Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Through the Eyes of Travellers

Question:

Name the two kinds of plant produce that were completely unfamiliar to Ibn Batutta's audience which he had described vividly.

Options:

Coconut and Opium

Paan and Sugarcane

Coconut and Paan.

Paan and Opium

Correct Answer:

Coconut and Paan.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 - Coconut and Paan.

Some of the best examples of Ibn Battuta’s strategies of representation are evident in the ways in which he described the coconut and the paan, two kinds of plant produce that were completely unfamiliar to his audience.

Ibn Battuta, described coconut as "Nuts like a man's head".