This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 61 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 61 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What geographical feature is located on the Eastern and Western coasts of India A) The Himalaya Mountains. B) The Indus River. C) The Gange River. D) The Eastern & Western Ghat Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Eastern & Western Ghat Mountains. 2. A religion founded in India by Mahavira that promotes nonviolence A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Jainism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jainism. 3. If I were a servant, I would be part of the ..... class. A) Brahman. B) Kshatriyas. C) Vaisya:. D) Sudras. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sudras. 4. Second highest peak in the world. A) Mount Everest. B) Bald Hill. C) Vomiting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vomiting. 5. What are the earliest scriptures of the Hindus called? A) Vedas. B) Hinduism. C) Meditation. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vedas. 6. Karma is the action, good or bad, that leads to rebirth in the next life. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Which is NOT a reason that people settle near rivers? A) Farming. B) Travel. C) Trade. D) To be safe from weather events. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To be safe from weather events. 8. Ancient Indians were masters of metallurgy and knew processes for mixing metals to create an ....., which is a mixture of two or more metals A) Inoculation. B) Astronomy. C) Alloy. D) Enlightening. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alloy. 9. The two main rivers in Ancient India ..... A) Indus and Euphrates. B) Euphrates & Tigris. C) Nile and Ganges. D) Indus & Ganges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indus & Ganges. 10. The Hindu Trinity includes Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. "Life is full of suffering" is one of the: A) Four Noble Truths. B) Ten Commandments. C) Upanishads. D) Vedic teachings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Four Noble Truths. 12. Is the early religion of the Aryans named after their priest. A) Caste. B) Hinduism. C) Buddhism. D) Brahmanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brahmanism. 13. A landmass that is smaller than a continent is a? A) Valley. B) Mountain. C) Subcontinent. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subcontinent. 14. Religious and moral duties A) Reincarnation. B) Nirvana. C) Dharma. D) Brahman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dharma. 15. What were the reasons that the Indus Valley people abandoned the cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa? A) Volcanic eruption. B) Massive tidal waves. C) They got bored and left. D) Earthquakes, drought, Floods, and the changing direction of the Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earthquakes, drought, Floods, and the changing direction of the Indus River. 16. Two contributions of Harappans related to Standardization were A) Weightsbricks with certain ratios. B) Bathstoilets. C) Roads laid-out in a gridplenty of wells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weightsbricks with certain ratios. 17. ..... used trade routes to travel to holy places. A) Siddhartha Gautama. B) Pilgrims. C) Jainism. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pilgrims. 18. "Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm" .-Frederick LenzBased on this quote, dharma most likely means: A) Duty. B) Reincarnation. C) Everything comes back to you. D) Samsara. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Duty. 19. How was the Hindu belief about karma related to the caste system? A) People are in a specific caste because of how they lived a past life. B) People in low castes are always reincarnated into the same caste. C) People can choose their own caste. D) People's caste determined which gods they worshipped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People are in a specific caste because of how they lived a past life. 20. Siddhartha Gautama's message about suffering and desire A) The Four Noble Truths. B) The Three Ways. C) The Middle Path. D) The Golden Road. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Four Noble Truths. ← 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