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Questions : The local name of Mohenjodaro is:

(a) Mound of Great

(b) Mound of Dead

(c) Mound of Survivor

(d) Mound of Living

The correct answers to the above question in:

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.

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Question : 1

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 : 2

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 : 3

Pair the Harappan settlements with the banks of rivers on which they were located:

Lothal I. Indus
Kalibangan II. Sutlej
Ropar III. Ravi
Harappa IV. Ghaggar
Mohenjodaro V. Bhogaon
A B C D E

a) II V I IV III

b) V IV III II I

c) V IV II III I

d) IV V II III I

Answer: (c)

Lothal Excavated by R. Rao in 1953 Location: Gujrat on Bhogva river near Gulf of Combay.

Kalibanga’s Location: Rajasthan on the bank of Ghaggar. Kalibanga means black bangles.

Harappa Location: Montgomery District of Punjab (Pakistan) on the bank of Ravi.

Mohanjodero excavated by R.D. Banerjee in 1922 Location: Larkana Dist. of Sind (Pakistan) on the bank of Indus.

Ropar – Located at the southern bank of the Sutlej, Punjab.

Question : 4

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

Answer: (a)

Question : 5

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 : 6

The Aryans came to India as

a) Refugees

b) Merchants and nomads

c) Immigrants

d) Invaders

Answer: (a)

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