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The gupta period - Test Set 2

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  1. Question 1

    Samudragupta's policy in the North was ?
    1. Digvijaya
    2. Congquest
    3. Dharmavijaya
    4. None of the above
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  2. Question 2

    Who called Samudragupta as the Hero of hundred battles?
    1. Romila Thapar
    2. R C Dutta
    3. V. Smith
    4. Kalidas
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  3. Question 3

    To whom Allahabad Pillar inscriptions referred as Dharma Prachar Bandhu?
    1. Herisena
    2. Samudragupta
    3. Chandragupta-I
    4. Skandagupta
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  4. Question 4

    WBCS Pre 2013
    Which of the following Gupta rulers was known as Vikramaditya
    1. Chandragupta-I
    2. Samudragupta
    3. Chandragupta-II
    4. Skandagupta
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  5. Question 5

    WBCS Pre 2019
    Who among the following succeeded Samudragupta as the next ruler of the Gupta dynasty?
    1. Chandragupta-II
    2. Vishnugupta
    3. Chandragupta-I
    4. Skandagupta
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  6. Question 6

    WBCS Pre 2019
    Who wrote Mrichhakatikam ?
    1. Vishakhadatta
    2. Shudrak
    3. Banabhatta
    4. Bhas
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  7. Question 7

    WBCS Pre 2021
    Who is the author of Allahabad Pillar Inscription?
    1. Rudradaman
    2. Harisena
    3. Samudragupta
    4. Bahabhatta
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  8. Question 8

    WBCS Pre 2022
    The Gupta King who destroyed Sakas was
    1. Samudragupta
    2. Chandragupta-I
    3. Kumaragupta
    4. Chandragupta-II
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  9. Question 9

    WBCS Pre 2022
    Which among the following refers to 'unpaid labour' ?
    1. Shulka
    2. Udranga
    3. Bali
    4. Bisthi
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  10. Question 10

    WBCS Mains 2021
    What were the villages granted to Brahmins and inhabited by Brahmins known as?
    1. Devadana
    2. Brahmadeya
    3. Agrahara
    4. Mangalam
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  11. Question 11

    WBCS Mains 2020
    What was the 'Araghatta' ?
    1. a machine to break forts
    2. an irrigation canal
    3. a device to lift water
    4. a type of cloth
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  12. Question 12

    WBCS Mains 2020
    Which particular city became the nodal point for trade routes running from north to south and east to west in the pre-gupta and Gupta periods?
    1. Taxila
    2. Mathura
    3. Ujjain
    4. Vidisa
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  13. Question 13

    WBCS Mains 2019
    Lands, during the post-Gupta period were classified on the basis of
    1. Being cultivated and uncultivated
    2. Being irrigated and unirrigated
    3. Crops being grown on the lands
    4. All of the above
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  14. Question 14

    WBCS Mains 2018
    The theory of the emergence of feudalism in the post-gupta period is dispuated on the ground that
    1. all the lands donated were not secular land grants
    2. the status of the peasants was not that of serfs
    3. the brahmin did not always belong to the ruing class
    4. All of the three above
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  15. Question 15

    WBCS Mains 2017
    Name the author of 'Panchatantra and Svapna- Vasavadatta'
    1. Kalidas
    2. Bhasa
    3. Ashvaghosha
    4. Kalhan
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  16. Question 16

    WBCS Mains 2017
    Who among the following was the first to describe Sudras as a class of agriculturists?
    1. Manu
    2. Fa Hien
    3. Hiuen Tsang
    4. Narad
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  17. Question 17

    WBCS Main 2016
    Navanityakam of the Gupta period was a book on
    1. Medicine
    2. Metallurgy
    3. Mathematics
    4. Astronomy
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  18. Question 18

    WBCS Mains 2014
    The Gold coins of the Gupta dynasty were known as
    1. Dinara
    2. Sataman
    3. Muhara
    4. Varaha
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  19. Question 19

    SSC JE 2018
    Who was the first Gupta ruler to attain the title of Maharajadhiraja?
    1. Chandragupta I
    2. Sumdragupta
    3. Kumaragupta
    4. Skandagupta
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  20. Question 20

    SSC CHSL 2018
    Which of the following items was NOT exportable in the past Gupta period?
    1. Iron
    2. Gold
    3. Tin
    4. Silver
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