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Questions : Pushyamitra Sunga, who killed the last Mauryan ruler Brihadratha and founded the Sunga dynasty, was a:

(a) Prime Minister of the Mauryas

(b) Feudatory ruler

(c) General of the Mauryas

(d) Both (a) and (b) above

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

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Question : 1

Who of the following was not one of the later Mauryas who succeeded Ashoka?

a) Dasharatha

b) Shubhagasena

c) Samprati

d) Shalishuka

Answer: (b)

Question : 2

‘Sita’ in Maurya period means

a) A religious sect

b) Barren land

c) A goddess

d) Revenue from Crown land

Answer: (d)

Question : 3

First Indian Empire was established by

a) Harsh

b) Samundragupta

c) Kanishka

d) Chandra Gupta Maurya

Answer: (d)

Question : 4

What is the name of Megasthenes’s book?

a) Rig Veda

b) Indica

c) Economics

d) Purana

Answer: (b)

Question : 5

Which of the following was not one of the reasons for the failure of dhamma?

a) Ashoka’s excessive enthusiasm produced a reaction against it

b) It was too idealistic a concept, which could not break the social and sectarian barriers

c) It failed to provide a solution to the problems which it set out to solve

d) It was too vague a solution, because the problems lay at the very roots of the system

Answer: (b)

Question : 6

Which form of Prakrit was uniformly used by Ashoka in all his inscriptions?

a) Marathi

b) Ardha-Magadhi

c) Suraseni

d) Magadhi

Answer: (b)

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