2025 NTA UGC Net History Online Mock Test 26 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 26
Mock Test Set | 26 |
Question Type | MCQ |
Medium | Online |
Subject | History |
Exam | UGC Net |
Question | 25 |
Marks | 1 |
First Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test
(The answers to mock test 26 are given below)
1. Which of the following was not one of the reasons for the popularity of Buddhism in China?
- (a) There were no rival religions at the time of the introduction of Buddhism in China
- (b) The writing of such people as Mou created confidence in the minds of the educated Chinese
- (c) The life of purity followed by the immigrant Indian Buddhists and their Chinese discipline attracted the Chinese to Buddhism
- (d) The patronage of the reigning dynasties in China (e.g. Wei dynasty) helped the cause of Buddhism
2. Nagarjuna is known as the Einstein of India because:
- (a) Leonardo had Einstein’s insight into the nature of the universe
- (b) He was one of the greatest physicists of all time
- (c) He propounded the theory of Sunyavada, similar to Einstein’s theory of relativity
- (d) He was a great dialectician
3. The famous Buddhist scholar Ashvaghosha was a contemporary of :
- (a) Asoka
- (b) Menander
- (c) Kanishka
- (d) Harsha
4. Which of the following writers was the founder of Buddhist logic and has been called the Father of Medieval Nyaya?
- (a) Dharmakirti
- (b) Dingnaga
- (c) Buddhapalita
- (d) Bhavaviveka
5. Nagarjuna was a friend and contemporary of the Satavahana king :
- (a) Gautamiputra Sri Satakarni
- (b) Vasishthiputra or Pulumaji II
- (c) Yajnashri Gautamiputra or Siri-Yajna
- (d) Pulumayi IV
Second Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test
(The answers to mock test 26 are given below)
6. Who of the following Mahayanist Sanskrit authors was at first a Hinayanist Buddhist?
- (a) Ashvaghosha
- (b) Nagarjuna
- (c) Asanga
- (d) Vasubandhu
7. Which of the following Mahayana Buddhist writers is regarded as the Kant of India by Dr. Stcherbatsky?
- (a) Dharmakirti
- (b) Dingnaga
- (c) Vasubandhu
- (d) Asanga
8. Which of the following works of Ashvaghosha is considered to be the oldest dramatic work extant in Sanskrit literature?
- (a) Buddhacharita
- (b) Saundarananda
- (c) Shariputraprakarana
- (d) Gandistotra-gatha
9. Which of the following was not one of the Buddhist scholars to go from India to Tibet?
- (a) Acharya Dipankara
- (b) Acharya Jitkari
- (c) Acharya Shantarakshita
- (d) Acharya Kamalashila
10. The basis on which it is said that the Indo-Greek king Menander, or Menandros, was a great patron and supporter of Buddhism, is/are:
- (a) He is the hero of the work Milind-Panho, in which the Buddhist monk Nagasena answers his questions
- (b) His coins bear the Buddhist emblem Dharmachakra
- (c) He helped in the propagation of Buddhism in the region between Hindu Kush and Sindh
- (d) All the above
Third Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test
(The answers to mock test 26 are given below)
11. Which of the following was not one of the Buddhist scholars from China that visited India?
- (a) Fa-Hien
- (b) Hiuen-Tsang
- (c) T’ai-Tsung
- (d) It sang
12. A royal patron of Buddhism, who,o like Asoka, said to bring the Buddhist sangha into strict discipline, was :
- (a) Kanishka
- (b) Menander
- (c) Dharmapala
- (d) Harsha
13. The most important Buddhist mission, sent by Asoka outside India, was to :
- (a) Sri Lanka
- (b) Land of the Yavanas (Bactria)
- (c) Cambodia
- (d) Burma
14. Which of the following was the most renowned Buddhist scholar of Indian origin to propagate Madhyamika Buddhism in China?
- (a) Kumarajiva
- (b) Paramartha
- (c) Bodhidharma
- (d) Bodhivuci
15. The reign of the Kushana monarch Kanishka was a turning point in the history of Buddhism, because :
- (a) It witnessed the rise of Mahayananism
- (b) ananismuddhism was introduced in China and Central Asia in his time
- (c) Both (a) and (b) above
- (d) The images of Buddha and Bodhisattvas 9 began to be carved out during this period
Fourth Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test
(The answers to mock test 26 are given below)
16. Which of the following was the first great royal patron of Buddhism?
- (a) Ajatashatru
- (b) Udayayan
- (c) Asoka
- (d) Kanishka
17. The greatest royal patron of the University of Nalanda was/were :
- (a) King Harsha of Kanauj
- (b) King Balaputradeva of Sumatra
- (c) Pala kings Dharmapala and Devapala
- (d) The Gupta king Chandragupta II, Vikramaditya
18. The disciple of the Buddha, who was with him at Kusinara at the time of his death, was:
- (a) Sariputra
- (b) Ananda
- (c) Nagasena
- (d) Ambapali
19. The so-called universities of Nalanda, Vikramshila, etc. were actually:
- (a) Buddhist monasteries
- (b) Apex bodies of Buddhist monasteries
- (c) Learning centers of Buddhist monks
- (d) Secular centers of education and learning
20. Buddhism was introduced in China in the
- (a) Third century B.C.
- (b) First century B.C.
- (c) First century A.D.
- (d) Third century A.D.
Fifth Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test
(The answers to mock test 26 are given below)
21. The earliest stronghold of Buddhism in Central Asia (before the Christian era) was:
- (a) Yarkand
- (b) Khotan
- (c) Kashgar
- (d) Tashkent
22. Which of the following was the outcome of the gradual expansion of Buddhism coupled with the absence of any central organization of Buddhist sangha?
- (a) Deterioration in the standards of monastic discipline
- (b) Emergence of various sects and schools
- (c) Dependence on royal patronage for its survival
- (d) Its absorption into Hinduism
23. The monks of which of the following places took a leading part in the propagation of Buddhism in China?
- (a) Kashmir
- (b) Tibet
- (c) Khotan
- (d) Kuchi
24. Buddhism experienced a great revival in eastern India under the patronage of the Palas of Bihar. Which of the following was not one of the great monasteries founded by them?
- (a) Vikramshila
- (b) Nalanda
- (c) Odantapuri
- (d) Somapuri
25. Which of the following works of Buddhaghosa is veritably a small encyclopedia on early Buddhism?
- (a) Samanta-pasadika
- (b) Visuddhimagga
- (c) Sumangalavilasini
- (d) Manorathapurani
Answer Key: NTA UGC Net History Online Mock Test 26
1. (a) | 6. (c) | 11. (c) | 16. (c) | 21. (b) |
2. (c) | 7. (a) | 12. (d) | 17. (c) | 22. (b) |
3. (c) | 8. (c) | 13. (a) | 18. (b) | 23. (d) |
4. (b) | 9. (b) | 14. (a) | 19. (a) | 24. (b) |
5. (c) | 10. (d) | 15. (c) | 20. (c) | 25. (b) |
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