maurya & post mauryan period MCQ set 13 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

‘Sita’ in Maurya period means

a) A religious sect

b) Barren land

c) A goddess

d) Revenue from Crown land

Question : 2

First Indian Empire was established by

a) Harsh

b) Samundragupta

c) Kanishka

d) Chandra Gupta Maurya

Question : 3

The dhamma mahamattas (dharma mahamatras) appointed by Ashoka were entrusted with the job of:

a) Checking the abuses in the administration of justice

b) All the above

c) The moral uplift of the people through propagation of dhamma

d) Management of the welfare activities of the state

Question : 4

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

Question : 5

What is the name of Megasthenes’s book?

a) Rig Veda

b) Indica

c) Economics

d) Purana

Question : 6

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