gupta & post gupta period quiz set 16 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

The term bhumichchhidranayaya denotes

a) Ownership of the king over the soil

b) Ownership of the feudal chief over the soil

c) Ownership of the person who brought virgin soil under cultivation

d) Justice in transactions of the land

Question : 2

The Chinese traveller who visited Bhinmal was

a) Sangyun

b) I-Tsing

c) Fahien

d) Hieun-Tsang

Question : 3

Who was son of SamudraGupta?

a) KumaraGupta

b) ChandraGupta II Vikramaditya

c) Skanda Gupta

d) VishnuGupta

Question : 4

Where are the four monasteries established by Adi ‘Shankaracharya’situated?

a) Dwarka, Joshimath, Prayag, Kanchi

b) Puri, Sringeri, Dwarka, Varanasi

c) Sringeri, Dwarka, Joshimath, Prayag

d) Joshimath, Dwarka, Puri, Sringeri

Question : 5

The Gupta Empire granted taxfree agrarian land to which of the following?

a) Civil officials

b) Courts scholars

c) Military officials

d) Brahmins

Question : 6

Consider the following statements and mark the option that is true.

1. Devdana is a single plot of land of village to an individual Brahmin or group of Brahmins.
2. Apad Dharma implies what a man may legitimately do when he cannot earn a living by the normal deeds performed by his class.
3. Niyoga was the practice of allowing a widow to cohabit with her husband’s younger brother till the birth of a male child.

a) (ii)

b) (i) and (iii)

c) All of the above

d) (ii) and (iii)