This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 84 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 84 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Blank known as common people were at the third level of the pyramid. A) Vaisya:. B) Brahmans. C) Kshatriyas. D) Pariahs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vaisya:. 2. Which empire declined after Skandagupta died and invaders began attacking the land? A) Gupta. B) Mauryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gupta. 3. What class are Vaisyas in? A) Laborers. B) Ruler. C) Untouchables. D) Priest. E) Merchants. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Merchants. 4. What does the caste system separate people by? A) Social class. B) Gender. C) Race. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social class. 5. Reincarnation is the belief that: A) There are many gods. B) People should fulfill their duty. C) There is only one god. D) People will be reborn into a new body after death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People will be reborn into a new body after death. 6. "What comes around goes around" is a way to describe ..... A) Caste. B) Karma. C) Dharma. D) Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Karma. 7. What belief came out of Hinduism and practices an extreme form of non-violence? A) Brahmanism. B) Jainism. C) Buddhism. D) Islam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jainism. 8. What is the term for a large landmass that is smaller than a continent and often separated from the main landmass by physical barriers? A) County. B) Peninsula. C) Subcontinent. D) Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subcontinent. 9. The varnas were divided into a system of smaller groups called ....., which were based on a person's birth, wealth, or occupation. A) Dharma. B) Samskaras. C) Sanskrit. D) Castes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Castes. 10. What is the term that means "becoming liberated from the cycle of reincarnation in Hinduism" ? A) Salvation. B) Whisper. C) Karma. D) Nirvana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salvation. 11. Where are bullock carts still used in India today? A) Rural areas. B) Urban areas. C) Wilderness areas. D) Suburban areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rural areas. 12. A government ruled by a religious leader A) Dalai Flame. B) Democracy. C) Theocracy. D) Panchen Llama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theocracy. 13. Belief in polytheism, many gods A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 14. The man who became the Buddha A) Siddhartha Gautama. B) Prince Ashoka. C) Chandra Gupta. D) Chandragupta Maurya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Siddhartha Gautama. 15. Gods and goddesses worshipped by Hindus. A) Absolute power. B) Caste. C) Missionary. D) Avatar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Avatar. 16. Anika, Zoe, and Evelyn are discussing the story of Siddhartha Gautama. What is the main theme they are focusing on? A) The importance of luxury and joy. B) The inevitability of suffering. C) The pursuit of power and wealth. D) The search for enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The search for enlightenment. 17. What was the language of the Ancient Indian people? A) Indian. B) Sanskrit. C) English. D) Spanish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sanskrit. 18. What did Siddhartha Guatama see in his travels that upset him? A) He saw too many people that were stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. B) He saw too many homes that needed to be repaired. C) He saw beggars, people who were ill, and people broken down by age with no home and no where to go. D) He saw too many people that needed to bathe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He saw beggars, people who were ill, and people broken down by age with no home and no where to go. 19. Early farming villages in India depended on ..... to get enough rain for their crops to grow. A) Summer monsoons. B) Shiva. C) Brahman. D) Winter monsoons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Summer monsoons. 20. Zoroastrianism is considered by most people as a monotheistic religion. What does monotheism means? A) Belief in Judaism. B) Belief in one god. C) No belief in a god. D) Belief in many gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Belief in one god. 21. What was the main natural resource of India? A) Mountains. B) Rivers. C) Tunnels. D) Deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rivers. 22. Major winds in the Indian Ocean that blow into Asia for half the year, and away from Asia for the other half. The summer winds provide the rainfall necessary for agriculture in India. A) Tornado. B) Hurricane. C) Monsoon. D) Cyclone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monsoon. 23. The belief that a person lives more than once in different bodies is called ..... A) Pantheism. B) Dharma. C) Buddhism. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reincarnation. 24. The Buddha followed some Hindu ideas and changed others, but he did not consider himself to be a god. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. How did the term cappuccino originate? A) It is Italian for "frothy coffee drink.". B) It was a term invented by a coffee company. C) It is inspired by the colour of the robes worn by monks of the Capuchin order. D) It is the French term for "foam on coffee.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is inspired by the colour of the robes worn by monks of the Capuchin order. 26. Which reasons do historians believe are the most likely causes of the fall of the Indus Valley (Harappan) civilization in northwest India? A) Famine, bad construction, and civil war. B) Earthquakes, river changes, and invasion. C) Flooding, disease, and food surplus. D) Hurricanes, plague, and bad kings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquakes, river changes, and invasion. 27. Bhagavad Gita means: A) "Song of Buddah". B) "Song of Christ". C) "Song of the Lord". D) "Song of Jesus". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Song of the Lord". 28. The Aryan culture blended with that of other people and created what is today known as the ..... religion. A) Hindu. B) Jewish. C) Buddhist. D) Christian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hindu. 29. Buddhism is the belief of many gods. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 30. Buddhist temples are called ..... A) Dharma. B) Stupas. C) Temple. D) Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stupas. 31. The caste system in India was characterized by what? A) Toleration for various religious beliefs. B) Equality between men and women. C) A lack of social mobility. D) The right of people to choose their occupations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A lack of social mobility. 32. What landform is in the middle of the Indian subcontinent? A) Hindu Kush Mountains. B) Deccan Plateau. C) Eastern Ghats. D) Western Ghats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deccan Plateau. 33. What mountains form the northern border of India and are the tallest in the world? A) Arabian. B) Indus. C) Ganges. D) Himalayas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Himalayas. 34. Jainism was a ..... Hinduism. A) Study of. B) Reaction to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reaction to. 35. A traditional Indian social class that emerged below the Sudras and whose members perform(ed) the most unclean and polluting work. Formerly called Pariah, now Dalits. A) Varna. B) Sudra. C) Untouchables. D) Wretched. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Untouchables. 36. There is no single founder of this religion A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 37. Early India's contributions to world civilization included A) Developing the world's first calendar. B) Creating what is now called algebra. C) Inventing the plow and the wheel. D) Introducing zero to the number system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Introducing zero to the number system. 38. What group of people were the first known to be in Ancient India? A) Dharma. B) Crow. C) Aryans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryans. 39. What were the Upanishads? A) Religious writings of the farmers, that only farmers could read. B) Religious writings of the priests, that only priests could read. C) Religious writings of the gurus, that everyone could read. D) Religious writings of the nobles, that only nobles could read. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Religious writings of the gurus, that everyone could read. 40. According to the timeline, Queen Hatshepsut was ruling Egypt, about the same time as ..... A) Aryans began to migrate into India. B) Chandra Gupta II began to rule India. C) King Asoka ruled India. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aryans began to migrate into India. 41. What two empires came after the Aryans in India A) Gupta and Mauryan. B) Mohenjo Daro and Harappa. C) Shang and Mongols. D) Leonardo da Vinci. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gupta and Mauryan. 42. Not an item that people in Ancient India exported a lot of A) Ivory. B) Pearls. C) Olives. D) Cotton cloth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Olives. 43. The Indians knew how to create alloys, a mixture of two or more metals. Which of the following is a reason why they would want to create alloys? A) Alloys are shinier. B) Alloys are sometimes stronger and can be easier to work with. C) Alloys had a higher trade value. D) Alloys were considered a luxury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alloys are sometimes stronger and can be easier to work with. 44. The Eightfold Path includes the idea that we must A) Worship images of the Buddha. B) Trust our senses over our minds. C) Do works that uplift our being. D) Disregard the Four Noble Truths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do works that uplift our being. 45. In Hinduism, who is the creator god? A) Brahma. B) Vishnu. C) Shiva. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahma. 46. One way that Hinduism differs from Buddhism is that A) Hinduism has developed fairly recently. B) Hinduism has not attracted as many followers. C) Believers of Hinduism rely on a single sacred book. D) Hinduism has no single founder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hinduism has no single founder. 47. The most important language of ancient India, bases for most modern Asian languages A) English. B) Persian. C) Arabic. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sanskrit. 48. A person who is impure and tainted by their birth A) Brahmin. B) Untouchable. C) Vaishya. D) Sudra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Untouchable. 49. Which religion does NOT have a founder? A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 50. Mohenjo-Daro showed an advanced civilization. Which is NOT an example A) Government designed perpendicular city streets. B) Writing and art on business stamp seals. C) Stored grain. D) Writing in multiple languages for easy translation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Writing in multiple languages for easy translation. 51. Why do scholars still have many questions about the Indus Valley Civilization? A) Scholars have no yet discovered how to read the writing of the Indus Valley Civilization. B) Indus rulers were buried in massive tombs within pyramids. C) Clay seals have been found and scholars have decoded the text to show a civilization far more advanced than possible. D) Trade routes indicate that early Indus Valley people could only access areas in Southern Asia, making cultural diffusion impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scholars have no yet discovered how to read the writing of the Indus Valley Civilization. 52. What are the sacred texts of Hinduism called? A) Judaism. B) Torah. C) Bible. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vedas. 53. The Dalits were also known as A) The commoner. B) The untouchable. C) The middle class . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The untouchable. 54. Which was a Mauryan ruler who built new roads and hospitals for people and animals? A) Aryabhata. B) Ashoka. C) Chandra Gupta Maurya. D) Kalidasa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ashoka. 55. What is the main focus of Mahayana Buddhists? A) Buddha's compassion. B) Buddha's commitment to a life of poverty. C) Buddha's good deeds. D) Buddha's writings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buddha's compassion. 56. Hinduism and Buddhism are two religions that began in India. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 57. The believe in many gods, all considered a part of one main god is ..... A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 58. Edible cutleries have a self life of A) Four years. B) Three and half years. C) Three years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three years. 59. ..... determines what you will come back as in your next life. A) Your wealth. B) Your caste. C) Your dharma. D) Your karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Your karma. 60. What did the ascetics give up and do? A) Their freedoms. B) Their fasting. C) Their meditation and fasting, no shelter, mediation. D) Their sleep, shelter, food, holding their breath, and mediating. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Their sleep, shelter, food, holding their breath, and mediating. ← 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