This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 56 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 56 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many castes (social class) existed in Ancient India? A) 4. B) 2. C) 5. D) 3. E) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 2. Which Indian mathematician provided categorical definitions of sine, cosine, versine, and inverse sine, along with complete sine and versine tables? A) Brahmagupta. B) In Sangamgra of Madhava. C) Aryabhata. D) Bhaskar's. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryabhata. 3. Which of these ideas controls all aspects of life? A) Salvation. B) Karma. C) Reincarnation. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dharma. 4. Your actions have consequences A) Reincarnation. B) Boba. C) Karma. D) Rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karma. 5. The untouchables were at the top of the caste system. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 6. What does "Aryan" mean? A) Noble ones. B) Leaders. C) Migrants. D) Conquerors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noble ones. 7. What is the atman? A) The world. B) A person's heart created by Brahman. C) Another god or goddess. D) The part of Brahman that forms a person's soul. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The part of Brahman that forms a person's soul. 8. Who was the first emperor of the Maurya empire in Ancient India? A) Water it. B) Maurya Aires. C) Siddhartha Gautama. D) Chandrapata Maurya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chandrapata Maurya. 9. In Jainism teachings, people need to stop wanting ..... and practice strict ..... A) More wealth; prayer. B) Worldly things; poverty. C) Wealth; vedas. D) Worldly things; prayer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Worldly things; poverty. 10. Most people worked the land. They grew wheat, barley, rice, and ..... A) Vegetables. B) Corn. C) Cotton. D) Grain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cotton. 11. Which is an example of a trade barrier in India? A) Himalaya Mountains. B) Euphrates River. C) Zagros Mountains. D) Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Himalaya Mountains. 12. Early farmers in the Indus Valley produced A) Only rice. B) The citadel. C) A surplus of food. D) Food from poor soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A surplus of food. 13. Which group of Buddhists believe that Buddha was a god? A) Theravada. B) Mahayana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahayana. 14. The Indus and the Ganges are ..... A) The highest castes. B) Rivers that flow into India and bring water to the country. C) Ancient cities that were very similar despite being 300 miles apart. D) Groups of invaders who failed to conquer ancient India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rivers that flow into India and bring water to the country. 15. What is the meaning of the caste system? A) A caste is a social group that a person is born into and CAN change. B) A caste is a system that changes each year. C) A caste system changes on a daily basis. D) A caste is a social group that a person is born into and CANNOT change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A caste is a social group that a person is born into and CANNOT change. 16. The ruler Qin Shi Huang-di began construction of the- A) Great Wall. B) Pyramid of Giza. C) Ziggurat Temple. D) Fleet of Zheng he. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Wall. 17. Where is the island of Shri Lanka located? A) Southwest. B) South. C) North. D) Northwest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) South. 18. Why did Siddhartha Gautama leave home at age 30? A) To find answers to his questions about human life. B) To establish a religion that was better than Hinduism. C) O help those who felt pain and suffering in life. D) To spread his new religious ideas to other people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To find answers to his questions about human life. 19. The founder of Buddhism. A) Brahman. B) Mohammed. C) Abraham. D) Siddhartha Gautama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Siddhartha Gautama. 20. "A large area of high and fairly flat land" A) Subcontinent. B) Migrate. C) Plateau. D) Monsoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plateau. 21. Free Hospitals, Emperor Asoka, and Improved Roads A) Mauryan Empire. B) Gupta Empire. C) Shang Empire. D) Sumerian Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mauryan Empire. 22. Founded India's first empire A) Pilgrim. B) Chandra Gupta Maurya. C) Enters. D) Bhagavad Gita. E) Ashoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandra Gupta Maurya. 23. True or False. Ashoka's thoughts about war and fighting changed when he saw how violent war could be. A) True. B) Maybe. C) False. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. ..... is a religion rooted in the belief that a person can reach Nirvana. A) Judaism. B) Christianity. C) Buddhism. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhism. 25. Divorce was allowed in ancient India. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 26. Which of these products was not found in Ancient India? A) Wheat. B) Gold. C) Rice. D) Potatoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Potatoes. 27. Hinduism is a ..... religion. A) Monotheistic. B) Polytheistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polytheistic. 28. A central virtue and spiritual practice of Jainisism is ahimsa, which is A) A central virtue and spiritual practice of Jainisism is ahimsa, which is. B) Non-violence. C) The renunciation of worldly possessions. D) The annual pilgrimage to Amristar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-violence. 29. Buddha and Jesus were both made famous in history for having religions started from their teachings. How were they different from each other? A) Jesus is described as having a miraculous birth, but Buddha is not. B) Jesus was around 30 when he started teaching, but Buddha was an old man. C) Buddha was born in Asia, while Jesus was born in the Americas. D) Buddha grew up rich and Jesus grew up in poverty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buddha grew up rich and Jesus grew up in poverty. 30. Pilgrimage is..... A) Hatred of others because of their faith. B) Responding to a call to serve God. C) A journey to a sacred place. D) Sharing of ideas and skills. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A journey to a sacred place. 31. True or False:If a Sudra heard the prayers of a Brahmin, molten lead could be poured into his ears. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 32. India's first civilization was along this river? A) Kabul. B) Ganges. C) Indus. D) Tiber. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indus. 33. In Buddhism, in order to reach enlightenment, one must accept ..... ? A) All. B) Buddha. C) The 4 Noble Truths. D) Caste System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The 4 Noble Truths. 34. Which religion does this belong to? NIRVANA A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 35. After medical instruments were created during India's Classical Era, what type of surgery were doctors able to perform? A) Open-Heart. B) Liposuction. C) Eye. D) Plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plastic. 36. A Hindu system of exercises for gaining bodily or mental control and well being A) Theravada. B) Guru. C) Whisper. D) Yoga. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yoga. 37. One of the reasons Buddhism became popular in India is because it did not support A) Life after death. B) The caste system. C) Dharma. D) The Hindu gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The caste system. 38. To move from one place to another A) Meditate. B) Migrate. C) Imitate. D) Estimate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Migrate. 39. True or False:The writing on the stone seals has helped scholars learn much about the ancient Harappans. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. People who have no permanent home. A) Travelers. B) Untouchables. C) Nomads. D) Brahman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nomads. 41. What were the temple walls covered with? A) Gold & silver. B) Red paint. C) Carvings & images. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carvings & images. 42. After meditation for 7 weeks, Gautama came up with an answer to what causes human suffering & began to teach his ideas, which became known as ..... A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Sikhism. D) Jainism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 43. A seasonal wind that blows across South Asia bringing dry weather in the winter and heavy rains in the summer. A) Cyclone. B) Monsoon. C) Hail. D) Storm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monsoon. 44. The Shang and Zhou kings used the Mandate of ..... to prove that God had chosen them to rule. A) Kings. B) Men. C) Gods. D) Heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heaven. 45. What caused conflicts between the Aryans? A) Water and Food. B) Weapons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water and Food. 46. What Is The Currency? A) Dollars. B) Yen. C) Euro. D) It's hot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It's hot. 47. What is the Religious texts of Hinduism? A) Vedas. B) Reincarnation. C) Karma. D) Laws of Mrs. Robinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vedas. 48. Goods and services produced in one country and purchased by another. A) Imports. B) Exports. C) Cheeseburgers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exports. 49. Settled Indus Valley around 1900 B.C. before settling and farming were nomads. A) Indus Valley. B) Monsoons. C) Aryans. D) Sanskrit. E) Nomads. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryans. 50. What two possible futures did the Hindu priests predict for Prince Siddhartha? A) A powerful warrior or brilliant poet. B) A great ruler or enlightened being. C) A religious king or truthful leader. D) A poor man or religious follower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A great ruler or enlightened being. 51. The fixed social class into which a person is born is called ..... A) Dharma. B) Caste. C) Vedas. D) Karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caste. 52. What is the official language of India today? A) Indian. B) Bengali. C) Sanskrit. D) Hindi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hindi. 53. What term below defines a line of rulers from the same family A) Dynasty. B) Legalism. C) Democracy. D) Dictatorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dynasty. 54. What caused the fall of the Mauryan empire? A) Chandragupta's death. B) Extreme floods. C) A category 5 hurricane. D) Asoka's death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asoka's death. 55. Which event happened third? A) Hindi is widely spoken throughout India. B) The Sanskrit language is developed. C) The Harappan civilization begins in the Indus Valley. D) Aryans begin to collect and record the Vedas. E) Aryans begin to settle the area around the Ganges River Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aryans begin to collect and record the Vedas. 56. The rebirth of the soul into the body of another living thing is called A) Dharma. B) Reincarnation. C) Philosophy. D) Missionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reincarnation. 57. Who is allowed to participate in Hinduism? A) Only the highly educated. B) Only priests. C) People who have become enlightened. D) People in every caste. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People in every caste. 58. Buddhist teaching of practices (right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration) leading to happiness and freedom A) Mahayana. B) Untouchables. C) Monastery. D) Eightfold Path. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eightfold Path. 59. Life is suffering and there is a reason for it A) Buddha. B) 4 Noble Truths. C) 8 fold path. D) Dharma. E) Nirvana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4 Noble Truths. 60. What Sea/Ocean does the Ganges river empty into? 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