This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 79 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 79 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Were Buddhist ideas appealing to people in all levels of society A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Exercise to relax your mind, body and soul is called? A) Yoga. B) HIIT. C) Parkour. D) Jogging. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yoga. 3. Who are missionaries? A) People who work to spread religious beliefs. B) People who work to spread a virus. C) People who go on missions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People who work to spread religious beliefs. 4. During the summer months India has this kind of climate A) Dry and cool. B) Wet and cool. C) Cold and snowy. D) Rainy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rainy. 5. The winds that blow across East Asia at certain times of the year A) Monsoon. B) Migrate. C) Nirvana. D) Whisper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monsoon. 6. Along which river did the Indus Civilization begin? A) Ganges. B) Indus. C) Sarasvati. D) Brahmaputra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indus. 7. What makes India and Pakistan a subcontinent? A) They are beneath sea level. B) They are two countries and not one. C) They have a border. D) They are cut off from the rest of Asia by natural features. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are cut off from the rest of Asia by natural features. 8. Which of the following acts would help a person have right mindfulness? A) Meditation. B) Putting 100% effort in studying. C) Giving food to the poor. D) Speaking a compliment to a friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meditation. 9. What river is holy to the Hindu people? A) Ganges River. B) Nile River. C) Brahmaputra River. D) Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ganges River. 10. India is known as a subcontinent, which is a large landmass separated from the rest of the continent. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. In ancient India, members of different castes often socialized and even married. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. The shared attitudes, behaviors, and history of a group of people. A) Geography. B) Sanskrit. C) Artifact. D) Culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Culture. 13. Move from 1 place to another permanently A) Specialization. B) Migration. C) Polythesistic. D) Nomadic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Migration. 14. The ruling or militarily elite A) Kshatriya. B) Sudra. C) Brahmin. D) Vaishya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kshatriya. 15. Monsoons are important to India because they carry A) Snow to the dry lands. B) Rains that enable farmers to grow crops. C) Dry air to farming regions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rains that enable farmers to grow crops. 16. True or False or NG:Trading was underdeveloped during the Aryan's rule. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 17. Which vocabulary term refers to the period where flooding could have caused the disappearance of Harappa civilization? A) Typhoon season. B) Hurricane season. C) Tornado season. D) Monsoon season. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Monsoon season. 18. Hinduism believes in many Gods, so therefore it is a ..... religion. A) Polytheistic. B) Monotheistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polytheistic. 19. Which religion did Asoka convert to? A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Judaism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 20. ..... are late Vedic Sanskrit texts of religious teachings and ideas. A) Vedas. B) The Upanishads. C) Arthashastra. D) The Geeta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Upanishads. 21. The Aryans created the blank? A) Iron Shovel. B) Iron Sword. C) Iron plow. D) Iron Arrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iron plow. 22. What is the name of the group of people who brought Sanskrit and Hinduism to the Indus Valley? A) Buddhists. B) Aryans. C) Hindus. D) Indians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aryans. 23. India is huge! In fact, it's so big geographers call it a ..... A) State. B) City. C) Continent. D) Subcontinent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subcontinent. 24. Literature is an accomplishment of? A) The mahabharata. B) Gupta. C) The Vedas. D) Mauryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gupta. 25. One of the oldest religions in the world and the main religion of India still today. A) Judaism. B) Christianity. C) Buddhism. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hinduism. 26. What was the largest ethnic group living in early Russia? A) Slavs. B) Persians. C) Mongols. D) Arabs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slavs. 27. What system developed in India that separated people into different groups based on birth, wealth, and occupation? A) Life System. B) Caste System. C) The Brahman Way. D) Policy of Atman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caste System. 28. Which group was traditionally the priests/teachers? A) Dalits. B) Kshatriyas. C) Vaishyasya. D) Brahmin. E) Shudrasya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brahmin. 29. What was the most important aspect of the caste system, and could determine roles after rebirth? A) Not doing their job. B) Marrying outside of their caste. C) Adhering to the rules of the caste system. D) Complaining about their job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adhering to the rules of the caste system. 30. Which one did Indians believe in A) Birth. B) Death. C) Afterlife. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reincarnation. 31. Caste officially ended in ..... A) 1950. B) 1850. C) 1960. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1950. 32. A boy in an important Indian family could do this but a girl could not. A) Study with a guru. B) Be a part of the varna system. C) Enter an arranged marriage. D) Live with parents and grandparents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Study with a guru. 33. What caused the IRV civilization to disappear? A) Heavy flooding. B) Drought. C) Foreign invaders. D) No one knows for sure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No one knows for sure. 34. If I were a warrior, I would be part of the ..... class. A) Kshatriyas. B) Sudras. C) Vaisya:. D) Brahman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kshatriyas. 35. Seasonal winds, especially in the India Ocean and southern Asia A) Monsoons. B) Hurricane. C) Typhoons. D) Tsunami. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monsoons. 36. A mountain range in South Asia that includes Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain peak. A) Monsoons. B) Indus River. C) Harappa. D) Himalaya Mountains. E) Caste System. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Himalaya Mountains. 37. What Indian leader supported the ideals of Buddhism and spread the message of tolerance? A) Asoka. B) Chandragupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asoka. 38. The Buddha's teachings called the Four Noble Truths teach that human beings need to face the fact of human suffering. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 39. What did Shi Huang Di do that was so significant in Ancient China? A) Married and Egyptian Queen. B) Made his palace out of gold. C) Also became emperor of Mesopotamia. D) Was the first emperor of China and centralized the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Was the first emperor of China and centralized the government. 40. According to Buddhism, what must one do to end suffering? A) Build wealth. B) Worship Brahman. C) Serve others. D) Overcome selfish desires. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overcome selfish desires. 41. Hinduism has many gods that are all extensions of Brahma. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 42. The Silk Road was ..... A) The route that connected China to Greece and Rome, allowing goods and knowledge to spread. B) The path that the Great Wall eventually followed. C) An ancient religious song that was sung at the Great Wall. D) A 3, 000 mile-long waterway where many ancient Chinese built their homes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The route that connected China to Greece and Rome, allowing goods and knowledge to spread. 43. Who initiated the International Yoga day? A) Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. B) Mrs. Sonia Gandhi. C) Die. Rahul Gandhi. D) Mr. Narendra Modi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr. Narendra Modi. 44. Two major branches of Buddhism were created over time. Which group tried to follow the Buddha's teaching exactly as stated? A) Theravada. B) Mahayana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theravada. 45. A person who spoke these words most likely belonged to which social class? "I have been learning about battle. My father is showing me how to use different kinds of weapons so I will be a good warrior." A) Shudrasya. B) Vaishyasya. C) Kshatriyas. D) Brahmins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kshatriyas. 46. What did the untouchables do? A) Teach. B) Skin animals, take out trash. C) Cook. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skin animals, take out trash. 47. Which geographic feature served as a barrier that protected ancient China and was used as an invasion route by the Aryans into ancient India? A) Deserts. B) Rivers. C) Plateaus. D) Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mountains. 48. What was the main goal of people who followed Buddhism as the Buddha taught it? A) Missionary work. B) Reaching nirvana. C) Reincarnation. D) Meditation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reaching nirvana. 49. Determine whether the phrase below describes Hinduism, Buddhism, or both.Tripitaka is a sacred text. A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 50. A personal duty based on the individuals place in society. A) Crow. B) Job. C) Dharma. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dharma. 51. In India, how did Hindus believe you can move up in caste? A) Dharma. B) Rebirth. C) Reincarnation. D) Karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reincarnation. 52. Indians lived primarily in nuclear families. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 53. Long poems describing heroes and great events A) Epics. B) Monism. C) Brahman. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epics. 54. India is what kind of landmass? A) Island. B) Subcontinent. C) Peninsula. D) Continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subcontinent. 55. They are the 4th Varna. Their jobs are laborers. A) Vaisya:. B) Brahmins. C) Kshatriyas. D) Sudras. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sudras. 56. What vocabulary word means:An ancient sacred book of writings. A) Karma. B) Vedas. C) Dharma. D) Monsoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vedas. 57. Indus Valley Civilization A) First civilization of ancient India. B) Most recent civilization in India. C) Civilizations around the Ganges River in India. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First civilization of ancient India. 58. Who are at the top of the Ancient Indian Caste System A) Brahmin Priests & Academics. B) Kshatriyas (warriors & kings). C) Vaishyas (merchants & land owners). D) The Untouchables (outcasts of the caste system). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmin Priests & Academics. 59. -Block printing, gunpowder, and the abacus were developed.-Porcelain making and black-ink painting on silk paper were perfected.-The compass was discovered and used to improve the determination of direction when sailing. These advances are associated with the A) Tang and Sung dynasties of China. B) Gupta Empire in India. C) Ghana and Mali civilizations of Africa. D) Byzantine Empire in the Middle East. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tang and Sung dynasties of China. 60. In Hinduism, the supreme cosmic consciousness, spiritual force, or God A) Budha. B) God. C) Savior. 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