MCQ on Indus Valley Civilization

Q. Indus Civilization existed in______
(A) Pre-historical age
(B) Early historical age
(C) Historical age
(D) Later historical age

Q. Indus Valley civilization was Non Aryan because ______
(A) It was an Urban civilization
(B) It has its own script
(C) It has an agricultural economy
(D) It extended upto the Narmada valley

Q. Which of the following is related to Harappa civilization?
(A) Sumerian civilization
(B) Indus Valley civilization
(C) Vedic civilization
(D) Mesopotamian civilization

Q. The important reason to keep Indus Valley civilization before Aryan civilization is ______
(A) Script
(B) Town Planning
(C) Copper
(D) Potteries

Q. The Indus Valley culture was different from the Vedic Civilization because ______
(A) It had the amenities of a developed city life
(B) It has a pictographic script
(C) It had a lack of knowledge of iron and defensive arrow
(D) All of the above

Q. The source of knowledge about Harappan culture is______
(A) Rock edicts
(B) Writing in terracotta seals
(C) Archaeological excavations
(D) All of the above

Q. Which of the following throw light on Harappan culture?
(A) Inscription
(B) Archaeological excavations
(C) Handwriting seals on the utensils
(D) Religious books

Q. The main source of knowledge about the inhabitants of Indus valley civilization is the discovery of ______
(A) Seals
(B) Utensils, jewellery, weapons, tools
(C) Temple
(D) Scripts

Q. The earliest evidence of silver in India is found in the ______
(A) Harappan culture
(B) Chalcolithic cultures of Western India
(C) Vedic texts
(D) Silver Punch-marked coins

Q. Which colour was commonly used in the Harappan Pottery?
(A) Red
(B) Blue-grey
(C) Yellow
(D) Blue

Q. The beginning of idol worship is to be considered in ______
(A) Pre-Aryan
(B) Vedic Period
(C) Mauryan Period
(D) Kushan Period

Q. Which one of the following animals was not represented on the seals and terracotta art of the Harappan culture?
(A) Cow
(B) Elephant
(C) Rhinoceros
(D) Tiger

Q. Which among the following Harappan site terracotta of ‘plough’ was found?
(A) Dholavira
(B) Banawali
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Lothal

Q. A ploughed field was discovered at______
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Harappa
(D) Lothal

Q. The Great Bath was found from the Indus Valley civilization at______
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Harappa
(C) Lothal
(D) Kalibangan

Q. The ‘Great Bath’ was found at the archaeological site of______
(A) Ropar
(B) Harappa
(C) Mohenjodaro
(D) Kalibangan

Q. Which of the following statements about the Indus civilization is not true?
(A) Accurate drainage system in cities
(B) Trade and commerce were in an advanced stage
(C) Worshipping of Mother Goddess
(D) People knew about iron

Q. The excavation at Chanhudaro was directed by ______
(A) J.H. Mackay
(B) Sir John Marshall
(C) R.E.M. Wheeler
(D) Sir Aurel Stein

Q. Which site of Indus Valley is now in Pakistan?
(A) Kalibangan
(B) Harappa
(C) Lothal
(D) Alamgirpur

Q. Rangpur, where the contemporary of Harappan civilization were found, is in ______
(A) Punjab
(B) Eastern Uttar Pradesh
(C) Saurashtra
(D) Rajastha

Q. Dadheri is a late Harappan site of______
(A) Jammu
(B) Punjab
(C) Haryana
(D) U.P.

Q. Which site of Indus Valley Civilization is located in India?
(A) Harappa
(B) Mohenjodaro
(C) Lothal
(D) None of the above

Q. The Harappan city represented by the archaeological site of Lothal was situated on the river______
(A) Narmada
(B) Mahi
(C) Bhogava
(D) Bhima

Q. Harappan civilization, Lothal, is located in_______
(A) Gujarat
(B) Punjab
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Sindh

Q. The port city of Indus Valley Civilization was ______
(A) Harappa
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Lothal
(D) Mohenjodaro

Q. Which of the following is a Harappan port?
(A) Alexandria
(B) Lothal
(C) Mahasthangarh
(D) Nagapattinam

Q. Which of the following is not an Indus Valley Civilization site?
(A) Kalibangan
(B) Ropar
(C) Patliputra
(D) Lothal

Q. The largest site of Harappa in India is ______
(A) Alamgirpur
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Lothal
(D) Rakhigarhi

Q. The biggest Harappan site in India is _______
(A) Rakhigarhi
(B) Dholavira
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Lothal

Q. The people of Indus valley believed in ______
(A) Spirit and Brahma
(B) Ritual
(C) Sacrificial system
(D) Mother Goddess

Q. The Indus valley people worshipped______
(A) Shiva
(B) Indra and Varun
(C) Brahma
(D) Vishnu

Q. Who was the director of the archaeological excavation that led to the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjodaro?
(A) Lord Macaulay
(B) Sir John Marshall
(C) Clive
(D) Colonel Tad

Q. Two Indians who were associated with discovery of Indus Valley Civilization, are______
(A) Rakhal Das Banerjee and Dayaram Sahni
(B) John Marshall and Ishwari Prasad
(C) Ashirwadi Lal Srivastava and Rangnath Rao
(D) Madhosarup Vats and V.B. Rao

Q. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
(A) Harappa – Daya Ram Sahni
(B) Lothal – S.R. Rao
(C) Surkotada – J.P. Joshi
(D) Dholavira – B.K. Thapar

Q. The first archaeologist who excavated Harappa, but could not recognize its significance, was______
(A) A. Cunningham
(B) Sir John Marshall
(C) Mortimer Wheeler
(D) George F. Dales

Q. Who among the following was not associated with the excavation of Harappa and Mohenjodaro?
(A) R.D. Banerjee
(B) K.N. Dikshit
(C) M.S. Vats
(D) V.A. Smith

Q. From which one of the following places, remains of wells have been found in houses belonging to the developed stage of the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Harappa
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Lothal
(D) Mohenjodaro

Q. Mohenjodaro is situated in which of the following?
(A) Gujarat state of India
(B) Punjab state of India
(C) Sindh Province in Pakistan
(D) Afghanistan

Q. The first metal used by man was______
(A) Gold
(B) Silver
(C) Copper
(D) Iron

Q. An ivory scale in Harappan context was found at ______
(A) Kalibangan
(B) Lothal
(C) Dholavira
(D) Banawali

Q. Which metal has so far not been discovered in Harappan sites?
(A) Copper
(B) Gold
(C) Silver
(D) Iron

Q. Which one among the following sites is located in the valley of Ghaggar and its associated rivers?
(A) Alamgirpur
(B) Lothal
(C) Mohenjodaro
(D) Banawali

Q. From where the evidence of rockcut architecture were found, with reference to Harappa civilization?
(A) Kalibangan
(B) Dholavira
(C) Kot Diji
(D) Amri

Q. Dholavira is located in the state of______
(A) Gujarat
(B) Haryana
(C) Punjab
(D) Rajasthan

Q. Which Harappan city is divided into three parts?
(A) Lothal
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Dholavira
(D) Surkotada

Q. In which of the following site remnants of three townships have been revealed?
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Sanghol
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Dholavira

Q. A highly advanced water management system of Harappan times has been unearthed at_______
(A) Alamgirpur
(B) Dholavira
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Lothal

Q. Which of the following sites has yielded evidence of a triple burial?
(A) Kuntasi
(B) Dholavira
(C) Lothal
(D) Kalibangan

Q. Recently, from excavations of Harappan site Sonauli what was found?
(A) Human burials
(B) Animal burials
(C) Residential building
(D) Protecting wall

Q. For clothing, cotton cultivation was first introduced in______
(A) Egypt
(B) Mesopotamia
(C) Central America
(D) India

Q. Which of the following characterises / characterise the people of Indus Civilization?

1. They possessed great places and temples.
2. They worshipped, both male and female deities.
3. They employed horse-drawn chariots in warfare.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(A) 1 and 2
(B) Only 2
(C) All of these
(D) None of these

Q. One of the following sites from where the famous bull-seal of Indus Valley Civilization was found.
(A) Harappa
(B) Chanhudaro
(C) Lothal
(D) Mohenjodaro

Q. Which one of the following animals is not depicted on the Harappan seal?
(A) Bull
(B) Elephant
(C) Horse
(D) Sheep

Q. Remains of which animal have not been discovered in the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Lion
(B) Horse
(C) Cow
(D) Elephant

Q. A horned deity engraved on a terracotta cake has been recovered from ______
(A) Banawali
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Lothal
(D) Surkotada

Q. Which of the following civilization flourished on the bank of River Nile?
(A) Roman Civilization
(B) Indus Valley Civilization
(C) Greek Civilization
(D) Egyptian Civilization

Q. What is the correct NorthSouth sequence of the following civilizations?
(A) Maya – Aztec – Muisca – Inca
(B) Maya – Muisca – Inca – Aztec
(C) Aztec – Muisca – Maya – Inca
(D) Aztec – Maya – Muisca – Inca

Q. The first ancient civilization to develop the art of writing in a proper system was?
(A) Indus
(B) Egypt
(C) Sumerian
(D) China

Q. Which of the following match is not correct regarding the origin of Harappan civilization?
List-I
(a) M. Rafique Mughal
(b) E.J.H. Mackay
(c) Mortimer Wheeler
(d) Amalandanda Ghosh
List-II

1. Harappan civilization was inspired by Mesopotamian civilization
2. Migration of people from Sumer
3. Migration of ‘idea of civilization’
4. Pre-Harappan culture matured to make Harappan civilization

(A) (a) – 1
(B) (b) – 2
(C) (c) – 3
(D) (d) – 4

Q. Match List-I (Ancient site) with List-II (Archaeological finding) and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I (Ancient site)
(a) Lothal
(b) Kalibangan
(c) Dholavira
(d) Banawali
List-II (Archaeological finding)

1. Ploughed field
2. Dockyard
3. Terracotta replica of a Plough
4. An inscription comprising ten large sized signs of the Harappan script
   Code

Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below the lists______
List-I
(a) Harappan
(b) Hastinapur
(c) Nagarjuna Konda
(d) Paithan
List-II

1. Godavari
2. Ravi
3. Ganga
4. Krishna

Code

Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below.
List-I (Harappan Settlement)
(a) Harappa
(b) Kalibangan
(c) Lothal
(d) Ropar
List-II (River on which located)

1. Bhogava
2. Ghaggar
3. Ravi
4. Sutlej

Q. Indus Valley civilization is known______

1. For its town planning
2. For Mohenjodaro and Harappa
3. For their agricultural work
4. For its industrialization

Code
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1, 2 and 3
(C) 2, 3 and 4
(D) All of these

Q. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
(A) Alamgirpur – Uttar Pradesh
(B) Lothal – Gujarat
(C) Kalibangan – Haryana
(D) Ropar – Punjab

Q. For the Harrapan Cultural sites and its position, which of the following is not correctly matched?
(A) Alamgirpur – Uttar Pradesh
(B) Banawali – Haryana
(C) Daimabad – Maharashtra
(D) Rakhigarhi – Rajasthan

Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below.
List-I (Harappan Site)
(a) Manda
(b) Daimabad
(c) Kalibangan
(d) Rakhigarhi
List-II (Location)

1. Rajasthan
2. Haryana
3. Jammu-Kashmir
4. Maharashtra

Code

Q. Which of the following sites of Harappan culture are located in Sindh?

1. Harappa
2. Mohenjodaro
3. Chanhundaro
4. Surkatada

Indicate the correct answer from the code given below.
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 2, 3 and 4
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Q. Indus Valley Civilization, which was placed on the banks of the river, they were?
1.Sindhu
2. Chenab
3.Jhelum
4. Ganga
Choose the correct answer from the code given below.
Code
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1, 2 and 3
(C) 2, 3 and 4
(D) All four

Q. What is the correct chronological order in which the following appeared in India?
1.Gold coins
2.Punch-marked silver coins
3.Iron plough
4.Urban culture
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(A) 3, 4, 1, 2
(B) 3, 4, 2, 1
(C) 4, 3, 1, 2
(D) 4, 3, 2, 1

Q. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the given code.

1. Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Ropar and Kalibangan are the main sites of Indus valley civilization.
2. People of Harappa developed the road, proper housing and drainage system.
3. People of Harappa were unknown about the use of metals.

Code
(A) 1 and 2 are correct
(B) 1 and 3 are correct
(C) 2 and 3 are correct
(D) 1, 2 and 3 are correct

Q. Assertion (A): Mohenjodaro and Harappa cities are dead now.
Reason (R): They were discovered during excavations.
In the context of the above, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

Q. Regarding the Indus Valley Civilization, consider the following statements.

1. It was predominantly a secular civilization and the religious element, though present, did not dominate the scene.
2. During the period, cotton was used for manufacturing textiles in India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(A) Only 1
(B) Only 2
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2