Practice Quiz set 5 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

Q-1)   In which of the following year M.K. Gandhi wrote ‘Hind Swaraj’?

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Q-2)   Karl Marx wrote

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Explanation:

Das Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx, is a critical analysis of political economy, intended to reveal the economic laws of the capitalist mode of production. Also known as Capital: Critique of Political Economy, it proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of surplus value and then profit.

Q-3)   Subramaniam Bharati was the poet of which language?

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Q-4)   ‘Hindi Swaraj’ was written by Mahatma Gandhi in

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Q-5)   Match the following:
List I List II
A. Ratnavali 1. Harshavardhana
B. Uttar Ramachari Ta 2. Bhavabhuti
C. Bala Ramayana 3. Rajasekhara
D. Karpuri Manjari 4. Rajasekhara
Codes: A B C D

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Q-6)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
(Books) (Authors)
A. Panchatantra 1. Panini
B. Mudra Rakshas 2. Raskhan
C. Prem Vatika 3. Pt. Vishnu Sharma 
D. Astadhyayi 4. Vishakhadatta
Codes: A B C D

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Explanation:

Panchatantra — Pt. Vishnu Sharma. Vishnu Sharma was a scholar and author who had written the Panchatantra, collection of fables. The exact period of the composition of the Panchatantra is uncertain, and estimates vary from 1200 BCE to 300 CE. Some scholars place him in the 3rd century BCE.

Mudra Rakshas — Vishakhadatta. Vishakhadatta was an Indian Sanskrit poet and playwright. Although Vishakhadatta furnishes the names of his father and grandfather as Maharaja Bhaskaradatta and Maharaja Vateshvaradatta in his political drama Mudra Rakshas, we know little else about him. only two of his plays, the Mudra Rakshas and the Devichandraguptam are known to us.

Prem Vatika — Raskhan. Raskhan was a poet who was both a Muslim and a follower of Lord Krishna. His real name was Sayyad Ibrahim and is known to have lived in Pihani.

Astadhyayi — Panini was a Sanskrit grammarian from ancient India. He was born in Pushkalavati, Gandhara, in the modern-day Charsadda of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Q-7)  
List I List II
(Scholars) (Patrons)
A. Dandin 1. Narasimhavarma Pallava
B. Bharavi 2. Simha Vishnu Pallava
C. Gunadhyaya 3. Hala of Satavahana
D. Inasena 4. Amoghavarsha of Rashtrakuta
Codes: A B C D

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Q-8)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
A. Bijak 1. Kabirdas
B. Humanyunama 2. Gulbadan Begum
C. Kitab-ul-Hind 3. Al Beruni
D. Padmavat 4. Malik Mohd. Jayasi
Codes: A B C D

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Explanation:

Kabir was a mystic poet and saint, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic alKab?r which means ‘The Great’ – the 37th name of God in Islam.

The Imperial Princess Gulbadan Begum was a Perso-Turkic Princess, the daughter of Emperor Babur, she is most known as the author of Humayun Nama, the account of the life of her half-brother, Humayun.

Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad albiruni known as Alberonius in Latin and Albiruni in English was a Persian-Khwarezmian Muslim scholar and polymath from the Khwarezm region.

Malik Muhammad Jayasi was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi. He hailed from Jais, presently a city in the Rae Barieli district in Uttar Pradesh.

Q-9)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I List II
(Authors) (Works)
A. Mahatma Gandhi 1. India Divided
B. Ram Manohar Lohia 2. India Wins Freedom
C. Dr. Rajendra Prasad 3. Hind Swaraj
D. Abul Kalam Azad 4. The Wheel of History
Codes: A B C D

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Explanation:

Q-10)   Match the following:
List I List II
A. Harsha Vardhana 1. Kathasaritsagara
B. Kshemendra 2. Shishupala Vadha
C. Magha 3. Brihat-Katha-Manjari
D. Somadeva 4. Priyadarsika
Codes: A B C D

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