maurya & post mauryan period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 11

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 : 12 [47th BPSC (Pre) 2005]

What is the name of Megasthenes’s book?

a) Rig Veda

b) Indica

c) Economics

d) Purana

Answer: (b)

Question : 13

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

Answer: (c)

Question : 14

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 : 15 [UPPCS (Pre) 2013]

‘Sita’ in Maurya period means

a) A religious sect

b) Barren land

c) A goddess

d) Revenue from Crown land

Answer: (d)

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