MCQ Sangam Age SET 5

1. Whose feudal lord was the Chola ruler Vijayaditya in the beginning?

2. Who was responsible for the upkeep of village roads during the Chola period?

3. How many times one could be the member of Variyam?

4. Which of the following statements about the position of women in the Sangam Age is not correct?

5. Who was the Chola king who destructed the Chera navy?

6. The author of the Silapadikaram was

7. The members of the Executive Committee were called

8. Bronze icons of Nataraja cast during the Chola period invariably show the deity with

9. A Tamil king who is said to have sent the earliest embassy to Augustus at Athens about 20 BC was a _________ king:

10. Which of the following statements is not true with reference to the production of commercial goods in the post Mauryan period?

1. Considerable technological advancement was reached in the production of commercial goods.
2. Production and distribution of commercial goods was organised effectively through guilds.
3. The producers worked under rigid state control.
4. The guilds used hired labour for production

11. The capital of Cholas was

12. The Ramaka Sidhanta and Paulisa Siddhanta, freely aluuded to by the great Indian astronomer Varahmihira, indicate:

13. Consider the following statements

1. The three literary academics of Sangam literature were at Madurai
2. The akam genre of Tamil poetics dealt with the praise of kings.
3. The poems of the Puran genre had their own tinais and turais.
4. Each akam poem had to follow the nation of turai which had its own deity, biological organisms, subsistence pattern, musical instruments and songs.

Which of these statements is/are correct?

14. Who established Mamallapuram?

15. Village assemblies during the Cholas period were functioned through the committees called