Bihar STET Teaching Aptitude & Pedagogy: 30 Practice Questions
30 practice questions on teaching aptitude and pedagogy for Bihar STET History (Paper 2), with answers to check your preparation.
This set is for candidates preparing for Bihar STET History (Paper 2) who want to test their understanding of teaching aptitude and pedagogy alongside core history topics such as Akbar, the Delhi Sultanate, the Mauryan Age, the Mughal Empire and Marathas, the Revolt of 1857, and Independence and Partition. The 30 questions below mix pedagogy concepts with history content, giving you a quick sense of where your preparation stands.
Attempt all 30 questions first without looking at the answers. Once you've gone through the full set, check your answers and go back to any topics where you got stuck or guessed. This way, you'll know exactly which areas need another round of revision before you move on to full-length practice.
How to use these questions
- Attempt every question on your own before checking the answer key — guessing and reviewing teaches you more than reading answers upfront.
- Note down topics where you got a question wrong, such as Harappan Civilization, Bhakti and Sufi Movements, or Later Sultanate and Regional Kingdoms, and revisit those areas specifically.
- Treat this as a quick diagnostic, not a full exam simulation — once you've identified weak spots, move to full-length mock tests to practice under timed conditions.
- Revisit this question set after a few days to check whether the concepts have stuck, rather than relying on a single pass.
The westernmost known Harappan site is:
- (A) Sutkagen Dor (Baluchistan)
- (B) Banawali (Haryana)
- (C) Alamgirpur (Uttar Pradesh)
- (D) Daimabad (Maharashtra)
Answer: (A) Sutkagen Dor (Baluchistan)
Explanation: It lies on the Dasht river near the Iran border.
Austria regained full independence after WWII through the State Treaty of:
- (A) 1945
- (B) 1949
- (C) 1961
- (D) 1955
Answer: (D) 1955
Explanation: It committed Austria to neutrality.
Which of the following is a correct Renaissance-era chronological order?
- (A) Columbus → Luther → Fall of Constantinople
- (B) Fall of Constantinople → Columbus's voyage → Luther's Theses
- (C) Luther → Columbus → Fall of Constantinople
- (D) Luther's Theses → Fall of Constantinople → Columbus
Answer: (B) Fall of Constantinople → Columbus's voyage → Luther's Theses
Explanation: 1453, 1492 and 1517 respectively.
Before the Sultanate, Delhi first became the capital of a kingdom under the:
- (A) Mauryas
- (B) Guptas
- (C) Palas
- (D) Tomara Rajputs (later defeated by the Chauhans)
Answer: (D) Tomara Rajputs (later defeated by the Chauhans)
Explanation: The Chauhans took Delhi in the mid-12th century.
Which statement about the Arthashastra is correct?
- (A) It is a treatise on statecraft, economy, law and diplomacy
- (B) It is a Buddhist religious text
- (C) It is a drama in Prakrit
- (D) It was written by Megasthenes
Answer: (A) It is a treatise on statecraft, economy, law and diplomacy
Explanation: Some scholars think parts were added later.
Britain's rivers and canals were important for:
- (A) Growing rice
- (B) Defence only
- (C) Fishing only
- (D) Cheap transport of heavy goods like coal
Answer: (D) Cheap transport of heavy goods like coal
Explanation: Water transport was cheaper than roads.
The Chola port of Mamallapuram had earlier been important under the:
- (A) Portuguese
- (B) Mughals
- (C) Pallavas
- (D) Mauryas
Answer: (C) Pallavas
Explanation: Its Shore Temple is a Pallava monument.
Harsha personally supervised the administration by:
- (A) Touring his kingdom regularly
- (B) Writing letters to China
- (C) Holding elections
- (D) Never leaving his palace
Answer: (A) Touring his kingdom regularly
Explanation: Hiuen Tsang praises his tireless work.
Tansen is buried at:
- (A) Delhi
- (B) Lahore
- (C) Agra
- (D) Gwalior
Answer: (D) Gwalior
Explanation: His tomb is near that of his teacher Muhammad Ghaus.
In Tamil Nadu, a salt march parallel to Dandi was led by C. Rajagopalachari from Trichy to:
- (A) Kanyakumari
- (B) Vedaranyam
- (C) Madras
- (D) Madurai
Answer: (B) Vedaranyam
Explanation: It took place in April 1930.
The 'Society of Revolutionary Republican Women' was closed down in 1793 by the:
- (A) Jacobin government
- (B) Directory
- (C) Napoleon
- (D) King
Answer: (A) Jacobin government
Explanation: All women's clubs were banned that year.
The first Secretary of State for India was:
- (A) Lord Ripon
- (B) Lord Stanley
- (C) Lord Canning
- (D) Charles Wood
Answer: (B) Lord Stanley
Explanation: Charles Wood followed him and issued educational policy earlier.
The 1886 Calcutta session was notable because it was attended by about:
- (A) 5 delegates
- (B) 72 delegates
- (C) 10,000 delegates
- (D) 434 delegates
Answer: (D) 434 delegates
Explanation: Many came from the Indian National Conference.
The 'Mamallapuram' name of Mahabalipuram comes from the title 'Mamalla' of:
- (A) Rajasimha
- (B) Narasimhavarman I
- (C) Mahendravarman I
- (D) Simhavishnu
Answer: (B) Narasimhavarman I
Explanation: 'Mamalla' means 'great wrestler'.
The four stages of life (ashramas) began with:
- (A) Sannyasa
- (B) Grihastha
- (C) Brahmacharya (student life)
- (D) Vanaprastha
Answer: (C) Brahmacharya (student life)
Explanation: The system was fully developed later.
The earliest major Persian Sufi treatise written in South Asia, 'Kashf-ul-Mahjub', is by:
- (A) Mian Mir
- (B) Ali Hujwiri (Data Ganj Bakhsh) of Lahore
- (C) Ahmad Sirhindi
- (D) Nizamuddin Auliya
Answer: (B) Ali Hujwiri (Data Ganj Bakhsh) of Lahore
Explanation: He died in the 11th century.
Mir Qasim became Nawab of Bengal in:
- (A) 1772
- (B) 1757
- (C) 1760
- (D) 1764
Answer: (C) 1760
Explanation: He replaced his father-in-law Mir Jafar.
Khushwant Singh's novel 'Train to Pakistan' is set in a fictional village called:
- (A) Mano Majra
- (B) Shivapur
- (C) Rahi Masoom
- (D) Malgudi
Answer: (A) Mano Majra
Explanation: It was published in 1956.
The 'Burhan-i-Maasir' is an important history of the:
- (A) Rajputs
- (B) Cholas
- (C) Bahmani and Nizam Shahi sultanates
- (D) Mughals of Delhi
Answer: (C) Bahmani and Nizam Shahi sultanates
Explanation: It was written by Ali bin Aziz Tabataba.
The 'Bibi ka Maqbara' at Aurangabad, resembling the Taj Mahal, was built for:
- (A) Mumtaz Mahal
- (B) Jahanara
- (C) Nur Jahan
- (D) Aurangzeb's wife Rabia-ud-Daurani
Answer: (D) Aurangzeb's wife Rabia-ud-Daurani
Explanation: It was built by her son Azam Shah.
The Harappans were the first people in the world known to grow:
- (A) Coffee
- (B) Cotton
- (C) Tea
- (D) Tobacco
Answer: (B) Cotton
Explanation: The Greeks later called cotton 'sindon', from Sindh.
Germany was formally divided into two states in:
- (A) 1949
- (B) 1990
- (C) 1945
- (D) 1961
Answer: (A) 1949
Explanation: FRG (West) and GDR (East) were created.
The 'Gates of Paradise' on the Florence Baptistery were made by:
- (A) Michelangelo
- (B) Lorenzo Ghiberti
- (C) Donatello
- (D) Brunelleschi
Answer: (B) Lorenzo Ghiberti
Explanation: Michelangelo is said to have given them this name.
The 'Hindavi' language that Amir Khusrau used is an early form of:
- (A) Bengali
- (B) Persian
- (C) Hindi-Urdu
- (D) Tamil
Answer: (C) Hindi-Urdu
Explanation: He wrote riddles (paheliyan) in it.
Which of Ashoka's minor rock edicts in Bihar is located at Sasaram?
- (A) Pillar Edict VII
- (B) Minor Rock Edict I
- (C) Separate Kalinga Edict
- (D) Major Rock Edict XIII
Answer: (B) Minor Rock Edict I
Explanation: It records Ashoka becoming a more zealous lay follower.
The new class of factory workers who sold their labour for wages is often called the:
- (A) Clergy
- (B) Working class (proletariat)
- (C) Aristocracy
- (D) Nobility
Answer: (B) Working class (proletariat)
Explanation: Factory owners formed the capitalist (bourgeois) class.
The Chinese official Zhao Rugua's work describing foreign lands, including the Cholas, is:
- (A) Zhu Fan Zhi
- (B) Si-yu-ki
- (C) Rihla
- (D) Fo-kuo-ki
Answer: (A) Zhu Fan Zhi
Explanation: It was written in the 13th century.
Hiuen Tsang returned to China carrying about how many Buddhist manuscripts?
- (A) 10
- (B) 5,000
- (C) 50
- (D) 657
Answer: (D) 657
Explanation: He spent his later life translating them.
In times of famine or crop failure, Akbar's administration:
- (A) Did nothing
- (B) Confiscated land
- (C) Gave remission of revenue and loans to peasants
- (D) Doubled the tax
Answer: (C) Gave remission of revenue and loans to peasants
Explanation: Loans to peasants were called taqavi.
Bhagat Singh and his comrades killed which police officer in 1928 to avenge Lajpat Rai?
- (A) General Dyer
- (B) J. P. Saunders
- (C) Michael O'Dwyer
- (D) James Scott
Answer: (B) J. P. Saunders
Explanation: They had intended to target Scott.
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Frequently asked questions
What topics does this Bihar STET pedagogy question set cover?
The 30 questions cover teaching aptitude and pedagogy along with history topics such as Akbar, the Mauryan Age, Harshavardhana, the Mughal Empire and Marathas, the Revolt of 1857, and Independence and Partition, among others.
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