School of Distance Education Indian History - I 1 UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT School of Distance Education III SEMESTER (2019 Admission onwards) Core Course HIS3 B04 INDIAN HISTORY-I Multiple Choice Questions 1.Where do we find the three phases, viz. Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures in sequence? (a) Kashmir Valley (b) Godavari Valley (c) Belan Valley (d) Krishna Valley 2.The earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent comes from: (a) Kalibangan (b) Amri (c) Mehrgarh (d) Inamgarh 3.Excellent cave paintings of Mesolithic Age are found at: (a) Bhimbetka (b) Atranjikhera (c) Mahishadal (b) Barudih 4. The OCP Culture is found mainly in: (a) Eastern UP (b) Western UP (c) Bihar (b) Bengal 5. Megaliths of south India are mainly associated with: (a) Mesolithic Age (b) Neolithic Age (c) Chalcolithic Age (b) Iron Age
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School of Distance Education
Indian History - I 1
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
School of Distance Education
III SEMESTER
(2019 Admission onwards)
Core Course
HIS3 B04
INDIAN HISTORY-I
Multiple Choice Questions
1.Where do we find the three phases, viz. Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures
in sequence?
(a) Kashmir Valley
(b) Godavari Valley
(c) Belan Valley
(d) Krishna Valley
2.The earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent comes from:
(a) Kalibangan
(b) Amri
(c) Mehrgarh
(d) Inamgarh
3.Excellent cave paintings of Mesolithic Age are found at:
(a) Bhimbetka
(b) Atranjikhera
(c) Mahishadal
(b) Barudih
4. The OCP Culture is found mainly in:
(a) Eastern UP
(b) Western UP
(c) Bihar
(b) Bengal
5. Megaliths of south India are mainly associated with:
(a) Mesolithic Age
(b) Neolithic Age
(c) Chalcolithic Age
(b) Iron Age
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6.The half-life of Carbon-14 is:
(a) 3750 years
(b) 5730 years
(c) 7350 years
(b) 9530 years
7. Ochre Coloured Pottery is closely connected with:
(a) Aryans
(b) Early Harappans
(c) late Harappans
(d) Mature Harappans
8. Which one of the following is the latest Indus city discovered in India?
(a) Manda
(b) Dholavira
(c) Daimabad
(d) Rangpur
9. Majority of the Indus terracotta figurines were
(a) hand-modelled
(b) made in single moulds
(c) cut with a saw
(d) sculptured with a chisel
10. The religious iconography of Indus people consists of
(i) Seals and Sealings
(ii) Images and Statues
(iii) Terracotta figurines
(iv) Amulets and Tablets
Choose the answer from the codes given below
(a) i and ii
(b) i,ii and iii
(c) i,iii and iv
(d) All of them
11. The majority of the Harappan pottery was
(a) Polychrome pottery
(b) Black-painted pottery
(c) Red-painted pottery
(d) Plain pottery
12. Bones of camel are discovered at:
(a) Kalibangan
(b) Lothal
(c) Harappa
(d) Mohenjodaro
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13. For which one of the following crops there is no evidence of cultivation fromanyone
of the Indus sites?
(a) Barley
(b) Sugarcane
(c) Rice
(d) Field peas
14. Which of the following were the most standardised products of the Harappans?
(a) Pottery
(b) Terracotta
(c) Bricks
(d) Statues
15. Which one of the following Indus cities has houses with doors on the main streets?
(a) Lothal
(b) Surkotada
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Banawali
16. The whole area of Harappan culture represents a
(a) circular area
(b) square area
(c) zigzag formation
(d) triangle area
17. Which has the earliest ploughed field in the world?
(a) Harappa
(b) Kalibangan
(c) Ropar
(d) Rangpur
18. The ruins of Harappa were first noticed by
(a) Charles Mason
(b) Sahni
(c) M Wheeler
(d) MS Vats
19. What was kharaj?
(a) A tribute (b) Booty (c) Land tax (d) Gift
20. The most common materials used for the Harappan stone sculptures are
(i) Hard sandstone
(ii) Soft limestone
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(iii) White marble
(iv) Steatite
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below
(a) ii and iv
(b) i and iii
(c) i, ii and iii
(d) All the four
21. Of the all Harappan sites, which has the most impressive drainage system?
(a) Harappa
(b) Banawali
(c) Dholavira
(d) Mohenjodaro
22.The reason for the spread of Harappan culture and settlement of new colonies in far
off places was
(a) to meet their religious obligations
(b) their desire to colonise
(c) the population expansion
(d) to safeguard their security concerns.
23. Which one of the following places had a culture, called Jhangar culture, in its
late Harappan phase?
(a) Kalibangan
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Chanhudaro
(d) Amri
24. Which one of the following Indus sites was destroyed by fire?
(a) Lothal
(b) Kalibangan
(c) KotDiji
(d) Amri
25. The cemeteries of the Harappan cities were generally located
(a) around the perimeter of the
settlements
(b) within the citadels
(c) at the heart of the cities
(d) near the residences
26. Which one of the following Vedic texts, apart from the Rig Veda Samhita, cites Indra
as the destroyer of the Indus civilisation?
(a) Atharva Veda Samhita
(b) Taittiriya Brahmana
(c) Aitareya Brahmana
(d) Satapatha Brahmana
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27. Majority of the Indus beads meant for export to Mesopotamia were made of
(a) Steatite
(b) Terracotta
(c) Carnelian
(d) Jade
28. What is Epigraphy?
(a) Study of coins
(b) Study of old writing used in inscriptions
(c) Study of inscriptions
(d) Study of material remains of the past
29. Indus civilisation belongs to which of the following periods?
(a) Historical period
(b) Prehistorical period
(c) Post-Historical period
(d) Proto-Historical period
30. Which is the oldest age
(a) Bronze Age
(b) Neolithic Age
(c) Mesolithic Age
(d) Palaeolithic Age
31. What was Dasarajna?
(a) Ten incarnations of Vishnu
(b) A former slave turned into a ruler
(c) Battle of the ten kings
(d) Ten sacrifices to be performed by the son of a slave mother
32. Which was probably the most popular assembly in which even women
enjoyed an equal status with men in the early Vedic period?
(a) Sabha (b) Samiti (c) Gana (d) Vidata
33. Which priest was responsible for the organisation of the confederacy of ten
kings when he was dismissed by Sudas, the Tritsu ruler of the Bharata tribe?
(a) Vasishtha
(b) Visvamitra
(c) Yajnavalkya
(d) UddalakaAruni
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34. How many times is the word varna used in the Rig Veda in the sense of a
birth-based social division?
(a) Ten (b) Five (c) Once (d) Nil
35. Which one of the following pairs is incorrectly matched?
(a) Sira—plough
(b) Sita—furrows
(c) Datra—sickle
(d) Surpa—axe
36.According to the Rig Veda, Panis were indulged in
(a) cultivation
(b) trade and commerce
(c) handicrafts
(d) hunting and gathering
37. The word kusidin used in the Satapatha Brahmana was a designation for the
(a) usurer
(b) bard
(c) perfume-maker
(d) outcaste
38. How many times does the term jana in the sense of a tribe occur in the Rig
Veda?
(a) 250 (b) 275 (c) 300 (d) 325
39. The Rig, Yajur and Sama Vedas are together known as
(a) Samhitas (b) Sruti (c) Trijnana (d) Trayi Veda
40. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) Sama Veda Samhita—Origins of Indian music
(b) Atharva Veda Samhita—Origins of Indian medicine
(c) Rig Veda Samhita—Earliest Prose
(d) Yajur Veda Samhita—Origins of rituals
41.Which one of the following Vedic texts deals with the ploughing rituals at length?
(a) Yajur Veda Samhita
(b) Satapatha Brahmana
(c) Kausitaki Upanishad
(d) Atharva Veda Samhita
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42.Who was the first to discover close affinities between Sanskrit and some of the
principal languages of Europe?
(a) Max Mueller
(b) Sir William Jones
(c) Penka
(d) Filippo Sasetti
43.The origin of Indian music can be traced to which of the following Vedic Samhitas?
(a) Rig Veda
(b) Sama Veda
(c) Yajur Veda
(d) Atharva Veda
44. Which of the following Vedic Samhitas is partly in verse and partly in prose?
(a) Rig Veda
(b) Sama Veda
(c) Yajur Veda
(d) Atharva Veda
45. Which of the following does not come under sruti literature?
(a) Brahmanas
(b) Vedangas
(c) Aranyakas
(d) Upanishads
46. Which of the following animals was probably not known to the Vedic
people?
(a) Elephant (b) Lion (c) Tiger (d) Horse
47. Which of the following Rig Vedic gods is said to be the upholder of the Rta
or cosmic order?
(a) Indra
(b) Agni
(c) Varuna
(d) Soma
48. Which of the following later Vedic gods is said to have evolved from the
Harappan cult of Pasupati Mahadeva?
(a) Prajapati
(b) Rudra
(c) Vishnu
(d) Pushan
49. Which one of the following tribal assemblies is considered as the oldest of all?
(a) Sabha (b) Samiti (c) Vidata (d) Gana
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50. Which of the four Vedic Samhitas is considered as the least useful for the purpose of