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Subject Paper Name: Ancient History Marks: 200
Date: 27/08/2022 (6-8 PM)

INSTRUCTION:
EACH QUESTION CARRIES TWO MARKS || NEGATIVE MARKING ON WRONG ANSWER (33%)
1 Pot-making, a technique of great significance in human history, appeared first at least in a few areas ANS.
during:
(A) Early Stone Age (B) Middle Stone Age
(C) Upper Stone Age (D) Late Stone Age
2 The earliest evidence of man in India is found in:
(A) Nilgiris (B) Nallamala Hills
(C) Narmada Valley (D) Siwalik Hills
3 The earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent comes from:
(A) Kalibangan (B) Amri
(C) Mehrgarh (D) Inamgarh
4 In the upper Ganga valley iron is first found associated with
(A) Black-and-Red Ware (B) Ochre Colored Ware
(C) Painted Grey Ware (D) Northern Black Polished Ware
5 Megaliths of south India are mainly associated with:
(A) Mesolithic (B) Neolithic
(C) Iron Age (D) Chalcolithic
6 Which of the following statements about Harappan measurements are true?
(i) The Harappans seem to have used both the foot and the cubit systems simultaneously. (ii). Their
foot system ranged from 16 to 32 cm and cubit from 48 to 64 cm. (iii) At Mohenjodaro, a slip of shell
seems to be part of a linear system. (iv). At Harappa, a fragmentary bronze rod, broken at both ends
seems to have been based on the standard cubit.
(A) All of them (B) i, ii and iii
(C) i,iii and iv (D) i and iv
7 Of the all Harappan sites, which has the most impressive drainage system?
(A) Harappa (B) Banawali
(C) Dholavira (D) Mohenjodaro
8 Which of the following animals are not represented either in the seals or in the terracottas?
(A) Cow (B) Horse
(C) Lion (D) Tiger
9 What is Epigraphy?
(A) Study of coins (B) Study of old writing used in inscriptions
(C) Study of inscriptions (D) Study of material remains of the past
10 Indus civilisation belongs to which of the following periods?
(A) Historical period (B) Prehistorical period
(C) Post-Historical period (D) Proto-Historical period
11 Who among the following named the Indus civilization as the ‘Harappan civilisation’ after the name of
the Indus site of Harappa?
(A) Sir ME M Wheeler (B) Dr S R Rao
(C) Sir John Marshall (D) Dr Sankhalia
12 The Indus people probably followed different methods of disposal of the dead, but the most common
(A) Cremation (B) Inhumation or complete burial
(C) Immersion in river water (D) Exposure to the natural elements
13 Which of the following animal figures is fre-quently represented in most of the Indus seals?
(A) Elephant (B) Humped bull
(C) Unicorn (D) Rhinoceros
14 Which of the following can definitely be said to be the beliefs and practices of the Indus people:
(i) Phallic and Yoni worship as evident from the discovery of stone symbols (ii) Worship of trees,
animals and birds (iii) Worship of idols of different gods (iv) Belief in ghosts and evil spirits (v) Belief in
life hereafter as suggested by the burial practices of the rich.
(A) i, ii and iii (B) ii, iii and iv
(C) i, ii, iv and v (D) All of them
15 Arrange the following periods or ages in a chronological order:
(i) Neolithic period (ii) Iron Age (iii) Bronze Age (iv) Paleolithic period (v) Chalcolithic period (vi)
Mesolithic period
(A) iv, i, v, vi, iii and ii (B) vi, ii, iii, i, v and iv
(C) ii, iii, iv, i, vi and v (D) iv, vi, i, v, iii and ii
16 Which of the following sites are situated in modern Gujarat?
(i) Harappa (ii) Lothal (iii) Rangpur (iv) Banawali (v) Bhagatrav (vi) Ropar
(A) ii, iv and vi (B) i, iii, iv and v
(C) ii, iii and v (D) ii, iii, iv and vi
17 What was Dasarajana?
(A) Ten incarnations of Vishnu (B) A former slave turned into a ruler
(C) Battle of the ten kings (D) Ten sacrifices to be performed by the son of a
slave mother
18 Which was probably the most popular assembly in which even women enjoyed an equal status with
men in the early Vedic period?
(A) Sabha (B) Samiti
(C) Gana (D) Vidhata
19 While Purushasukta of the Rig Veda mentions the origin of the chaturvarna system for the first time,
another Vedic text repeats the same theory. Which was that text?
(A) Atharva Veda (B) Satapatha Brahmana
(C) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (D) Chandogya Upanishad
20 According to the Rig Veda, Panis were indulged in
(A) Cultivation (B) trade and commerce
(C) Handicrafts (D) Hunting and gathering.
21 Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Sama Veda Samhita—Origins of Indian (B) Atharva Veda Samhita—Origins of Indian
music medicine
(C) Rig Veda Samhita—Earliest Prose (D) Yajur Veda Samhita—Origins of rituals
22 Which of the following animals was probably not known to the Vedic people?
(A) Elephant (B) Lion
(C) Tiger (D) Horse
23 Pick out the earliest tax from the following:
(A) Bhaga or spoils of war (B) Bali or voluntary offerings
(C) Visti or forced labour (D) Kara or customary share of grain
24 Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
(A) Grihya Sutras—Domestic ceremonies (B) Sulva Sutras—Geometry
(C) Srauta Sutras—Roya sacrifices (D) Dharma Sutras—Manners and customs
25 Which of the following is not correct about early Vedic period?
(A) The cow was held sacred. (B) Rig Vedic Aryans fought for cows and these
fights were known as gavisti.
(C) Beef was offered to the guests as (D) The early Aryan led the life of a huntergatherer.
delicious food.
26 Consider the following two statements—one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason
(R):
Assertion (A): Buddhism teaches the doctrine of inaction, i.e. cessation of activity, desiring or doing
little.
Reason (R): Nirvana in Buddhism literally means ‘blowing out’ or extinction of craving of the desire
(trishna) for existence in all its forms and the consequent cessation of suffering.
In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the (B) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct
correct explanation of A explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false. (D) A is false but R is true.
27 What is Mahabhinishkramana?
(A) The renunciation of worldly life by (B) The ‘Great Going Forth’ by Mahavira
Mahavira
(C) The renunciation of worldly life by (D) The delivery of the first sermon by Buddha
Buddha
28 Consider the following statements about Mahavira:
(i) believed that God had created this world and exercises control over it
(ii) Regarded all objects, animate or inanimate, as endowed with various degrees of
consciousness.
(iii) Rejected the authority of the Vedas and objected to the Vedic rituals and Brahmin
supremacy.
(iv) Advocated severe asceticism and extreme penance for the attainment of the highest
spiritual state.
(A) All of them (B) i, ii and iii
(C) ii, iii and iv (D) i, iii and iv
29 Which one of the following was not a disqualification for seeking admission into the Buddhist Sangha?
(A) Affliction by infectious diseases like (B) Retirement from the public service
lep-rosy, consumption, etc.
(C) Conviction as a criminal (D) Inability to pay back a debt
30 Nandas, the rulers of Magadha, were probably patrons of
(A) Brahmanism (B) Buddhism
(C) Ajivika (D) Jainism
31 What is the correct sequence of the four sights that changed the life of Buddha?
(A) Old age, sickness, death and (B) Sickness, old age, death and asceticism
asceticism
(C) Death, asceticism, sickness and old (D) Asceticism, death, old age and sickness
age
32 Who among the following rulers was not a patron of Jainism?
(A) Udayin (B) Kalasoka
(C) Kharavela (D) Chandragupta Maurya
33 The Buddha can best be described as an
(A) Athiest (B) Theist
(C) Agnostic (D) Materialist
34 Which one of the following Buddhist universities was the last one to be founded in India?
(A) Nalanda University (B) Taxila University
(C) Nagarjunakonda University (D) Vikramsila University
35 Who is said to have destroyed the original pipal tree at Bodh Gaya?
(A) Bakhtiyar Khalji (B) Pushyamitra Sunga
(C) Sasanka (D) Mihirakula
36 Which unorthodox teacher of the sixth century BC opined that transmigration proceeded according to
a rigid pattern controlled by an all powerful cosmic principle, called niyati or fate?
(A) Sanjaya Belathipura (B) Ajita Kesakambalin
(C) Gosala Makhali (D) Purana Kassapa
37 The trident-shaped symbol of Buddhism does not represent
(A) Nirvana (B) Sangha
(C) Dhamma (D) Buddha
38 Which one of the following does not belong to the three ratnas of Jainism?
(A) Full knowledge (B) Meditation
(C) Action (D) Liberation
39 The Sanskrit term “darsana” meant
(A) Sight (B) Philosophy
(C) Rationalism (D) Ritual
40 Avanti was annexed by Magadha during the time of
(A) Mahapadma Nanda (B) Ajatasatru
(C) Kalasoka (D) Sisunaga
41 Who was the first Persian emperor to conquer a part of India, which became his twentieth satrapy?
(A) Darius 1 (B) Darius 2
(C) Xerxes (D) Cyrus
42 On his return journey, Alexander sent a part of his army by sea under the command of
(A) Hephaestian (B) Perdiccas
(C) Nearchus (D) Seleucus Nikator
43 The period between 600 BC and 300 BC is known by several names. Which of the following is not one
 of them?
(A) Post-Vedic period (B) Age of the Buddha
(C) Period of Second Urbanisation (D) Post-Mauryan period
44 Who was the founder of the Haryanka dynasty?
(A) Ajatasatru (B) Bindusara
(C) Bimbisara (D) Kalasoka
45 Which Magadhan ruler is said to have shifted the capital from Rajgil to Pataliputra?
(A) Udayin (B) Kakavarin
(C) Bimbisara (D) Chandragupta Maurya
46 Arrange the following Magadha dynasties in the chronological order
(i)Nandas (ii) Sisunagas (iii) Mauryas (iv) Haryankas
Choose the answer from the codes given below:
(A) ii, i, iv and iii (B) iv, ii, iii and i
(C) iii, i, iv and ii (D) iv, ii, i and iii
47 Which of the following dynasties patronised Biddhism?
(A) Sungas (B) Kanvas
(C) Satvahanas (D) Indo - Greeks
48 Which of the following statements about the second Buddhist council is/are not true?
(i) It was held in the fourth century BC.
(ii) Its purpose was to decide the controversy between the Vajji monks and their opponents.
(iii) It resulted in the first division of the Buddhists into Sthaviravadins and Mahasanghikas.
(iv) It started the practice of sending missionaries to different parts of the world to propagate
Buddhism.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(A) i and ii (B) ii and iii
(C) iii and iv (D) Only iv
49 Who was the chairman of the third Buddhist council?
(A) Mahakassapa (B) Ananda
(C) Moggaliputta Tissa (D) Vasumitra
50 At which of the following councils was the Abhidhamma Pitaka written for the first time?
(A) First (B) Second
(C) Third (D) Fourth
51 Which of the following southern kingdoms were contemporaries of Asoka?
(i) Keralaputras (ii) Cholas (iii) Pallavas (iv) Pandyas (v) Satyaputras
(A) i, ii, iii and iv (B) i, ii, iv and v
(C) iii, iv and v (D) All of these
52 Upagupta, the Buddhist monk who was responsible for converting Asoka to Buddhism was probably
the same as
(A) Mahakassapa (B) Sabakami
(C) Moggaliputta Tissa (D) Vasumitra
53 Asoka was stationed as viceroy (governor) at the time of Bindusara’s death at
(A) Taxila (B) Suvarnagiri
(C) Ujjain (D) Tosali
54 Up to second century Be the upland portion of the southern peninsula was inhabited by people who
are called
(A) Neolithic people (B) Mesolithic people
(C) Chalcolithic people (D) Megalithic people
55 What is the meaning of the word sangam in the Sangam age?
(A) Royal Court (B) Assembly of poets
(C) Assembly of religious leaders (D) Meeting of rivers
56 With which of following periods of ancient India does the Sangam age correspond roughly?
(A) Post-Vedic or pre-Maurya period (B) Maurya period
(C) Post-Maurya or pre-Maurya period (D) Gupta period
57 What was the royal emblem of the Cholas?
(A) Elephant (B) Fish
(C) Tiger (D) Horse Chariot
58 Which of the following was not a non-Aryan custom?
 (A) Tonsure of widows (B) Performing the yajna
(C) The tying of the tali at the marriage (D) Worship of hero-stone
ceremony
59 Whose coins represent the two-masted type ships?
(A) Gautamiputra Satakarni (B) Yajnasri Satakarni
(C) Vasishtiputra Pulamayi (D) Sri Satakarni
60 The largest number of copper coins were issued by the
(A) Kushanas (B) Satavahanas
(C) Guptas (D) Sakas
61 What is the other name of the ‘Tocharians’ who came to India after the disintegration of Mauryan
empire?
(A) Indo-Greeks (B) Sakas
(C) Parthians (D) Kushanas
62 Agnimitra, the second Sunga ruler, was the hero of a book written by
(A) Kalidasa (B) Patanjali
(C) Asvaghosha (D) Banabhatta
63 Which one of the following pairs does not belong to the same category?
(A) Mauryas—Brihadratha (B) Satavahanas—Simukha
(C) Sungas—Devabhuti (D) Kanvas—Susarman
64 Who among the following Satavahana rulers assumed the title of ‘Ekabrahmana’?
(A) Satakarni I (B) Hala
(C) Gautamiputra Satakarni (D) Yajnasri Satakarni
65 Who was the founder of the Chetas of Kalinga?
(A) Vasudeva (B) Kharavela
(C) Mahameghavahana (D) Meghavarman
66 Who was the founder of the Kanva dynasty?
(A) Suserman (B) Vishnusarma
(C) Vasudeva (D) Vasumitra
67 Who started the Saka era and when?
(A) Kadphises in 58 BC (B) Rudradaman I in 78 AD
(C) Vikramaditya in 58 BC (D) Kanishka in 78 AD
68 Who among the following were the first to invade and rule over northwestern India?
(A) Scythians (B) Bactrian Greeks
(C) Kushanas (D) Parthians
69 Menander, also known as Milinda, belonged to which of the following foreign dynasties?
(A) Indo-Greeks (B) Parthians
(C) Kushanas (D) Sakas
70 Which of the following statements about the Satavahanas are true?
(i) They were a Brahmin dynasty. (ii) They used Sanskrit as the official language. (iii) According to
Puranic tradition there were 30 Satavahanas spread over 400 years. (iv) They started the practice of
granting revenue bearing lands to the officials.
Choose the answer from the codes given below:
(A) All of them (B) i, ii and iii
(C) iii and iv (D) i and iii
71 Who was the earliest Satavahana king to receive wide recognition and called himself ‘Dakshina-
pathapati’?
(A) Simukha (B) Sri Satakarni
(C) Gautamiputra Satakarni (D) Yajnasri Satakarni
72 Pick out the first and the last Gupta rulers respectively from among the following:
(A) Chandragupta I and Vainyagupta (B) Samudragupta and Vishnugupta
(C) Ghatotkacha and Kumaragupta II (D) Srigupta and Vishnugupta
73 Which of the following books is considered as the Gupta equivalent to Kautilya’s Arthasastra of the
Mauryas?
(A) Kamandaka’s Nitisara (B) Kaliyugaraja Vrithantha
(C) Narada Smriti (D) Brihaspati Smriti
74 Which of the following works tells us about the succession of Chandragupta I to the throne?
(A) Devichandraguptam (B) Kaumudi Mahotsava
 (C) Mrichchhakatika (D) Abhigyana Sakuntalam
75 Which of the following Chinese pilgrims to India give us some information about the first Gupta ruler?
(A) Hiuen Tsang (B) Fahien
(C) Itsing (D) Wang Hiuen Tse
76 Who is the author of the famous Allahabad prasasti?
(A) Kalidasa (B) Sudraka
(C) Harisena (D) Ravikirti
77 Which of the following Gupta rulers is said to have embraced Buddhism towards the end of his reign
and also founded the Nalanda University?
(A) Skandagupta (B) Buddhagupta
(C) Purugupta (D) Kumaragupta I
78 Arrange the following Gupta emperors in the chronological order.
(i) Samudragupta (ii) Kumaragupta I (iii) Chandragupta I (iv) Skandagupta (v) Ghatotkachagupta (vi)
Chandragupta II
Select the answer from the codes below:
(A) v, iii, i, vi, ii, iv (B) iii, iv, i, ii, vi, v
(C) iv, ii, v, i, vi, iii (D) ii, i, iv, vi, v, iii
79 The Gupta charters contained royal seal with an emblem. What is the figure in the emblem?
(A) Garuda (B) Varaha
(C) Lakshmi (D) Bull
80 Pustapala was an officer in charge of the
(A) books and manuscripts (B) revenue records at the district level
(C) records of land transactions at the (D) municipal administration
district level
81 Which one of the following was not an agrarian tax?
(A) Bhaga (B) Kara
(C) Sulka (D) Halivakara
82 When and by whom were administrative rights first abandoned while making religious land grant?
(A) first century BC—Pulamayi I (B) first century AD—Kharavela
(C) second century AD—Gautamiputra (D) fourth century AD—Samudragupta
Satakarni
83 Harsha belonged to which of the following dynasties?
(A) Varmans (B) Maukharis
(C) Pushyamitras (D) Pushyabhutis
84 What was the early capital of Harshavardhana?
(A) Thanesvar (B) Kanauj
(C) Mathura (D) Prayag
85 Who was the court poet of Harsha?
(A) Bhani (B) Ravi Kirti
(C) Bana (D) Vishnusarma
86 Who was the founder of the Chalukyas of Badami?
(A) Kirtivarman I (B) Vikramaditya I
(C) Pulakesin I (D) Vijayaditya
87 During whose reign did Hiuen Tsang visit the Chalukya kingdom?
(A) Vikramaditya II (B) Pulakesin II
(C) Kirtivarman II (D) Vijayaditya
88 Arrange the following Chalukyas of Badami in the chronological order.
(i) Vikramaditya I (ii) Pulakesin II (iii) Kirtivarman I (iv) Vijayaditya (v) Vinayaditya Select the answer
from the codes given below:
(A) ii, iv, i, v, iii (B) iii, ii, i, v, iv
(C) iv, ii, i, iii, v (D) v, ii, i, iii, iv
89 Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Vijayaditya—Invaded the Pallava (B) Kirtivarman IL—Longest and most peaceful
kingdom three times reign.
(C) Vikramaditya I—Drove out the (D) VikramaClitya II—Last Badami Chalukya,
occupying Pallava forces from Badami overthrown by Dantidurga
90 Who was the first independent Pallava ruler?
 (A) Simhavarman (B) Simhavishnu
(C) Narasimhavarman I (D) Paramesvaravarman I
91 Who founded the city of Mamallapuram, also known as Mahabalipuram?
(A) Simhavishnu (B) Narasimhavarman I
(C) Narasimhavarman II (D) Paramesvaravarman I
92 Who is considered as the greatest Pallava because of his military conquests and cultural contribution?
(A) Mahendravarman I (B) Paramesvaravarman II
(C) Mahendravarman I (D) Narasimhavarman I
93 From the decline of Guptas until the rise of Harshavardhana in the early seventh century, which of the
following kingdoms were holding power in Northern India?
(1) The Guptas of Magadha (2) The Paramaras of Malwa
(3) The Pushyabhutis of Thanesar (4) The Maukharis of Kanauj
(5) The Yadavas of Devagiri (6) The Maitrakas of Valabhi
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(A) 1, 2 and 5 (B) 1, 3, 4 and 6
(C) 2, 3 and 4 (D) 5 and 6
94 Which of the following are correct about the social customs as observed by Hiuen Tsang?
(i) There was no custom of widow remarriage. (ii) There seems to have been purdah system
among the higher classes. (iii) The system of sati was known. (iv) Inter-caste marriages were
not permitted by the lawmakers of the time.
Choose the answer from the codes below:
(A) i and ii (B) i, iii and iv
(C) i, ii and iii (D) All of them
95 Debasement and disappearance of coins in late Gupta period indicates:
(A) Decline of agricultural production (B) Cheapness of commodities
(C) Decline of trade and commerce (D) Non-availability of metals
96 Chandragupta II was the first Gupta king to issue silver coins which were modelled on the
coins of:
(A) Indo-Greek kings (B) King Vikrama of Ujjain
(C) the Roman coins of Augustus (D) Sakas of western and central India
97 ‘No human action, no strength, no courage, no human endurance or human powers can affect
one’s destiny.’ This is stated by
(A) Mahavira (B) Gautama Buddha
(C) Gosala (D) Parsvanatha
98 The term vajra in Vajrayana cult refers to
(A) Yogini (B) Matangi
(C) magical power (D) Sadhana
99 Which of the following is not a Buddhist construction?
(A) Stupa (B) Sangha
(C) Vihara (D) Chaitya
100 When did the major schism of Jainas into Digambaras and Svetambaras take place?
(A) fifth century BC (B) third century BC
(C) first century BC (D) first century AD