This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 31 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is Gaju's first language? A) Hindi. B) Sanskrit. C) Gujarati. D) Gajullian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gujarati. 2. What is the denotation/definition of 'edict'? A) A command issued by authority. B) A suggestion offered by a civilian. C) An idea proposed by a student. D) An opinion given by a police officer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A command issued by authority. 3. The sum total of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. A) Karma. B) Tao. C) Dharma. D) The force. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Karma. 4. Which weather pattern in India causes distinct wet and dry seasons? A) Hurricanes. B) Typhoons. C) Monsoons. D) Blizzards. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monsoons. 5. Which of the following is NOT part of the Hindu Caste System? A) Kshatriyas (Warriors). B) Vaishyas (Traders). C) None of the above. D) Brahmins (Priests). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) None of the above. 6. What class are Kshatriyas in? A) Laborers. B) Ruler. C) Untouchables. D) Priest. E) Merchants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ruler. 7. Who is Rules the Province A) The Rajah. B) The Rajuka. C) The King/Emperor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Rajuka. 8. ..... flourished under the rule of Chandragupta I and II. A) Plants. B) Arts and sciences. C) Buddhism. D) Animal life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arts and sciences. 9. Two are the most Important rivers in india A) Tigris and the Euphrates river. B) Nile river and the Indus river. C) Indus River and the Ganges River. D) Huang River and the Yellow River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indus River and the Ganges River. 10. Which of the following best describes the difference between Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana BuddHism? A) Followers of Theravada Buddhism follow the Buddha's teachings exactly. B) Followers of Mahayana Buddhism follow the Buddha's teachings exactly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Followers of Theravada Buddhism follow the Buddha's teachings exactly. 11. Which religion does this belong to? SIDDARTHA GAUTAMA A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 12. The mountain range in India is called the ..... mountains. A) Andes. B) Rocky. C) Himalayan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Himalayan. 13. Moksha is the ultimate liberation. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 14. A soul no longer reincarnates when it has reached the ultimate enlightenment called ..... A) The. B) Nirvana. C) Dalit. D) Brahman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nirvana. 15. What river existed in ancient Indian times that no longer exists today? A) Sarasota River. B) Ganges River. C) Saraswati River. D) Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saraswati River. 16. The classic language of ancient India was which of the following? A) Urdu. B) Sanskrit. C) Farsi. D) Aryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sanskrit. 17. Mahavira became known as the Jina (conqueror) and his followers became known as ..... A) Followers of Jina. B) Hindus. C) Jeans. D) Jains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jains. 18. He was a spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism. A) Siddhartha Gautama. B) Mahavira. C) Chandra Gupta. D) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Siddhartha Gautama. 19. The process of a soul being reborn in a new body. A) Reincarnation. B) Nirvana. C) Raja. D) Karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reincarnation. 20. Which of the following was a way that the Gupta Empire made money? A) Selling goods to merchants who had to pass by them to get around the Himalayas. B) Trading with pirates on the Indian Ocean. C) Trading all over the world through sea routes that connected them to China and Arabia. D) Trading with other civilizations on the Indian subcontinent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trading all over the world through sea routes that connected them to China and Arabia. 21. Homes in the Indus Valley are made from ..... A) Straw. B) Grass. C) Wood. D) Stone bricks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stone bricks. 22. Buddhism and Hinduism are two religions that began in? A) Harappa. B) Temples. C) India. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) India. 23. A prince who discovered enlightenment and became known as the Buddha or the "Enlightened One." A) Siddhartha Gautama. B) Nirvana. C) Hinduism. D) Atman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Siddhartha Gautama. 24. What is the word that means "a plan of action" ? A) Stupa. B) Fable. C) Strategy. D) Bureaucracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strategy. 25. Which one of the oceans is to the south of India? A) Indian. B) Arctic. C) Atlantic. D) Pacific. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indian. 26. Hindus believe that acquiring good karma is needed to: A) Achieve freedom from the cycle of rebirth. B) Maintain the rigid caste system. C) Destroy a Hindu's social status. D) Perform yoga properly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Achieve freedom from the cycle of rebirth. 27. The Gupta Period was considered a "golden age" in India. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. What vocabulary word means:A major religion that developed in India, the founder was Siddhartha Gautama, the main belief was inner peace comes from ending desire. A) Dharma. B) Hinduism. C) Jainism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddhism. 29. How many 'Varnas' does Ancient India have? A) 4. B) 2. C) 1. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 30. These seasonal winds bring warm air and rain across India A) Summer Monsoon. B) Winter Monsoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Summer Monsoon. 31. What is the largest religion in India today? A) Jainism. B) Christianity. C) Hinduism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinduism. 32. Which mathematical ideas did Ancient India NOT develop? A) Zero. B) Calculus. C) Decimals. D) Arabic Numbers 1-9. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calculus. 33. A state of wisdom and peace A) Karma. B) Enlightenment. C) Sleep. D) Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enlightenment. 34. This key term describes India as a large landmass that is smaller than a continent. They are usually separated from the rest of their continents by physical features such as mountains. A) Sanskrit. B) Plateau. C) Subcontinent. D) Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subcontinent. 35. Those seen as subhuman, who performed the jobs no one else wanted to, and were "out of the caste" were called ..... A) Vaishya. B) Untouchables. C) Kshatriyas. D) Sudras. E) Brahmans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Untouchables. 36. The ..... moved into the abandoned cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa. A) Aryans. B) Greeks. C) Assiryans. D) Rajas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aryans. 37. Buddha's father wanted to protect his son from ..... A) Joy. B) Suffering. C) Other children. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suffering. 38. Which of the following is NOT an example of a geographical feature of the earth? A) Mountains. B) Plateaus. C) Rivers. D) Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rain. 39. A large area of land that is separated from other countries by water and land. A) Mini-continent. B) Sub-continent. C) Island. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sub-continent. 40. What was the first river the Ancient Indians settled along as they moved into India from the West? A) Ganges River. B) Brahmaputra River. C) Tigris River. D) Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indus River. 41. Which social group is made up of priests/religious men? A) Kshatriya. B) Sudra. C) Brahmin. D) Vaisya:. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brahmin. 42. The prince or leader of an Aryan tribe A) Monsoons. B) Jati. C) Sanskrit. D) Himalaya. E) Raja. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Raja. 43. What are the official languages of India? A) English and Hindi. B) Hinduism and Buddhism. C) Indian and Hindi. D) English and Arabic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English and Hindi. 44. Which word describes economy? A) Money. B) Social Class. C) Religion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Money. 45. People who believe in Buddhism disagree over who Buddha was. They were which two groups? A) Hindus and Buddhists. B) Jews and Christians. C) Theravada & Mahayana. D) Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theravada & Mahayana. 46. HOW DID PEOPLE GET THEIR FOOD IN PALEOLITHIC TIMES A) FARMED. B) DOMESTICATED. C) HUNTED AND GATHERED. D) DOMINOS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HUNTED AND GATHERED. 47. What made it difficult to learn a lot about the Harappan Civilization? A) We couldn't find artifacts. B) We couldn't understand their language. C) Everything was destroyed by floods. D) We know everything about them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) We couldn't understand their language. 48. The fact that there were well-planned cities in the Indus Valley Civilization indicates that thepeople ..... A) Supported themselves by trading and farming. B) Made tools and were highly skilled builders. C) Prayed to Deities for success of their civilization. D) Traveled and learned about other cultures. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supported themselves by trading and farming. 49. To what religion did Emperor Asoka convert after conquering nearly all of India? A) Buddhism. B) Judaism. C) Islam. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buddhism. 50. What physical feature largely separates India from the rest of Asia? A) Breezeways. B) Mountains. C) Subcontinent. D) Monsoons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountains. 51. What are the 2 major differences between Buddhism and Hinduism? A) Belief in deities and karma. B) Belief in man, and dharma. C) Against deities, and Caste System. D) Against Reincarnation, and the Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Against deities, and Caste System. 52. Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of A) The holy city of Varansi. B) Hinduism. C) The caste system. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddhism. 53. Religious Book for Hinduism A) Torah. B) Wheel of Law. C) Eightfold Path. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vedas. 54. A physical & mental form of exercise, that started in India, is ..... A) Jumping Jacks. B) Yoga. C) Push ups. D) Running marathons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yoga. 55. Only about 0.7% of India's population today are ..... A) Hindus. B) Buddhists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhists. 56. Monsoon winds bring pouring rains to India during which season? A) Spring. B) Fall. C) Winter. D) Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Summer. 57. The main religion of China is A) Christianity. B) Hinduism. C) Buddhism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhism. 58. The Harappan civilization developed along the ..... river. A) Ganges. B) Himalayan. C) Nile. D) Indus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indus. 59. To avoid a religious reference in dating, many historians prefer to use the following initials. A) Circa. B) BC. C) BCE. D) AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) BCE. 60. Dynasty in India around 320 AD where India became prosperous A) Harappans. B) Aryans. C) Pakistan. D) The Guptas. 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