Top 250+ Solved Early India- State to Empire MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Vardhamana Mahavira attained Nirvana at the age of 72 at Pava in
a. orissa
b. bihar
c. u.p
d. delhi
Q. …………… taught that the Salvation is possible by the observance ofthe three Jewels (three ratnas) viz, Right knowledge, Right belief and Right conduct.
a. mahavira
b. asoka
c. parswanath
d. sidharth
Q. By the end of the 4th century B.C. there appeared a great divisionamong the followers of ………….. one section came to be known as ‘Digambaras’.The other section known as Swethambaras.
a. hinduism
b. buddhism
c. jainism
d. zorastrianism
Q. According to the Jain accounts a terrible famine ravaged North Indiain the time of ……………… and lasted for twelve years.
a. chandra gupta maurya
b. asoka
c. bindusara
d. samudra gupta
Q. Half of the Jain community lead by their saints Badrabahu moved and
a. guiburga
b. wayanad
c. mysore
d. dharwad
Q. Chandra Gupta Maurya attained Nirvana by slow starvation anddeath, having become a …………… Monk.
a. jain
b. buddhist
c. hindu
d. parsi
Q. When the famine ended, the emigrants came back to the North andfound that the Jains who remained in North India had given up their original strict Jain way of life.They were condemned by the followers of ………………. as heretics.
a. suddhodana
b. mortimer wheeler
c. badrabhahu
d. asoka
Q. Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism was the son of
a. kapilavasthu
b. gaya
c. u.p.
d. magadha
Q. One day as he was sitting under the Bodhi tree at ………….. andmeditating, enlightenment dawned upon him and thus he became the Buddha or the enlightened one.
a. kapilavasthu
b. magadha
c. gaya
d. bihar
Q. Gautama Buddha passed away at the age of 80 at Kusi nagara in …………..
a. bihar
b. assam
c. u.p.
d. delhi
Q. According to ……………… the ‘Noble Eight fold path’ is the means toover come desire and get liberation from birth and rebirth.
a. buddha
b. manu
c. mahavira
d. asoka
Q. The Eight Fold path of ………….. is also called the’ Middle path’.
a. sree narayana guru
b. mahavira
c. sankaracharya
d. buddha
Q. Buddhism spread far and wide under ………….. patronage.
a. samudra gupta
b. chandra gupta maurya
c. bindusara
d. asoka’s
Q. After the ………….. period reaction set in against Buddhism and it wasdivided into Hinayanism and Mahayanism.
a. mauryan
b. vedic
c. harappan
d. gupta