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Questions : Towards health care, the most important measures taken by Ashoka was/were:

(a) He opened dispensaries for the treatment of both human beings and animals  

(b) He got the herbs and plants, needed for medical purposes, cultivated

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) He made arrangements for safe drinking water in the whole of his empire

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

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Question : 1

Which of the Mauryan kings wanted a Sophist from Greece to his court?

a) Ashoka

b) Chandragupta Maurya

c) Bindusara

d) Kunal

Answer: (c)

Bindusara conquered some of the parts of southern peninsula. He also maintained contact with his Greek counterparts. He asked the Greek kings to send a Sophist to his court.

Question : 2

Which of the following was not one of Hellenic kings to whom diplomatic missions were sent by Ashoka?

a) Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia

b) Xerxes of Macedonia

c) Ptolemy II Philadelphos of Egypt

d) Antiochus II Theos of Syria

Answer: (b)

Question : 3

In which of the following respect do the Ashokan epigraphs not help us to draw historical inferences?

a) In deriving conclusions regarding his relations with the members of his family

b) In delineating the boundary of the Mauryan empire

c) In inferring the impact of Kalinga War on the noncombatants

d) In inferring Ashoka’s relations with his border countries

Answer: (a)

Question : 4

According to which of the following sources is Ashoka said to have built the city of Srinagar?

a) Kalhana’s Rajatarangini

b) Buddhist tradition

c) Tibetan tradition

d) Jain tradition

Answer: (a)

Question : 5

Gondophernes belonged to

a) The Kushana dynasty

b) The Saka dynasty

c) The Satavahan dynasty

d) The Parthian dynasty

Answer: (d)

Gondophares was representative of the House of Suren in Balochistan as well as founder and first king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom and dynasty.

Question : 6

What was the function of Samaharta in Mauryan Administration?

a) Delivering Justice

b) To Collect Revenue

c) Leadership of Army

d) To Work as a Judge

Answer: (b)

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