This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 178 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 178 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The muralists used bright colors light red, purple, and green to paint. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Hinduism taught that people could only move up in the caste system by ..... A) Gaining influence and power. B) Marrying a person of higher caste. C) Living a perfect life and being reincarnated into a higher caste. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Living a perfect life and being reincarnated into a higher caste. 3. Buddhists must follow ..... to reach Nirvana. A) The Eightfold Path. B) The Silk Road. C) The 10 Commandments. D) The Road Not Taken. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Eightfold Path. 4. An ancient language from which Hindi developed. Its position in the culture of South and southeast Asian is akin to Latin and Greek in Europe A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Sanskrit. D) Jainism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sanskrit. 5. Karma is..... A) Written language created in Ancient India. B) Effect that good or bad actions had on a person's soul. C) Science of working with metals or extracting metals from ore. D) Large landmass, separated from the rest of the continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Effect that good or bad actions had on a person's soul. 6. A military leader who founded the Mauryan Empire A) Chandra Gupta. B) Chandragupta Maurya. C) Ashoka. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandragupta Maurya. 7. The "Varna" system in Hinduism is based on what? A) Age. B) Occupation. C) Gender. D) Income. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Occupation. 8. A religion in which people believe in many separate gods A) Henotheism. B) Polytheism. C) Nontheism. D) Monotheism. E) Pantheism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polytheism. 9. Sacred Buddhist text A) Tripitaka. B) Harappa. C) Karan. D) Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tripitaka. 10. Another name for a "pariah" is ..... A) Outcast. B) Harijan. C) Untouchable. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 11. How long does it take for a coffee tree to reach maturity? A) 5 years. B) 2 years. C) 8 years. D) 3 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5 years. 12. What were the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro known for? A) Standardized building bricks. B) Grid system streets. C) Built-in sewage systems. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. What is the vocabulary word? *"What comes around, goes around", *the good things you do in this life, will have come back around to you in the end. A) Karma. B) Nirvana. C) Beliefs. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Karma. 14. In India's caste system, what class contains common people? A) Brahmins. B) Sudras. C) Kshatriyas. D) Vaisya:. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vaisya:. 15. A force that decides the form that people will be reborn into their next life. A) Jati. B) Guru. C) Karma. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karma. 16. What city was the capital of the Mauryan Empire? A) Gupta. B) Pataliputra. C) Buddha. D) Chandragupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pataliputra. 17. Select the choice that best represents the Brahmins. A) A great work of India's Indo-Aryan religious literature. B) The lowest level in the caste system (untouchables). C) Special priests who were very important to the Indo-Aryan religion. D) Artisans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Special priests who were very important to the Indo-Aryan religion. 18. Why do historians think that Aryan beliefs influenced Hinduism? A) The founder of Hinduism lived at the same time as the Aryans. B) The ruins of Hindu shrines were found in the Aryan villages. C) Many Hindu gods were pictured on Aryan pottery and jewelry. D) Hindus sing hymns dedicated to Aryan gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hindus sing hymns dedicated to Aryan gods. 19. Most Harappan were by ..... A) The Ganges River. B) The Himalayas. C) The Taj Mahal. D) The Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Indus River. 20. The belief that people can be born again into a new life is known as: A) Hinduism. B) Dharma. C) Karma. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reincarnation. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History 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 8Ancient Indian History Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books