2025 NTA UGC Net History Online Mock Test 46 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 46
1. Which of the following Sangam works tries to expound the excellence of Buddhism?
- (a) Manimekalai
- (b) Silappadikaram
- (c) Kural
- (d) Tolkappiyam
2. Which of the following institutions did not exist during the Sangam Age?
- (a) Slavery
- (b) Sati
- (c) Ritualistic marriage
- (d) Courtesans
3. After the death of which one of the following Roman kings was the trade conducted more by barter than by coins on account of the financial difficulties of the Roman Empire?
- (a) Augustus
- (b) Claudius
- (c) Pius
- (d) Nero
4. Which of the following non-Aryan social beliefs has been continuing in Tamil Nadu since the Sangam Age?
- (a) Children wearing an ornament on which the five weapons of Tirumala are punched
- (b) Wearing of Tali by bride or married woman
- (c) Shaving the head of the widows
- (d) Offering a ball of cooked rice to the departed soul
5. Which of the following was a great centre of cotton trade?
- (a) Uraiyur
- (b) Korkai
- (c) Tondi
- (d) Musiri or Muziris
6. Which of the following was not one of the reasons why India had a favourable balance of trade with the west?
- (a) Great demand for Indian luxury goods
- (b) Import of gold by India in return for her exports
- (c) Import of coins by India
- (d) Better business sense of Indian traders
7. The Chera king who is said to have gone to north India to get a Himalayan stone to make the image of goddess Kannagi was:
- (a) Imayavaramban
- (b) Senaguttuvan
- (c) Kuttvancheral
- (d) Nedunjeral Adan
8. Which of the following was a great customs port with an artificial harbour?
- (a) Musiri or Muziris
- (b) Tondi
- (c) Puhar (Kaveripumpattinam)
- (d) Uraiyur
9. Which of the following was not one of the methods of disposal of the dead practised in the Sangam Age?
- (a) Cremation
- (b) Simple burial
- (c) Urn burial
- (d) Giving watery grave to the dead
10. The most favourite god of the Tamils during the Sangam Age was:
- (a) Indra
- (b) Murugan
- (c) Tirumala
- (d) Varuna
11. Which of the following statements about the position of women in the Sangam Age is not correct?
- (a) Higher class women officiated as priests
- (b) Women were employed as guards to attend on the king in the military camps
- (c) The women performing sati used to earn fame
- (d) Women do not seem to have owned property
12. Which of the following was not one of the popular deities of the Sangam Age?
- (a) Indra and Murugan
- (b) Shiva and Vishnu
- (c) Krishna and Balaram
- (d) Ganesa
13. A righteous government to the Sangam Tamils meant one which:
- (a) Promoted agriculture and trade
- (b) Maintained social solidarity
- (c) Provided correct, quick and straight justice
- (d) Pursued social values
14. Which of the following was not one of the popular beliefs and customs prevalent during the Sangam Age?
- (a) There was much faith in omens and astrology
- (b) A woman with dishevelled hair was a bad-omen
- (c) Rites were performed to avert the mischief of demons
- (d) Eclipses were believed to be the result of Rahu and Ketu eating up the sun and the moon
15. Which of the following statements about the social structure of the Sangam Age is not correct?
- (a) The difference in the status and economic conditions was well accepted and rarely challenged by the people
- (b) Sangam literature mentions three regular varnas, namely, Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaisyas
- (c) There were four castes namely, Tudiyan, Panar, Paraiyan and Kadamban
- (d) People were organised into professional social groups living apart from one another
16. Which of the following statements about the poets of the Sangam Age is not correct?
- (a) Poets were both men and women and were drawn from all sections of society
- (b) They were given food and rewarded generously in cash and kind
- (c) Their best compositions were those written in praise of their patrons
- (d) Some poet were resident companions while other moved from one state to another in search of patronage
17. One of the religious belies of the Sangam people, which was primitive in nature, was:
- (a) Worship of totemic symbols
- (b) Ancestor worship
- (c) Worship of stars and planets
- (d) Worship of the gods and goddesses of the hill-side
18. In the which of the following respects did the Romans not profoundly influence Indian life and culture?
- (a) Coinage
- (b) Art
- (c) Astronomy
- (d) Fashions
19. Monuments (Herostones) for the dead soldiers bearing their names, which were erected and worshipped during the Sangam Age, were known as:
- (a) Nadukul
- (b) Virakkal
- (c) Both (a) and (b) above
- (d) Mahavirakkal
20. The goddess Kannagi, whose many temples were erected during the Sangam Age, was the goddess of:
- (a) Wisdom
- (b) Learning
- (c) Chastity
- (d) Prowess
21. The increased commercial intercourse between India and Rome led to the writing of large number of books by the western authors on India and on Indian
- (a) Economy
- (b) Social life
- (c) Geography
- (d) All the above
22. At Puhar of Kaveripoompattinam, a great festival, described vividly by the Sangam epics, was held in honour of lord:
- (a) Venkateswara
- (b) Murugan
- (c) Indra
- (d) Svamimalai
23. Frequent allusions to the Romaka Siddhanta and Paulisa Siddhanta, by the great Indian astronomer Varahmihira, indicate:
- (a) Roman influence on Indian astronomy
- (b) Knowledge of Roman geography
- (c) Adoption of western astronomical terms by the Indian astronomers
- (d) Close interaction between Romans and Indian astronomers
24. The sea borne trade between India and Rome received great impetus during the first-second century AD on account of the discovery of:
- (a) Direct sea-route between Indian and Italy
- (b) Monsoon winds blowing regularly across the Indian Ocean
- (c) Large gold mines in the Roman empire
- (d) New navigational techniques
25. Which of the following was the main article of import?
- (a) Gold and Silver
- (b) Pottery and glassware
- (c) Wine and slave girls
- (d) Horses
1-a, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b, 5-a, 6-d, 7-b, 8-c, 9-d, 10-b, 11-a, 12-d, 13-c, 14-d, 15-b, 16-c, 17-a, 18-d, 19-c, 20-c, 21-c, 22-c, 23-a, 24-b, 25-a
