MCQ on Akbar

Question 1. The Battle of Haldighati was fought in _________.

(A) 1576 B.C.

(B) 1756 B.C.

(C) 1576 A.D.

(D) 1756 A.D.

Question 2. Who was the commander of Rana Pratap’s army in the Battle of Haldighati?

(A) Shakti Singh

(B) Hakim Khan

(C) Man Singh

(D) Amar Singh

Question 3. In which of the following place Akbar was enthroned on getting the information of Humayun’s death? 

(A) Kalanour

(B) Sarhind

(C) Lahore

(D) Kabul

Question 4. The main aim of Akbar in fighting the Battle of Hadighati was _________.

(A) Imperial policy

(B) To satisfy sentiments of Man Singh

(C) To polarise Rajputs

(D) To subdue Rana Pratap

Question 5. The first matrimonial alliance with the Rajputs was established by Akbar with the house of ________.

(A) Sisodias

(B) Rathors

(C) Kachhwahas

(D) Bundelas

Question 6. Which amongst the following families was the first to have a matrimonial alliance with Akbar?

(A) Chauhan

(B) Kachhwaha

(C) Sisodiya

(D) Rathod

Question 7. The Mausoleum (Dargah) of which Chishti Saint was visited by Akbar?

(A) Shaikh Farid Sanj-ai-Shakar

(B) Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

(C) Shaikh Nasimuddin Chirag Dehalvi

(D) Muinuddin Chishti

Question 8. Who among the following was personally killed by Akbar?

(A) Pir Muhammad Khan

(B) Baz Bahadur

(C) Bairam Khan

(D) Adham Khan

Question 9. Which of the following Rajputana state did not accept the supremacy of Akbar willingly?

(A) Bikaner

(B) Marwar

(C) Mewar

(D) Amber

Question 10. Which Rajput ruler continued his struggle for independence against Mughals and did not surrender?

(A) Maharana Amar Singh of Mewar

(B) Raja Bharmal of Amber

(C) Rao Chandrasen of Marwar

(D) Raja Rai Singh of Bikaner

Question 11. Durgawati, who fought against Akbar, was the queen of ________.

(A) Ramgarh

(B) Asirgarh

(C) Mandu

(D) Mandla

Question 12. Abul Fazl’s death was caused by ________.

(A) Prince Daniyal

(B) Prince Murad

(C) Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan

(D) Prince Salim

Question 13. Which one of the following factors is not conducive in establishing Akbar as a nationalist?

(A) Akbar’s religious policy

(B) Akbar’s effort at cultural unity

(C) Administrative unity and unity in Law

(D) Akbar had forsaken Islam

Question 14. Who of the following Muslim rulers abolished the pilgrimage tax?

(A) Akbar

(B) Humayun

(C) Sher Shah

(D) Bahlul Lodi

Question 15. Who among the following emperors may be called ‘an enlightened despot’? 

(A) Aurangzeb

(B) Akbar

(C) Humayun

(D) Babur

Question 16. Who among the following had ordered that a man should marry only one wife and could marry another only when the first wife was barren? 

(A) Alauddin Khalji

(B) Akbar

(C) Sher Shah

(D) None of the above

Question 17. The head of the military department under the recognised central machinery of administration during Akbar’s reign was _________.

(A) Bakshi

(B) Mir Saman

(C) Mir Bakshi

(D) Diwan

Question 18. The military system in the reign of Akbar was based on ________.

(A) Ain-i-Dahsala

(B) Feudalistic

(C) Zamindari

(D) Mansabdari

Question 19. The first person to be given proper status of the Diwan by Akbar was _________.

(A) Raja Todarmal

(B) Muzaffar Khan Turbati

(C) Munim Khan

(D) Asaf Khan

Question 20. The Mansabdari System introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in _________.

(A) Persia

(B) Mongolia

(C) Turkey

(D) Afghanistan

Question 21. Zabti system was introduced by ________.

(A) Akbar

(B) Sher Shah

(C) Sikandar Lodi

(D) Ghiyasudin Tughluq

Question 22. In which measures Todarmal achieve fame? 

(A) Painting

(B) Humor

(C) Land Revenue

(D) Military campaign

Question 23. Which revenue system among the following is also known as the Bandobast System?

(A) Kankut

(B) Nasq

(C) Dahsala

(D) Zabti

Question 24. Which among the following systems of levying land revenue in Deccan was prevalent during the reign of Akbar? 

(A) Ghallabhakshi

(B) Zabt

(C) Number of ploughs

(D) Kankut

Question 25. Todarmal was associated to _________.

(A) Music

(B) Literature

(C) Land Revenue Reforms

(D) Law

Question 26. Who among the following was the connecting link between Sher Shah and Akbar in land revenue administrative measures?

(A) Bharmal

(B) Bhagwandas

(C) Todarmal

(D) Birbal

Question 27. During Akbar period, land revenue system ‘Ain-i-Dahsala’ was developed by _________.

(A) Mulla Do Pyaza

(B) Todarmal

(C) Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan

(D) Shahnawaz Khan

Question 28. Akbar launched ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ in the year _______. 

(A) 1582

(B) 1581

(C) 1578

(D) 1570

Question 29. Which ruler had promoted ‘Din-iIlahi’? 

(A) Shah Jahan

(B) Aurangzeb

(C) Akbar

(D) Babur

Question 30. Which historian said ‘Din-i-Ilahi’ is a religion? 

(A) Mohsin Fani

(B) Nizamuddin

(C) Abdul Qadir Badauni

(D) Abul Fazl

Question 31. Who constructed Ibadat Khana?

(A) Firuz Tughluq

(B) Akbar

(C) Alauddin Khalji

(D) Aurangzeb

Question 32. Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri was ______.

(A) The room in which the nobles belonging to different religions gathered to discuss religious affairs

(B) The hall in which Akbar held discussions with scholars of various religions

(C) Akbar’s private prayer chamber

(D) The mosque for the use of Royal Family

Question 33. Which monument is not at Fatehpur Sikri?

(A) Akbari Mahal

(B) Jodha Bai Palace

(C) Panch Mahal

(D) Golden Palace