Practice Sangam Age – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 2

Consider the following statements about the Sangam age:

1. The Sangam assemblies of poets are believed to have been held at Madurai, with Pandya kings as patrons.

2. Sangam chiefs collected regular taxes from the people.

3. Puram poems deal with outer life, war and bravery.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following pairs of port and ruling family of the Sangam age is correctly matched?

Match List-I (landscape, or tinai) with List-II (deity associated with it):

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

Which of the following pairs of Tamil work and description is NOT correctly matched?

Arrange the following events linked with the story of Kannagi in the correct order:

1. The Chera king Senguttuvan begins the worship of Kannagi as Pattini.

2. Kovalan is wrongly sentenced to death in Madurai.

3. Kannagi destroys the city of Madurai.

Select the correct chronological order.

Sailors of the Sangam age made use of the monsoon winds mainly to:

The Sangam king Karikala is credited with building a dam (bund). Which of the following correctly gives the river and the purpose of the dam?

Which one of the following is the odd one out?

In the Sangam age, a nadukal was:

In Sangam-age trade with Rome, which commodity was called 'black gold', and what was it usually paid for in?