delhi sultanate mcq set 2 Questions and Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

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 : 2

• 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 : 3

What was ‘Dar-ul-Shafa’ established by Firoz Tughlaq?

a) A library

b) A guest house for pilgrims

c) A free hospital

d) An alms house

Question : 4

The term ‘Amaram’ in the Vijayanagar empire stood for

a) Grants given to scholars and poets

b) Grants given to the widows and the poor

c) Military grants

d) Grants given to the Brahamanas

Question : 5

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

a) Razia

b) Muizzuddin Ghori

c) Iltutmish

d) Qutubuddin Aibak

Question : 6

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