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Class 12 Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments Mock Test (CBSE)

2 practice questions from Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments, in the style of your board paper, each with a worked answer and the marks for every step. Then take a full chapter test on paper, snap the pages and get every step marked.

Topics in Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments

  • A glimpse of Sanchi
  • The background: sacrifices and debates
  • Beyond worldly pleasures: the message of Mahavira
  • The Buddha and the quest for enlightenment
  • The teachings of the Buddha
  • Followers of the Buddha
  • Stupas
  • Discovering stupas: the fate of Amaravati and Sanchi
  • Sculpture
  • New religious traditions
  • Can we see everything?

Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments practice questions with answers

  1. Q1Multiple choice1 mark
    During the mid-first millennium CE, which of the following traditions gained prominence with the growth of Puranic Hinduism and the visual representation of deities through sculpture and architecture?
    1. (a)Early Jain ascetic practices and strict penance
    2. (b)Vaishnava and Shaiva cults centered around devotional worship
    3. (c)Early Buddhist monastic councils and sangha rules
    4. (d)Vedic sacrificial traditions centred on Agni and Soma
    Show answer and step marks
    1. Correct option: (b) Vaishnava and Shaiva cults centered around devotional worship+1
    Answer: (b)
  2. Q2Multiple choice1 mark
    Which of the following motifs, found on the railings and gateways of the Sanchi stupa, represents a woman whose touch was believed to cause trees to bear fruit or flower, symbolising good fortune?
    1. (a)Bodhisattva
    2. (b)Chaitya
    3. (c)Tirthankara
    4. (d)Shalabhanjika
    Show answer and step marks
    1. Correct option: (d) Shalabhanjika+1
    Answer: (d)

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