This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 172 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 172 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ava, Mason, and Lily are discussing the concept of dharma in ancient Indian beliefs. Mason believes it's about the energy created by actions in life that comes back in the future. Ava thinks it's about the moral duty or responsibility each person has to fulfill in their life. Lily, on the other hand, believes it's about the soul being reborn into a new body after death, starting a new life. According to ancient Indian beliefs, who is correct? A) Mason:Actions you do in your life create energy that comes back to you in the future. B) Ava:Every person has a moral duty or responsibility to fulfill in their life. C) Lily:After you die, your soul is reborn into a new body and you start a new life. D) None of them:The experiences and actions in your previous lives influence your current life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ava:Every person has a moral duty or responsibility to fulfill in their life. 2. Which mountain range separates India from Tibet and the rest of Asia? A) The Himalayas. B) The Rockies. C) The Appalachians. D) The Alps. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Himalayas. 3. Which of the following inventions was invented by the Harappans? A) The clock. B) Sailboats. C) Gunpowder. D) Paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sailboats. 4. 'The concept of "action" or "deed" in Dharmic religions understood as denoting the entire cycle of cause and effect described in Hindu, Jain, Sikh, and Buddhist philosophies A) Dharma. B) Reincarnation. C) Karma. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karma. 5. Two great rivers flow through northern India. What are they called? A) The Danube and the Yellow. B) The Volga and the Mekong. C) The Missouri and the Mississippi. D) The Indus & the Ganges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Indus & the Ganges. 6. Is there an Indus river or Indus valley in ancient India A) Indus river. B) Both. C) Indus valley. D) Grand Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both. 7. This leader and his armies conquered the Persian Empire and, in 330 BCE, invaded the Indus River Valley. A) Darius. B) Cyrus. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) Alexander the Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander the Great. 8. Name the two rivers that were part of the Indus Valley A) Ganges and Indus. B) Euphrates and Nile. C) Arabian and Bengal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ganges and Indus. 9. What is the system that divides society into groups based upon a person's wealth, birth or occupation? A) Hinduism. B) Vishnu. C) Caste. D) Salvation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caste. 10. What group was considered the lowest in Hindu India? A) Brahmins. B) Kshatriyas. C) Untouchables. D) Sudras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Untouchables. 11. A main river and all of the other rivers and streams that drain into it. A) River system. B) Monsoon. C) Silt. D) Granary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) River system. 12. The Himalayan Mountains are to the north of China. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. Sanskrit was passed down generation to generation A) Written on paper. B) Verbally. C) By Hiroglyphs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbally. 14. What group conquered India in 1500 B.C. and set up the caste system? A) Mongols. B) Hindus. C) Aryans. D) British. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryans. 15. Extinct ancestor to modern day elephants A) Wholly mammoth. B) Dodo bird. C) Dinosaurs. D) West African black mammoth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wholly mammoth. 16. The ancient Indus Valley Civilisation began ..... A) 3 300BCE. B) 3 000BCE. C) 2 500BCE. D) 2 000BCE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3 300BCE. 17. What are the 3 major rivers of the Ancient Indian Empire? A) Brahmaputra, Nile, Mediterranean. B) Ganges, Bengal, Indus. C) Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra. 18. True or False:Farmers in Mohenjo-Daro did not produce surpluses of food. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. What is one of the most important sacred texts of Hinduism? A) The Bhagavad Gita. B) The Eightfold Path. C) The Four Noble Truths. D) The dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bhagavad Gita. 20. INDIAN DOCTOR WHO CARRIED OUT AN EARLY TYPE OF PLASTIC SURGERY A) Filial piety. B) THE DALAI LAMA. C) Siddhartha Gautama. D) MAHAVIRA. 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