Choose the correct answer:
Question 1.
When was Gautam Buddha born?
(a) About 3,000 years ago
(b) About 2,500 years ago
(c) About 1,500 years ago
(d) About 1,000 years ago
Answer
Answer: (b) About 2,500 years ago
Question 2.
What was the early name of Gautam Buddha?
(a) Sidhartha
(b) Ashoka
(c) Mahavira
(d) Parsvanatha
Answer
Answer: (a) Sidhartha
Question 3.
Where did Buddha decide to find his own path to realisation?
(a) Gaziabad in UP
(b) Bodh Gaya in Bihar
(c) Kurukshetra in Haryana
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) Bodh Gaya in Bihar
Question 4.
Where did Buddha go to teach first time?
(a) Ringas
(b) Sikar
(c) Sarnath
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (c) Sarnath
Question 5.
Who thought that people should be kind and respect others?
(a) Gautam Buddha
(b) Bheronath
(c) Shiva
(d) Barhama
Answer
Answer: (a) Gautam Buddha
Question 6.
Who is famous tirthankara of Jains?
(a) Lord Krishna
(b) Lord Shiva
(c) Lord Mahavira
(d) Lord Mahesh
Answer
Answer: (c) Lord Mahavira
Question 7.
What does upanishad literally mean?
(a) Approaching and sitting near
(b) Go far away
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) Approaching and sitting near
Question 8.
Who went door to door to find out whether anybody died there?
(a) Kisagotami
(b) Rajula
(c) Sita
(d) Ahiliya
Answer
Answer: (a) Kisagotami
Question 9.
Who believed that the result of our action is karma?
(a) Mahavira
(b) Buddha
(c) Indera
(d) Ram Chandra
Answer
Answer: (b) Buddha
Question 10.
At what age did Mahavira leave his home and go to live in a forest?
(a) At 15 years
(b) At 30 years
(c) At 40 years
(d) At 45 years
Answer
Answer: (b) At 30 years
Question 11.
What was Mahavira’s teaching?
(a) Live and let live
(b) Neither live nor to be lived
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) Live and let live
Question 12.
What was the term from where the word Jains came?
(a) Jina
(b) Tina
(c) Vika
(d) Dika
Answer
Answer: (a) Jina
Question 13.
What did bhikkhus mean?
(a) Beggar
(b) Achiever
(c) Gainer
(d) Loser
Answer
Answer: (a) Beggar
Question 14.
Where did nuns and monks live?
(a) In caves
(b) In houses
(c) In huts
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) In caves