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This set of Early Societies in India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Early Societies In India Set 6
Q1 | The 23rd Thirthankara, ………………. was a historical figure.
- parswanath
- mahavira
- sidharth
- rishaba
Q2 | Parswanath was the fore- runner of ………., the founder of historicalJainism.
- rishaba
- mahavira
- chandra gupta
- sidharth
Q3 | Vardhamana Mahavira, the 24th Thirthankara of …… was a Kshatriyaof high position.
- buddhism
- jainism
- hinduism
- zorastrianism
Q4 | Vardhamana Mahavira was born at Kundala grama at …… in 540B.C.
- vaisali
- amaravati
- rupar
- pataliputra
Q5 | Vardhamana Mahavira married …… and a daughter was born to him.
- madhavi
- yesodha
- kannaki
- saradha
Q6 | Vardhamana Mahavira attained Nirvana at the age of 72 at Pava insouth …………...
- orissa
- bihar
- u.p
- delhi
Q7 | …………… taught that the Salvation is possible by the observance of the three Jewels (three ratnas) viz, Right knowledge, Right belief andRight conduct.
- mahavira
- asoka
- parswanath
- sidharth
Q8 | By the end of the 4th century B.C. there appeared a great division among the followers of ………….. one section came to be known as‘Digambaras’.The other section known as Swethambaras.
- hinduism
- buddhism
- jainism
- zorastrianism
Q9 | According to the Jain accounts a terrible famine ravaged North Indiain the time of ……………… and lasted for twelve years.
- chandra gupta maurya
- asoka
- bindusara
- samudra gupta
Q10 | Half of the Jain community lead by their saints Badrabahu moved andsettled down in a place called Sravana Balgola in …………….
- guiburga
- wayanad
- mysore
- dharwad
Q11 | Chandra Gupta Maurya attained Nirvana by slow starvation anddeath, having become a …………… Monk.
- jain
- buddhist
- hindu
- parsi
Q12 | When the famine ended, the emigrants came back to the North and found that the Jains who remained in North India had given up theiroriginal strict Jain way of life.They were condemned by the followers of ………………. as heretics.
- suddhodana
- mortimer wheeler
- badrabhahu
- asoka
Q13 | Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism was the son ofSuddhodana, the chief of the Sakya republican clan of ……………….
- kapilavasthu
- gaya
- u.p.
- magadha
Q14 | One day as he was sitting under the Bodhi tree at ………….. and meditating, enlightenment dawned upon him and thus he became the Buddha or the enlightened one.
- kapilavasthu
- magadha
- gaya
- bihar
Q15 | Gautama Buddha passed away at the age of 80 at Kusi nagara in…………..
- bihar
- assam
- u.p.
- delhi
Q16 | Buddha preached his followers the ……………. ‘Noble Truths’concerning sorrow, the cause of sorrow, the destruction of sorrow and the ways removing of sorrow.
- 4
- 6
- 7
- 9
Q17 | According to ……………… the ‘Noble Eight fold path’ is the means toover come desire and get liberation from birth and rebirth.
- buddha
- manu
- mahavira
- asoka
Q18 | The Eight Fold path of ………….. is also called the’ Middle path’.
- sree narayana guru
- mahavira
- sankaracharya
- buddha
Q19 | Buddhism spread far and wide under ………….. patronage.
- samudra gupta
- chandra gupta maurya
- bindusara
- asoka’s
Q20 | After the ………….. period reaction set in against Buddhism and it wasdivided into Hinayanism and Mahayanism.
- mauryan
- vedic
- harappan
- gupta
Q21 | The Hinayanists followed the original teachings of ………….. withoutany fundamental change.
- islam
- jainism
- hinduism
- buddhism
Q22 | The ……………. are a collection of philosophical texts which form thetheoretical basis for theHindu religion.
- upanishads
- rigveda
- yajuveda
- samaveda
Q23 | The term ‘Gahapathi’ occurs in the …………….. literature in the senseof the head of a household.
- vedic literature
- sangam literature
- buddhist
- jain literature
Q24 | The …………… ‘Anguttara Nikaya’ describes the society consisting ofthree states; Brahmana, Kshatriya and Gahapathi.
- budhist
- vedic
- sangam
- jain
Q25 | The word ‘Gramani’ appears in both …………. and early Pali literature.
- vedic
- sangam literature
- buddhist
- jain literature