Question 1.
Cartographer is a person who makes:
(a) Cartoons
(b) Caricatures
(c) Maps
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) Maps
Question 2.
In which century Babur used Hindustan to describe geography of subcontinent?
(a) 17th century
(b) 18th century
(c) 16th century
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) 16th century
Question 3.
Why do historians today have to be careful about the terms in the past?
(a) Because they do not know the meaning of terms
(b) Because the terms may have more than one meaning
(c) Because the terms meant different in the past
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: (c) Because the terms meant different in the past
Question 4.
Which of the following is not the meaning of foreigner’ in the past?
(a) Stranger
(b) Pardesi
(c) Ajnabi
(d) Indigenous
Answer
Answer: (d) Indigenous
Question 5.
In which period did the number and variety of textual records increase dramatically?
(a) 600 to 700
(b) 700 to 800
(c) 800 to 1000
(d) 700 to 1750
Answer
Answer: (d) 700 to 1750
Question 6.
Which type of people collected Manuscripts?
(a) Poor people
(b) Wealthy people
(c) Local people
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) Wealthy people
Question 7.
Where were the manuscripts placed?
(a) At home
(b) In libraries
(c) In archives
(d) Both (b) and (c)
Answer
Answer: (d) Both (b) and (c)
Question 8.
Ziyauddin Barani wrote his Chronicle first in
(a) 13th century
(b) 12th century
(c) 14th century
(d) 15th century
Answer
Answer: (c) 14th century
Question 9.
In which centuries was the term ‘Kshatriya’ applied more generally to a group of warriors?
(a) Between the eighth and fourteenth centuries
(b) Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
(c) Between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
(d) None of the above
Answer
Answer: (a) Between the eighth and fourteenth centuries
Question 10.
Which language was spoken during 14th century in present Bengal region?
(a) Awadhi
(b) Gauri
(c) Telangani
(d) Lahori
Answer
Answer: (b) Gauri
Question 11.
Which is the holy book of Muslims?
(a) Gita
(b) Adi-Puran
(c) Quran
(d) Ramayana
Answer
Answer: (c) Quran
Question 12.
Who had accepted the authority of the early Muslim leaders?
(a) Sunnis
(b) Shias
(c) Khalifas
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) Sunnis
Question 13.
Prosperity in the subcontinent attract trading companies of which region?
(a) European
(b) Australian
(c) Russian
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) European
Match the contents of Column A with that of Column B:
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Chronicler | (a) dense and difficult |
| 2. Poet | (b) Al-Idrisi |
| 3. Nastaliq style | (c) Minhjaj-i-Siraj |
| 4. Shikaste style | (d) cursive and easy |
| 5. Cartographer | (e) Amir Khusrau |
Answer
Answer:
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Chronicler | (c) Minhjaj-i-Siraj |
| 2. Poet | (e) Amir Khusrau |
| 3. Nastaliq style | (a) dense and difficult |
| 4. Shikaste style | (d) cursive and easy |
| 5. Cartographer | (b) Al-Idrisi |
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words:
1. ………… provide a lot of information to the historians.
Answer
Answer: Manuscripts
2. Rules and regulations of jatis were enforced by …………
Answer
Answer: Jati Panchayat
3. Knowledge of ………… earned Brahmanas a lot of respect.
Answer
Answer: Sanskrit
4. The Muslims had two divisions the ………… and the …………
Answer
Answer: Shias, Sunnis
5. ………… had controlled an empire from Bengal in the east to Ghazni in the west.
Answer
Answer: Balban
State whether the given statements are true or false:
1. Science of cartography differed between 12th and 13th century.
Answer
Answer: True
2. We have many original manuscripts to get information.
Answer
Answer: False
3. Between 8th and 14th century the term Kshatriya was used for group of Brahmanas.
Answer
Answer: False
4. Status of a jati remained same from region to region.
Answer
Answer: False
4. Muslims had two schools of law hanafi and shafi’i.
Answer
Answer: True