This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Aryans wrote their Vedas in what language? A) Sanskrit. B) Sumerian. C) Mongolian. D) Egyptian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sanskrit. 2. The most popular religion in India today is: A) Hinduism. B) Taoism. C) Judaism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 3. What do you call the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere? A) Longitude. B) Latitude. C) Mississippi. D) Equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Equator. 4. In Hinduism and Buddhism, a spiritual teacher and thinker. A) Minister. B) Guru. C) Leader. D) Priest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Guru. 5. From the following choices, what is the major contribution to world history made by the Gupta Empire? A) Paying artist. B) Building roads. C) Introducing the concept of zero. D) Making Hinduism the state religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Building roads. 6. How did Siddhartha attain enlightenment and become the Buddha? A) Meditating under a tree. B) Praying in a temple. C) Studying with a guru. D) Living with the poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meditating under a tree. 7. How are all cultural hearths similar? A) All cultural hearths in Asia. B) All of these are cultural hearths that started close to seas/oceans for farming. C) All of these are cultural hearths that grew along rivers and expanded in size, innovation, and infrastructure. D) All of these used cuneiform as a means of communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these are cultural hearths that grew along rivers and expanded in size, innovation, and infrastructure. 8. What may have been to blame for the decline in the Harappan Civilization? A) The shifting and drying up of the rivers. B) The monsoons were too strong. C) Disease. D) Blockades of trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The shifting and drying up of the rivers. 9. Which religion does this belong to? REINCARNATION A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 10. Ruler of the Mauryan Empire, he extended his controller most of India and promoted the spread of Buddhism A) Chandragupta Maurya. B) Asoka. C) Chandra Gupta. D) Buddha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asoka. 11. Why was the Mandate of Heaven important to Ancient China? A) The peasants of China could lose the mandate as quickly as they could gain it. B) Merchants were seen as very important in Chinese society because they had the mandate. C) Slaves in China were required to follow the Mandate. D) The mandate allowed the Emperor of China to rule since the gods picked him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The mandate allowed the Emperor of China to rule since the gods picked him. 12. What was the first strong Indian empire? A) Gupta. B) Islamic. C) Mauryan. D) Mongol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mauryan. 13. This religion spread throughout Asia. A) Jainism. B) Hinduism. C) Brahmanism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddhism. 14. Determine if the phrase describes dharma, karma, or both.Determines what a person will be born into in next life. A) Karma. B) Dharma. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Karma. 15. Indo-Aryans were warriors and ..... A) Farmers. B) Singers. C) Dancers. D) Traders. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farmers. 16. What was the earliest form of writing called? A) Scribe. B) Cuneiform. C) Pictographs. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cuneiform. 17. What spirit is the destroyer of the world. A) Ganesha. B) Surya. C) Siva. D) Krishna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Siva. 18. Which empire is described as the Golden Age of classical Indian culture? A) Harappa Empire. B) Gupta Empire. C) Mauryan Empire. D) Indo-Aryan Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gupta Empire. 19. Why do cows have a special place in Hinduism? A) Cows are symbolic of the reverence for life. B) The greatest Hindu deity is often depicted as a cow. C) Cows represent health, wealth, and happiness. D) The only meat that Hindus can eat is beef. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cows are symbolic of the reverence for life. 20. A prince of an Aryan tribe was called a ..... A) Sultan. B) King. C) Raja. D) Chief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Raja. 21. What is the land between the Red Sea and the Persian gulf called? A) Arabia. B) India. C) Russia. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arabia. 22. Which is a large landmass that is smaller than a continent? A) Subcontinent. B) Mountain. C) Monsoon. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subcontinent. 23. What river valley did the Harrappan civilization form around? A) Nile River. B) Tigris River. C) Euphrates River. D) Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indus River. 24. How were the roads arranged? A) In circles. B) There was no arrangement. C) Triangular patterns. D) The roads were arranged into a series of grid-systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The roads were arranged into a series of grid-systems. 25. Who was the Buddha? A) The founder of Buddhism. B) The founder of Hinduism. C) The founder of Shintoism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The founder of Buddhism. 26. What do summer monsoons bring? A) Dry air and drought. B) Rain and floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rain and floods. 27. Which of the following was NOT why people suffer according to buddha? A) Having something we dont want and have. B) Wanting to keep what we dont have. C) Wanting to keep something we currently have. D) Wanting something we don't have. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wanting to keep what we dont have. 28. When was the spinning wheel invented in India? A) 1000 AD. B) 200 BC. C) 800 BC. D) 500 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 500 AD. 29. This means to live A) Occupy. B) Reside. C) Dwell. D) Home. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reside. 30. Which of the following is not the name of a city in the Indus Valley Civilization A) It's also a strange place. B) Punjab. C) Pataliputra. D) Harappa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pataliputra. 31. Which is the BEST reason that Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were build near rivers? A) Fertilized soil for agriculture. B) Fresh water to drink. C) A natural barrier. D) Fish and other wild animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fertilized soil for agriculture. 32. If a Buddha appears laughing, what does it represent? A) Sarcasm. B) Happiness. C) Confusion. D) Frustration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happiness. 33. What was not a new invention of the Harappan Civilization? A) Indoor plumbing. B) Toilets. C) Number 0. D) Sewer system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Number 0. 34. A Hindu belief that souls are born and reborn many times, each into a new body A) Reincarnation. B) Karma. C) Dharma. D) Nirvana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reincarnation. 35. In most of India the oldest male possessed legal authority over the entire family unit. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. The people found in the Kshatriya caste are A) Warriors and kings. B) Priests and academics. C) Merchants and landowners. D) Servants and farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warriors and kings. 37. Asoka Maurya (Chandragupta's grandson) began living a life of peace and nonviolence after the battle of ..... A) Pataliputra. B) Ceylon. C) Kalinga. D) Nepal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalinga. 38. The first emperor of the Mauryan Empire A) Asoka. B) Siddhartha Gautama. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chandragupta Maurya. 39. Nomadic people, the ..... entered the Indus river valley around 1500 B.C. A) Vaisya:. B) Sudras. C) Aryans. D) Brahmins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryans. 40. Which of the following is true of the Indus Valley caste system? A) There was no class for serfs. B) Once in a caste you remained in the caste until death. C) Merchants were the most important class. D) Priests and teachers were included in the most important caste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Once in a caste you remained in the caste until death. 41. Which group in the caste system is the smallest? A) Vaisya:. B) Sudras. C) Brahmins. D) Kshatriyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brahmins. 42. What religion was a result of Ancient Indian and Aryan beliefs? A) Islam. B) Jainism. C) Hinduism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinduism. 43. Which of the following is an example of a "Hindu Epic" ? A) Iliad. B) Divine Comedy. C) Beowulf. D) Mahabharata. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mahabharata. 44. Huge seasonal winds (wet or dry) A) Delta. B) Monsoon. C) Subcontinent. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monsoon. 45. The belief in many gods A) Monotheism. B) Animism. C) Polytheism. D) Naturism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polytheism. 46. The personal duty one must follow to earn a better existence in the next life A) Dharma. B) Jainism. C) Karma. D) Nirvana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dharma. 47. Written in Sanskrit2. includes poems, prayers, myths, and hymns3. broken into four parts including the Samhitas, Brahmans, Aranyakas, and the UpanishadsWhich collection of religious texts is described above? A) The Puranas. B) The Vedas. C) The Sutras. D) The Analects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Vedas. 48. ..... was Chandragupta Maurya's grandson. A) Ashoka. B) Buddha. C) Chandragupta I. D) Chandragupta II. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ashoka. 49. The final development in early Indian architecture was the rock chamber, carved out of rock cliffs. This structure was developed by Asoka to provide a series of rooms to house monks and to serve as a hall for religious ceremonies.What was the purpose of the rock chamber? A) To house monks and serve as a hall for religious ceremonies. B) To house the king and queen. C) To house farm animals like cows. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To house monks and serve as a hall for religious ceremonies. 50. Who did the hindu belive to be the destroyer of the world? A) Siva. B) Ganesha. C) Brahma. D) Vishnu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Siva. 51. The Harappan traded with city-states form where? A) Egypt. B) Mesopotamia. C) Greece. D) China. E) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mesopotamia. 52. David, Harper, and Liam are having a debate about the Upanishads. What exactly are the Upanishads? A) Religious rituals. B) Philosophical texts. C) Ancient Indian epics. D) Holy scriptures of the Aryans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Philosophical texts. 53. Buddhism(the rival of Hinduism) was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha, in the 6th century BCE. Buddhism spread rapidly throughout India and later throughout Asia, and it is still practiced by millions of people today. Buddhism teaches that the ultimate goal of life is to attain nirvana, or ultimate reality, and that suffering can be overcome through letting of all worldly cares and materialistic goods. Buddhism principles are based on The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Paths.What is nirvana? A) Fake reality. B) Virtual reality. C) Ultimate reality. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ultimate reality. 54. Who is the father of the Arab race? A) Muhammed. B) Joseph. C) Ishmael. D) Isaac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ishmael. 55. Which of the following religions, based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, believes that enlightenment, or Nirvana, occurs during one's life? A) Judaism. B) Christianity. C) Hinduism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddhism. 56. How was a persons caste determined? A) Achievements. B) Birth. C) Skills. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birth. 57. The Gupta Empire expanded this economic activity: A) Mining. B) Metalworking. C) Farming. D) Trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trade. 58. When siddartha searched for enlightment he ..... A) Began to pray to the brahmins. B) Travelled the silk road to china. C) Made himself an untouchable. D) Meditated under a tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meditated under a tree. 59. Epic poems such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata helped define Hinduism because they help explain: A) How karma affects you in the next life. B) How people should live their lives as Hindus by stressing the importance of morals. C) How to perform religious rituals. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How people should live their lives as Hindus by stressing the importance of morals. 60. Which of the following animals are you not allowed to harm because they are considered sacred? A) Dog. B) Spider. C) Cow. D) Beetle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cow. ← 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