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UPSC EXAM—HISTORY ANSWER - 4


ANSWERS TO TEST PAPER -- IV

MORDEN INDIAN HISTORY – DECLINE OF MUGHAL EMPIRE

Students are requested to first try to solve the test papers on their own, and then see the answers provided herein for the verification of the answers (SHOWN IN RED COLOUR) which they arrived at. Although utmost care has been taken while listing the answers, students are requested to bring about error, if any, in the same. 



1.    When Aurangzeb died, he was …………… years old.
a.    86
b.    87
c.    88
d.    89
2.  After the execution of ……………., Saiyid brothers raised in quick succession Emperor Rafi-ud-Darjat, Rafi-ud-Daula, and then Muhammad Shah.
a.    Hussain Ali
b.    Abdulla  Khan
c.    Farrukhsiyar
d.    Saadat Khan
3.    Jahandar Shah was the leader of
a.    Irani group
b.    Muslim group
c.    Hindu group
d.    Maratha group
4.     What is correct about Saiyids?
a.    They were descendants of the Prophet.
b.    They did not play any major role in the Mughal politics.
c.    They were active from 1690 to 1698.
d.    They represented reformist interests.
5.    In ……………, the Nizam was appointed as Wazir at Delhi.
a.    1770
b.    1771
c.    1772
d.    1773
6.    The founder of the independent principality of Oudh was Saadat Khan, popularly known as ……………
a.    Burhan-ul-Mulk
b.    Garibnawaz
c.    Dada
d.    Raja-e-Mulk
7.    Churaman was the …….. leader.
a.    Rajput
b.    Jat
c.    Sikh
d.    Maratha
8.    Who defeated Nizam in December 1737 at Bhopal?
a.    French
b.    British
c.    Maratha
d.    Nadir Shah
9.    …………… wrote Siuar-ul-Mutukherin.
a.    Ghulam Husain
b.    Prince Muazzam
c.    Nadir Shah
d.    Shah Tahmasp
10.  Ahmad Shah Abdali was …………….
a.    An Iranian merchant
b.    A young Afghan officer
c.    A Turani ulema
d.    A saint


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