PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY ‘Tkgk¡ lsYkSD’ku ,dft +ngS’?Mh 0vkj 0 ‘lj ’ (REG.) MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-202001-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com Test Series: - 04 1. Tile term ‘malaimandalam’ refers to the 8. Which one of the following temple was not dedicated a) Coromandal coast to Lord Vishnu? b) Malabar coast a) Ranganatha temple at Srirangam c) Pandya coast b) Vithoba temple at Pandharpur d) Konkan coast c) Jagannatha temple at Puri 2. Minakshi, the fish-eyed goddess of the Pandyas of d) Lingaraja temple at Bhuvanesvar Madurai, is identified with 9. Atisha Dipankara and Santarakshita of the early a) Laxmi medieval period were b) Parvati a) Prominent Sanskrit poets c) Sarasvati b) Great mathematicians and astronomers d) Savitri c) Famous Buddhist monks 3. The famous Jaina temples at dilwara were built by d) Hindu religious reformers a) Paramaras 10. Who among the following is referred to as the south b) Chandellas Indian Manu? c) Solankis a) Kamban d) Chauhans b) Pugalendi 4. Lakshmanasena’s court was adorned by c) Apasthamba a) Dhoyi d) Tirunavakkarasu b) Rajasekhara 11. Which of the following statements about the ayyavole, c) Jayadeva a prominent trade guild of early medieval India, are d) Dhananjay true? Choose the answer from the codes below a) It dominated the internal trade of Tamil Nadu. I. A and B b) It controlled the internal trade of deccan. II. B and C c) In the field of external trade it concentrated III. C and D on trade with West Asia. IV. A and C d) Its international connection were mainly with 5. The title of ‘Uttarapathasvamin’ was assumed by South East Asia. a) Dharmapala Select the answer from the codes given below: b) Mihira Bhoja I. A and B c) Mahindrapala II. B and C d) Prithviraj Chauhan III. C and D 6. Where did a foreign trader from the Malabar coast IV. A and D establish a nanadeshi-vinnagar temple, devoted to 12. Sthala Mahatmyas were Vishnu, in the 13 th century ad? a) Legends recording local origin of gods a) Angkor in Cambodia b) Officials in-charge of temple management b) Pagan in Burma c) Pilgrimages undertaken by religious- minded c) Borobudur in Sumatra people d) Cairo in Egypt d) Special levy collected by the temple 7. Which Cambodian ruler sent a chariot as a present to 13. The famous sun temple at Konark was build by Rajaraja Chola in AD 1012? a) Prataparudra b) Anantavarman a) Suryavarman I c) Narasimha I b) Suryavarman II c) Anantavarman d) Narasimha II d) Chandravarman HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 04) Page 1 PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY (REG.) ‘Tkgk¡ lsYkSD’ku ,dft +ngS’?Mh 0vkj 0 ‘lj ’ MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-202001-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com 14. The famous battle of Waihind (AD 1001) took place c) 1015 between d) 1025 a) Rajaraja Chola I and Vikramaditya IV 22. Which Chola emperor received a letter on golden leaves from the Burmes King, Kyanzittha? b) Bhima I and Mahmud of Ghazni a) Rajaraja I c) Indra III and Mahipala d) Jailpala and Mahmud of Ghazni b) Rajendra I 15. When did Rajendra Chola I sena his famous naval c) Kulottunga I expedition to the sri Vijaya empire? d) Rajadhiraja a) 1015 23. Who built the famous jagannatha temple at Puri as b) 1020 well as the Lingaraja temple? c) 1025 a) Kapilendra d) 1035 b) Bhanudeva I 16. The famous Uttaramerur inscription belongs to the c) Purushottam reign of d) Anantavarman Choda a) Parantakal 24. Match List I with List II and select the answer using the b) Parantakal II codes given below the lists. c) Rajaraja I List I List II d) Rajendra I I. Sulaiman (A) Indra III, Rashtrakuta 17. Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda deals with the cult of II. Al- Masudi (B) Dharmapala, Pala a) Rama III. Marco Polo (C) bhoja, Gurjara Pratipara b) Krishna (D) Radramadevi, Kakatiya c) Siva a) I – B, II – C, III – D d) Sakti b) I – D, II – A, III – B 18. Hiranya-garba was c) I – C, II – A, III – D a) A sacred rite of the marriage ceremony d) I – C, II – D, III – B b) A title conferred on brave soldiers 25. Idangai and valangai were the south Indian c) A tax paid by the people in gold coins a) Social divisions d) The religious ceremony of passing one’s body b) Saivite sects through a golden cow c) Royal ceremonies 19. The term mlechcha-bhoja referred to d) Vaishnavite sects a) Meat 26. The term nanadeshi referred to b) Rice a) Exotic imports from different foreign c) Wheat countries d) Spices b) Official in-charge of the promotion of foreign 20. Which one of the following is incorrectly paired? trade c) Merchants indulged in international trade a) Rajaraja I – Rajakesari d) Travelers from foreign countries b) Rajendra – Pandita Chola I 27. Which one of the following temples was not a royal c) Kulottunga I – Sungam Tavirtta temple? d) Rajadhiraja – Ahalanka a) Kandariya Mahadeva temple 21. When did the Sailendra ruler of Sri Vijaya build a b) Udayesvara temple Buddhist monastery at Nagapattinam with the c) Rajarajesvara temple permission of the Chola ruler? d) Sun temple a) 1000 b) 1005 HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 04) Page 2 PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY (REG.) ‘Tkgk¡ lsYkSD’ku ,dft +ngS’?Mh 0vkj 0 ‘lj ’ MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-202001-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com 28. What was the original name of Vishnuvardhana, the 34. Consider the List I and list II hoyasala ruler of Dvarasamudra who was converted to List I list II Vaishnavism from Jainism by Ramanuja and who (Dynasties) (founders) constructed the famous Hoyasalesvara temple at I. Yadavas Bhillama Halebid? II. Kakatiyas Beta Raja a) Bittideva III. Eastern Gangas Anantavarman b) Rudraveva IV. Senas Vijayasena c) Kottiga V. Pratiharas Vatsaraja d) Aniruddha Which of the above are correctly matched? Select the 29. Arrange the following administrative units of the Chola answer from the codes given below: period in the descending order: a) I, II and III a) Valanadus b) II, III and IV b) Nadus c) I, III, IV and V c) Mandalams d) All of them d) Kurrams 35. The capital of the Hindushahi kingdom was: Choose the answer from the codes given below: a) Peshawar i. A, C, B, D b) Udabhanda ii. C, A, B, D c) Attock iii. B, D, A, C d) Multan iv. D, A, B, C 36. Which Chola emperor, as evident from an inscription, 30. That the bodyguards of the Chola emperors burnt intervened in the dynastic struggle of south east asia in themselves on the funeral pyres of their masters when AD 1068 – 69 ? they died is known to us from a) Rajadhiraja a) Kamban b) Virarajendra b) Sekkilar c) Kulottunga I c) Marko Polo d) Kulottunga d) Nicolo de Co II 31. Pattinams were 37. Which ruler of Cambodia built the famous Angkor Vat? a) Temple towns a) Anantavarman b) Industrial cities b) Suryavarman I c) Port cities c) Suryavarman II d) Trade centres d) Chandravarman 32. The annual income of the Rajarajesvara temple in the 38. Rajavamsavalis were form of grain from the land donated to it was worth a) Royal grants to temples about – kgs of gold. b) Royal decrees to guilds of artisans a) 500 c) Royal places and buildings b) 100 d) Chronicles of dynasties c) 250 39. The administration of tankurrams in the Chola period d) 750 was looked after by 33. Who founded dulinism, i.e. the system of nobility a) Urs among the Brahmins and kayasthas of Bengal? b) Nagarams a) Dharmapala c) Sabhas b) Gopala d) Mahasabhas c) Ballalasena d) Vijayasena HISTORY (TEST SERIES – 04) Page 3 PRATISTHA I.A.S. ACADEMY (REG.) ‘Tkgk¡ lsYkSD’ku ,dft +ngS’?Mh 0vkj 0 ‘lj ’ MOB. NO.: 9457357311 Kumar Plaza IInd Floor, Ramghat Road, Aligarh-202001-(U.P.) www.pratisthaiasacademy.com 40. Who among the following kalyani Chalukya rules 47. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched? preformed paramayoga by drowing himself in the a) Rajasekhara – Karpuramanjari Tungabhadra? b) Dhoyi – Pavanaduta a) Somesvara I c) Jinasena Suri – Prithviraj Raso d) Sriharsha – Naisadhacharita b) Somesvara II 48. An inscription of the ninth century AD found at c) Vikramaditya III Takuapa on the Isthmus of Siam, mentions d) Vikramaditya IV a) Manigramam 41. Samarangana sutradhara, written by the Pawar ruler b) Ayyavole Bhoja, deals with c) A Trader from Malabar a) Art and architecture d) A Chola ruler b) Music and dance 49. The famous Chidambaram temple in Tamil Nadu is c) Mathematics and astronomy devoted to d) War and peace a) Subrahmanya 42. Issuppu Irappan, who obtained princely privileges, b) Nataraja exemption from all taxes and the grant of the revenue c) Parvati of a traders quarter of the port of Cranganore on the d) Vishnu Malabar coast, was 50. Which one of the following temples is not found at a) an Arab merchant khajuraho? b) a Venetian traveler a) Devi Jagdamba temple c) a Cambodian trader b) Parsvanatha temple d) a Jewish trader c) Nilakantesvara temple 43. which Chola emperor sent a large mission of 72 d) Visvanatha temple merchants to China that removed the wrong 51. Which one of the following kingdoms was referred to impression of the Chinese that the Cholas were as ‘ruhmi’ by the Arab merchant, Sulaiman? tributary princes of the Sri Vijaya empire ? a) Rashtrakuta a) Rajaraja I b) Pratihara c) Chola b) Rajendra I d) Pala c) Kulottungal 52.