UPSC Ancient India – Chapter 19: The Sangam Age (23 MCQs)
UPSC Ancient India – Chapter 19: The Sangam Age (23 MCQs) – 22 questions, subject: History. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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The emblem of the Chola kingdom was the:
Correct Answer: C [tiger]
Explanation:
The tiger was the royal emblem of the Cholas and appeared on their flags and coins.
Tolkappiyam is a work on:
Correct Answer: A [grammar]
Explanation:
The Tolkappiyam by Tolkappiyar is the earliest surviving Tamil grammar, also covering poetics and literary conventions.
The Pandya port famous for pearls was:
Correct Answer: D [Korkai]
Explanation:
Korkai, near the mouth of the Tamirabarani, was the chief Pandya port and was famous for pearl fishing.
The Chola king traditionally credited with the Kallanai on the Kaveri is:
Correct Answer: B [Karikala]
Explanation:
Karikala, victor of Venni, is traditionally credited with building the embankment on the Kaveri now called the Kallanai.
In the tinai scheme, Marutham refers to:
Correct Answer: C [fertile plains]
Explanation:
Marutham is the fertile agricultural plain of the tinai scheme, linked with rice farming and the deity Vendan.
The deity associated with the Kurinji landscape is:
Correct Answer: C [Murugan]
Explanation:
Kurinji, the hill landscape of hunting and honey gathering, has Murugan (Seyon) as its deity.
Arikamedu was excavated in 1945 by:
Correct Answer: A [Mortimer Wheeler]
Explanation:
Mortimer Wheeler excavated Arikamedu in 1945 and established it as an Indo-Roman trading station.
The Pandya king who won the battle of Talaiyalanganam was:
Correct Answer: C [Nedunchezhiyan]
Explanation:
Nedunchezhiyan defeated a confederacy of the Cheras, Cholas and chieftains at Talaiyalanganam and is praised in Maduraikkanchi.
Consider the following statements about Sangam literature:
1. It is divided into akam and puram poems.
2. Pattinappalai describes the port of Puhar.
3. The Tirukkural belongs to the Ettuthokai.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]
Explanation:
Statements 1 and 2 are correct; statement 3 is wrong because the Tirukkural belongs to the eighteen minor works.
Assertion (A): Many Roman coins have been found in south India.
Reason (R): Tamil ports exported pepper and other goods to the Roman world.
Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]
Explanation:
Roman coin hoards in south India reflect payment for pepper and other Tamil exports, so R explains A.
Memorial stones for warriors killed in battle are called:
Correct Answer: B [nadukal]
Explanation:
Nadukal were memorial hero stones set up for warriors who fell in battle and were later worshipped.
The garland of the Pandyas was made of:
Correct Answer: D [neem]
Explanation:
The Pandyas wore the neem garland, just as the Cheras wore palmyra and the Cholas athi flowers.
Spies in the Sangam administration were called:
Correct Answer: A [orrar]
Explanation:
Orrar was the Sangam term for spies, listed among the king's officials with ministers, envoys and commanders.
Which of the following was one of the seven famous patrons (Kadai Ezhu Vallalgal)?
Correct Answer: C [Pari]
Explanation:
Pari, the chieftain of Parambu hill and patron of Kapilar, is one of the seven famous patrons.
The Sangam age was followed in the Tamil country by the period of the:
Correct Answer: B [Kalabhras]
Explanation:
The Kalabhras occupied much of the Tamil country from about the third to the sixth century CE.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
1. Keeladi excavations begin
2. Arikamedu excavated by Wheeler
3. Silappatikaram printed by U. V. Swaminatha Iyer
4. Pulimankombai hero stone found
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct Answer: C [3-2-4-1]
Explanation:
1892, 1945, 2006, 2015.
The Chola king said in the poems to have performed vattakirutal is:
Correct Answer: D [Kopperuncholan]
Explanation:
Kopperuncholan fasted to death facing north after his sons rose against him, joined by the poet Pisirandaiyar.
Avvaiyar is known as a:
Correct Answer: A [Sangam poet]
Explanation:
Avvaiyar was a celebrated woman poet of the Sangam anthologies and a friend of the chieftain Adiyaman.
The Sangam poem Maduraikkanchi describes:
Correct Answer: A [Madurai under the Pandya Nedunchezhiyan]
Explanation:
Maduraikkanchi, by Mangudi Marudanar, describes the city of Madurai in the reign of the Pandya Nedunchezhiyan.
With reference to ancient South India, Korkai, Poompuhar and Muchiri were well known as
Correct Answer: B [ports]
Explanation:
Pandya, Chola and Chera ports respectively.
Which one of the following explains the practice of 'Vattakirutal' as mentioned in Sangam poems?
Correct Answer: D [A king defeated in a battle committing ritual suicide by starving himself to death]
Explanation:
Vattakirutal (vadakkiruttal) was ritual suicide in which a king sat facing north and starved himself to death to save honour.
Which one of the following statements about Sangam literature in ancient South India is correct?
Correct Answer: B [The social classification of Varna was known to Sangam poets.]
Explanation:
the Tolkappiyam refers to four groups.
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