Top 250+ Solved Formation of Kerala, Society and Culture MCQ Questions Answer
Q. It was the demand for spices, especially …………..that brought theEuropeans to Kerala, leading to the Da Gama Epoch of Asiatic History.
a. pepper
b. flora
c. fauna
d. coir
Q. …………….refers to River Churni from where pearls are found.
a. kalhana
b. don gonsalves
c. athulya
d. kautilya
Q. Most of the …………….settlements in Kerala are found on the banks ofrivers like Churni, Nila, Korapuzha and Pampa.
a. ezhava
b. brahmin
c. nair
d. christains
Q. ……………….and Keralamahatmyam are the two legendary worksregarding the early history of Kerala.
a. keralolpathi
b. granthavaris
c. mushakavamsa kavya
d. vadakkan pattukal
Q. Athula’s Mushakavamsa Kavya gives a semi-legandary semi factualaccount of the …………….Kings.
a. kodungallur
b. kozhikode
c. ezhimala
d. kochi
Q. Pattanam is a landlocked rural hamlet located in the Periyar Deltain ........................district in the southern Indian state ofKerala.
a. eranakulam
b. kochi
c. thrissur
d. edakkal
Q. ..............., a name which means "coastal town", has ancient origins. It issaid to have been first occupied around 1000 BCE and continued to be active till the 10th century CE. 4 m thick soil of this village conceals the ancient maritime history of the world.
a. pattanam
b. kodungallur
c. thrissur
d. edakkal
Q. Mucciri Pattanam was situated where ................ was cleft into two.
a. periyar river
b. chaliyar
c. chandragiri puzha
d. pamba
Q. In 2004,.................., a geo-archaeologist, put forward the hypothesis thatthe legendary seaport of Muziris, which was a bustling trading centre during the early historic period between the first century BC and the fifth century CE, could have been located at Pattanam.
a. joseph rubban
b. dr.m.g.s.narayanan
c. dr. k.p. shajan
d. dr.sundaram pillai
Q. Former Director of the Tamil Nadu State Archaeology Department................is of opinion that it is not yet time to identify Pattanam as Muziris.
a. r. nagaswamy
b. dr.sundaram pillai
c. gopinath rao
d. k.v.subrahmanya ayyar
Q. ……………….is the study of inscriptions.
a. epigraphy
b. archaeology
c. numismatics
d. historiography