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Questions : Some of the following place (s) has/have revealed archaeological evidence regarding pit-dwellings:
  1. Dholavira
  2. Burzahom
  3. Gufkral
  4. Shortugai
Which are those sites?

(a) 2 and 3

(b) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(c) 1, 2 and 3

(d) 3 and 4

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

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Question : 1

The local name of Mohenjodaro is:

a) Mound of Great

b) Mound of Dead

c) Mound of Survivor

d) Mound of Living

Answer: (b)

Mohenjodaro is not the original name, of course, but one given by local villagers referring to the ‘mound of the dead’: the tower and hillocks of abandoned debris of bricks that they had their forefathers had noticed in the surroundings.

Question : 2

Which of the following was not one of the tools and implements used by Indus Valley people?

a) Forks and spoons

b) Grindings stones for flouring wheat, pestles and querns

c) Sickles and plough

d) Needles and razors

Answer: (a)

Question : 3

The excavation at Chanhudaro was directed by

a) Aurel Stein

b) M. Wheeler

c) J.H. Mackay

d) John Marshall

Answer: (c)

Chanhudaro was investigated in 1931 by the Indian archaeologist N. G. Majumdar and was excavated in 1935-36 by the British archaeologist Ernest John Henry Mackay.

Question : 4

In which of the following sites was found the evidence of ‘Swastik’?

a) Kalibangan

b) Chanhudaro

c) Mohenjodaro

d) Harappa

Answer: (c)

The Swastika is said to have originated in both the Indus River Valley Civilization and in some ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. A tablet with Swastika has been excavated at Mohenjodaro.

Question : 5

The Aryans came to India as

a) Refugees

b) Merchants and nomads

c) Immigrants

d) Invaders

Answer: (a)

Question : 6

The best drainage system (water management) in Indus Valley Civilization was:

a) Kalibangan

b) Mohenjodaro

c) Lothal

d) Harappa

Answer: (c)

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