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COMMON P.G. ENTRANCE TEST–2022 (CPET-2022)

Subject Code : 43 Test Booklet No.:

Entrance Subject : History Hall Ticket No.:

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1. Which was a major port of the Indus Valley?

(A) Chanhudaro

(B) Mehargarh

(C) Lothal

(D) Kalibangan

(A) Zinc

(B) Copper

(C) Iron

(D) Aluminum

3. With the people of which country Harappan people carried trade?

(A) Russia

(B) Summer

(C) China

(D) Iran

4. The Harappan bricks were mainly

(A) Hand-made

(B) Cut with the help of a chisel

(C) Sawn with the help of a saw-like instrument

(D) Made in an open mould

5. Which of the following is a Harappan site located in Rajasthan?

(A) Kalibangan

(B) Lothal

(C) Mohenjodaro

(D) Suktagendor

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(A) Kot Diji

(B) Ropar

(C) Kalibangan

(D) Lothal

(A) Stone Age

(B) Iron Age

(C) Urban

(D) Rural

8. Taxila was the famous site of

(A) Gupta Art

(B) Mauryan Art

(C) Early Vedic Age

(D) Gandhara Art

9. The ‘Ai-hole’ Prasasti was composed by whom?

(A) Harisena

(B) Nayanikar

(C) Kautilya

(D) Rabikirti

10. Sabha and Samiti are two democratic institutions of

(A) Hilly tribes of India

(B) Indus Valley people

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11. The famous physician during Buddha’s time was

(A) Charaka

(C) Kautilya

(D) Nachiketa

(B) Satapatha Brahmana

(C) Manu Samhita

13. The oldest school of Indian Philosophy is

(A) Vaisesika

(B) Karma Mimansa

(C) Yoga

(D) Sankhya

(A) Pradyot

(B) Ajatasatru

(C) Bimbisara

(D) Chandragupta

15. Which of the following was a Buddhist genealogical text?

(A) Abhidhammapitaka

(C) Suttapitaka

(D) Vinayapitaka

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(A) Chandragupta Maurya

(B) Brihaddrata

(C) Bimbisara

(D) Ashoka

17. Who among the following said ‘All men are my Children’ and just as I desire happiness
in those worlds and the next, so also, I desire to all men?

(A) Chandragupta

(B) Ashoka

(C) Ajatsatru

(D) Bindusara

(A) Kumaragupta

(B) Skandagupta

(C) Samudragupta

(D) Chandragupta II

19. Who was known as Amitraghata?

(A) Ashoka

(B) Samudragupta

(C) Bindusara

(D) Bimbisara

(A) Dharmapala

(B) Mahipala

(D) Gopala

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21. Who constructed the Rajrajeshwara Temple of Tanjore?

(A) Rajadhiraja Chola

(B) Virrajendra Chola

(C) Rajendra Chola

(D) Raja Raja Chola

(A) Nagarjuna School

(C) Gandhara School

(D) Mathura School

23. Mandsor pillar inscription of the early 6th Century CE belongs to

(A) Yasodharman

(B) Toramana

(D) Mihirkula

(A) Ziauddin Barani

(B) Al Biruni

(D) Minhaj-us-Siraj

25. In which year was the Battle of Talikota fought?

(A) 1571

(B) 1581

(C) 1556

(D) 1565

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26. The meaning of the word Mansab is?

(A) Possession of army personnel

(C) Rank

(D) Proprietorship of land

(A) 1674 A.D.

(B) 1675 A.D.

(C) 1672 A.D.

(D) 1673 A.D.

(A) Peshwa

(C) Pandit Rao

(D) Sumant

29. The Vijayanagar king who conquered the Singhal in 1442 is

(A) Harihara I

(B) Harihara II

30. Qutubuddin Aibak died when playing which game?

(A) Pasha

(B) Polo

(C) Chess

(D) Carrom

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31. Who was the ruler of Delhi when Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the
third Battle of Panipat in 1761?

(A) Alamgir I

(B) Muhammad Shah

(C) Jahandar Shah

(D) Shah Alam II

32. The only Hindu Courtier of Akbar who accepted Din-i-Ilahi was:

(A) Todermal

(B) Birbal

(C) Tansen

(D) Man Singh

33. Who was called the ‘Second founder of the Maratha Kingdom’?

(A) Raja Ram

(B) Balaji Viswanath

(C) Baji Rao I

(D) Balaji Baji Rao

34. The Sikh military sect ‘the Khalsa’ was introduced by

(A) Har Rai

(B) Harkishan

(C) Gobind Singh

(D) Tegh Bahadur

35. The Market Regulation system was introduced by

(A) Muhammad-Bin Tughlaq

(B) Iltutmish

(C) Ala-ud-din-Khilji

(D) Ghias-ud-din

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36. What was the name of the Hall of Worship constructed by Akbar?

(A) Diwan-e-Khas

(B) Diwan-e-Aam

(C) Ibadat Khana

(A) Akbar

(B) Shah

(C) Ala-Ud-din Khilji

(D) Sher Shah

(A) Sir Thomas Roe

(B) Athanasius Nikitin

(C) Niccolo Conti

(D) Francois Bernier

39. What is ‘Dastak’?

(A) Permission to trade without tax

(B) Donation by the Mughal emperors

(D) A free Pass

Sultan

(A) Mohammed Ghori

(C) Iltutmish

(D) Alauddin Khilji

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41. 1917 is known for?

(A) Battle of Trafalgar

(B) Battle of Waterloo

(C) End of the World War I

(A) John Locke

(B) Mirabeau

(C) Voltaire

(D) Jean Jacques Rousseau

(B) Seeley

(C) Plato

(D) Abraham Lincon

44. Cold War refers to

(A) Tension between East and West

(C) Tension between Superpowers

(D) Tension between Superpowers

45. The term ‘Cold War’ was coined by

(A) Bernard Baruch

(B) Prof. Lippmann

(C) Palmer Perkins

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46. Constantinople, the capital of Roman Empire was captured by Turks in the year

(A) 1385

(B) 1415

(C) 1453

(D) 1469

(A) Ranke

(B) J b bury

(C) Toynbee

(D) Gibbon

48. Who designed the National Flag of India, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on
July 21, 1947?

(A) Abanindranath Tagore

(C) Badr-ud-din-Tyabji

(D) Rabindranath Tagore

(A) Colonel Malleson

(B) Colonel Holwell

(C) Major Hector Munro

(D) Major Adams

50. Who of the following founded the Independent Labour Party In 1936?

(A) Jagjiban Ram

(B) Jayaprakash Narayan

(C) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

(D) M.C. Rajah

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(A) Bihar

(B) Malabar

(C) Coromandel

(D) Gujrat

52. Who among the following Britishers were associated with the introduction of the
Mahalwari System?

(A) William Karey

(B) Sir Alexandar Cunningham

(C) R.M. Bird

(D) Sir John Lawrence

53. Who founded the Indian Reforms Association in 1870?

(A) Keshab Chandra Sen

(B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(C) Ram Mohan Roy

(D) Debendranath Tagore

(A) Lord Mountbatten

(B) Chakraborty Raja Gopalachari

(C) Lord William Bentinck

(D) Lord Canning

55. Who was mainly responsible for introducing the Ryotwari system in Madras?

(A) Thomas Munro

(B) John Lawrence

(C) Macartney

(D) Elphinstone

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56. The First National Planning Committee was constituted by the Congress in 1938
under the Presidency of?

(A) Subhas Chandra Bose

(B) Dr. Rajeridra Prasad

(C) Ambalal Sarabhai

(D) Jawahar Lal Nehru

(B) Rasbehari Bose

(D) R.N. Madhuka

58. Who took away the “Image of jina “from kalinga?

(A) Sethupadma

(B) Mahapadmananda

(D) Padmananda

sites in Odisha?

(A) Lalitgiri

(B) Ratnagiri

(C) Udayagiri

(D) Puspagiri

60. Which of the Following Odisha temple was Built in Circular Architecture?

(A) Mukteswar Temple

(B) Sun temple

(C) Hirapur Temple

(D) Parasurameswa Temple

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61. Who Established the of Gajapati Dynasty of Odisha?

(A) Brahmani

(B) Baitarani

(C) Subarnarekha

(D) Salandi

(A) Jagannath Das

(B) Kalidas

(C) Balram Das

(D) Vidyadhar

64. Who formed the Utkal young womens Association in1903?

(B) Prasanna Mayee

(C) Sailabala Das

65. Who lead the Ghumusar Rebellion of 1835?

(A) Chakra Bisoi

(B) Dora Bisoi

(C) Surendra Sai

(D) Laxman Nayak

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(B) Harihar Das

(C) Gopabandhu Das

(D) Madhusudhan Das

67. Odissi Dancers in Jagganath Temple are called as?

(A) Gotipua

(B) Maharis

(C) Pala

(D) Patua

69. Which of the among is the First Odia Daily Newspaper?

(A) Samaj

(B) Nua Odisha

(C) Utkala Deepika

(D) Utkala Patra

(A) Rasad

(B) Magan

(C) Begari

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