over the mentions the panchmandali, which may have military machinery as well been a corporate body? 2) The fact that the uparika had the title a) Chandragupta I maharaja in three of the Damodarpur plates b) Chandragupta II indicates his high status and rank in the c) Samudragupta administrative hierarchy.
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