History Medieval India - MCQs – Set 6

Q.1. The actual name of Later Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II was

(a) Alamgir

(b) Aziz-ud-Din

(c) Ali Gauhar 

(d) Muhammad Kam Bakhsh

Q.2. Name the Mughal Queen whose name was inscribed on the coins and all royal firmans.

(a) Mumtaz Mahal

(b) Nur Jahan

(c) Ladli Begum

(d) Mariam uz-Zamani 

Q.3. How did the Mughal Emperor Jahandar Shah's reign come to an early and?

(a) He was addicted to drinking and died of too much consumption.

(b) He was deposed by his Wazir

(c) He died due to a slip while descending from the staircase

(d) He was defeated by his nephew Farrukhsiyar in a battle

Q.4. Who was the Mughal Emperor when the Battle of Plassey was fought in 1757 between Siraj ud Daula, the Nawab of Bengal and the English East India Company?

(a) Muhammad Shah

(b) Ahmad Shah

(c) Aziz-ud-Din Alamgir II

(d) Shah Alam II

Q.5. Who was the last Mughal Emperor to sit on the peacock throne?

(a) Aurangzeb 

(b) Muhammad Shah Rangila 

(c) Bahadur Shah I

(d) Farrukhsiyar

Q.6. Who is the author of the famous 11th century literary work Tahqiq- I- Hind?

(a) Al-Beruni

(b) Badauni

(c) Minhaj-us-Siraj

(d) Shams Siraj Afif

Q.7. The famous Arab traveller Alberuni came to India with

(a) Mahmud of Ghazni 

(b) Muhamamd Ghori

(c) Babur

(d) Amir Timur

Q.8. Who had built the Badshahi Masjid at Lahore?

(a) Babar

(b) Akbar

(c) Shah Jahan

(d) Aurangzeb 

Q.9. In which of the following places is Shah Jahan Mosque located in Pakistan?

(a) Thatta

(b) Karachi

(c) Lahore

(d) Jacobabad

Q. 10. Who among the following had organized Turkan-i-Chahalgani, the Group of Forty ?

(a) Qutbuddin Aibak

(b) Aram Shah 

(c) Razia Sultan 

(d) Iltutmish

Answers

1-c 

Notes: The actual name of Shah Alam II was Ali Gauhar. After his defeat in the Battle of Buxar in 1764,  Shah Alam II was forced to grant the diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the English East India Company in 1765. 

2- b

Notes: Wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir, Nur Jahan was the first Mughal queen in whose name coins were struck. She had deep influence on the Jahangir who took pride in saying that he had handed her the country in lieu of a cup of wine and few pieces of mutton.

3- d

Notes: Jahandar Shah was defeated by his nephew Farrukhsiyar outside the city of Agra on 10th January, 1713. Jahandar Shah fled to Delhi in a bullock cart where he was strangled to death in prison on Farrukhsiyar’s orders. 

4- c

Notes: Known as Aziz-ud-Din before he ascended the Mughal throne, Alamgir II ruled from 1754 to 59. 

5-b

Notes: It was during the reign of Muhamamd Shah that Nadir Shah, the ‘Napolean of Iran’ invaded India in 1739. Nadir Shah took with him the peacock throne.

6-a

Notes: Al-Beruni’s book Tahkik-i-Hind (reality of Hindustan or Enquiry into India) is a mirror of the eleventh century India.

7-a:

Notes: One of the most famous Arab travellers to India, Alberuni visited India when Mahmud of Ghazni invaded Somnath, the famous shrine in Gujarat dedicated to Lord Shiva. Between 1001 and 1027 Mahmud made seventeen great raids on India.

 

8-d: 

Notes: Badshahi Masjid was built at Lahore by Aurangzeb. The mosque was built under the supervision of his foster brother Fidai Khan Koka. 

9-a: 

Notes: The 17th-century Shah Jahan Mosque was built in Thatta during the reign of 5th Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

10-d: 

Notes: Iltutmish had organised the turkan-i-chahalgani, also known as Amir-i-Chahalgani. Turkan-i-chahalgani was a group of 40 faithful slaves which came into existence with the task of protecting Shamsuddin Iltutmish