This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 103 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 103 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Practice of quiet reflection to clear the mind and find inner peace A) Nonviolence. B) Nirvana. C) Meditation. D) Fasting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meditation. 2. What jobs did the Dalits/Untouchables have? A) Unclean jobs. B) Priests, judges, and teachers. C) Rulers and soldiers. D) Peasants, servants, Laborers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unclean jobs. 3. Were the streets of Moheno-Daro paved? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 4. Achievements during the Gupta period include all but the following A) Creating a calendar for farming. B) Discovering the length of a solar year. C) Developing poetry and plays. D) Discovering the Earth was a rotating sphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Creating a calendar for farming. 5. Which factor most influenced a person's position in early Indian society? A) Geographic location. B) Birth. C) Individual achievement. D) Education. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birth. 6. Which empire existed from 350CE to 550CE? A) Indus River Valley Civilization. B) Mauryan Empire. C) Gupta Empire?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gupta Empire?. 7. Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of Buddhism. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What is the Mahabharata? A) A caste rank. B) A prince of the capital city. C) The second hand man of a raja. D) The longest poem ever. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The longest poem ever. 9. How are people divided into the caste system? A) Birth. B) Wealth. C) Occupation. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. Ancient India's social pyramid is called a A) Cast system. B) Social group. C) Caste system. D) Social dynamo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caste system. 11. Which religion has the greatest number of members? A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Judaism. D) Christianity. E) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christianity. 12. Ancient Indian songs were called ..... A) Kshatriyas. B) Dalits. C) Epics. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vedas. 13. Caste levels determine A) What do you eat. B) Where you live. C) Who you talk to. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 14. What was Mohenjo-Daro? A) A royal person. B) A monument. C) A city. D) A lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A city. 15. The Vedas explored the relationship between the soul and the world and founded the basis of ..... A) Buddhism. B) Taoism. C) Hinduism. D) Confucianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinduism. 16. The first written language of ancient India A) Sanskrit. B) Hieroglyphics. C) Cuneiform. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sanskrit. 17. In this religion, no god is worshiped. A) Buddhism. B) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buddhism. 18. Where does the Indus River begin? A) Bay of Bengal. B) Mountains of South Asia. C) Indian Ocean. D) Arabian Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountains of South Asia. 19. Most of what we know about Aryan history in India comes from A) Archaeological clues and evidence. B) Oral stories passed down from generation to generation. C) Records from traders who visited their lands. D) Sacred writings called Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sacred writings called Vedas. 20. Which two religions began in India? A) Islam and Hinduism. B) Buddhism and Judaism. C) Buddhism and Hinduism. D) Buddhism and Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhism and Hinduism. 21. The Aryan people introduced the Vedas to Indian civilization. What was the importance of the Vedas to the Aryan and Indian people? A) They were epic poems that told the story of two warring tribes. B) They were religious practices that set the foundation of Jainism. C) They were a set of laws that created a stable society. D) They were books that helped establish the foundations of Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were books that helped establish the foundations of Hinduism. 22. "The universe is a balance of opposites" is a belief of which system? A) Confucianism. B) Daoism. C) Legalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Daoism. 23. ..... into which a person is born and lives their entire life and separated Indian society into distinct social classes in which everyone knew their place and believed that if they followed their dharma they would be reincarnated into a better one. A) Hierarchy. B) Oligarchy. C) Caste System. D) Family Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caste System. 24. Name of the group of people that were not part of any varna that picked up trash, skinned animals, and handled dead bodies. A) Untouchables. B) Stupas. C) Raja. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Untouchables. 25. Believe in reincarnation A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 26. Large landmass, peninsula, himalyan mountains, ganges/indus/brahmaputra, and monsoon weather. A) Indus Valley. B) Monsoons. C) Aryans. D) Sanskrit. E) Nomads. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indus Valley. 27. A teacher in ancient India A) Brahmin. B) Scribe. C) Tutor. D) Guru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guru. 28. What was one of the Indo Aryans greatest advancements A) Sewers. B) Explosives. C) Television. D) Cars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sewers. 29. In the traditional Indian Caste System, the way to get into a particular caste is to A) Born into to. B) Work hard and be promoted by a Pries. C) Grow older and move up a caste level every twenty years. D) Be recommended by a previous member of the cast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Born into to. 30. Which was not a reason the Gupta Empire was considered the "Golden Age of Ancient India" ? A) Hinduism was made the officialreligion of the empire. B) Therewas great peace and prosperity. C) Emperor Ashoka made Buddhism the official philosophy. D) Theempire produced a large number of achievements. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emperor Ashoka made Buddhism the official philosophy. 31. What is Jainism? A) A religion based on the teachings of a man named Mahavira, who is believed to have been born around 599 BC. B) A religion based on the teachings of a man named Siddhartha, who is believed to have been born around 599 BC. C) A religion based on the teachings of a man named Siddhartha, who is believed to have been born around 699 BC. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A religion based on the teachings of a man named Mahavira, who is believed to have been born around 599 BC. 32. Warrior people who arrived in the Indus River Valley from Asia around 1500 BC. They brought with them a new religious system and gods, the Sanskirt language and a caste system A) Babylonians. B) Hindus. C) Americans. D) Aryans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aryans. 33. Which statement BEST defines the Gupta Empire? A) India's first civilization. Had not written records. B) Nomadic tribe from Central Asia who settled around the Indus River Valley-developed sanskrit. C) Known as the "Golden Age" of India due to it being a time of peace and prosperity(wealth). D) India's first empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Known as the "Golden Age" of India due to it being a time of peace and prosperity(wealth). 34. The Aryans decided to ..... from their central Asian homelands. A) Migrate. B) Caste. C) Monsoon. D) Citadel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Migrate. 35. The Mauryan Empire occupied a ..... territory compared to the Gupta Empire. A) Larger. B) Smaller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Larger. 36. Seasonal winds that shape India's climate. A) Tornadoes. B) Hurricanes. C) Monsoons. D) Typhoons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monsoons. 37. What was exceptional about Indus Valley cities? A) They all contained public buildings. B) They were among the world's first planned cities. C) They were among the world's first cities to have a business area. D) They contained structures that may have been used to store grain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were among the world's first planned cities. 38. When did the Indus Valley Civilisation begin? A) 700 BCE. B) 1900 CE. C) 3 300 BCE. D) 1500 BCE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3 300 BCE. 39. The religion that believes in complete non-violence and refuses to harm any living thing A) Hinduism. B) Islam. C) Buddhism. D) Jainism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jainism. 40. How did you move up and down in a caste system? A) By getting rich. B) Bribes. C) Reincarnation. D) Eightfold Path. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reincarnation. 41. Meditation was a practice developed by A) The practice of yoga. B) Gautama. C) Ancient Hindus. D) Early Egyptians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gautama. 42. The shape of India is similar to a ..... A) Kite. B) Dolphin. C) Wheel. D) Banana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kite. 43. Understanding that desires cause suffering A) Buddha. B) 8 fold path. C) 4 Noble Truths. D) Nirvana. E) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Dharma. 44. Unskilled laborers were called ..... A) Rajas. B) Sudras. C) Vaisya:. D) Kshatriyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sudras. 45. How did ancient India shape there city's? A) In circles. B) In the shape of a triangle. C) In grids. D) In the pentagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In grids. 46. Which city became the center and most influential city in early Russia? A) Moscow. B) Constantinople. C) Novgorod. D) Kiev. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kiev. 47. Third tier in the caste system. They were common people like farmers, craftspeople, and merchants. A) Pleasing. B) Vaisya:. C) Untouchables. D) Turnpike Troubadours. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vaisya:. 48. Which God was a main character ion the Ramayan epic? A) Brahma. B) Ganesh. C) Shiva. D) Vishnu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vishnu. 49. What was the highest group in the Aryan caste system? A) Brahmins. B) Vaisya:. C) Sudras. D) Kshatriyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmins. 50. The oldest of the Vedas contains many hymns and is called the ..... A) Ramayan. B) Mahabharata. C) Upanishads. D) Rigveda. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rigveda. 51. Which of the following is a physical feature in South Asia? A) Mount McKinley. B) Himalayas. C) The "black land". D) Nile River. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Himalayas. 52. What do the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana, and the Mahabharata all have in common? A) They were banned from Ancient Egypt. B) They are scientific studies. C) They were written in Ancient India. D) They are mathematical theories. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were written in Ancient India. 53. Which of the following statements about modern Buddhism is accurate? A) Most Buddhists live in monasteries. B) Buddhism is still widely practiced in India. C) Few Buddhists live in Asia. D) More than two million Buddhists live in the United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) More than two million Buddhists live in the United States. 54. The summer monsoons bring heavy rainfall to India between ..... and ..... A) June, August. B) October, April. C) November, April. D) April, September. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) April, September. 55. The social hierarchy of India is called A) Buddhism. B) Brahmanism. C) Reincarnation. D) The caste system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The caste system. 56. Buddhists who follow the Middle Way find a balance between which two lifestyles? A) Poverty & wealth. B) Generosity & selfishness. C) Anxiety & calm. D) Risk & safety. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poverty & wealth. 57. Buddhism and Hinduism both originated in India A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 58. Was water irrigation available in Mohenjodaro? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 59. Refers to any one of the social groups on the Caste System. A) Varna. B) Karma. C) Atman. D) Harappa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Varna. 60. NOMADS FROM EUROPE AND ASIA WHO MIGRATED TO INDIA AND FINALLY SETTLED A) ARYANS. B) PUEBLOS. C) MESTIZOS. D) INUIT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ARYANS. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesAncient Indian History Quiz 1Ancient Indian History Quiz 2Ancient Indian History Quiz 3Ancient Indian History Quiz 4Ancient Indian History Quiz 5Ancient Indian History Quiz 6Ancient Indian History Quiz 7Ancient Indian History Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books