Early Societies In India Set 3

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Q1 | Many Harappan seals have been discovered in …………….
  • america
  • mesopotamia
  • japan
  • china
Answer: mesopotamia
Q2 | The Indus people had a fairly advanced type of religion. Their chiefdeity was the Mother Goddess ………….
  • sakti
  • vayu
  • agni
  • varunan
Answer: sakti
Q3 | 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
Answer: harappan
Q4 | 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
Answer: mohenjodaro
Q5 | The Indus people had developed the art of writing and even developeda script known as …………….
  • brahmi
  • pictographic
  • sanskrit
  • malayalam
Answer: pictographic
Q6 | ……………. 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
Answer: ram sharan sharma
Q7 | ………………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
Answer: dr. a.d. pusalkar
Q8 | ………………. 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
Answer: dr. s.r. rao
Q9 | ………………. 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
Answer: sir john marshall
Q10 | ………… believes that the Indus script can be read from right to left.
  • dr. prem nath
  • mortimer wheeler
  • r.d. banerji
  • dr. s.r. rao
Answer: dr. prem nath
Q11 | According to ……………., “Perhaps the discovery of some bilingualinscriptions 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
Answer: dr. a.d. pusalkar
Q12 | The word Veda is derived from …… word ‘vid’ which means ‘to know’.
  • hindi
  • malayalam
  • sanskrit
  • telugu
Answer: sanskrit
Q13 | …………… are essentially a compilation of prayers and hymns, offeredby different families of poets and sages to various Gods.
  • the vedas
  • sangam literature
  • periyapuranam
  • ramayanam
Answer: the vedas
Q14 | The OCP was discovered in the archaeological sites of …….. in 1950’s.
  • u.p
  • delhi
  • bengal
  • madhya pradesh
Answer: u.p
Q15 | 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
Answer: atranjikhera
Q16 | 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
Answer: brw
Q17 | The ……… was the oldest and the most important book of the Aryans.
  • yajurveda
  • samaveda
  • rigveda
  • atharva veda
Answer: rigveda
Q18 | The ………….. contains both hymns and commentaries. It describesthe performance of sacrifices.
  • atharva veda
  • rigveda
  • samaveda
  • yajurveda
Answer: yajurveda
Q19 | …………… called the Upanishads as, “the most wonderful compositionof human mind”.
  • james mill
  • mortimer wheeler
  • william johnes
  • max muller
Answer: max muller
Q20 | The Ramayana was composed by the great saint …………...
  • kumaranasan
  • vallathol
  • sri narayan guru
  • valmiki
Answer: valmiki
Q21 | …………… deals with the conflict between the Aryan and non-Aryancivilizations.
  • ramayana
  • mahabharata
  • atharva veda
  • upanishads
Answer: ramayana
Q22 | The ……………. describes the war between the Pandavas and theKauravas. According to tradition, Vyasa was its compiler.
  • mahabharata
  • ramayana
  • upanishads
  • sangam literature
Answer: mahabharata
Q23 | There is good archaeological evidence to show that in the centuries following 2000 B.C, north-west India was invaded by some tribes from the west.They were called …………...
  • aryans
  • dravidians
  • huns
  • ostrogoths
Answer: aryans
Q24 | ………………, suggests the region of the river Devika in Multan as theoriginal home of the Aryans.
  • r.s. sharma
  • ganganath jha
  • l.c. kalla
  • d.s. trivedi
Answer: d.s. trivedi
Q25 | The …………. mentions one outstanding historical event, i.e. thevictory of King Sudas over the Ten-king confederacy.
  • rigveda
  • mahabharata
  • samaveda
  • atharva veda
Answer: rigveda
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