delhi sultanate mcq set 2 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s experiment of introducing token currency could not succeed on account of

a) shortage of copper for minting token coins

b) rejection of token coins by foreign merchants

c) poor quality of token currency

d) large-scale minting of spurious coins

Question : 2

Which Sultan of the Sultanate period introduced irrigation tax for the first time?

a) Muhammad Tughlaq

b) Firoz Tughlaq

c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

d) Allauddin Khilji

Question : 3

• Assertion (A): Muhammad bin Tughlaq changed the capital from Delhi to Devagiri.
• Reason (R): Muhammad Tughlaq needed a place from where he could control the Southern provinces better and which was more centrally located than Delhi.

a) Both A and R are true but R does not explain A.

b) A is true but R is false.

c) Both A and R are true and R correctly explains A.

d) A is false but R is true.

Question : 4

Who among the following established Delhi as the capital of Sultanate?

a) Razia

b) Muizzuddin Ghori

c) Iltutmish

d) Qutubuddin Aibak

Question : 5

Give one reason why the description of the Qutb-ud-din Aibak’s dynasty as a “slave dynasty” is regarded as inaccurate.

a) Because only three kings of this dynasty were slaves and even these three were manumitted by their masters

b) Because except for Qutb-ud-din Aibak. Others rulers of the dynasty were not slaves

c) Because all the rulers of this dynasty did not belong to one family

d) Because technically only Qutb-ud-din Aibak started his career as a slave and he too was manumitted upon obtaining a letter of investiture from the Abbasid Caliph

Question : 6

Who among the following Bahmani rulers built the famous “Gol Gumbaz” at Bijapur?

a) Muhammad Adil Shah

b) Yusuf Adil Shah

c) Ismail Adil Shah

d) Mahmud Gawan