2025 NTA UGC Net History Online Mock Test 45 held in India: 25 multiple-question answers from the history topic of the UGC NET Exam are given below.
NTA UGC Net History Online Mock Test 45
1. Which of the following was not one of the important articles of export?
- (a) Spices and Perfumes
- (b) Jewels
- (c) Fine textiles
- (d) Sugar
2. The spies during the Sangam Age were known as:
- (a) Spasas
- (b) Dutas
- (c) Orrars
- (d) Sanjayans
3. During the Sangam Age a tutelary tree called Kadimaram or Kavalmaram was planted by the rulers at a central place in the town and they took great care to protect the tree because:
- (a) It was believed that the tree had power to protect the town
- (b) The destruction of the tree was symbolic of the defeat of the ruler
- (c) Both (a) and (b) above
- (d) The tree was symbolic of dynastic growth
4. The provinces during the Sangam Age were knwon as Mandalams and Mandalams were further subdivided into:
- (a) Nadu
- (b) Kurram
- (c) Kottam
- (d) Ur
5. The current Tamil designation of the ministers during the Sangam Age was:
- (a) Amaichchan of Amaichchar
- (b) Mantri
- (c) Amatya
- (d) Surram
6. Which of the following statements about the manaram, the sabha of this period, is not correct?
- (a) It was the common meeting place in the village
- (b) It was the highest court of justice
- (c) It also served the purpose of a political gathering
- (d) It was a general assembly dealing with all affairs
7. Small village assemblies during the Sangam Age were known as:
- (a) Manaram
- (b) Ambalam
- (c) Avai
- (d) Podiyil
8. During the Sangam Age, war was usually declared or provoked by:
- (a) Cutting the tutelary tree of the enemy
- (b) Lifting the cattle of the enemy
- (c) Besieging the enemy’s fort
- (d) Crushing the crops of the enemy’s territory under the feet of elephants
9. Which of the following works provides a beautiful account of Madurai during the Sangam Age?
- (a) Manimekalai
- (b) Silappadikaram
- (c) Kural or Tirukural
- (d) Pattupattu
10. It is said that in Chola territory, watered by Kaveri, the space in which an elephant could lie down produced anough to feed seven persons. What does this statement imply?
- (a) The elephants were rated very highly among the domesticated animals
- (b) The lands were very fertile with enough irrigation facilities
- (c) The economy was mainly agricultural
- (d) There was a large agricultural surplus
11. Which of the following was not a source of income to the State?
- (a) Escheats and treasure troves
- (b) State-trading
- (c) Custom and tolls
- (d) Stamp duties on Civil suits
12. The richest and biggest land-owning class during the Sangam Age were:
- (a) Brahmanas
- (b) Velas
- (c) Nayaks
- (d) Ulavar
13. Which of the following was not one of the better-known agricultural products of the Sangam Age?
- (a) Wheat
- (b) Rice
- (c) Sugar-cane
- (d) Turmeric
14. The term ‘Variyam’ during the Sangam Age signified the:
- (a) Revenue-free villages granted to Brahmanas
- (b) Unit of revenue-yielding territory
- (c) Officer-incharge collecting the land revenue
- (d) Managing committee of the village assemblies
15. Karikala, the Chola king, made a grand anicut on the Kaveri, the water of which is nowadays drawn off through a new channel called Vennar. Which one of the following regions of Tamil Nadu does it irrigate?
- (a) West Madurai
- (b) South Arcot
- (c) South Thanjavur
- (d) Chingleput
16. Which of the following statements regarding the collections of revenue is not correct?
- (a) The leading member of the cowherds community paid revenue in the form of milk and milk products
- (b) Orrar was in-charge of the revenue department
- (c) Ayakkarar was the revenue accountant who collected trade and transit duties
- (d) The royal seal was fixed on the pocket of imported and exported goods after realizing the custom duties
17. The Indian bird or animal most widely exported during the Sangam Age to the Roman world was:
- (a) Monkeys
- (b) Peacocks
- (c) Tigers
- (d) Deer
18. Which of the following is not one of the sources from which evidence of Indo-Roman trade during the Sangam Age is derived?
- (a) Sangam literature
- (b) The Roman coins of silver and gold found on the South Indian coast
- (c) Discovery of a Roman hoard at Arikamedu, near Pondicherry
- (d) The accounts of Chinese and Roman Travelers
19. The chief centre or meeting point of the Indo-Roman trade was:
- (a) Arikamedu
- (b) Alexandria
- (c) Madurai
- (d) Musiri
20. Which of the following was the wonderful discovery made by Hippalus in 45 AD, leading to increase of trade with Rome?
- (a) Fitting of sails to the ships
- (b) Propelling of ships with mechanical aid
- (c) The existence of the monsoon winds, blowing across the Indian Ocean
- (d) A shorter route from Rome to the eastern coast of India
21. A good contemporary account of the trade between the Tamil states of the Sangam Age and Greece and Rome has been given in:
- (a) Das Wurfelspiel in Alten Indien
- (b) The Sangam work Pattinapalai
- (c) Periplus of the Erythrean Sea
- (d) Ptolemy’s Geography
22. Writing about the volume of Indo-Roman trade, who bitterly remarked “not a year passed without the (Roman) empire paying out 100 million Sesterces (nearly one and a half Crore rupees) to India, to the Chera land and Arabia”?
- (a) Ptolemy
- (b) Pliny
- (c) Author of the Periplus
- (d) Caldwell
23. A Tamil king who is said to have sent the earliest embassy to Augustus at Athens about 20 BC was a king:
- (a) Pandyan
- (b) Chola
- (c) Chera
- (d) Pallava
24. Which of the following was the most important factor responsible for the extensive growth of foreign trade?
- (a) Surplus production of several commodities which were in great demand in foreign markets
- (b) Tamils had a great reputation as seafarers
- (c) There was a direct trade route between Tamil land and Arabia, Egypt and Rome
- (d) Because the Yavanas (i.e. the Romans, the Greeks and the Egyptians) had colonized certain parts of south India
25. Which of the following statements about the army of the king is not correct?
- (a) The army traditionally had four arms, namely, chariots drawn by oxen, elephants, cavalry and infantry
- (b) The captains of the army were invested with the title of enadi
- (c) The soldiers wounded in battle were well attended
- (d) Death on the battlefield was considered to lead to heaven
1-d, 2-c, 3-c, 4-a, 5-a, 6-c, 7-c, 8-b, 9-a, 10-b, 11-d, 12-b, 13-a, 14-b, 15-c, 16-b, 17-b, 18-d, 19-b, 20-c, 21-c, 22-b, 23-a, 24-a, 25-c
