Daily Quiz For UPSC Ki Taiyari

Daily Quiz For UPSC Ki Taiyari

Q-1. Kautilya (also known as Vishnugupta and Chanakya) is the author of Arthasastra
which has been compared with
(a) Plato's State
(b) Machiavelli's Prince✓
(c) Karl Marx's Das Kapital
(d) Hitler's Mein Kampf

Q-2. Megasthanes, the ambassador of Selucus at the Mauryan court in Pataliputra, wrote
an account of the period in his book
A) Travels of Megasthanes
B) Indika✓
C) Indicoplecusts
D) Both (B) and (C)

Q-3. Which of the following is the single most important source of the history of Ashoka?
A) Sri Lankan chronicles Dipavamsa and Mahavamsa
B) Buddhist works Divyavadana and Ashokavadana
B) Inscriptions of Ashoka✓
D) Archaeological Sources and the Puranas

Q-4. After the Kalinga War, Ashoka decided never to wage any war because?
A) After the conquest of Kalinga the political unity of Mauryan India had been achieved
B) Ashoka felt apologetic about the destruction of men and material on both sides in the
war
C) He was moved by the violence, slaughter and sufferings to the combatants and non-
combatants in the war✓
D) Shortly after the war he adopted Buddhism which was opposed to violence

Q-5. In his inscriptions Ashoka called himself
A) Devanampriya Priyadarshi King✓
B) Ashoka Priyadarshi
C) Dhammasoka (Dharmasoka)
D) Daivaputra