Ancient Indian History Quiz 253 (20 MCQs)

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1. How tall is Mt. Everest?

Correct Answer: A) 29, 028'.

2. In Buddhism, there is no afterlife

Correct Answer: A) True.

3. Sudras are considered to be .....

Correct Answer: D) Unskilled laborers, servants.

4. What do Hinduism and Buddhism share?

Correct Answer: D) They both believe in reaching Nirvana to escape the cycle of reincarnation.

5. How long has Ancient India been around?

Correct Answer: A) 1500 BC.

6. What year was buddhism invented?

Correct Answer: B) In 500 BCE.

7. What are the rigid social divisions of India called?

Correct Answer: B) Caste system.

8. Which of the following would you find in an Indus Valley House?

Correct Answer: A) Toilet.

9. What is one common belief between Islam and Christianity?

Correct Answer: A) Belief in one God.

10. What number system did the Indian mathematicians invent?

Correct Answer: D) Decimals.

11. Which body of water is located directly to the east of India?

Correct Answer: B) Bay of Bengal.

12. Who were the people that migrated to India through the Khyber Pass?

Correct Answer: C) Aryans.

13. The Panchatantra is a piece of literature that

Correct Answer: C) Tells stories with moral lessons.

14. The two major rivers of India are the ..... ?

Correct Answer: B) Indus and Ganges.

15. What was the Buddhist path that they believed would lead to Nirvana?

Correct Answer: B) Eightfold Path.

16. A river that cuts through mountains and flows across the plains of northern India

Correct Answer: D) Ganges River.

17. What religion did the Gupta Empire follow?

Correct Answer: A) Hinduism.

18. The "duty one has to perform" or "the law of one's being" is known in the Caste System as .....

Correct Answer: A) Dharma.

19. The first chola king.

Correct Answer: C) King Vijayalaya.

20. Hindu god known as "the Creator"

Correct Answer: A) Brahma.