Practice Quiz set 3 - indian history mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) Which of the following animals was unknown in Indus Valley Civilization?
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Animals like buffaloes, sheeps and pigs and the humped bull were bred. Animals like elephant, camels and dogs were also domesticated. There is no evidence found about horses in the excavation of Indus Valley Civilization.
Q-2) Which amongst the following is not a site of Indus Valley Civilization?
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Hastinapur is not a site of Indus Valley Civilization. Hastinapur was the capital of the Kuru dynasty of kings. All incidents in the epic Mahabharata have taken place in the city of Hastinapur.
Q-3) A circular button shaped seal called the Persian gulf seal has been obtained from which Harappan site?
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Q-4) The earliest evidence of agriculture in Indian subcontinent has been obtained from:
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The site of Mehrgarh provides evidence for the earliest agricultural and pastoral communities in South Asia. The first inhabitants of Mehrgarh, dating to around 6500 BC, were farmers who cultivated wheat and barley as their main grain crops and had herds of cattle, sheep and goats.
Q-5) The Harappan towns and cities were divided into large______________ blocks
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Q-6) Which of the following sites of Harappan culture gives evidence of ‘Sindoor’?
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Naushero gives the evidence of Sindoor in Harappan culture. The site of Naushero, located 6 km away from Mehargarh had developed Kotdijian settlement. It was a smaller settlement but sharing fully the developmental process towards maturity of urbanization.
Q-7) The Aryans came to India as
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Q-8) Mostly, beads were made of:
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The vast majority of the beads are made of fired steatite, which was a widely used raw material, beginning with the Ravi period and continuing through the Late Harappan period. Beads that are made of hard stone, such as Agate, Carnelian, are relatively less common, with a significant drop in numbers for stones, such as Lapis Lazuli, Grossular Garnet, Serpentine and Amazonite.
Q-9) Consider the following statements:
- The Harappan civilization appeared all of a sudden
- Better technology to exploit the fertile plains of river Indus might have resulted in increased agricultural production.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
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The Harappan civilization did not appear all of a sudden. It developed gradually from earlier Neolithic village cultures.
The archaeological remains show that before the emergence of Harappan civilization the people lived in small villages. It is believed that the better technology to exploit the fertile plains of river Indus might have resulted in increased agricultural production.
This led to the production of a larger surplus to feed and maintain non-agricultural people such as artisans, administrators, etc.
Q-10) The tank of Great Bath complex at Mohenjodaro had stairs on
- Northern side
- Southern side
- Eastern side
- Western side
Select the correct answer from the codes given below codes:
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The Great Bath is one of the best-known structures among the ruins of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization at Mohenjodaro in Sindh, Pakistan. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Great Bath was built in the 3rd Millennium BCE, just sometime after raising of the ‘citadel’ mound on which it is located.
The Great Bath of Mohenjodaro is called the “earliest public water tank of the ancient world”. The Great Bath measures 11.88 metres × 7.01 metres, and has a maximum depth of 2.43 metres.
Two wide staircases, one from the north and one from the south, served as the entry to the structure. A one metre wide and 40 centimetres mound is present at end of these stairs.