Early India State To Empire Set 3
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This set of Early India- State to Empire Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Early India State To Empire Set 3
Q1 | The ……………… culture was essentially an urban culture.
- vedic
- harappan
- buddhist
- jain
Q2 | The Harappans conducted trade both within the northern and westernarea of the sub continent and with Persian Gulf and …………….. regions.
- chinese
- rajasthan
- sumeria
- mesopotamian
Q3 | Many Harappan seals have been discovered in …………….
- america
- mesopotamia
- japan
- china
Q4 | The Indus people had a fairly advanced type of religion. Their chiefdeity was the Mother Goddess ………….
- sakti
- vayu
- agni
- varunan
Q5 | There was a male god with three faces in Yogic pose surrounded byfour animals depicted on the ………….. seals. It is identified as the pre-historic Siva or Pasupati.
- harappan
- rajasthan
- punjab
- kerala
Q6 | The Indus people were highly interested in arts and crafts. The bronzefigure of the dancing girl found at …………… was an excellent piece of art.
- lothal
- mohenjodaro
- rupar
- banwali
Q7 | The Indus people had developed the art of writing and even developed
- brahmi
- pictographic
- sanskrit
- malayalam
Q8 | ……………. in his book Ancient India says,” The Harappan script is notalphabetical but mainly pictographic”.
- ram sharan sharma
- dr. a.d. pusalkar
- mortimer wheeler
- r.d. banerji
Q9 | ………………in ‘The History and Culture of Indian People’, Vol. 1remarks, “The large number of signs precludes the possibility of the script being alphabetic.It was mainly phonetic, most of signs standing for open or close syllables and the remainder functioning as determinates or ideograms”.
- dr. a.d. pusalkar
- mortimer wheeler
- r.d. banerji
- dr. s.r. rao
Q10 | ………………. in his research work ‘Decipherment of the Indus Script’ says that the Indus people used the phonetic script in the beginningwhich slowly and slowly in the late Harappan period assumed the alphabetic pattern.
- dr. s.r. rao
- mortimer wheeler
- r.d. banerji
- sir john marshall
Q11 | ………………. is of the view that the Indus script was read from left toright.
- sir john marshall
- mortimer wheeler
- r.d. banerji
- dr. s.r. rao
Q12 | ………… believes that the Indus script can be read from right to left.
- dr. prem nath
- mortimer wheeler
- r.d. banerji
- dr. s.r. rao
Q13 | According to ……………., “Perhaps the discovery of some bilingual inscriptions in those areas with which the Indus people had close trade relations might give us the right clue to the decipherment of the Indus script”.
- r.d. banerji
- mortimer wheeler
- dr. a.d. pusalkar
- dr. s.r. rao
Q14 | The word Veda is derived from …… word ‘vid’ which means ‘to know’.
- hindi
- malayalam
- sanskrit
- telugu
Q15 | …………… are essentially a compilation of prayers and hymns, offeredby different families of poets and sages to various Gods.
- the vedas
- sangam literature
- periyapuranam
- ramayanam
Q16 | The …………. are also ‘samhitas’ in the sense that they represent theoral tradition of that period.They were not recorded when they were first composed.
- vedas
- sangam literature
- mahabharatham
- periyapuranam
Q17 | The OCP was discovered in the archaeological sites of …….. in 1950’s.
- u.p
- delhi
- bengal
- madhya pradesh
Q18 | Black and Red Ware (BRW) have been found at ……… in between OCPand PGW levels during the excavations conducted in the early 1960’s.
- atranjikhera
- alangirpur
- hasthinapuri
- lothal
Q19 | In Alangirpur and Hasthinapuri, …………. is found associated withPGW, the characteristic feature of Black and Red Ware is the black colour inside and near the rim on the outside and over the rest of the body red colour.
- pgw
- wrb
- brw
- bwr
Q20 | The ………….. contains both hymns and commentaries. It describesthe performance of sacrifices.
- atharva veda
- rigveda
- samaveda
- yajurveda
Q21 | …………… called the Upanishads as, “the most wonderful compositionof human mind”.
- james mill
- mortimer wheeler
- william johnes
- max muller
Q22 | The Ramayana was composed by the great saint …………...
- kumaranasan
- vallathol
- sri narayan guru
- valmiki
Q23 | …………… deals with the conflict between the Aryan and non-Aryancivilizations.
- ramayana
- mahabharata
- atharva veda
- upanishads
Q24 | The ……………. describes the war between the Pandavas and theKauravas. According to tradition, Vyasa was its compiler.
- mahabharata
- ramayana
- upanishads
- sangam literature
Q25 | There is good archaeological evidence to show that in the centuries following 2000 B.C, north-west India was invaded by some tribes fromthe west.They were called …………...
- aryans
- dravidians
- huns
- ostrogoths