This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 25 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. List the eras of ancient Indian history in chronological order. A) Indus Valley Civilization, Mauryan Empire, Vedic Period, Gupta Empire. B) Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic Period, Mauryan Empire, Gupta Empire. C) Vedic Period, Gupta Empire, Indus Valley Civilization, Mauryan Empire. D) Vedic Period, Indus Valley Civilization, Gupta Empire, Mauryan Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic Period, Mauryan Empire, Gupta Empire. 2. Siddhartha founded Buddhism. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Monsoons are summer storms causing heavy rains and terrible floods. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. What is the another name of Aranyakas? A) Forest Texts. B) Vedangas. C) Melodious texts. D) Darsanas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forest Texts. 5. Who did Ancient India mainly trade with? A) Egypt. B) Pakistan and Bangladesh. C) Roman Empire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roman Empire. 6. Because statutes of what appear to be gods/goddesses have been discovered, it is believed that Indus people were A) Monotheistic. B) Atheistic. C) Polytheistic. D) Nontheistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polytheistic. 7. What is one problem with the alternate theory that Aryans were not migrants, but were descendants of the original inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilization? A) Aryans spoke a language that was similar to that of the original inhabitants of India. B) Aryans spoke a a language that was part of the Indo-European language group. C) Both answers are correct. D) Neither answer is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aryans spoke a a language that was part of the Indo-European language group. 8. Who is the creator in Hinduism? A) Shiva. B) Santa. C) Brahma. D) Vishnu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brahma. 9. Who was the Macedonian King in control of the Indus River Valley Civilization> A) Ali the Prophet. B) Alexander the Great. C) Alexandria of Egypt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alexander the Great. 10. Which Hindu deity is known as the destroyer? A) Brahma. B) Shiva. C) Ganesha. D) Vishnu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shiva. 11. Where was the earliest civilization of India located in? A) The Himalayas. B) The Indus Valley. C) The Coastlines. D) The Deccan Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Indus Valley. 12. The earliest complex society or civilization in India developed A) In the Indus River valley beginning around 3000 BCE. B) Along the Ganges River beginning around 1000 BCE. C) Only after the migration of Indo-Europeans into the Indian subcontinent around 1700 BCE. D) In the mountainous regions of the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the Indus River valley beginning around 3000 BCE. 13. Mythological river thought to be the one that dried up, perhaps contributing to the decline of the Harappan civilization. A) Saraswati. B) Seals. C) Indus. D) Bath houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saraswati. 14. Followers of Ahimsa tried to avoid ..... A) Untouchables. B) The four noble truths. C) Harming all living things. D) Others who did not practice their beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harming all living things. 15. Ancient India is on the continent of Asia. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. The ..... and the ..... rivers were the two most important waterways in early India A) Huang he, Yangtze. B) Nile, James. C) Indus, Ganges. D) Indus, Ganges Tigris, Euphrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indus, Ganges. 17. A fortress usually built on a hill to protect a city A) A dungeon. B) Castle. C) Citadel. D) Mr. Mullelly's house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Citadel. 18. Who invaded the Harappans from Central Asia? A) Vikings. B) Ghosts. C) Aryans. D) Nepalese. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryans. 19. Which of the following are the Harappans not known for? A) They used outhouses. B) They developed a system of weights and measures. C) They developed India's first writing system. D) They made pottery, jewelry, ivory objects and cotton clothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They used outhouses. 20. "The Religion of the People of India" A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 21. Who holds the top position in the caste system? A) Brahmins. B) Sudras. C) Aryans. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmins. 22. The division of the Hindu social class system into groups based on rank, wealth, or occupation A) Caste System. B) Karma. C) Dharma. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caste System. 23. Which text do the Hindus consider sacred? A) Vedas. B) Torah. C) Bible. D) Ramayana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vedas. 24. As part of Siddhartha's ascetic lifestyle, he would sometimes deny himself A) Food. B) Sleep. C) Shelter. D) All of these options. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these options. 25. Which describes the treatment of women in ancient India? A) Women and men were treated equally. B) Women often held high government positions. C) Women were treated as property. D) Women had many important jobs in. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women were treated as property. 26. What river did the first civilizations in India begin on? A) Indus. B) Ganges. C) Nile. D) Andes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indus. 27. What was Asoka's religion? A) Kalidasa. B) Buddhism. C) Hinduism. D) Theocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 28. The people of the Indus River Valley Civilization developed two major cities that disappeared and were later discovered A) Memphis and Thebes. B) Assur and Babylon. C) Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. D) Alexandria and Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. 29. What is the all-encompassing way of life in Indian society, often wrongly translated as religion? A) Salvation. B) Karma. C) Yoga. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dharma. 30. Why did Chandragupta give up his throne? A) Because he commited a crime. B) Because he wanted to become a monk. C) Because he felt like it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he wanted to become a monk. 31. Indian ruler of the Mauryan Empire who renounced war and became a convert to Buddhism. A) Asoka. B) Siddhartha Gautama. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Kalidasa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asoka. 32. What geographical feature is located just south of the Indus River? A) Deccan Plateau. B) Himalayan Mountains. C) Thar Desert. D) Ganges River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thar Desert. 33. How can we tell that the people of the Indus Civilization made innovations in health and medicine? A) They developed inoculations injecting a person with a small dose of virus to help him or her build up defenses to disease. B) They mummified bodies to help preserve them for scientific study. C) They developed a way to use x-ray technology to see if bones were broken. D) They discovered that the flu virus could be cured by using an antibacterial plant called rafflesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They developed inoculations injecting a person with a small dose of virus to help him or her build up defenses to disease. 34. The sacred text of Buddhism is called ..... A) The Ramayana. B) The Sanskrit. C) The Tripitaka. D) The Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Tripitaka. 35. India's climate is shaped by ..... A) Monsoons. B) Indian Ocean. C) Himalaya Mountain. D) Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monsoons. 36. Check all that apply. Which religion(s) is Mahavira associated with? A) Hinduism. B) Sikhism. C) Jainism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jainism. 37. What you do in this life determines what happens in the next life is ..... A) Reincarnation. B) Dharma. C) Karma. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karma. 38. Moksha is the what? A) Perfect state of understanding. B) Hindu Holy book. C) Means same as Karma. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfect state of understanding. 39. Which of the following are writings that are reflections on the Vedas? A) Rigveda. B) The Vedas. C) Upanishads. D) The Varnas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Upanishads. 40. What was the highest group in the Ancient India caste system? A) Brahmins. B) Sudras. C) Aryans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmins. 41. Achieving Nirvana utilizing the 8 Fold Path is the goal of A) A legendary alternative rock band. B) Hinduism. C) Buddhism. D) Confucianism. E) T(D)aoism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhism. 42. India's climate is influenced by monsoons. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. Who am I? I am the Gupta ruler who conquered the Ganges. A) Vargy Gupta I. B) Sea secret. C) Siddhartha Gyatam. D) Chanakya. E) Asoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sea secret. 44. Siddhartha meditated until he reached a state of ..... (true happiness and peace). A) Nirvana. B) Karma. C) Samsara. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nirvana. 45. What is Buddha's real name? A) Siddhartha Gautama. B) Braman. C) Sam. D) Schulman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Siddhartha Gautama. 46. The Indus River Valley cities were taken over by invaders from central ..... A) Africa. B) Europe. C) America. D) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asia. 47. Ancient Indians practiced polytheistic religions A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. Which geographic landmark did the Harappan people build their civilization around? A) The Gobe Desert. B) The Indus River. C) The Indian Ocean. D) The Himalayan Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Indus River. 49. Aryan and Harappan civilizations both settled where? A) Nile Valley. B) Indus Valley. C) Ganges Valley. D) Aryan Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indus Valley. 50. This is the science that deals with the extraction of metal from ore. A) Welding. B) Construction. C) Metallurgy. D) Fabrication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metallurgy. 51. Brahmins were..... A) Priests. B) Slaves. C) Rulers. D) Farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Priests. 52. The focusing of the mind on spiritual ideas. A) Sanskrit. B) Fasting. C) Meditation. D) Karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meditation. 53. Do work others wouldn't do, lowest group A) Sudras. B) Brahmins. C) Vaisya:. D) Dalits. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dalits. 54. Hindus and Buddhists both believe that their next life will be affected by what? A) Karma. B) Reincarnation. C) Nirvana. D) Monotheism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Karma. 55. What is nirvana according to Buddhists? A) Complete understanding and enlightenment. B) Oneness with the gods. C) The ability to make righteous rules. D) Complete denial of personal desires. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete understanding and enlightenment. 56. The idea that the soul is reborn into many different lives A) Nirvana. B) Reincarnation. C) Karma. D) Afterlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reincarnation. 57. The ancient religion of India A) Buddhism. B) Monotheism. C) Harappa. D) Karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buddhism. 58. Who am I? I converted to Buddhism while I was ruler of the Mauryan Empire. A) Chanakya. B) Rama. C) Chandragupta Mauryan. D) Sea secret. E) Asoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Asoka. 59. The rebirth of a soul in a new body. A) Reincarnation. B) Shrine. C) Dharma. D) Belts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reincarnation. 60. Another name for the dalit class in India is the ..... A) Farmers. B) Nobles. C) Warriors. D) Untouchables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Untouchables. ← 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