This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Harrapan Civilization – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Harrapan Civilization Quiz 1 (56 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following was not a major industrial town of the Harappan civilization? A) Harappa. B) Lothal. C) Kalibangan. D) Chanhudaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lothal. 2. The Scale found from Harappa is made of. A) Ivory. B) Bronze. C) Shell. D) Wood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ivory. 3. A harappan site is characterised by the discovery of a perpendicular ploughed fields, which among the following fits the description? A) Lothal. B) Kalibangan. C) Mohenjodaro. D) Sutkagendor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kalibangan. 4. The site of Harappa is located on the bank of river A) Saraswati. B) Beas. C) Indus. D) Ravi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ravi. 5. Two terracotta models of Egyptian mummies have been recovered from which Harappan site? A) Lothal. B) Kalibangan. C) Dholavira. D) Chanhudaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lothal. 6. The polity of the Harappan people, as derived from the material evidence, was A) Oligarchic. B) Theocratic-unitary. C) Secular-federalist. D) Theocratic-federalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theocratic-unitary. 7. Which one of the following is the largest burnt-brick structure built in the entire range of the Harappa culture? A) The Greatest Bath. B) Granary. C) Assembly Hall. D) Lothal Dockyard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Granary. 8. The terra-cotta plough of the Harappan civilization was found at A) Lothal. B) Banawali. C) Mohenjo-Daro. D) Kalibangan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Banawali. 9. Which one of the following statements regarding Harappan civilisation is correct? A) The inhabitants of Harappa had neither knowledge of copper nor bronze. B) The standard Harappan seals were made of clay. C) The inhabitants of Harappan grew and used cotton. D) The Harrapan civilisation was rural based. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Harrapan civilisation was rural based. 10. Which of the following Harappan towns is divided into three parts? A) Lothal. B) Kalibanga. C) Dholavira. D) Chanhudaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dholavira. 11. In which year the Harappan Site was excavated A) 1921. B) 1923. C) 1920. D) 1922. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1921. 12. The Harappan towns and cities were divided into large.....blocks A) Rectangular. B) Square. C) Semi-circular. D) Circular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rectangular. 13. Harappan people had a common burial system, which is proved by A) The earth burials with the head of the dead normally laid towards the north. B) The burial of commonly used items with the dead. C) Both A and B above. D) The burial of the dead body in the sitting posture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B above. 14. Which one of the following Harappan sites had a dock? A) Alamgirpur. B) Lothal. C) Mohenjodaro. D) Harappa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lothal. 15. In which of the following respects the various Harappan sites a marked uniformity? A) Agricultural Practices. B) Crafts. C) Town Planning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agricultural Practices. 16. The Granary at Harappa was made of A) Bricks only. B) Bricks and timber. C) Bricks and stones. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bricks only. 17. An anthropomorphic figure of copper has been reported from the Harappan levels at A) Harrappa. B) Kalibanga. C) Lothal. D) Rojadi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harrappa. 18. Which one among the following is not the characteristic feature of the Harappan settlement? A) Doorways and windows generally faced the side lanes and rarely opened onto the main streets. B) Houses generally had separate bathing areas and toilets. C) The citadel was walled but the lower town was not walled. D) Drains and water chutes from the second storey were often built inside the wall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Houses generally had separate bathing areas and toilets. 19. Rice cultivation is associated with the Harappan site of A) Lothal. B) Mohenjodaro. C) Harappa. D) Kalibangan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lothal. 20. Which of the following was not worshipped by the Harappans? A) Peepal. B) Vishnu. C) Mother Goddess. D) Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vishnu. 21. The people of Harappa and Mohanjodaro culture belongs to the? A) New stone age. B) Iron age. C) Chalcolithic Age. D) Copper age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chalcolithic Age. 22. The crop which does not seem to have been known to the people of the Harappan culture is A) Cotton. B) Barley. C) Ragi. D) Rice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ragi. 23. Who is the excavator of Harappa site? A) Mackey. B) Rakhal das Bannerji. C) Daya ram Sahni. D) K. Thapar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daya ram Sahni. 24. The credit for Harappa excavation goes to . A) O. Stein. B) N.G. Mazumdar. C) D.R. Sahni. D) R.D. Banerji. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) D.R. Sahni. 25. Almost all Harappan towns had large granaries because A) Taxes were paid in kind, and therefore, granaries acted as a sort of public treasuries. B) Surplus produce of the countryside was stored in the towns. C) Food-grains were stored for the purpose of trade. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 26. The Harappan people worshiped which God? A) Varuna. B) Lord-Shiva. C) Indra. D) Vishnu. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord-Shiva. 27. Two most important Harappan crops were A) Cottom and Sugarcane. B) Rice and peas. C) Wheat and barley. D) Sesamum and mustard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wheat and barley. 28. On the basis of available evidence, the Harappan civilization contributed two important things to mankind which were A) Growing wheat and cotton. B) Copper and bronze smelting technology. C) Making soak-pits and earthen pipes. D) Knowledge of mathematics and decimal system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growing wheat and cotton. 29. Which one of the following is a site of the Harappan civilization wherein a Persian Gulf seal has been unearthed? , A) Mohenjodaro. B) Lothal. C) Kalibanga. D) Dholavira. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dholavira. 30. The Harappan site, where the citadel and the lower town, both are fortified separately is- A) Harappa. B) Mohenjodaro. C) Kalibanga. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalibanga. 31. A circular button shaped seal called the Persian gulf seal has been obtained from which Harappan site? A) Lothal. B) Mohenjodaro. C) Kalibangan. D) Banwali. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lothal. 32. Harappa was located on the river A) Sindhu. B) Ganga. C) Ravi. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ravi. 33. In the Harappan buildings mostly burnt bricks were used, not stones, because A) Without iron tools stone-cutting was difficult. B) Bricks provided better flood defence. C) Bricks were ideally suited for the moist climate. D) Stone was not readily available. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stone was not readily available. 34. Who is the archeologist, Harappan Site was discovered A) R.D Banarjee. B) D. R Sanhi. C) T.K Taper. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D. R Sanhi. 35. Which metal was not known to Harappan people? A) Tin. B) Iron. C) Copper. D) Gold and Silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iron. 36. Harappa is situated on the bank of which river? A) Sindhu. B) Ravi. C) Bias. D) Ghagger. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bias. 37. What was the time period of Indus Civilization / Harappan Civilization? A) 2500 BC - 1700 BC. B) 2400 BC - 1700 BC. C) 2400 BC - 1750 BC. D) 2500 BC - 1750 BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2500 BC - 1750 BC. 38. Which Harappan sites are situated on bank of river sindhu? A) Mohenjodaro, Chanhudaro, Kotdiji. B) Chanhudaro, Kotdiji, Harappa. C) Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Chanhudaro. D) Kotdiji, Harappa, Mohenjodaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mohenjodaro, Chanhudaro, Kotdiji. 39. Excavations at which one of the following sites give evidence of continuous habitation and cultural evolution from the Stone Age to the Harappan culture? A) Kalibangan. B) Mehargarh. C) Dholavira. D) Allahdino. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mehargarh. 40. From the scattered skeletal remains of the Harappans found at different sites, the most appropriate conclusion to be drawn would be that there was A) Casual burial of human bodies. B) Malaria or any other pathogenic condition. C) Mass execution or human sacrifice. D) Some kind of military assault. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Some kind of military assault. 41. Horse remains are found at which of the following Harappan sites? A) Kalibangan, Manda and Surkotada. B) Surkotada and Kalibangan. C) Surkotada, Dholavira and Manda. D) Surkotada, Kalibangan and Dholavira. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Surkotada and Kalibangan. 42. The Harappa had trade relations with a number of countries such as A) Rome, China. B) Greece, Turkey. C) China, Japan. D) Persia and Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persia and Afghanistan. 43. Which Harappan site is situated in Rajasthan? A) Rangpur. B) Rakhigarhi. C) Bankwali. D) Kalibangan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kalibangan. 44. The Predominant funerary practice at Harappa was A) Burying ash kept in an urn. B) Extended burial of the body along with pottery. C) Making a memorial to mark the site. D) Cremation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extended burial of the body along with pottery. 45. The most common type of Harappan sales is A) Round. B) Square. C) Oval. D) Cylindrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Square. 46. Which one of the following is not one of the Harapan sites related to the maritime activities of the Harappan people? A) Balakot. B) Lothal. C) Patliputra. D) Sokta Kob. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patliputra. 47. From a large number of seals discovered from almost all the Harappan sites, it appears that they were used for.....purposes. A) Ritualistic and religious. B) Commercial. C) Both A and B above. D) Symbolic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B above. 48. Which of the following features of modern Hinduism is not derived from the Harappan cults? A) Dedication of temples to a particular deity. B) Shakti worship. C) Worship of Siva as Pashupati. D) Worship of Siva-linga in the form of conical and cylindrical stones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dedication of temples to a particular deity. 49. The area under Harappan Civilisation was . A) Square. B) Circular. C) Triangular. D) Rectangular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Triangular. 50. Button size seals of Harappan civilization have the symbols of . A) Fish. B) Swastik. C) Srivatsa. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swastik. 51. Harappan site of Banwali is situated in. A) Eastern U.P. B) Rajasthan. C) Haryana. D) Western U.P. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haryana. 52. Cylindrical seals of Mesopotamia have been recovered from which two Harappan site? A) Mohenjodaro and Kalibangan. B) Ropar and Rojdi. C) Lothal and Kalibangan. D) Lothal and Rangpur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mohenjodaro and Kalibangan. 53. Which Harappan site is not found in Gujarat? A) Sutkagendor. B) Lothal. C) Dhaulvira. D) Sockhoh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sutkagendor. 54. A bronze chariot of Harappan times yoked to a pair of bullocks & driven by a nude human figure has been discovered at A) Kunal. B) Daimabad. C) Rojadi'. D) Sanghol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Daimabad. 55. Which one of the following was the most westerly outpost of the Harappan culture? A) Rangpur. B) Sutkagen Dor. C) Manda. D) Lothal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sutkagen Dor. 56. One of the Harappan deities not represented in later Hindu religion is A) Compound creatures. B) Seven mothers (Sapta mariksa). C) Pashupati Siva. D) Unicorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unicorn. Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesAncient India QuizAncient Indian History QuizBuddhism QuizChandragupta QuizGupta Period QuizIndus QuizJainism QuizRig Vedic Period Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books