maurya & post mauryan period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 1

Which of the following is known as the Turning of the Wheel of Law (Dharma- Chakrapravartana)?

a) The continuous existence of human beings like the wheel of causes and effects

b) The first sermon preached by the Buddha at the Deer Park at Sarnath

c) The extinction of karma leading to the achievement of nirvana

d) The practice of setting the wheell in motion everyday in the morning in the sanghas

Answer: (b)

Question : 2

The majority of the Buddhist vases in India are found in Western Maharashtra because:

a) Many of the royal dynasties of Western India were patrons of Buddhism

b) The Sahyadri mountain in western Maharashtra with its hard trap was best suited for rock-cut architecture

c) The caves in this region provided a safe sanctuary away from foreign invaders

d) There was a long-standing tradition in this region of royal patronage to rock-cut architecture

Answer: (b)

Question : 3

Which Chinese general defeated Kanishka?

a) Ho Ti

b) Pan Chao

c) Pan Yang

d) Chi Huang Ti

Answer: (b)

Chinese annals tell the story of a Kushana king who was defeated by the General Pan Chao, towards the end of the first century AD.

Question : 4

Pushyamitra Sunga, who killed the last Mauryan ruler Brihadratha and founded the Sunga dynasty, was a:

a) Feudatory ruler

b) Prime Minister of the Mauryas

c) Both (a) and (b) above

d) General of the Mauryas

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

At which among the following places, Chandragupta Maurya spent his last days?

a) Kashi

b) Nalanda

c) Shravana Belgola

d) Ujjain

Answer: (c)

Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire.

During his last days, Chandragupta Maurya accepted Jainism and spent his last days at Shravanabelagola with Bhadrabahu.

Many scholars have taken Rice's deduction of Chandragupta Maurya retiring and dying in Shravanabelagola as the working hypothesis since no alternate historical information or evidence is available about Chandragupta's final years and death.

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