Cultural Heritage & Archaeology MCQ — 53 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

UNESCO gives 1311 as the year of the Alai Darwaza gateway and calls it a masterpiece of Indo-Muslim art. A date before 1200 CE, a date after 1500 CE and the eighteenth century all fall outside the year stated in the cited UNESCO fact.

Explanation

Statement 1 is correct because UNESCO places the Jain group at Ellora in caves 30 to 34. Statement 2 is correct because the same fact says the group includes paintings dedicated to the Digambara sect. Statement 3 is wrong because caves 1 to 12 are not the Jain group in the cited UNESCO fact.

Explanation

Jama Masjid at Champaner-Pavagadh is the mosque cited as having become a model for later mosque architecture in India. Sidi Saiyyed Mosque, Atala Masjid and Jamali Kamali Mosque are real medieval-period monuments, but the cited UNESCO fact makes this specific architectural-model claim for Champaner-Pavagadh's Jama Masjid.

Explanation

Statement 1 is correct because Ellora has sanctuaries devoted to Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. Statement 2 is correct because UNESCO places them in a single rock-cut complex. Statement 3 is wrong because the cited fact is not limited to Hinduism; it expressly includes Buddhist and Jain sanctuaries as well.

Explanation

The Assertion is true because evidence of links with regions outside the Harappan urban network would show external contacts. The Reason is also true because the cited fact names trade links with other Harappan cities, Mesopotamia and the Oman peninsula. Since Mesopotamia and the Oman peninsula are the external contacts that support the claim, the Reason directly explains the Assertion; calling either part false or denying the explanatory link is inconsistent with the cited fact.