This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 65 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 65 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. He is a Vedic mathematician who is accredited with calculating the pi to some degree of precision. A) Baudhayan. B) Katyayana. C) Yajnavalkya. D) Bhaskara. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baudhayan. 2. Chandragupta Maurya's government was characterized by all of the following except A) Large army and secret police responsible to his orders. B) Provinces were ruled by governers appointed by the king (later the positions became hereditary). C) Board of censors empowered to investigate malfeasance and corruption within the bureaucracy. D) City-states that were governed by powerful merchants and elites. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) City-states that were governed by powerful merchants and elites. 3. Believe people strive to reach Moksha A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 4. The Arabian Sea is to the west of India. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. The sacred book of the Hindus is called the ..... A) Bat-Mitzvah. B) Bhagavad Gita. C) Holy Bible. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bhagavad Gita. 6. What is a smaller piece of land that is part of a continent, but rests on a different tectonic plate? A) Parcontinent. B) Subcontinent. C) Supercontinent. D) Buscontinent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subcontinent. 7. The belief that humans are reborn into a new body after they die is called? A) Reincarnation. B) Resurrection. C) Restitution. D) Relive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reincarnation. 8. Indus Valley Civilization is also known as ..... A) Harrapan Civilization. B) Mesopotamian civilization. C) Maya Civilization. D) Roman Civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harrapan Civilization. 9. There are three rivers in India:1) Indus2) Bramaputra3)? A) Bangladesh. B) Pakistan. C) Ganges. D) Indian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ganges. 10. What did he devote his life to ending A) Human suffering. B) Slavery. C) The caste system. D) Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human suffering. 11. Portion of the Vedas that explains how a person ends the cycle of samsara and unites with Brahma A) Upanishads. B) Sanskrit. C) Four Noble Truths. D) Book of the Dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upanishads. 12. Going without food for a long period of time A) Nonviolence. B) Nirvana. C) Fasting. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fasting. 13. What was the first religion in ancient India? A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Jainism. D) Other. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 14. The religion of the Aryans was known as ..... A) Brahmanism. B) Buddhism. C) Hinduism. D) Krishna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmanism. 15. Divided India's society into groups? A) Emperor Kuzco. B) Caste System. C) Social Books. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caste System. 16. How are all the cultural hearths similar? A) All of these are cultural hearths in Asia. B) All of these are cultural hearths that started close to oceans for farming. C) All of these are cultural hearths that grew along rivers and expanded in size, innovation, and infrastructure. D) All of these used cuneiform as a means of communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these are cultural hearths that grew along rivers and expanded in size, innovation, and infrastructure. 17. Raja A) Indian religious leader. B) Indian leader. C) Artisan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indian leader. 18. India's social system of the social class in which you were born into was called ..... A) Pyramid. B) Social status. C) Social class. D) Caste system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Caste system. 19. Social groups based on birth A) Eightfold Path. B) Atman. C) Caste. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caste. 20. What is legalism? A) People follow rules because they fear the government. B) People follow rules because they respect the government. C) Everyone is under the legal law and must obey it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People follow rules because they fear the government. ← 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