1. The common belief of life of both Buddha and Mirabai was
(a) following ahimsa
(b) austerity of nirvana
(c) the world is full of sorrow
(d) speak of truth
Answer: (c) the world is full of sorrow
2. ‘Let no man ask a man’s sect or caste’ whose dictum was this?
(a) Kabir
(b) Ramananda
(c) Ramanuja
(d) Chaitanya
Answer: (b) Ramananda
3. The Bhakti movement was started by
(a) Alwar saints
(b) Sufi saints
(c) Surdas
(d) Tulsidas
Answer: (a) Alwar saints
4. The bhakti culture reborn in India during
(a) vedic age
(b) 10th century AD
(c) 12th century AD
(d) 15-16th century AD
Answer: (d) 15-16th century AD
5. A common feature to all Bhakti saints was that they
(a) composed their verses in the language and understood by their followers
(b) rejected the authority of the priestly class
(c) encourage women to go to the temples
(d) encouraged idol worship
Answer: (a) composed their verses in the language and understood by their followers
6. Vaishnavism in Kamarupa was popularised by
(a) Chaitanya
(b) Nimbarka
(c) Ramananda
(d) Shankaradeva
Answer: (d) Shankaradeva
7. Who among the following introduced Vaishnavism in Assam and Cooch Behar?
(a) Chaitanya
(b) Madhva
(c) Shankaradeva
(d) Vallabhacharya
Answer: (c) Shankaradeva
8. Famous medieval saint Shankaradeva belonged to
(a) Shaiva Cult
(b) Vaishnava Cult
(c) Advaita Cult
(d) Dvaita- Advaita Cult
Answer: (b) Vaishnava Cult
9. Ramanujacharya is related to
(a) Bhakti
(b) Dvaitvad
(c) Vishitadvaita
(d) Monotheism
Answer: (c) Vishitadvaita
10. ‘Shuddh Advaitvad’ was propounded by
(a) Madhvacharya
(b) Vallabhacharya
(c) Shrikantacharya
(d) Ramanuja
Answer: (b) Vallabhacharya
11. Where is the birthplace of ‘Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya’?
(a) Shivarinarayan
(b) Bilaspur
(c) Ratanpur
(d) Champaranya
Answer: (d) Champaranya
12. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(a) Advaitvad-Ramanujan
(b) Vishitadvaita- Shankaracharya
(c) Dvaitvad-Madhvacharya
(d) none of these
Answer: (c) Dvaitvad-Madhvacharya
13. Who among the following was the first to use Hindi for the propagation of his message?
(a) Dadu
(b) Kabir
(c) Ramananda
(d) Tulsidas
Answer: (c) Ramananda
14. Kabir was disciple of
(a) Chaitanya
(b) Ramananda
(c) Ramanuja
(d) Tukaram
Answer: (b) Ramananda
15. Who among the following are saints of the medieval age India?
(a) Kumbhandas
(b) Ramanand
(c) Raidas
(d) Tulsidas
Answer: (b) Ramanand
16. Who composed ‘Bijak’?
(a) Surdas
(b) Kabir
(c) Ravidas
(d) Pipaji
Answer: (b) Kabir
17. A collection of dialogues between Kabir and Dharamdas is titled
(a) Sabad
(b) Amarmul
(c) Sakhi
(d) Ramaini
Answer: (b) Amarmul
18. Malukdas was a Saint poet of
(a) Agra
(b) Ayodhya
(c) Kashi
(d) Kada
Answer: (d) Kada
19. What was the name of Saint Ghasidas’s father/
(a) Sukalu
(b) Chaituram
(c) Visahu
(d) Mahangu
Answer: (d) Mahangu
20. Which one of the following indicates the correct chronological order?
(a) Shankaracharya- Ramanuja-Chaitanya
(b) Ramanuja-Shankaracharya- Chaitanya
(c) Ramanuja-Chaitanya-Shankaracharya
(d) Shankaracharya-Chaitanya- Ramanuja
Answer: (a) Shankaracharya- Ramanuja-Chaitanya
21. Who composed ‘Barahmasa’?
(a) Amir Khusrau
(b) Imami
(c) Malik Muhammad Jaisi
(d) Raskhan
Answer: (c) Malik Muhammad Jaisi
22. How many Jyotirlingah are there devoted to Lord Shiva?
(a) 6
(b) 12
(c) 24
(d) 18
Answer: (b) 12
23. The followers of Ramanuja are known as
(a) Shaiva
(b) Vaishnava
(c) Advaitvadi
(d) Avadhoot
Answer: (b) Vaishnava
24. Which of the following was the birthplace of Guru Nanak?
(a) Amritsar
(b) Nabha
(c) Nankana
(d) Nanded
Answer: (c) Nankana
25. In whose regime Guru Nanak Dev founded Sikh religion?
(a) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
(b) Sikandar Lodhi
(c) Humayun
(d) Akbar
Answer: (b) Sikandar Lodhi
26. ‘God knows man’s virtues and enquires not his caste, in the next world there is no caste! This was the theory of which Bhakti Saint?
(a) Ramanand
(b) Dadu
(c) Nanak
(d) Ramanuja
Answer: (c) Nanak
27. Mirabai was contemporary of
(a) Tulsidas
(b) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
(c) Guru Nanak
(d) Ramkrishna Paramhansa
Answer: (a) Tulsidas
28. The name of the husband of famous devotee poet Mira
(a) Rana Ratan Singh
(b) Rajkumar Bhojraj
(c) Rana Uday Singh
(d) Rana Sanga
Answer: (b) Rajkumar Bhojraj
29. Who wrote ‘Rag-Govind’?
(a) Mirabai
(b) Narhari
(c) Surdas
(d) Raskhan
Answer: (a) Mirabai
30. Which one of the following leaders of the Bhakti Movement was influenced by Islam?
(a) Chaitanya
(b) Mirabai
(c) Namdev
(d) Vallabhacharya
Answer: (c) Namdev
31. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is related to which sect?
(a) Vaishnava
(b) Shaiva
(c) Buddhist
(d) Sufi
Answer: (a) Vaishnava
32. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?
(a) Akbar and Jahangir
(b) Shahjahan
(c) Aurangzeb
(d) Babur and Humayun
Answer: (a) Akbar and Jahangir
33. The book Ramcharitmanas was written by
(a) Tulsidas
(b) Valmiki
(c) Surdas
(d) Ved Vyas
Answer: (a) Tulsidas
34. Which of the following is not a composition of Saint Tulsidas?
(a) Gitavali
(b) Kavitavali
(c) Vinay Patrika
(d) Sahitya Ratna
Answer: (d) Sahitya Ratna
35. Who among the following was the Saint of the Varkari sect?
(a) Nimbarka
(b) Chakradhara
(c) Namdev
(d) Ramdas
Answer: (c) Namdev
36. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal Emperor?
(a) Babur
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Aurangzeb
Answer: (c) Jahangir
37. Among the following, who was not a proponent of Bhakti cult?
(a) Nagarjuna
(b) Tukaram
(c) Tyagaraja
(d) Vallabhacharya
Answer: (a) Nagarjuna
38. The ‘Chistia Sufi Order’ in India was established by
(a) Khwaja Badaruddin
(b) Khwaja Moinuddin
(c) Shaikh Ahmed Sirhind
(d) Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya
Answer: (b) Khwaja Moinuddin
39. The first Sufi Saints of Chistia Sect in India was
(a) Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti
(b) Hamiduddin Chishti
(c) Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
(d) Nizamuddin Auliya
Answer: (a) Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti
40. Who among the following was the earliest Sufi Saint to have settled at Ajmer?
(a) Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti
(b) Shaikh Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
(c) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
(d) Shaikh Salim Chishti
Answer: (a) Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti
41. Who was the founder of Chistia branch of Sufism?
(a) Shaikh Muhiuddin
(b) Shaikh Jiaudhin Abuljiva
(c) Khwaja Abu Abdal
(d) Khwaja Bahaud-Din
Answer: (c) Khwaja Abu Abdal
42. Whose disciple was Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti?
(a) Khwaja Abdal Chisti
(b) Shah Wali Ullah
(c) Mir Dard
(d) Khwaja Usman Haruni
Answer: (d) Khwaja Usman Haruni
43. Who among the following Maratha Chieftains was the first order nazr (gift) at the Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer?
(a) Nawab Ali Bahadur, grandson of Peshwa Balaji Rao-I (from his mistress Mastani)
(b) Raja Sahu, the grandson of Shivaji
(c) Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath
(d) Peshwa Balaji Rao
Answer: (b) Raja Sahu, the grandson of Shivaji
44. Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya was the disciple of
(a) Sheikh Alauddin Sabir
(b) Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti
(c) Baba Farid
(d) Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi
Answer: (c) Baba Farid
45. Dargah of Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya is situated in
(a) Agra
(b) Ajmer
(c) Delhi
(d) Fatehpur
Answer: (c) Delhi
46. The Sufi saint who maintained that devotional music was one way of coming close to God was
(a) Muinuddin Chishti
(b) Baba Farid
(c) Syyid Muhammad Gisudaraz
(d) Shah Alam Bukhari
Answer: (a) Muinuddin Chishti
47. Who among the following does not belong to the Chishti order?
(a) Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
(b) Sheikh Abdul Jilani
(c) Sheikh Moinuddin
(d) Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya
Answer: (b) Sheikh Abdul Jilani
48. Who among the following is called the ‘Sadi of India?
(a) Amir Hasan
(b) Amir Khusrau
(c) Abu Talib Kalim
(d) Chandrabhan Brahman
Answer: (a) Amir Hasan
49. Which one of the following Sultan of Delhi was refused as audience by Nizamuddin Auliya?
(a) Jalaluddin Khalji
(b) Alauddin Khalji
(c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
(d) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
Answer: (b) Alauddin Khalji
50. Which Sufi saint was called ‘Mehboob-e-Illahi’?
(a) Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti
(b) Baba Farid
(c) Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
(d) Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya
Answer: (d) Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya
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