Chapter 5 RULERS AND BUILDINGS

1. Take a look at the following comment on Qutb Minar.

1.Iltutmish has never worked on it.

2.It was destroyed by lightning and earthquakes,

and Alauddin Khalji restored it.

3.Qutbuddin Aybak designed and built the first floor.

Select the correct response.

2. Take a look at the following statement.

1.Akbar built the Agra Fort.

2.Trabeate’ was a type of architecture in which a horizontal

beam was placed between two vertical columns to create roofs,

doors, and windows.

3.The trabeate style was never used in temple construction.

4.A baoli is a reservoir that may hold water.

Select the correct response.

3. Take a look at the following statement on the Kandariya Mahadeva temple.

1. It was built by the Chandela dynasty’s king Dhangadeva.
2. There was a big hall (mahamandapa) where dance performances took place.
3. The Shiva-dedicated Kandariya Mahadeva temple.

Select the correct response.

4. Take a look at the following statement about

Rajarajeshvara Temple.

1.It is the temple where the top of the shikhara

is made of 90 tonnes of stone.

2.The Rajarajeshvara temple in Thanjavur possessed

the world’s tallest shikhara at the time.

Select the incorrect response.

5. Take a look at the following statement.

1.Arches were occasionally used to support the weight

of the superstructure above the doors and windows

. “Arcuate” was the name given to this architectural style.

2.qibla is the direction in which Muslims face when praying

to the Kaaba.

3.King Rajarajadeva established the Rajarajeshvara temple to

venerate his god Rajarajeshvaram.

Select the correct response.

6. Take a look at the following statement.

1.Govind Deva in Vrindavan constructed out of

red and black sandstone.

2.Although the Mughals admired “Bangla dome”

architectural designs, they never used them.

3.Temples at Vrindavan, near Mathura, were built in architectural

styles that were strikingly comparable to those of Fatehpur Sikri’s

Mughal palaces.

4.Rajendra I was a contemporary of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.

Select the correct response.

7. Take a look at the following statement about shikhara.

1.Among the temples of its time, the Rajarajeshvara

temple in Thanjavur possessed the tallest shikhara.

2.A ‘Shikhara’ is the topmost roof of a Hindu temple.

Select the correct response.

8. Take a look at the following remark about pietra-dura.

1.A sequence of pietra dura inlays behind Emperor

Shah Jahan’s throne depicts the fabled Greek god Orpheus

playing the lute.

2.Pietra dura refers to coloured hard stones set in sculpted

depressions in marble.

Select the correct response.

9. Consider the following remark about Mughal

chahar bagh garden elements.

1.The “riverfront garden” was a version of the

chahar bagh garden, according to historians.

2.Char bagh gardens were enclosed gardens separated

into four halves by artificial canals within rectangular brick enclosures.

Select the correct response.