History of India | Medieval History | Bhakti and Sufi Movement

History of India | Medieval History | Bhakti and Sufi Movement

1. The common belief of life of both Buddha and Mirabai was

Following ahimsa
Austerity of Nirvana
The world is full of sorrow
Speak of truth

2. 'Let no man ask a man's sect or caste' whose dictum was this?

Kabir
Ramananda
Ramanuja
Chaitanya

3. The Bhakti movement was started by

Alwar Saints
Sufi Saints
Surdas
Tulsidas

4. The Bhakti culture reborn in India during

Vedic age
10th century A.D.
12th century A.D.
15th-16th century A.D.

5. Vaishnavism in Kamarupa was popularised by

Chaitanya
Nimbarka
Ramananda
Shankaradeva

6. Who among the following introduced Vaishnavism in Assam and Cooch Behar?

Chaitanya
Madhva
Shankaradeva
Vallabhacharya

7. Ramanujacharya is related to

Bhakti
Dvaitvad
Vishistadvaita
Monotheism

8. 'Shuddha Advaitvad' was propounded by

Madhvacharya
Vallabhacharya
Shrikantacharya
Ramanuja

9. Where is the birthplace of 'Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya'?

Shivarinarayan
Bilaspur
Ratanpur
Champaranya

10. Who among the following was the first Bhakti Saint to use Hindi for the propagation of his message?

Dadu
Kabir
Ramananda
Tulsidas

11. Kabir was disciple of

Chaitanya
Ramananda
Ramanuja
Tukaram

12. Who among the following are Saints of the medieval Age India?

Kumbhandas
Ramanand
Raidas
Tulsidas

13. Who composed 'Bijak'?

Surdas
Kabir
Ravidas
Pipaji

14. A collection of dialogues between Kabir and Dharamdas is titled

Sabad
Amarmul
Sakhi
Ramaini

15. Malukdas was a saint poet of

Agra
Ayodhya
Kashi
Kada

16. How many Jyotirlingah are there devoted to Lord Shiva?

6
12
24
18

17. The followers of Ramanuja are known as

Shaiva
Vaishnava
Advaitvadi
Avadhoot

18. Which of the following was the birthplace of Guru Nanak?

Amritsar
Nabha
Nankana
Nanded

19. In whose regime Guru Nanak Dev founded Sikh religion?

Firuz Shah Tughluq
Sikandar Lodi
Humayun
Akbar

20. Mirabai was contemporary of

Tulsidas
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Guru Nanak
Ramakrishna Paramhansa

21. The name of the husband of famous devotee poet Mira

Rana Ratan Singh
Rajkumar Bhojraj
Rana Uday Singh
Rana Sanga

22. Who wrote 'Rag-Govind'?

Mirabai
Narhari
Surdas
Raskhan

23. Which one of the following leaders of the Bhakti Movement was influenced by Islam?

Chaitanya
Mirabai
Namdev
Vallabhacharya

24. Whose contemporary was Tulsidas?

Akbar and Jahangir
Shahjahan
Aurangzeb
Babur and Humayun

25. The book 'Ramcharitmanas' was written by

Tulsidas
Valmiki
Surdas
Ved Vyas

26. Which of the following is not a composition of Saint Tulsidas?

Gitavali
Kavitavali
Vinay Patrika
Sahitya Ratna

27. Who among the following was the Saint of the Varkari Sect?

Nimbarka
Chakradhara
Namdev
Ramdas

28. Bhakt Tukaram was a contempo-rary of which Mughal Emperor?

Babur
Akbar
Jahangir
Aurangzeb

29. Among the following, who was not a proponent of Bhakti cult?

Nagarjuna
Tukaram
Tyagaraja
Vallabhacharya

30. The 'Chishtia Sufi Order' in India was established by

Khwaja Badaruddin
Khwaja Muinuddin
Shaikh Ahmad Sirhind
Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya

31. The first Sufi Saint of Chishtia Sect in India was

Shaikh Muinuddin Chishti
Hamiduddin Chishti
Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
Nizamuddin Auliya

32. Who among the following was the earliest Sufi Saint to have settled at Ajmer?

Shaikh Muinuddin Chishti
Shaikh Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
Shaikh Salim Chishti

33. Who was the founder of Chishtia Branch of Sufism?

Shaikh Muhiuddin
Shaikh Jiaudhin Abuljiva
Khwaja Abu-Abdal
Khwaja Bahaud-Din

34. Whose disciple was Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti?

Khwaja Abdal Chishti
Shah Wali Ullah
Mir Dard
Khwaja Usman Haruni

35. Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya was the disciple of

Shaikh Alauddin Sabir
Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti
Baba Farid
Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi

36. Dargah of Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya is situated in

Agra
Ajmer
Delhi
Fatehpur

37. The Sufi saint who maintained that devotional music was one way of coming close to God was

Muinuddin Chishti
Baba Farid
Sayyid Muhammad Gisudaraz
Shah Alam Bukhari

38. Who among the following does not belong to the Chishti order?

Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
Sheikh Abdul Jilani
Sheikh Moinuddin
Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya

39. Who among the following is called the 'Sadi of India'?

Amir Hasan
Amir Khusrau
Abu Talib Kalim
Chandrabhan Brahman

40. Which one of the following Sultans of Delhi was refused as audience by Nizamuddin Auliya?

Jalaluddin Khalji
Alauddin Khalji
Ghiyasuddin Tughluq
Muhammad-Bin-Tughluq

41. The most reputed disciple of Shaikh Farid who had seen the reign of as many as seven sultans of Delhi was

Nizamuddin Auliya
Shaikh Nasiruddin Chirag
Shaikh Salim Chishti
None of the above

42. The thought of which of the following Sufi saint have been incorporated in the religious book 'Adi Granth' of the Sikh?

Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti
Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
Fariduddin-Ganj-i-Shakar
Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya

43. The famous saint Shaikh Salim Chishti lived in

Delhi
Ajmer
Fatehpur Sikri
Lahore

44. Who among the following was given the title of Shaikh-ul-Hind?

Baba Fariduddin
Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti
Shaikh Salim Chishti

45. The most orthodox Sufi order was

Chishti
Suhrawardi
Naqshbandi
Qadiri

46. Which of the following Silsilas of Sufism was against music?

Chishtiya
Suhrawardiya
Qadiriya
Naqshbandiya

47. Which of the following is not related with Sufism?

Ulema
Khanqah
Shaikh
Sama

48. Prem Vatika, poems on the life of Krishna, was composed by

Bihari
Surdas
Raskhan
Kabir

49. Who of the following is not associat- ed with the Bhakti Movement?

Vallabhacharya
Chaitanya
Guru Nanak
Amir Khusrau

50. Who composed 'Barahmasa'?

Amir Khusrau
Imami
Malik Muhammad Jaisi
Raskhan

51. Every year a fair is held at the tomb of famous Sufi saint Haji Waris Ali Shah at

Fatehpur Sikri
Kaliyar
Dewa Sharif
Garhmukteshwar

52. The birthplace of Christ is

Jerusalem
Bethlehem
London
Babylon

53. The spirit of Christians behind the festival of Easter is

Jesus preached this day
Jesus departed from the world
Jesus went to Nazareth
The day of Resurrection of Christ

54. Which Christian saint is famous for the love with animal and birds?

Saint Paul
Saint Thomas
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Peter

55. Why Good Friday of Christian is celebrated?

Jesus Christ had died
Jesus Christ was born
Jesus Christ crucified
A.D. was introduced