Rig Vedic Period Quiz 2 (17 MCQs)

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1. Who among the following artisan classes were entitled to wear the sacred thread in the Vedic period?

Correct Answer: C) Chariot-makers.

2. Which of the following was not one of the distinguished tribes of the later Vedic period? '

Correct Answer: C) Bharatas.

3. The term used to refer to barren land in the Vedic text is

Correct Answer: A) Kulya.

4. In Rig Vedic period, the most important functionary after the king was

Correct Answer: B) Purohita.

5. Which of the following descriptions of the Later Vedic officials is not correct?

Correct Answer: B) Akshavapa-Superintendent of gambling.

6. Who among the following was worshipped during Early Vedic Civilization?

Correct Answer: D) All the above.

7. Codes of conduct of the Vedic Society are laid down in

Correct Answer: C) Smritis.

8. Which book of the later Vedic age divides the country into five parts?

Correct Answer: C) Aitreya Brahmana.

9. During the later Vedic age the centre of Aryan civilization was

Correct Answer: A) The territory between the rivers Saraswati & Ganga.

10. Which of the following statements about the administrative system of the Early Vedic period is not correct?

Correct Answer: D) Gramani was the head of the village only for civic purposes.

11. During the early Vedic period, the society was based on

Correct Answer: B) Occupation.

12. Vedic term 'Sita' denoted

Correct Answer: C) Ploughed field.

13. Who among the following Vedic deities bears resemblance with Avestan God 'Ahurmazda'?

Correct Answer: C) Indra.

14. The religion of early Vedic Aryans was primarily of

Correct Answer: A) Worship of nature and Yajnas.

15. The tax which the kings used to collect from the people in the Vedic period was called

Correct Answer: D) Bali.

16. The theory of the origin of the state not mentioned in the Vedic literature is

Correct Answer: C) The evolutionary theory.

17. The river most mentioned in early Vedic literature is?

Correct Answer: C) Sindhu.