History Model Test Paper

History Model Test Paper
MCQ History Practice Test
1. During Mohammad Ghori’s absence on account of engagement with the Turks in Asia, who principally looked after the affairs of India?
(A) Mahamud of Ghor
(B) Bakhtiyar Khilji
(C) Qutub-ud-din Aibak
(D) Itkhtiyar-ud-din Muhammad
Ans. (C)

2. The Vakataka rulers —
(A) Roseto prominence after the fall of the Guptas
(B) Were contemporaries of the Guptas
(C) Raised their empire on the ruins of the Gupta Empire
(D) All of the above
Ans. (B)

3. Which one of the following Sultans had the largest standing army?
(A) Firoz Tughlaq
(B) Ibrahim Lodi
(C) Balban
(D) Alauddin Khilji
Ans. (D)

4. Balban was invited to Delhi by—
(A) Razia Sultana
(B) Iltutmish
(C) Akat Khan
(D) Khwaja Jamaluddin Basri
Ans. (D)

5. Gupta temples are found at —
1. Biteragaon
2. Nagara
3. Deogarh
4. Bhitari
(A) 1, 2
(B) 2, 3
(C) 1, 3, 4
(D) 1, 2, 4
Ans. (B)


6. Who bought Islam religion to India for the first time?
(A) Mohammad Bin Quasim
(B) Mohammad of Ghori
(C) Mohammad of Ghazni
(D) Qutubuddin Aibak
Ans. (A)

7. Kalidasa in his works shows a leaning towards worship of —
(A) Shiva
(B) Vishnu
(C) Durga
(D) Brahma
Ans. (C)

8. What was the name of the Turkish soldier who conquerred Bihar and Bengal in 1205
A.D?
(A) Qutubuddin Aibak
(B) Ikhtiyarruddin Mohammad Bin Bakhtiyar Khilji
(C) Au Mardan Khan
(D) Iltutmish
Ans. (B)


9. Which of the following causes was not responsible for the downfall of Razia?
(A) She had antagonised the Turkish nobles by taking step to make the power of the crown absolute
(B) She oftended the orthodox Muslims by following the policy of religious toleration
(C) She was a woman
(D) She showed an Undue preference for an Abyssinia officer named Jamalluddin Yaqut
Ans. (B)


10. Which of the following is incorrect?
(A) Alauddin Khilji believed in the maxim that kingship knows no kingship
(B) Alauddin declared that he would not be influenced by any individual or party in the matters of state policy
(C) Alauddin declared that he would be the king of the Hindus in the same way as he was king of the Muslims’
(D) Alaudddin declared that he would not allow the Muslim Ulema to dictate to him in the affairs of the state
Ans. (C)

11. What was the name of the Sultan of Delhi who may rightly be called the first Turkish emperor of India?
(A)Balban
(Br Alauddin Khilji
(C) Mohammad Tughlaq
(D) Iltutmish
Ans. (B)

12. Agriculture as a profession was looked down upon by—
(A) The smriti only
(B) Buddhist canon law only
(C) Jam conon only
(D) By all
Ans. (D)

13. What was the name of the Delhi Sultan who himself assumed the title of the Khalifa?
(A) Balban
(B) Alauddin Khilji
(C) Qutubuddin Mubaraq Khilji
(D) Mohammad Tughlaq
Ans. (C)


14. Which of the following was not responsible for the down fall of the Tughlaq Empire?
(A) Firoz Tughlaq’s religious policy
(B) Firoz Tughlaq’s policy of reviving the feudal system
(C) Firoz Tughlaq’s revenue system
(D) The invasion of Timur
Ans. (C)

15. ‘Samharta system’ came to be used widely during the age—
(A) Sungas
(B) Mauryas
(C) Guptas
(D) Satavahanas
Ans. (B)

16. Which of the following is correct?
(A) The ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by the Chief Qazi
(B) The ministers during the Sulatanate period were appointed and dismissed by the Ulema
(C) The ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by the sultan
(D) The ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by the Khalifa
Ans. (C)

17. The author of ‘Tabqat-i-Nasiri’ was—
(A) Mmhajuddin Siraj
(B) Hasan Nizami
(C) Shamsi-i-Siraj Affif
(D) Abul Fazal
Ans. (A)

18. Which of the following made a new contribution to India’s maritime trade in the early centuries of the Christian era?
(A) Manufacture of better type of vessels
(B) Knowledge of the depth of sea at various points
(C) Better training in Navigations
(D) Knowledge of monsoon winds
Ans. (D)


19. Who was the first Muslim writer to make use of Hindi words and adopt Indian poetic imagery and themes?
(A) Hasan Nizami
(B) Amir Khusrau
(C) Abul Fazal
(D) Abdul Kadir Badauni
Ans. (B)

20. The rise of Brahman aristocracy in the post Gupta period was facilated by —
(A) Donation of land to priestly class
(B) Growth of ritualistic practices
(C) Advent of foreigners
(D) Decline of Buddhism
Ans. (A)

21. Which set of the historians did not believe in the episode of Padmini of Chittor?
(A) B.P. Saxena, K.S. Lal, Di. Kanungo and Gauri Shanker Ojha
(B) Abul Fazal, Farishta and Nancy
(C) S. Roy, Dr. Iswari Prasad and A.L. Srivastava
(D) None of these
Ans. (A)

22. Which one of the following is not related to the feudal formation in the Gupta and post Gupta times?
(A) Emergence of landed intermediaries
(B) Growth of a class of subject peasantry
(C) Localised village economy developed with little scope for functioning of the market system
(D) Emergence of strong centralise political authority
Ans. (D)

23. Malik Kafur attacked first kingdom in the south—
(A) Telangana
(B) Devagiri
(C) Hoyasala
(D) Pandya
Ans. (B)

24. During the Gupta period the term ‘Bhagakara’ meant—
(A) Land tax
(B) Sales tax
(C) Tax on wastelands
(D) Tax on mines
Ans. (A)


25. The author of Mantkhab-ul-Tawarikh was—
(A) Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khana
(B) Abbas Sarwani
(C) Ahmed Yadagara Mza
(D) Badyuni
Ans. (D)