MCQ Questions for Class 12 History: Ch 5 Through the eyes of travellers

1. The jeweller who travelled to India many times was

(a) Duarte Barbosa

(b) Roberto Nobili

(c) Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

(d) François Bernier

► (c) Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

2. According to Ibn Battuta's account, the city that rivalled Delhi was:

(a) Multan

(b) Gwalior

(c) Lahore

(d) Daulatabad

► (d) Daulatabad

3. The merchant community in western India was known as

(a) Dola.

(b) Wakil.

(c) Mahajans.

(d) Sheth.

► (c) Mahajans.

4. The European traveller who visited India and China was

(a) Peter Mundy.

(b) Marco Polo.

(c) Francois Bernier.

(d) Antonio Monserrate.

► (b) Marco Polo.

5. The mahajans were collectively represented by the chief of the merchant community known as

(a) maulvis.

(b) mullas.

(c) nagarsheths.

(d) sheshtis.

► (c) nagarsheths.

6. Ibn Battuta had set off for India in the year:

(a) 1221-1222 CE.

(b) 1332-1333 CE.

(c) 1347-1348 CE.

(d) 1411-1412 CE.

► (b) 1332-1333 CE.

7. The eldest son of Shah Jahan was:

(a) Dara Shukoh.

(b) Aurangzeb.

(c) Shah Shuja.

(d) Murad.

► (a) Dara Shukoh.

8. The chief of the merchant community, in urban centres, was known as:

(a) Nagarsheth.

(b) Mahajans.

(c) Mullas.

(d) Vaids.

► (a) Nagarsheth.

9. The traveller whose account was compared with that of Marco Polo was

(a) Al-Biruni.

(b) Ibn Battuta.

(c) Ibn Juzayy.

(d) Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi.

► (b) Ibn Battuta.

10. Who wrote the book 'Kitab-ul-Hind'?

(a) Al-Biruni.

(b) Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi.

(c) Ibn Juzayy.

(d) Ibn Battuta. 

► (a) Al-Biruni.

11. Which one of the following is written by Ibn Battuta.?

(a) Kitab-ul-Hind

(b) Rihla

(c) Dihal

(d) Deccan-e-Hind

► (b) Rihla

12. Al-Biruni was born in 973, in ________

(a) Syria

(b) Kabul

(c) Ghazni

(d) Khwarizm

► (d) Khwarizm

13. Bernier’s works were published in France in _____.

(a) 1668-69

(b) 1669-70

(c) 1670-71

(d) 1672-74

► (c) 1670-71

14. The French philosopher Montesquieu used whose account to develop the idea of oriental despotism?

(a) Al-Biruni.

(b) Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi.

(c) Bernier

(d) Ibn Battuta. 

► (c) Bernier