Ancient Civilisations Societies quiz
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1Pre Historic Societies
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Question 1 of 50
1. Question
- Which of the following terms does not indicate a tool tradition?
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Question 2 of 50
2. Question
2. Microliths are typical of:
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Question 3 of 50
3. Question
3. Which of the following is not a principal tool of the Early Stone Age?
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Question 4 of 50
4. Question
4. Pot-making, a technique of great significance in human history, appeared first at least in a few areas during:
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Question 5 of 50
5. Question
5. Which one of the following pairs of Paleolithic sites and areas is not correct?
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Question 6 of 50
6. Question
6. Which one of the following pairs is not properly matched?
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Question 7 of 50
7. Question
7. Which one of the following Chalcolithic sites of the Malwa Culture has yielded evidence of firealtars, bull worship and phallus worship?
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Question 8 of 50
8. Question
- Match List I with List II and select the answer from the codes given below
the lists:
List I List II
Chalcolithic Cultures Type Sites
(I) Banas Culture (A) Ghaligai
(II) Gandhara Culture (B) Inamgaon
(III) Malwa Culture (C) Gilund
(IV) Savalda Culture (D) Navdatoli
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I II III IV
(a) A B C D
(b) C A B D
(c) A C D B
(d) C A D B
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Question 9 of 50
9. Question
9. Which Chalcolithic site of eastern India has revealed the most impressive evidence of crops?
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Question 10 of 50
10. Question
10. Which site does not show evidence of the OCP (ochre-colored pottery) Culture?
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Question 11 of 50
11. Question
11. Which one of the following sites does not have evidence of pit-dwellings?
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Question 12 of 50
12. Question
12. Ash-mounds, which mystified archeologists for so long, have been discovered at:
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Question 13 of 50
13. Question
- Choose the answer from the codes given below:
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Question 14 of 50
14. Question
- The earliest evidence of man in India is found in:
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Question 15 of 50
15. Question
- Where do we find the three phases, viz. Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
Cultures in sequence?
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Question 16 of 50
16. Question
- The earliest evidence of settled agriculture in the subcontinent comes from:
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Question 17 of 50
17. Question
- Pick the wrong pair from the following:
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Question 18 of 50
18. Question
- Which of the following do not belong to the same category?
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Question 19 of 50
19. Question
- Excellent cave paintings of Mesolithic Age are found at:
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Question 20 of 50
20. Question
- Which one of the pairs is incorrect?
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Question 21 of 50
21. Question
- The OCP Culture is found mainly in:
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Question 22 of 50
22. Question
- In the upper Ganga valley iron is first found associated with:
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Question 23 of 50
23. Question
- Megaliths of south India are mainly associated with:
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Question 24 of 50
24. Question
24.‘Awl’ is also known as:
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Question 25 of 50
25. Question
- The half-life of Carbon-14 is:
(a) 3750 years
(b) 5730 years
(c) 7350 years
(b) 9530 years
Match the following:
List I List II
Cultures Pottery
(I) Malwa (A) Black-on-Red
(II) Eastern Neolithic (B) Brownish-red
(III) Burzahom (C) Grey
(IV) Jorwe (D) Red
(V) Southern Neolithic (E) Burnished-grey
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A B C D E
(a) III II IV I V
(b) IV V II III I
(c) II III IV I V
(d) I II III IV V
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Question 26 of 50
26. Question
- Teri sites, associated with dunes of reddened sand, are found in:
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Question 27 of 50
27. Question
- Loebanr and Kalako Deray in northwestern India have revealed:
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Question 28 of 50
28. Question
- Which one of the following is not a megali,thic burial?
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Question 29 of 50
29. Question
- Neolithic sites of Giak and Kiari are in:
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Question 30 of 50
30. Question
30.‘Horse burials’ are reported from:
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Question 31 of 50
31. Question
- At which one of the sites of Malwa Culture was evidence of a rampart along
with a ditch found?
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Question 32 of 50
32. Question
- Which Chalcolithic site of Maharashtra has shown evidence of an irrigation
canal and an embankment?
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Question 33 of 50
33. Question
- Elaborate gold ear-ornaments comes from:
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Question 34 of 50
34. Question
- Kuchai and Golbai Sasan are Neolithic sites from:
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Question 35 of 50
35. Question
- Which site is not in Bihar?
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Question 36 of 50
36. Question
- Ochre Coloured Pottery is closely connected with:
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Question 37 of 50
37. Question
Assertion and Reason
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Mark (a) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is the correct explanation for
‘A’.
Mark (b) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is not correct explanation for
‘A’.
Mark (c) if ‘A’ is true but ‘R’ is false.
Mark (d) if ‘A’ is false but ‘R’ is true.
- Assertion (A): The genesis of settled, village-based societies generally goes back to the Neolithic period.
Reason (R): For the Neolithic people of Kashmir valley life continued to center around hunting.
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Question 38 of 50
38. Question
Assertion and Reason
Instructions:
Mark (a) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is the correct explanation for
‘A’.
Mark (b) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is not correct explanation for
‘A’.
Mark (c) if ‘A’ is true but ‘R’ is false.
Mark (d) if ‘A’ is false but ‘R’ is true.
- Assertion (A): There was an undeniable attraction for the early men in the hills of the subcontinent.
Reason (R): Hills provided sustenance to them directly.
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Question 39 of 50
39. Question
Assertion and Reason
Instructions:
Mark (a) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is the correct explanation for
‘A’.
Mark (b) if both ‘A’ and ‘R’ are true and ‘R’ is not correct explanation for
‘A’.
Mark (c) if ‘A’ is true but ‘R’ is false.
Mark (d) if ‘A’ is false but ‘R’ is true.
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Assertion (A): Microliths foreshadowed the forms and functions of later-day metallic implements.
Reason (R): Microliths, being compound tools, marked an advance in technology.
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Question 40 of 50
40. Question
- Assertion (A): The lithic assemblage of the Pabbi hills to the east of Jhelum seems to be pre-Acheulian.
Reason (R): This assemblage does not show any handaxe or cleaver.
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Question 41 of 50
41. Question
- Assertion (A): The chalcolithic settlers could not found villages far away from the hills.
Reason (R): The earliest agricultural settlements in the subcontinent were located west of the Indus system.
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Question 42 of 50
42. Question
- Assertion (A): Balathal in southeast Rajasthan shows evidence of protohistoric occupation from the closing centuries of the 4th millennium BC.
Reason (R): The beginning of Ganeshwar-Jodhpura culture of northeast Rajasthan is also as early as this.
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Question 43 of 50
43. Question
- Assertion (A): None of the neolithic-chalcolithic peasant groups developed in complete isolation.
Reason (R): There is evidence of a lot of interchange of raw materials of different types between different areas.
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Question 44 of 50
44. Question
- Assertion (A): Prehistoric stages involved constant adjustments with nature and its resources, as did other stages of human life.
Reason (R): The material remains of early man speak comprehensively about his life.
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Question 45 of 50
45. Question
- Assertion (A): The Paleolithic cultures in different parts of India displayed absolute uniformity in all their features.
Reason (R): In a broad cultural sense all Stone Ages in India represent the stage of hunting and gathering.
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Question 46 of 50
46. Question
- Assertion (A): Throughout the subcontinent iron led slowly but perceptibly to the transition from the pre and proto-historical to the historical phases.
Reason (R): The earliest occurrence of iron may said to have been in more than one region of the Indian subcontinent, almost simultaneously.
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Question 47 of 50
47. Question
- Assertion (A): Detailed characterisations of the different pastoral and farming communities can- not be made accurately.
Reason (R): In some cases we rely on undated surface finds and in others we lack faunal and botanical evidence on the nature of economy.
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Question 48 of 50
48. Question
- Assertion (A): The transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic was less a technological revolu- tion than one in land use.
Reason (R): There was little change in basic social or economic structures between the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic stages.
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Question 49 of 50
49. Question
- Assertion (A): With the coming of iron an unprecedented number of sites appeared in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab.
Reason (R): The population densities in the Doab even during the early iron phase were much lower than those in the Harappan civilisation.
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Question 50 of 50
50. Question
- Assertion (A): The area between Vidarbha and the southern tip of the Indian peninsula constitutes a separate cultural zone denoted by various types of megaliths.
Reason (R): Megaliths were no more than a burial style of the Neolithic-Chalcolithic phase of the area and formed a part of its cultural milieu for a long time.
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