MCQ on Mughal Empire Literature

Question 1. Delhi’s education centre which was known as ‘Madarsa-e-Begum’. By whom it was established?

(A) Zeenat Unnisa

(B) Ziaunnisa

(C) Maham Anaga

(D) Gulbadan Begum

Question 2. Who wrote Humayun Nama?

(A) Jahangir

(B) Gulbadan Begum

(C) Humayun

(D) Babur

Question 3. Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of _________.

(A) Aurangzeb

(B) Shah Jahan

(C) Humayun

(D) Babur

Question 4. Who among the following wrote historical records in the Mughal period?

(A) Zebunnisa Begum

(B) Jahanara Begum

(C) Nur Jahan Begum

(D) Gulbadan Begum

Question 5. Who among the following had translated ‘Hitopadesha’ into Persian? 

(A) Tajul Mali

(B) Abdul Qadir Badauni

(C) Faizi

(D) Dara Shikoh

Question 6. Which of the following Muslim Scholars has most significant contribution in hindi literature?

(A) Abdul Qadir Badauni

(B) Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan

(C) Faizi

(D) Abul Fazl

Question 7. In Indian history, who was Abdul Hamid Lahori?

(A) A chronicler and poet during the reign of Muhammad Shah

(B) An important noble and confident of Aurangzeb

(C) An official historian of the reign of Shah Jahan

(D) An important military commander during Akbar’s reign

Question 8. Who is the author of Shahjahannama?

(A) Inayat Khan

(B) Abdul Hamid Lahori

(C) Shah Jahan

(D) Gulbadan Begum

Question 9. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Akbar : Tabaqat-i-Akbari

(B) Sher Shah : Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi

(C) Humayun : Humayun Nama

(D) Babur : Tuzuk-i-Baburi

Question 10. Anwar-e-Suhaili is a translation of __________.

(A) Sur Sagar

(B) Ramayan

(C) Mahabharata

(D) Panchtantra

Question 11. Akbar Nama was completed by Abul Fazl in ________.

(A) Ten years

(B) Nine years

(C) Eight years

(D) Seven years

Question 12. Court Language during Mughal period was _________.

(A) Urdu

(B) Persian

(C) Turkish

(D) Arabic

Question 13. Nastaliq was _________.

(A) A manual of code of conduct for the Ulemas

(B) A cess levied by the Mughal rulers

(C) A raga composed by Tansen

(D) A Persian script used in medieval India

Question 14. The poet heart King, who wrote praising verses for Lord Krishna under the name of Nagri Das was _________.

(A) Raja Sawant Singh

(B) Raja Chhatrasal

(C) Raja Ram Singh

(D) Raja Ummed Singh

Question 15. Which one of the following, wrote the famous works ‘Ram Chandrika’ and ‘Rasik-Priya’?

(A) Senapati

(B) Raskhan

(C) Matiram

(D) Keshav

Question 16. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below the lists.

Question 17. Match the names of books with that of the authors and choose your answer from the code given below.