maurya & post mauryan period MCQ set 8 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Which one of the following sculptures invariably used green schist as the medium?

a) Mathura sculptures

b) Gandhara sculptures

c) Mauryan sculptures

d) Bharhut sculptures

Question : 2

Which of the following is not one of the common points of significance of both Rajagriha and Vaishali?

a) Both places are associated with the miracles preformed by the Buddha

b) Both places were important centres of Buddhist art

c) At both places one of the Buddhist councils was held

d) At both places a stupa was built with the mortal remains of the Buddha enshrined in them

Question : 3

Which one of the following will be the year of Saka Samvat in December, 2009?

a) 1952

b) 2087

c) 1931

d) 2066

Question : 4

To promote communal harmony Ashoka asked the people:

a) To attend to the essential elements of their religions rather than the non-essential ones

b) All the above

c) Not to glorify their own sect and be little another’s sect

d) To maintain concord (samvaya) with all creeds

Question : 5

The followers of which of the following sects worshipped the Ashoka Tree as God and carried in their hands a bunch of peacock feathers?

a) Shakta

b) Digambar Jain

c) Pashupata

d) Ajivika

Question : 6

Chandragupta’s palace situated at Pataliputra is mainly made up of

a) Stones

b) Clays

c) Bricks

d) Woods