1. During the reign of Kanishka, Buddhism for the first time went to China and from
China it went to
(a) Burma and Tibet
(b) Thailand and Cambodia
(c) Korea and Japan
(d) Indonesia and Vietnam
2. Who of the following was the personal physician of Kanishka and also the author of a
famous treatise on the Indian system of medicine?
(a) Charaka
(b) Susruta
(c) Nagarjuna
(d) Jevaka
3. The worship of images (of Buddha) in India began during the period
(a) Mauryan
(b) Sunga
(c) Kushana
(d) Gupta
4. The earliest stratum of the history of the Tamils is known as
(a) Chola Age
(b) Pandyan Age
(c) Sangam Age
(d) Pallava Age
5. The Sangam Age in the history of South India represents
(a) The period of Aryanisation of South India
(b) A period when an assembly of a college of Tamil poets was held at Madurai
(c) A literary-cultural phase of the Tamilham during the first three centuries of the
Christian era
(d) Both (b) and (c) above
6. During the Sangam Age brisk and nourishing foreign trade was conducted from the
south Indian ports of Muziris, Kaveripattnam or Poom-Puhar and Arikamedu to
(a) West Asia
(b) South East Asia
(c) Roman World
(d) Central Europe
7. Which of the following was not one of the ruling dynasties of South India in the
Sangam Age
(a) Chola
(b) Chera
(c) Pandya
(d) Pallava
8. Which of the following is one of the greatest classics of the Sangam literature?
(a) Tikappiyam
(b) Kural
(c) Pattuppattu
(d) Silapadikaram or Manimekalai
9. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of the ruling dynasties of
northern India, from the decline of the Mauryas to the rise of the imperial Guptas?
(a) Sungas, Indo-Greeks, Kushans, Sakas and Guptas
(b) Sungas, Kushans, Parthians, Sakas and Guptas
(c) Sungas, Kanvas, Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Parthians and Guptas
(d) Kanvas, Sungas, Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Parthians and Guptas
10. The last great ruling dynasty of Magadha was
(a) Sunga
(b) Kanva
(c) Kusana
(d) Gupta