south india sangam period (Chola, Chalukya, Pallav... Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 6

The basis, on which the chronology or period ofthe Sangam literature is fixed between the first to third century A.D., is:

a) King Gajabahu I of Sri Lanka was contemporary of the Chera monarch Senaguttuvan

b) Strking similarity between the Sangam poems and the Greco-Roman accounts on trade

c) Both (a) and (b)

d) Reference to the Chola-Chera-Pandya’ kingdoms in Ashokan edicts

Question : 7 [UPPCS (Pre) 1995]

Which of the following was special feature of Chola administration?

a) Full powers to Ministers of State

b) Autonomy of village administration

c) Division of empire into mandalam

d) Cheap and proper tax collection method

Question : 8 [UP UDA/LDA (Pre) 2001]

Famous South Indian ‘The Battle of Takkolam’ was fought between

a) Chola and Hoysala

b) Chola and Rashtra-kutas

c) Chola and North Chalukyas

d) Chola and Pandya

Question : 9

We know a great deal more about the Cholas than their predecessors because

a) Many books were written during that period

b) Of long inscriptions on the walls of temples

c) Of the abundance of coins

d) They appointed court chroniclers

Question : 10

A group of villages during the Cholas period were called

a) Kudavolai

b) Kottam

c) Variam

d) Tan Kurram