ANSWER KEY (ART AND CULTURE MOCK TEST)1. C2. B3. D4. C5. D6. A7. D Vaishnavites, panchvira, Panchyatana8. B Stupika is dravid style, amalaka in nagara 9. C10. C11. B12. C13. C14. B natya shashtra only talks about rasa and taal15. B16. C17. A18. A19. B20. B . only lokyata school doesn’t believes in rebirth theory21. B22. D23. C BARABAR CAVES OLDEST MADE BY ASHOKA which Caves 1 to 12

are Buddhist; Caves 13 to 29 are Brahmanical and Caves 30 to 34 are Jaina.

24. B25. D26. Nabakalebara festival is an ancient ritual that is observed in most of the Jaganath temples, Odisha. In this

festival, the idols of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra and Sudarshan are replaced by new idols. Nabakalebara is usually comes in every twelve to nineteen years based on the auspicious two months of Ashadha as per the Hindu calendar.

27. Kathina offering is an ancient Buddhist Tradition of offering special robe and other necessities to monks who maintain strict discipline of retreat during the rainy season. 

28. Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad was a Muslim historian of late medieval India ,is the writer of ‘Tabqat-i-Akbari’. The work is a general history of India covering the time from the Ghaznavids up to 1593-94. He was Akbar’s Mir Bakhshi.

29. B) 1, 3 & 4 Only Shehnai is not composite or Indo-Islamic in origin.

30. Dhynaeshwar The sect is believed to have originated in Karnataka and migrated to Maharashtra later. The followers of the sect believe that Dnyaneshwar laid the foundation stone, which is evident from the saying “Dnyanadev rachila paya”

31. 1, 2 & 3 Turned Lotus , Kalash on the domes and Ornamentation of Indian Art were adopted in the the construction of Mosques in India.

32. Alberuni , the Arab astronomer who studied Sanskrit and astronomy for a decade at Varanasi. 33. Fautuhat-i-Ferozshahi Fautuhat-i-Ferozshahi was authored by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq himself. He was

a Turkic Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388

A.D. 34. The Dashavatara Temple or Vishnu Temple also called Gupta temple at Deogarh. It was built in the Gupta

Period (320 to c. 600 AD ). Archaeologists have inferred that it is the earliest known Panchayatana temple in North India. A hindu temple is a Panchayatana one when the main shrine is surrounded by four subsidiary shrines.

35. Vimana is a term for the tower above the Garbhagriha or Sanctum sanctorum in a Hindu temple in Dravidian style.

36. Chola art: The most famous of all the bronze icons is that of Nataraja, the Divine Dancer. The symbolism presents Siva as lord of the cosmic dance of creation and destruction.

37. B. To kill hiranakshya. 38. Establishment of Khalasa Panth 

39. Manipur 

40. Unicorn41. D42. A43. A44. D45. B46. D47. A48. A49. B50. D51. C52. C53. A54. C55. C56. D57. C58. A59. A60. A61. C62. B63. C64. Origin from Sama Veda. The lyrics, some of which were written in Sanskrit centuries ago,

Dhrupad music is primarily devotional in theme and content.

65. D66. B67. C68. D69. A70. D. Rest are puppetry forms.71. D72. B73. B74. C75. B76. D 77. C78. D79. B80. D81. D82. D 83. A84. C85. C86. D87. A88. B89. A90. C91. B92. C93. D94. C95. A96. C. Goa97. D98. B.earlier done by devadasisi, but upon disapproval, young boys used to do it.Sonal Mansingh99. B100. D. its works of Kalidas.