This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 67 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 67 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did Asoka swear not to do once he became a Buddhist? A) Live a luxurious life. B) Fight any more wars. C) Eat animal products. D) Talk to anyone else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fight any more wars. 2. How did a person get into a particular caste in Ancient India? A) They worked hard to be promoted. B) They were recommended by a caste member. C) They could move up a level each year. D) They were born into the caste of their family. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were born into the caste of their family. 3. What is the definition of fasting? A) Laws. B) The practice of injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build a defense to a disease. C) Going without food. D) The most well known language of ancient India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Going without food. 4. Asoka was a ruler, or ....., of an Indian empire. A) Emperor. B) Epic. C) Monsoon. D) Raja. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Raja. 5. Aryans crossed the (a) ..... into India in about 1500 BCE. A) Hindu Kush. B) Himalayas. C) Alps. D) Andes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hindu Kush. 6. Which of the following describes the greatest effect the Hindu caste system had on India? A) Foreigners were treated as members of the lowest caste. B) Different castes shared the same rules regarding their behavior. C) People had to stay in the same caste to which they were born. D) Castes were encouraged to interact with one another. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People had to stay in the same caste to which they were born. 7. What are Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Athara? A) Leaders of Hindu. B) Persian empires. C) Indian empires. D) The Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Vedas. 8. Hindu supreme god or universal essence of god is A) Brahma. B) Vishnu. C) Shiva. D) Brahman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brahman. 9. Which religion:Supports the Caste System A) Buddhism. B) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinduism. 10. In Buddhism, what is the way to salvation? A) Reincarnation. B) Through Buddha. C) To have selfish desires. D) To give up all selfish desires. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To give up all selfish desires. 11. To become smaller or weaker A) Decline. B) Expand. C) Diminish. D) Diminutive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decline. 12. What were some of the mathematical advancements of the Indian Empires? A) Created the number 0, infinity. B) Created algebra. C) Created the modern addition system. D) Created geometry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Created the number 0, infinity. 13. Siddhartha ..... not the Buddha came up with these while he was getting enlightened.*life is suffering and unhappiness*people cause their own suffering by wanting things*you can overcome your desires and reach nirvana*if you follow the 8-fold path, you can reach nirvana.What are these called? A) The 4 Noble Truths. B) The Loyal Way. C) The Righteous Path. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The 4 Noble Truths. 14. Rebirth of the soul in different forms A) Reincarnation. B) Nirvana. C) Stupa. D) Monsoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reincarnation. 15. In Hinduism, a series of "proper behaviors" that guide the ways that people are supposed to live A) Dharma. B) Salvation. C) Yoga. D) Karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dharma. 16. What country used a caste system? A) Americas. B) Rome. C) China. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) India. 17. Which river in India is a sacred river to Hindus? A) Nile River. B) Brahmaputra River. C) Indus River. D) Ganges River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ganges River. 18. The belief that a person's soul is reborn into a new body after death is ..... A) Nirvana. B) Caste/varna. C) Samsara. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reincarnation. 19. To come into being or become known A) Expose. B) Hide. C) Retract. D) Emerge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emerge. 20. Jewelry made of lapis lazuli was found in Afghanistan. What does this teach us? A) Farmers harvested crops and put aside a surplus of grain. B) Cities were carefully planned and built. C) A system of marking belongings was used. D) Harappans traded with their neighbors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harappans traded with their neighbors. 21. What river in western India is sacred to the Hindus? A) Brahmaputra River. B) Ganges River. C) Saraswati River. D) Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ganges River. 22. A power or energy a person accumulates during their life based on their actions is called? A) Caste. B) Dharma. C) Karma. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karma. 23. What is the social class of India? A) Caste. B) Popularity. C) Social. D) Pyramid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caste. 24. In which language did the people of the Indus River Valley write? A) Sanskrit. B) Indian. C) Varna. D) Vedic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sanskrit. 25. True or False:Harappan cities were considered very advanced. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 26. How did the Caste System shape Indian society? A) It encouraged vegetarianism. B) It made everyone become Buddhist. C) It promoted the Sanskrit script. D) It created a strict guide for social classes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It created a strict guide for social classes. 27. Identifying seven of the planets in our solar system is one accomplishment early Indians made in the field of ....., which is the study of stars and planets. A) Metallurgy. B) Inoculation. C) Astronomy. D) Hindu-Arabic numerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Astronomy. 28. Years after the Mauryan Empire failed what dynasty reunited northern India? A) Mughal Dynasty. B) Vijayanagara Empire. C) Gupta Dynasty. D) Chola Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gupta Dynasty. 29. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Aryans? A) Aryans lived in small communities, based on family ties. B) Aryan villages were governed by rajas. C) Aryans were not farmers. D) Each group had its own leader, often a skilled warrior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryans were not farmers. 30. The Deccan Plateau is a ..... that covers ..... of India A) Landform; two-thirds. B) Landform; half. C) Mountain Range; one-third. D) Mountain Range; two-thirds. E) Landform; one-third. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Landform; two-thirds. 31. Buddhism appealed to a wider of people because A) Buddhists believed in many gods. B) Buddha traveled to many places. C) Buddhism treated all people equally. D) Buddhist poetry was so good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhism treated all people equally. 32. A system of assigning people to groups based on their birth within a society. This means a person is born into a particular group, and this group determines who the person can marry, what job the person can take, and what rank the person holds in society. A) Creation System. B) Calumnious System. C) Caste System. D) Curious System. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caste System. 33. What where the people that weren't even connected to the caste system? A) Untouchables. B) Brahmin. C) Vaisya:. D) Sudra's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Untouchables. 34. Believed by many historians to be the greatest king of the Mauryan Dynasty A) Chandragupta Maurya. B) Siddhartha Gyatma. C) Asoka. D) Alexander the Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asoka. 35. For centuries, contact between India and other ancient civilizations was limited by ..... A) The caste system. B) Fear of foreigners. C) The Great Wall. D) The Himalayas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Himalayas. 36. What is the name for the "Universal Soul" in Hinduism? A) Shiva. B) Ganesha. C) Brahman. D) Vishnu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brahman. 37. What is the Buddhist concept of achieving a state of perfect peace? A) Reincarnation. B) Karma. C) Nirvana. D) Eight-fold Path. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nirvana. 38. The lowest ....., or social grouping based on skill, identified in the Vedas was the ..... A) Otherwise; Brahmins. B) Varna; beautiful. C) Caste; Kshatriyas. D) Caste; Vaishyasya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Varna; beautiful. 39. The belief that after death, one is reborn into a new life. A) Meditation. B) Reincarnation. C) Zoroastrianism. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reincarnation. 40. What describes how Krishna gives advice to Arjuna as he prepares to go to battle. A) Krishna. B) The Bhagavad Gita. C) Ramayana. D) The Four Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Bhagavad Gita. 41. Which religion believes in an afterlife? A) HInduism. B) Buddhism. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neither. 42. Identify the religion based on the descriptor:founded by Siddhartha Gautama A) Buddhism. B) Hinduism. C) Both Buddhism and Hinduism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buddhism. 43. Ancient Indian custom of sacrifice where a widow would burn herself to death during the funeral of her husband. A) Crow. B) Pariahs. C) Suttee. D) Sudras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suttee. 44. Which characteristics contributes to South Asia being considered a subcontinent? A) It is geographically isolated from the rest of Asia by tall mountains. B) It has a different weather pattern from the rest of the region. C) It is separated from eastern Asia by the Arabian Sea. D) It developed civilizations that had no contact with outside peoples. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is geographically isolated from the rest of Asia by tall mountains. 45. In Hinduism, the idea of being nonviolent. A) Whisper. B) Citadel. C) Convert. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whisper. 46. Indian mathematicians were able to make great advances in the 3rd and 2nd century BCE, in part because of their development A) The abacus. B) Invention of addition. C) Developing the concept of zero. D) Use of the calculator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developing the concept of zero. 47. What was a major innovation by the Ancient Indians used in their cities? A) Lightbulbs. B) Sewage Systems. C) Stone Tools. D) Electrical Wires. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sewage Systems. 48. The location of ancient civilization in present day India and Pakistan. A) Indus River Valley. B) Ganges River. C) Tigris. D) Euphrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indus River Valley. 49. Which technological aspect do we see shared by Mesopotamians and Harappans? A) Code of ethics written on stele. B) Advanced shipbuilding and sailing. C) Hieroglyphics writing. D) Mud bricks for walling and construction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mud bricks for walling and construction. 50. What happened to Buddhism after Buddha's death? A) It spread around Asia. B) It died out mostly. C) It spread throughout India. D) It replaced Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It spread around Asia. 51. Key term:a single, spiritual power that Hindus believe lives in everything A) Missionary. B) Migrate. C) Brahman. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brahman. 52. According to Buddhism, WHO could enter nirvana (a state of everlasting peace)? A) Brahmins. B) Kshatriyas. C) Anyone, regardless of caste. D) Shudrasya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anyone, regardless of caste. 53. Which of the following is NOT true? A) Siddhartha Gautama was incredibly moved by all the suffering in the world. B) Worldly possessions and riches will help you reach enlightenment quicker. C) Siddhartha Gautama was born a prince. D) Siddhartha Gautama taught living "the Middle Way" where one does not live in one extreme or the other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Worldly possessions and riches will help you reach enlightenment quicker. 54. Apart from Harappa, what other city was most iportant in the history of Harappan Civilization? A) Drink it. B) Prophetess. C) Ganwerwala. D) It's also Joe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It's also Joe. 55. Ancient India's written language was called what? A) Sanskrit. B) Pictographs. C) Heiroglyphics. D) Cuneiform. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sanskrit. 56. A person's duties or responsibilities A) Reincarnation. B) Meditation. C) Subcontinent. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dharma. 57. What similarity did the Indus and Ganges Rivers share? A) They added important nutrients to the soil that improved farming. B) They provided water that made the monsoons stronger. C) They created canyons that protected the Indian subcontinent. D) They provided transportation routes that connected distant peoples. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They added important nutrients to the soil that improved farming. 58. What mountain range is west of the Deccan Plateau? A) Himalayas. B) Western Ghats. C) Hindu Kush. D) Eastern Ghats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Western Ghats. 59. The first civilization in India developed in the valley of which river? A) The Indus River. B) The Ganges River. C) The Deccan River. D) The Euphrates River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Indus River. 60. Which of the following is not true about Chandragupta's rule? A) He taxed his people heavily. B) He converted to Buddhism at the end of his reign. C) He divided the empire into 4 provinces. D) He raised a massive army. 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