1. Kanishka is associated with an era which is known as
(a) Vikram era
(b) Saka-Shalivahan era
(c) Saka era
(d) Gupta era
2. The greatest conqueror among the Gupta rulers was
(a) Samudragupta
(b) Chandragupta II
(c) Kumargupta
(d) Skandagupta
3. A Gupta king has been called an Indian Napoleon and he was also an accomplished
poet and musician (player of Veena) who was he?
(a) Samudragupta
(b) Kumargupta
(c) Chandragupta II
(d) Skandagupta
4. The famous Mehrauli Iron Pillar inscription describes the conquest of
(a) Samudragupta
(b) Chandragupta II
(c) Chandragupta Maurya
(d) Chandra of Indraprastha
5. The Gupta king who is known in the Indian legends as Vikramaditya was
(a) Chandragupta I
(b) Samudragupta
(c) Chandragupta II
(d) Skandagupta
6. The Chinese traveller Fa-hien visited India and left a detailed account of the reign of
(a) Samudragupta
(b) Chandragupta II
(c) Kumargupta I
(d) Skandagupta
7. The foremost astronomer and mathematician of the Gupta period was
(a) Aryabhatta
(b) Varahamihira
(c) Brahmagupta
(d) Vanabhata
8. The Gupta artists had attained the highest perfection in
(a) architecture
(b) sculpture
(c) terracotas
(d) painting
9. The most important reason(s) for the decline of the Gupta empire was/were
(a) invasions of the Hunas
(b) weak later Gupta rulers
(c) independence of the later Gupta rulers
(d) (a) (b) and (c) above
10. After the decline of the Guptas, which of the following cities of North India emerged
as the centre of political gravity of North India?
(a) Ajmer
(b) Kannauj
(c) Dhara
(d) Delhi