Religious Movements of 15th and 16th Century CE Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question 1. The Bhakti culture reborn in India during

(a) Vedic age [UPPSC 1993]
(b) 10th Century AD
(c) 12th Century AD
(d) 15th-16th Century AD

Answer : d

Question 2. The Bhakti Movement was started by [UP UDA/LDA 2001]

(a) Alvar Saints
(b) Sufi Saints
(c) Surdas
(d) Tulsidas

Answer : a

Question 3. Who was/were the 10th century composers of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham? [CDS 2018]

(a) Alvars
(b) Nayanars
(c) Appar
(d) Sambandar

Answer : a

Question 4. The earlier Vaishnava Bhakti Saints from the South were [HPSC 2012]

(a) Alvars
(b) Nayanars
(c) Bhagavatas
(d) Virashaivites

Answer : a

Question 5. Shankaracharya was born in

(a) Kaladi (Kerala)
(b) Surat (Gujarat)
(c) Aurangabad (Maharashtra)
(d) Eran (Madhya Pradesh)

Answer : a

Question 6. Which among the following sect was propounded by Shankaracharya?

(a) Visistadvaitva Vedana
(b) Advaita Vedanta
(c) Vishishtadvaita
(d) Pushtimarg

Answer : b

Question 7. Adi Shankaracharya established four Mathas. These Mathas are situated at [UPPSC 2006]

(a) Sringeri, Dwarka, Joshimath and Prayag
(b) Dwarka, Joshimath, Prayag and Kanchi
(c) Joshimath, Dwarka, Puri and Sringeri
(d) Puri, Sringeri, Dwarka and Varanasi

Answer : c

Question 8. Who among the following according to thinkers is referred as hidden Buddha? [UPPSC 2006]

(a) Ramanujacharya
(b) Shankaracharya
(c) Kumarila Bhatta
(d) Chaitanya

Answer : b

Question 9. Which of the following statements is/are true about Shankaracharya?

I. Shankaracharya have founded four Mathas at Badrinath, Puri, Sringeri and Dwarka.
II. He travelled across the Indian Sub-continent to propagate his philosophy through discovers and debates with other thinkers.
III. He introduced the concept of Dvaita – advaita.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I and III
(b) I and II
(c) I, II and III
(d) None of the above

Answer : b

Question 10. Name the philosophy propounded by Ramanujacharya. [UPPSC 1991]

(a) Vishishtadvaita
(b) Shuddha Advaita
(c) Dvaita
(d) Monotheism

Answer : a

Question 11. The follower of Ramanujana are called as [UPPSC 1999]

(a) Shavaite
(b) Vaishnavite
(c) Advaitins
(d) Awadhut

Answer : b

Question 12. The famous sect propounded by Madhvacharya was [UP UDA/LDA 2001]

(a) Dvaita
(b) Pushtimarg
(c) Materialism
(d) Fatalism

Answer : a

Question 13. Which of the following is not correctly matched? Philosophy Founder

(a) Vishishtadvaita – Ramanujacharya
(b) Dvaitadvaita – Nimbark Acharya
(c) Dvaita – Madhvacharya
(d) Shuddhadvaita – Ramananda

Answer : d

Question 14. Which among the following places is birth place of founder of Pushtimarg Saint Vallabhacharya? [CGPSC 2015]

(a) Shivrinarayan
(b) Bilaspur
(c) Ratanpur
(d) Champaranya

Answer : d

Question 15. Who among the following propounded the philosophy of Shuddh advaita? [UP UDA/LDA 2005]

(a) Madavacharya
(b) Vallabhacharya
(c) Srikantacharya
(d) Ramanuj

Answer : b

Question 16. Name the Indian Telugu philosopher who founded the Krishna centered Pushti sect of Vaishnavism in the Braj region of India?

(a) Madavacharya
(b) Ramananda
(c) Vallabhacharya
(d) Nimbarkacharya

Answer : c

Question 17. Nimbarkacharya is associated with which of the following sect?

(a) Dvaitadvaita
(b) Vishishtadvaita
(c) Dvaita
(d) Shuddhadvaita

Answer : a

Question 18. Who among the following propounded Sankadi Sampradaya?

(a) Ramanuja
(b) Vallabhacharya
(c) Madhavacharya
(d) Nimbarkacharya

Answer : d

Question 19. The famous medieval Saint Ramananda was born at [UPPSC 2010]

(a) Lucknow
(b) Prayag
(c) Varanasi
(d) Kanpur

Answer : b

Question 20. Who among the following are saints of the medieval age of India? [UPPSC 2010]

(a) Kumbhandas
(b) Ramananda
(c) Raidas
(d) Tulsidas

Answer : b

Question 21. Who among the following was the first Bhakti Saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his message? [IAS (Pre) 2002]

(a) Dadu
(b) Kabir
(c) Ramananda
(d) Tulsidas

Answer : c

Question 22. Ramananda was disciple of

(a) Ramanuj
(b) Shankaracharya
(c) Kabir
(d) Vallabhacharya

Answer : a

Question 23. Kabir was disciple of [UP Lower 2002]

(a) Chaitanya
(b) Ramananda
(c) Ramanuja
(d) Tukaram

Answer : b

Question 24. ‘Let no man ask a man’s sect or caste’ whose dictum was this? [UPPSC 2009]

(a) Kabir
(b) Ramananda
(c) Ramanuja
(d) Chaitanya

Answer : b

Question 25. Consider the following statements in context of famous Bhakti Saint Ramananda?

I. He is credited with bringing Shaivite tradition from South to North India.
II. He laid emphasis on worship of Rama.
III. He had twenty disciples.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) Only II
(d) I, II and III

Answer : c

Question 26. Kabir was contemporary of

(a) Sikandar Lodi
(b) Babar
(c) Alauddin Khilji
(d) Akbar

Answer : a

Question 27. ‘Bijak’ was composed by which among the following Bhakti Saints? [MPPSC 2002]

(a) Surdas
(b) Kabir
(c) Ravidas
(d) Pipajee

Answer : b

Question 28. A collection of dialogues between Kabir and Dharamdas is titled [UPPSC 2003]

(a) Sahad
(b) Amarmul
(c) Sakhi
(d) Ramaini

Answer : b

Question 29. What is Sant Bhasha? [Astt. Comm. 2019]

(a) Language of the Nirguna mystics.
(b) Language of the Ulatbansi mystics.
(c) Language of the Nirakar mystics.
(d) Language of the Saguna mystics.

Answer : b

Question 30. Which one of the following statements about the teachings of Kabir is not correct? [CDS 2011]

(a) He was not against pilgrimage and idol worship.
(b) He believed in universal love.
(c) He emphasised on one God and the spread of devotionalism.
(d) He did not consider it necessary to abandon the normal life of a householder.

Answer : a

Question 31. Verses ascribed to poet-saint Kabir have been compiled in which of the following traditions? [CDS 2018]

I. Bijak in Varanasi
II. Kabir Granthavali in Rajasthan
III. Adi Granth Sahib

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) Only III
(d) All of these

Answer : d

Question 32. The famous Nirguna Bhakti Saint, Dadu Dayal was born at

(a) Ahmedabad
(b) Prayag
(c) Bhopal
(d) Varanasi

Answer : a

Question 33. Who among the following Nirguna Bhakti Saint had met Akbar in 1575 and influenced him by his views?

(a) Dadu Dayal
(b) Ramanuja
(c) Kabir
(d) Guru Nanak

Answer : a

Question 34. Mirabai was not contemporary of

(a) Tulsidas
(b) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
(c) Guru Nanak
(d) Ramakrishna Paramahans

Answer : d

Question 35. Mirabai emphasised on worship of which of the following diety?

(a) Krishna
(b) Vishnu
(c) Shiv
(d) Ganpati

Answer : a

Question 36. The common goal of life of both Buddha and Mirabai was [RAS/RTS 1992]

(a) Following Ahimsa
(b) Austerity of Nirvana
(c) The World is Full of Sorrow
(d) Truth

Answer : c

Question 37. The name of the husband of famous devotee poet Mirabai [RAS/RTS 1997]

(a) Rana Ratan Singh
(b) Rajkumar Bhojraj
(c) Rana Uday Singh
(d) Rana Sanga

Answer : b

Question 38. Who wrote ‘Rag-Govind’?[CGPSC 2014]

(a) Mirabai
(b) Narhari
(c) Surdas
(d) Raskhan

Answer : a

Question 39. Who among the following is considered as Guru of Mirabai?

(a) Ramanuja
(b) Kabir
(c) Dadu Dayal
(d) Ravidas

Answer : d

Question 40. The famous Bhakti Saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born at

(a) Nadia/Nabadwip
(b) Talwandi
(c) Nimbapur
(d) Maghar

Answer : a

Question 41. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was related with among the following sect? [UPPSC 1990]

(a) Vaishnava
(b) Shalva
(c) Buddhist
(d) Sufi

Answer : a

Question 42. Who was the Hindu saint to have a disciple in both Hindus and Muslims? [WBPSC 2007]

(a) Sri Chaitanya
(b) Ramanuja
(c) Ravidas
(d) Namdev

Answer : a

Question 43. Which among the following Bhakti Saints popularised Vaishnavism in Bengal through his kirtans?

(a) Shankardeva
(b) Tukaram
(c) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
(d) Surdas

Answer : c

Question 44. Vaishnavism in Kamrupa was popularised by [UPPSC 2002]

(a) Chaitanya
(b) Nimbarka
(c) Ramananda
(d) Sankardev

Answer : d

Question 45. Famous medieval Saint Sankaradev belonged to [UPPSC 2015]

(a) Shaiva cult
(b) Vaishnava cult
(c) Advaita cult
(d) Dvaita-Advaita cult

Answer : b

Question 46. Who among the following founded the Ekasarana sect?

(a) Sankardev
(b) Chaitanya
(c) Madhva
(d) Vallabhacharya

Answer : a

Question 47. Consider the following statements regarding Sankardev.

I. He is responsible for introduction of Bhakti Movement in Assam.
II. He popularised the Assamese culture through promotion of Ankia Naat, Sattriya dance and Brajavali.
III. He established many Vaishnavite monasteries satras.

Which among the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) All of the above

Answer : d

Question 48. Tulsidas was contemporary of [UPPSC 2004]

(a) Akbar and Jahangir
(b) Shah Jahan
(c) Aurangzeb
(d) Babar and Humayun

Answer : a

Question 49. The book ‘Ramcharitmanas’ was written by [UK UDA/LDA 2007]

(a) Tulsidas
(b) Valmiki
(c) Surdas
(d) Ved Vyas

Answer : a

Question 50. Which of the following is not a composition of Saint Tulsidas? [MPPSC 2014]

(a) Gitavali
(b) Kavitavali
(c) Vinay Patrika
(d) Sahitya ratna

Answer : d

Question 51. Who among the following has composed Vinay Patrika? [CGPSC 2018]

(a) Tulsidas
(b) Surdas
(c) Kabir
(d) Keshavdas

Answer : a

Question 52. The religious sect popularised by Surdas was

(a) Vaishnavism
(b) Shaktism
(c) Shaivism
(d) Tantricism

Answer : a

Question 53. The ‘Sur Sagar’ is [CDS 2015]

(a) a medieval treatise on music composed by Tansen.
(b) a poetic work of Surdas.
(c) memories of Bahadur Shah Zafar.
(d) None of the above

Answer : b

Question 54. Whose work raised the status of Braj Bhasha from a crude language to that of a literary one?

(a) Surdas
(b) Tulsidas
(c) Chaitanya
(d) Ravidas

Answer : a

Question 55. Which of the following is not a composition of Saint Surdas?

(a) Sahitya Lahiri
(b) Sur Sagar
(c) Sur Saravali
(d) Gitavali

Answer : d

Question 56. Who among the following was the saint of the Varkari sect? [UPPSC 2004]

(a) Namdev
(b) Nimbarka
(c) Chakradhara
(d) Ramdasa

Answer : a

Question 57. Which one of the following leaders of the Bhakti Movement was influenced by Islam? [UP UDA/LDA 2010]

(a) Chaitanya
(b) Mirabai
(c) Namdev
(d) Vallabhacharya

Answer : c

Question 58. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal Emperor? [IAS (Pre) 2006]

(a) Babur
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Aurangzeb

Answer : c

Question 59. Who among the following advised Shivaji, to adorn his body not with clothes and ornaments but with shrewdness and wisdom?

(a) Ramdas
(b) Dnyaneshwar
(c) Tukaram
(d) Namdev

Answer : a

Question 60. The literature composed by Ramdas was [MPPSC 2013]

(a) Dasbodh
(b) Bijak
(c) Vinay Patrika
(d) Sahitya lahiri

Answer : a

Question 61. Which among the following sect was initiated by Ramdas to revive spirituality in the society?

(a) Sakha
(b) Satnami
(c) Samarth
(d) Warkari

Answer : c

Question 62. Who among the following composed Dnyaneshwari and Amrutanubhav, considered as oldest surviving literary works in Marathi language?

(a) Dnyaneshwar
(b) Eknath
(c) Tukaram
(d) Namdev

Answer : a

Question 63. Which among the following Bhakti Saint composed Abhangas?

(a) Kabir
(b) Ramdas
(c) Chaitanya
(d) Tukaram

Answer : d

Question 64. Which of the following was the birth place of Guru Nanak? [UPPSC 2007]

(a) Amritsar
(b) Nabha
(c) Nankana
(d) Nanded

Answer : c

Question 65. Guru Nanak Dev established Sikh religion during the reign of [UPPSC 2008]

(a) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
(b) Sikandar Lodi
(c) Humayun
(d) Akbar

Answer : b

Question 66. 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? [RAS/RTS 2010]

(a) Ramanand
(b) Badu
(c) Nanak
(d) Ramanuja

Answer : c

Question 67. The city of Amritsar in Punjab was established by [UPPSC 1996]

(a) Guru Nanak
(b) Guru Gobind Singh
(c) Guru Tegh Bahadur
(d) Guru Ramdas

Answer : d

Question 68. To which Sikh Guru, Akbar donated 500 Bighas of land? [UK UDA/LDA 2007]

(a) Arjun Dev
(b) Ramdas
(c) Har Rai
(d) Tegh Bahadur

Answer : b

Question 69. Who of the following compiled Adi Granth or Guru Granth Sahib? [UKPSC 2005]

(a) Guru Nanak Dev
(b) Guru Arjan Dev
(c) Guru Tegh Bahadur
(d) Guru Gobind Singh

Answer : b

Question 70. The Sikh Guru executed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was [WBCS 2017]

(a) Tegh Bahadur
(b) Nanak
(c) Gobind Singh
(d) Arjun Dev

Answer : a

Question 71. Which Sikh Guru was born at Patna? [BPSC 2015]

(a) Nanak
(b) Tegh Bahadur
(c) Hargobind
(d) Gobind Singh

Answer : d

Question 72. Guru Gobind Singh greatness lies in the fact that [RAS/RTS 1993]

(a) he formed the military order of Sikh.
(b) he was the founder of Sikh state.
(c) he made Sikhs peaceful.
(d) he defeated Aurangzeb.

Answer : a

Question 73. Which among the following Sikh Gurus instituted the Khalsa Panth? [MPPSC 2014]

(a) Guru Gobind Singh
(b) Guru Tegh Bahadur
(c) Guru Arjan Dev
(d) Guru Nanak Dev

Answer : a

Question 74. Nanded is considered sacred by Sikhs due to whose Mausoleum?

(a) Guru Amardas [UPPSC 2002]
(b) Guru Angad
(c) Guru Arjan Dev
(d) Guru Gobind Singh

Answer : d

Question 75. Which of the following Sikh Gurus were penalised with death by the Rulers of the time? [UP UDA/LDA 2002]

I. Guru Angad
II. Guru Arjan Dev
III. Guru Har Gobind
IV. Guru Tegh Bahadur

Select the correct answer from the codes given below.

(a) II and IV
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) I and II

Answer : a

Question 76. Malukdas was a saint poet of [UPPSC 2008]

(a) Agra
(b) Ayodhya
(c) Kashi
(d) Kada

Answer : d

Question 77. Who among the following is founder of Satnami sect? [CGPSC 2011]

(a) Ghasidas
(b) Ravidas
(c) Ramdas
(d) Tukaram

Answer : a

Question 78. What was the name of Saint Ghasidas’ father? [CGPSC 2005]

(a) Sukalu
(b) Chaituram
(c) Vishu
(d) Mahangu

Answer : d

Question 79. Prem Vatika, poems on the life of Krishna, was composed by [IAS (Pre) 1996]

(a) Bihari
(b) Surdas
(c) Raskhan
(d) Kabir

Answer : c

Question 80. Who among the following laid the foundation of Mahanubhava Sampradaya? [IAS (Pre) 2010]

(a) Eknath
(b) Chakradhar
(c) Dhyaneshwar
(d) Tukaram

Answer : b

Question 81. A common feature to all Bhakti Saints was that they [BPSC 2005]

(a) composed their verses in the languages understood by their followers.
(b) rejected the authority of the priestly class.
(c) encouraged women to go to the temples.
(d) encouraged idol worship.

Answer : a

Question 82. Where is the seat of Warkari tradition located? [RAS/RTS 2008]

(a) Sringeri
(b) Pandharpur
(c) Nadiad
(d) Varanasi

Answer : b

Question 83. The followers of Gorakhnath were called [CDS 2016]

(a) Jogis
(b) Nath-Panthis
(c) Tantriks
(d) Sanyasis

Answer : a

Question 84. How many Jyotirlinga are there devoted to Lord Shiva? [CGPSC 2011]

(a) 6
(b) 12
(c) 24
(d) 18

Answer : b

Question 85. Which among the following female Bhakti Saint wrote commentaries on Vedantasutra in Sanskrit? [IAS (Pre) 2007]

(a) Lalleshwari
(b) Tulsidas
(c) Ramananda
(d) Vallabhacharya

Answer : a

Question 86. Among the following, who was not a proponent of Bhakti cult? [IAS (Pre) 2010]

(a) Nagarjuna
(b) Tukaram
(c)Tyagaraja
(d) Vallabhacharya

Answer : a

Question 87. Which one of the following gives equal importance to Jnana, Karma and Bhakti as a means of liberation? [UPPSC 2005]

(a) Advait Vedant
(b) Visistadvaitva Vedanta
(c) Bhagvad Gita
(d) Mimansa

Answer : b

Question 88. Which one of the following sequences indicates the correct chronological order? [IAS (Pre) 2004]

(a) Shankaracharya, Ramanuja, Chaitanya
(b) Ramanuja, Shankaracharya, Chaitanya
(c) Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Shankaracharya
(d) Shankaracharya, Chaitanya, Ramanuja

Answer : a

Question 89. Select the correct chronological order of the Bhakti Saints from the following. [UPPSC 2014]

(a) Kabir, Guru Nanak, Chaitanya and Mirabai
(b) Kabir, Chaitanya, Guru Nanak and Mirabai
(c) Kabir, Mirabai, Chaitanya and Guru Nanak
(d) Guru Nanak, Chaitanya, Mirabai and Kabir

Answer : a

Question 90. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? [NDA 2018] Bhakti Saint Philosophy

(a) Shankara – Avadhuta
(b) Ramananda – Kevaladvaita
(c) Ramanuja – Vishishtadvaita
(d) Chaitanya – Advaita

Answer : c

Question 91. Which of the following Bhakti saints is not matched correctly with the state to which he belonged?

(a) Shankaradeva – Assam
(b) Kabir – Uttar Pradesh
(c) Narsi Mehta – Gujarat
(d) Tukaram – Bengal

Answer : d

Question 92. Which one of the following is correctly matched? [UPPSC 2005]

(a) Advaitvad – Ramanujacharya
(b) Vishishtadvaitva – Sankaracharya
(c) Dvaitvad – Madhvacharya
(d) Dvaitadvaitvad – Vallabhacharya

Answer : b

Question 93. Which among the following given pairs is not correctly matched?[UPPSC 2018]

(a) Dhurvdas Bhagat Nagvali
(b) Nabhadas Yaktmal
(c) Raskhan Rasikpriya
(d) Usman Chitravali

Answer : c

Question 94. Arrange the following Saints in their chronological order. [UPPCS 2004]

I. Kabir
II. Namdev
III. Mirabai
IV. Nanak

Codes

(a) II, I, III, IV
(b) IV, III, II, I
(c) I, IV, II, III
(d) IV, I, III, II

Answer : a

Question 95. Consider the following Bhakti saints.

I. Kabir
II. Namdev
III. Ramananda
IV. Nanak

The correct chronological order of their appearance in Bhakti Movement is Codes [NDA 2001]

(a) II, III, I, IV
(b) II, III, IV, I
(c) III, II, I, IV
(d) III, II, IV, I

Answer : c

Question 96. With reference of Hath Yog, which of the following statements is/are correct?

I. Hath Yog was practiced by Nathpanthis.
II. Hath Yog technique was also adopted by the Sufis.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below. [UPPSC 2019]

(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II

Answer : c

Question 97. Consider the following statements related to the Virashaiva tradition in Karnataka. [NDA 2019]

I. The Virashaiva movement was led by a Brahmana named Basavanna, a Minister in the court of the ‘Kalachuri ruler in the twelfth century.
II. The Virashaivas encouraged practices, approved by the Dharmashastras, like post-puberty marriage and remarriage of widows.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II

Answer : a

Question 98. Consider the following statements.

I. Mirabai was a contemporary of Guru Nanak.
II. Ramdas was a contemporary of Shivaji.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct? [CDS 2005]

(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II

Answer : c

Question 99. Consider the following statements.

I. Saint Nibarka was a contemporary of Akbar.
II. Saint Kabir was greatly influenced by Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct? [IAS (Pre) 2019]

(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both II and II
(d) Neither I nor II

Answer : d

Question 100. Sufi Movement originally started from [SSC 2013]

(a) Delhi
(b) Lahore
(c) Kabul
(d) Persia

Answer : d

Question 101. The spiritual genealogy among sufi saints is also known as [SSC 2014]

(a) Chishti
(b) Auliya
(c) Silsila
(d) Subrawadi

Answer : c

Question 102. In Sufism, the correct meaning of word ‘pir’ is [SSC 2011]

(a) highest god.
(b) teacher of Sufis.
(c) best among all the sufi saints.
(d) traditional leader of Sufi who fought for meir principles.

Answer : b

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