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Art & Culture Quiz: Indo-Islamic Architecture

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  • 11 minutes
  • Difficulty: Medium
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This Art & Culture quiz on Indo-Islamic Architecture puts 11 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic, 5 of them asked in real previous-year papers. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.

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11 questions with answers and explanations

Q2.Art & CultureAsked in: SSC CGL · 17 August 2017, Shift 3Easy

Jama Masjid of Delhi was built by?

  1. A.Akbar
  2. B.Humayun
  3. C.Babar
  4. D.Shah Jahan
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Correct answer: D. Shah Jahan

The Jama Masjid of Delhi, whose formal name is Masjid-i-Jahan-Numa, was built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 as the congregational mosque of his new capital Shahjahanabad.

Q7.Art & CultureMedium

Which monument is regarded as the first garden tomb built on the charbagh plan in India?

  1. A.Tomb of Sher Shah Suri at Sasaram
  2. B.Humayun tomb at Delhi
  3. C.Akbar tomb at Sikandra
  4. D.Bibi ka Maqbara at Aurangabad
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Correct answer: B. Humayun tomb at Delhi

Built between 1565 and 1572 by his widow Hamida Banu Begum and designed by the Persian architect Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, it is the first tomb in India set in the middle of a charbagh, a square garden cut into four quarters by walkways and water channels.

Q10.Art & CultureHard

Thick sloping or battered walls, grey stone and very plain surfaces are the mark of which dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate?

  1. A.Slave dynasty
  2. B.Khalji dynasty
  3. C.Tughlaq dynasty
  4. D.Lodi dynasty
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Correct answer: C. Tughlaq dynasty

Tughlaq building is the most austere phase of the Sultanate style. It uses local grey sandstone or rubble, keeps ornament to a minimum and gives its walls a pronounced batter, that is a slope inward as they rise, which makes even a tomb look like a fort.

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