Practice Test

Q1) Assertion (A) Lothal was a major trade centre between the Indus Civilisation and Mesopotamia.
Reason (R) Lothal has evidence for the earliest cultivation of rice (1800 BC). Show Answer

Q2) Which one of the following was not known to the Harappans? Show Answer

Q3) Regarding the Indus Valley Civilisation consider the following statements.
1. It was predominantly a secular civilisation and the religious element, though present did not dominate the scene.
2. During this period, cotton was used for manufacturing textiles in India.
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Q4) Which one of the following sites has not yielded evidence of fire-worship? Show Answer

Q5) A steatite seal found at Mohenjodaro depicts a composite beast comprising some of the following
1. Hoons of a zebu
2. Mane of lion
3. Bady of a bull
4. Ears of a donkey
5. Tusks and trunk of an elephant. Show Answer

Q6) Which of the following statements regarding Stone- Copper age are true?
1. Stone-Copper culture had an essentially urban background.
2. In spite of good producing economy, the rate of infant mortality was very high.
3. People were not aware of the art of mixing tin with copper and thus forging the much stronger and useful metal called bronze.
4. People on this age were familiar with the art of writing and they used to live in the cities as people of bronze age.
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Q7) Which of the following statements regarding Harappan Civilisation is correct? Show Answer

Q8) The archaelogical finds from Alamgipur in Merrut district reflected the Show Answer

Q9) Which one of the following sites of the Indus Valley Civilization had an ancient dockyard ? Show Answer

Q10) Where is Harappa situated, according to the present map ? Show Answer

Q11) When did cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro develop ? Show Answer

Q12) What was the special tank of Mohenjodaro named ? Show Answer

Q13) What was the new tool called which was used to dig earth for turning the soil and planting trees ? Show Answer

Q14) Harappan cities were divided into Show Answer

Q15) What could be the use of huge tank of water in Lothal ? Show Answer

Q16) Beside which river is the city of Lothal situated ? Show Answer

Q17) The city of Lothal stood close to Gulf of Show Answer

Q18) The Harappan civilisation was discovered at random in the year Show Answer

Q19) The great bath was excavated in the great city of Show Answer

Q20) The people of Indus Valley civilisation worshipped the female form of Show Answer

Q21) The Indus Valley civilisation ended in Show Answer

Q22) The Indus valley civilisation was the first Show Answer

Q23) The polity of the Indus Valley people was Show Answer

Q24) The Indus religion included the worship of Show Answer

Q25) According to the findings, the large letters of the Harappan script were carved out of Show Answer

Q26) The Harappan had trade relations with a number of countries such as Show Answer

Q27) Which of the following was no trace has been found in the Indus Valley civilization ? Show Answer

Q28) The primary purpose of a seal in the Indus Valley civilisation was probably Show Answer

Q29) Which one of the following was not a characteristic of the Harappan pottery ? Show Answer

Q30) The easternmost site of Indus civilisation is in which state ? Show Answer

Q31) Manda, the northern-most site of Indus civilisation in Jammu and Kashmir is located on the bank of which river ? Show Answer

Q32) Most of the sites in Indus civilisation are discovered from which phase ? Show Answer

Q33) Which of the following Indus sites are not located in Sind ? Show Answer

Q34) Which of the following was not a main crop cultivated by the Indus people ? Show Answer

Q35) Evidence of mixed cropping is seen from which site of Indus civilisation ? Show Answer

Q36) Evidence of cultivation of rice comes from which two sites of Indus civilisation ? Show Answer

Q37) With area did the Harappas not carry out trade with ? Show Answer

Q38) A circular button shaped seal called the Pesian gulf seal has been obtained from which Harappan site ? Show Answer

Q39) The largest number of Barley grains have been recovered from which site of Indus civilization ? Show Answer

Q40) Cylindrical seals of Mesopotamia have been recovered from which two Harappan site ? Show Answer

Q41) The greatest artistic creations of the Harappans are ? Show Answer

Q42) In which Harappan site are radial streets in an oval settlement seen ? Show Answer

Q43) Conspious absence of mother Goddess figurines has been observed in which Harappan site ? Show Answer

Q44) Which of the following types of burial is not observed at Mohenjodaro ? Show Answer

Q45) Largest number of wheat grain have been recovered from which Harappan site ? Show Answer

Q46) Which among the following is the largest Harappan site ? Show Answer

Q47) Two terracotta models of Egyptian mummies have been recovered from which Harappan site ? Show Answer

Q48) In which Harappan site is there evidence of the earliest ploughed field in India in its proto-harappan phase ? Show Answer

Q49) The evidence of further strenthening of defences in later Harappan phase is seen from which site ? Show Answer

Q50) Which of the following sites was excavated by N. G. Majmudar ? Show Answer

Q51) Which of the following sites is the largest of all Indus settlements excavated ? Show Answer

Q52) Which of the following Harappan sites is located on the banks of river Dasht ? Show Answer

Q53) The eastern-most site of Harappan civilisation is Show Answer

Q54) A signboard inscription bearing 10 pictographs has been seen in Harappan site Show Answer

Q55) Which of the following is not evident at Mohenjodaro ? Show Answer

Q56) The Indus valley civilization is called non-Aryan because
1. Indus people worshipped mother Goddess
2. It is a pictographic script.
Which of the above statement is / are true ? Show Answer

Q57) Consider the following statements regarding Indus Culture-
1. It arose in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent.
2. It is older than the chalcothic cultures.
3.No other cultural zone in the third and second century BC was as large as the Harappan.
4. It was not as advanced as the chalcothic cultures.
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Q58) Harappan people had a common burial system which is proved Show Answer

Q59) The Harappan Civilisation covered an expansive area of present South Asia. The geographic area covered by this civilisation included Show Answer

Q60) A copper chariot of Harappan times was discovered at Show Answer

Q61) Which of the following characterises/ characterise the people of Indus Civilisation?
1. They possessed great palaces and temples.
2. They worshipped both male and female deities.
3. They employed horse-drawn chariots in warfare.
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Q62) Regarding the Indus Valley Civilisation, consider the following statements
1. It was predominantly a secular civilisation and religious element, though present, did not dominate the scene.
2. During this period, cotton was used for manufacturing textiles in India.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct? Show Answer

Q63) Which metal has so far not been discovered in Harappan sites? Show Answer

Q64) The following sentences describe one of the sites of the Harappan Civilisation
"The settlement is divided into two sections, one smaller but higher and the other much larger but lower.Archaeologists designate these as the citadel and the lower town respectively both were walled. Several buildings were built on platforms, which served as foundations"
Which of the following sites does it refer to ? Show Answer

Q65) From which of the following places, remains of wells have been found in houses belonging to the developed stage of the Indus Valley Civilisation? Show Answer

Q66) Which of the folllowing statements about burial practices of Harappa is incorrect? Show Answer

Q67) Which of the following are true about Rangpur?
1. It witnessed all the three phases of culture.
2. Rice husks found.
3. No seal or image of Mother Goddess found.
4. Bronze statue found.
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Q68) Consider the following statement about Harappan Culture-
1. The Harappan practiced canal irrigation.
2. The indus people were the earliest to produce cotton.
3. Buildings were made up of stone
4. The streets ran straight and at right angles to each other following the grid system.
Which of the above is / are correct ? Show Answer

Q69) With reference to Great Bath of Mohenjodaro, consider the following statements -
1. It was built by backed bricks.
2. The length of the Bath is 12 metres, breadth 7 mtrs and depth is around 2.5 metres.
3. The outer walls of the Bath plastered by on inch thick plaster of paris,
4. By the side of the bath there were residence of priests who use to come down for bath on special occasions.
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Q70) What were the special characteristics of Indus civilization ?
Consider the statements -
1. The Indus valley civilization is designated as urban civilization.
2. The towns were built in a modern commercial style.
3. The bricks, limstone and white powder were used in constructing the drainage which were covered with big stones and bricks.
4. Kitchen, bathroom, courtyard were not separately built in a house.
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Q71) With reference to the religious condition of Harappan civilization, consider the statements -
1. The Shiva was worshipped in the form of Pashupati Mahadev.
2. They believed in with craft and magic.
3. The male idols are beautifully carved and adorned.
4. Square and rectangular talismans were built in gold.
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Q72) How the Indus valley civilization declined ? Give correct reasons contributed to the decline of civilization.
1. Due to fall in foreign trade continuously
2. Due to changing monsoon, the scarcity of rains.
3.Due to ruling of weak foreign powers.
4. Due to the animals used the pasturs in excess.
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Q73) Which one of the following is incorrect about the Indus valley culture ?
1. A dockyard has been found at Suraktoda.
2. In Lothal the upper town was also fortified.
3. In Chanhu-daro a beadmaker's shop has been unearhed.
4. Harappa is the only place which yields evidence of coffin curial.
Which of the above statements is / are incorrect ? Show Answer

Q74) With reference to the Harappan cities, consider the following statements -
1. Temples of mother goddess and Pashupati have been found in Harappan sites.
2. The Harrapan script is pictographic.
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Q75) Which of the following were common features of both Harappan and Mohenjodaro ?
1. Citadel mounds with a retaining wall
2. Public Baths
3. Rows of grannaries
4. Rows of circular blocks for pounding grains.
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Q76) Consider the following statements
1. It can be said that the Harappan people inherited the knowledge of wheat, barley and cotton cultivation.
2. Excavations at the Belan Valley sites have helped as in determining the nature of the transition from the food gathering to the food producing stage.
3. The earliest crop cultivated in south India was wheat.
4. Excavations at is / are cachar hills have yielded no traces of Neolithic culture.
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Q77) Four outposts of the Harappan Civilisation were Show Answer

Q78) With reference to the Grannary, consider the following statements -
1. The Grannary of Mohenjodaro was 45.17 mtrs. in length and 15.23 mtrs in breadth.
2. In Harappa there were 16 grannaries found.
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Q79) What are the evidence found regarding the decline of Harappan civilization ? Consider the statements -
1. Slit is there is Harappa because of wind sction which brought sand and slit. Houses and streets covered by slit deposits upto 30 ft above ground level.
2. Human skeletons have been found lying on the streets.
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Q80) Consider the following statements -
1. The Harappan economy was based on agriculture, cattle rearing and crafts.
2. The Indus valley people had an elaborate drainage system.
3. In kot Diji pre-Harappan settlement has not been found.
4. Sugarcane was not grown in Indus civilization
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Q81) Which of the following statement is wore probable regarding the Harappan script ?
1. It is distinctly proto-Dravadian.
2. It is distinctly sanskritic.
3.It is not alphabetical but mainly pictographic.
4. The languages used by these scripts has definite sumerian connections.
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Q82) Consider the following statements -
1. The inhabitants of Harappa grew and used cotton.
2. The inhabitants of Harappa had no knowledge of copper and bronze.
3. The standard Harappan seals were made of clay.
4. Which of the statements given above is / are correct ? Show Answer

Q83) With reference to the Harappan civilization, consider the following statements -
1. The city of Dholavira was in the form of a parallelogram guarded by a fortification.
2. A ploughed field, showing a grid of furrows, located outside the town wall has been discovered at Kalibangan.
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Q84) Consider the following statements -
1. Lime mortar was never used at Mohenjodaro in the construction of dwellings.
2. At Dholavira, stone was never used in the construction of dwellings.
Which of the statements given above is / are correct ? Show Answer

Q85) Consider the statements regarding the effects of harappan civilization in modern era -
1. House plans, deposition of water supply and attention to bathing have survived till today.
2. The techniques of making a potter's wheel is similar to those used by the Harappans.
3. The election system of recent time is borrowed from Harappan political system.
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Q86) Which of the following statements are correct with regard to the Indus valley civilisation ?
1. The people of this civilisation were the earliest to make use of cotton.
2. They did not cremate their dead.
3. A grid system was followed in city planning.
4. Stone was the chief building material. Show Answer

Q87) Which of the following was not true about the Indus Valley civilisation ?
1. The drainage system they created was based on the Sumerian desian.
2. It had trade link by sea with other regions.
3.Existance of street light has been revealed in the excavations.
4. All sites excavated show the existance of huge public bath.
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Q88) Which of the following is / are Indus Valley site(s) in India ?
1. Rangpur
2. Banwali
3. Sutkagendor
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Q89) Ropar, the Harappan site in Punjab is located on the banks of which river ? Show Answer

Q90) Indus civilistion was discovered under the tenureship of which head of the Archhaeological survey of India ? Show Answer

Q91) Pick out the incorrect statement about Town planning in Indus civilisation ? Show Answer

Q92) Assertion : Indus valley people were primarily worshipper of a male god.
Reason : A seal resembling Shiva has been recovered from the Indus valley sites. Show Answer

Q93) Assertion : Bullock carts were the main means of transport on land.
Reason : Harappan preferred bullock carts as these were most suited to their unsurfaced roads. Show Answer

Q94) Assertion : Mohenjodaro had a public bath worked by an ingenious hydraulic system.
Reason : The Harappa adept at manufacturing gypsum cement which was used to join stones and metals. Show Answer

Q95) Assertion : A sealed figure of a male god, carved on a small stone seal was found in Mohenjodaro. Reason : A traditional image of Pashupati Mahadev. Show Answer

Q96) Assertion : Many temples were found in the excavation process.
Reason : Harappa was possible ruled by a class of merchants. Show Answer

Q97) How did flourishing trade affected Harappan commerce ? Consider the following statement -
1. The Harappan traded with Afghanistan, Mesopotamia, Tibet, Burma and Pursean Gulf
2. The relationship between the Harappan cities and other surrounding villages attracted the wealth of the region as centres of administration and religion.
3. Harappan wanted to propose the maximum luxury items.
4. Harappan started exporting things like terracotta statues, cotton goods, beads and potteries.
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Q98) The Paintings of Ajanta depict stories of the— Show Answer

Q99) The Indus Valley civilization was Non-Aryan because— Show Answer

Q100) All the following statements regarding the Indus Valley civilization are correct, except— Show Answer

Q101) The local name of Mohanjodaro is— Show Answer

Q102) The Indus Valley civilization specialized in— Show Answer

Q103) Consider the following statements-
1. The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE) extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India
2. Along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia it was one of three early civilizations of the Old World, and of the three the most widespread.
3. It flourished in the basins of the Indus River, one of the major rivers of Asia, and the Ghaggar-Hakra River, which once coursed through northwest India and eastern Pakistan.
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Q104) Consider the following statements-
1. The Indus Valley Civilization is also known as the Harappan Civilization, after Harappa.
2. Harappa was the first of the Indus Valley Civilization sites to be excavated in the 1920s, in what was then the Punjab province of British India, and now is Pakistan.
3. The discovery of Harappa, and soon afterwards, Mohenjo-Daro, was the culmination of work beginning in 1861 with the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India in the British Raj.
4. Excavation of Harappan sites has been ongoing since 1920, with important breakthroughs occurring as recently as 1999.
5. There were earlier and later cultures, often called Early Harappan and Late Harappan, in the same area of the Harappan Civilization.
6. Until 1999, over 1,056 cities and settlements had been found, of which 96 have been excavated, mainly in the general region of the Indus and Ghaggar-Hakra Rivers and their tributaries.
7. Among the settlements were the major urban centres of Harappa, Mohenjo-daro (UNESCO World Heritage Site), Dholavira, Ganeriwala in Cholistan and Rakhigarhi.
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Q105) Consider the following statements
1. In 1872–75 Alexander Cunningham published the first Harappan seal (with an erroneous identification as Brahmi letters).
2. It was half a century later, in 1912, that more Harappan seals were discovered by J. Fleet, prompting an excavation campaign under Sir John Hubert Marshall in 1921–22
3. The discovery of the civilization at Harappa was done by Sir John Marshall, Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni and Madho Sarup Vats, and at Mohenjo-daro by Rakhal Das Banerjee, E. J. H. MacKay, and Sir John Marshall.
4. By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated, but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944.
5. Among other archaeologists who worked on IVC sites before the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 were Ahmad Hasan Dani, Brij Basi Lal, Nani Gopal Majumdar, and Sir Marc Aurel Stein.
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Q106) 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
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Q107) An early and influential work in the area that set the trend for Hindu interpretations of archeological evidence from the Harrapan sites was that of John Marshall, who in 1931 identified the following as prominent features of the Indus religion:
1. Great Male God and a Mother Goddess;
2. Deification or veneration of animals and plants;
3. Symbolic representation of the phallus (linga) and vulva (yoni);
4. Use of baths and water in religious practice.
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Q108) Consider the following statements
1. John Marshall, hypothesized the existence of a cult of Mother Goddess worship based upon excavation of several female figurines, and thought that this was a precursor of the Hindu sect of Shaktism.
2. Many Indus valley seals show animals, with some depicting them being carried in processions, while others show chimeric creations.
3. One seal from Mohen-jodaro shows a half-human, half-buffalo monster attacking a tiger, which may be a reference to the Sumerian myth of such a monster created by goddess Aruru to fight Gilgamesh.
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Q109) Consider the following statements with reference to decline of the Indus Civilization-
1. Around 1800 BCE, signs of a gradual decline of the Indus Civilization began to emerge, and by around 1700 BCE, most of the cities were abandoned.
2. In 1953, Sir Mortimer Wheeler proposed that the decline of the Indus Civilization was caused by the invasion of an Indo-European tribe from Central Asia called the "Aryans".
3. As evidence, he cited a group of 37 skeletons found in various parts of Mohenjo-Daro, and passages in the Vedas referring to battles and forts.
4. Today, many scholars believe that the collapse of the Indus Civilization was caused by drought and a decline in trade with Egypt and Mesopotamia.
5. It has also been suggested that immigration by new peoples, deforestation, floods, or changes in the course of the river may have contributed to the collapse of the IVC.
6. Recent archaeological excavations indicate that the decline of Harappa drove people eastward. After 1900 BCE, the number of sites in India increased from 218 to 853.
7. Excavations in the Gangetic plain show that urban settlement began around 1200 BCE, only a few centuries after the decline of Harappa and much earlier than previously expected
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Q110) Consider the following statements
1. The IVC has been tentatively identified with the toponym Meluhha known from Sumerian records.
2. It has been compared in particular with the civilizations of Elam (also in the context of the Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis) and with Minoan Crete (because of isolated cultural parallels such as the ubiquitous goddess worship and depictions of bull-leaping).
3. The mature (Harappan) phase of the IVC is contemporary to the Early to Middle Bronze Age in the Ancient Near East, in particular the Old Elamite period, Early Dynastic to Ur III Mesopotamia, Prepalatial Minoan Crete and Old Kingdom to First Intermediate Period Egypt.
4. After the discovery of the IVC in the 1920s, it was immediately associated with the indigenous Dasyu inimical to the Rigvedic tribes in numerous hymns of the Rigveda.
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Q111) Consider the following statements
1. Harappans evolved some new techniques in metallurgy and produced copper, bronze, lead, and tin. The engineering skill of the Harappans was remarkable, especially in building docks.
2. In 2001, archaeologists studying the remains of two men from Mehrgarh, Pakistan, made the discovery that the people of the Indus Valley Civilization, from the early Harappan periods, had knowledge of proto-dentistry.
3. Later, in April 2006, it was announced in the scientific journal Nature that the oldest (and first early Neolithic) evidence for the drilling of human teeth in vivo (i.e., in a living person) was found in Mehrgarh.
4. Eleven drilled molar crowns from nine adults were discovered in a Neolithic graveyard in Mehrgarh that dates from 7,500-9,000 years ago.
5. According to the authors, their discoveries point to a tradition of proto-dentistry in the early farming cultures of that region
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Q112) Consider the following statements-
1. The mature phase of the Harappan civilization lasted from c. 2600 to 1900 BCE.
2. With the inclusion of the predecessor and successor cultures the entire Indus Valley Civilization may be taken to have lasted from the 33rd to the 14th centuries BCE.
3. Two terms are employed for the periodization of the IVC: Phases and Eras.
4. The Early Harappan, Mature Harappan, and Late Harappan phases are also called the Regionalisation, Integration, and Localisation eras, respectively, with the Regionalization era reaching back to the Neolithic Mehrgarh II period.
5. "There we have the whole sequence, right from the beginning of settled village life."
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Q113) Consider the following statements-
1. The Early Harappan Ravi Phase, named after the nearby Ravi River, lasted from circa 3300 BCE until 2800 BCE.
2. It is related to the Hakra Phase, identified in the Ghaggar-Hakra River Valley to the west, and predates the Kot Diji Phase (2800-2600 BCE, Harappan, named after a site in northern Sindh, Pakistan, near Mohenjo Daro.
3. The earliest examples of the Indus script date from around 3000 BCE.
4. Discoveries from Bhirrana, Rajasthan, in India, by archeologist K. N. Dikshit indicate that Hakra ware from this area dates from as early as 7500 BC.
5. The mature phase of earlier village cultures is represented by Rehman Dheri and Amri in Pakistan.
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Q114) Consider the following statements/facts with reference to Regulation Act, 1773.
1. Subjected the Company’s actions to the supervision of the British Government.
2. End of Dual government.
3. Governor of Bengal to be the Governor-General of British territories of India.
4. Establishment of Supreme Court in Calcutta.
5. The servants of the Company were forbidden to engage in private trade, accept
presents of bribes.
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Q115) Consider the following statements:
1. The term Indian Independence Movement encompasses a wide range of areas like political organizations, philosophies, revolutionaries and movements which had the common aim of ending the company rule (East India Company), and then British imperial authority,
2. The first organised militant movements were in Bengal, but they later took to the political stage in the form of a mainstream movement in the then newly formed Indian National Congress (INC), with prominent moderate leaders seeking only their basic right to appear for Indian Civil Service examinations, as well as more rights, economic in nature, for the people of the soil.
3. The early part of the 20th century saw a more radical approach towards political independence proposed by leaders such as the Lal, Bal, Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh.
4. The last stages of the independence struggle from the 1920s onwards saw Congress adopt Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's policy of nonviolence and civil resistance, Muhammad Ali Jinnah's constitutional struggle for the rights of minorities in India, and several other campaigns
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Q116) Identify the Indus valley civilization site/city from the description below related there to -
1. The amount of brick taken from the ancient site was enough to lay bricks for “about100 miles” of the railway line between Lahore and Multan
2. The ancient structures at the site were damaged
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Q117) Which of the following is/are true with respect to steatite seals discovered during Harappan civilization?
1. Religious phrases were common on these seals with sizes ranging from ¾ to 1½ inch.
2. First deities were depicted and then creatures like tiger, elephant, bull were found engraved on seals during Mohenjo-daro.
3. Some of the seals displayed linear symbols like circles, cross, dots and animals were more successfully realized than human forms.
4. These seals covered with alkali coating and fired to produce a fine lustrous white finish are an early evidence to the concept of yoga to be present at that time.
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Q118) Which of the following is/are true with respect to steatite seals discovered during Harappan civilization?
1. Religious phrases were common on these seals with sizes ranging from ¾ to 1½ inch.
2. First deities were depicted and then creatures like tiger, elephant, bull were found engraved on seals during Mohenjo-daro.
3. Some of the seals displayed linear symbols like circles, cross, dots and animals were more successfully realized than human forms.
4. These seals covered with alkali coating and fired to produce a fine lustrous white finish are an early evidence to the concept of yoga to be present at that time.
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Q119) Which of the following facts hold true about Harappan civilization and culture:
1. A high citadel some 50 ft above lower city with great bath and granaries at its foot marked by superblocks, lanes that run at right angles to streets.
2. Great Bath 39 ft long, 8 ft deep was brick fitted and sealed water-tight by bitumen. It was built for retaining monsoon rains.
3. Citadels, Great Bath and granary designs of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were similar in all respects.
4. Flooding was common in those days and vital trade links existed between Harappa and Mesopotamia indicated by Persian Gulf seals and Harappan motifs found in the region.
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Q120) What are the likely explanations that have been offered for the slow decline of Indus Valley Civilization?
1. Invasion by the new aggressive barbarians from the north who spread themselves later into all of India.
2. Various accidental acts of man and nature and some prominent environmental changes.
3. A tectonic shift during the late Harappan period extended the shoreline and blocked the river’s flow.
4. Floods varied with seasons and steady accumulation of silt made cities like Mohenjo-daro became a marshy lake slowly declining their culture.
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Q121) Consider the following statements about The Indus civilization
1. The Indus civilization appears to contradict the hydraulic despotism hypothesis of the origin of urban civilization and the state.
2. According to this hypothesis, cities could not have arisen without irrigation systems capable of generating massive agricultural surpluses.
3. To build these systems, a despotic, centralized state emerged that was capable of suppressing the social status of thousands of people and harnessing their labor as slaves.
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Q122) Assertion - Harsha became a great supporter of Buddhism and made general endowments to it.
Reason - Harsha was influenced by a Chinese pilgrim Huen Tsang who came to India to study at the Buddhist University of Nalanda and collect Buddhist texts from India.
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Q123) The Chinese traveller Yuan Chwang (Hiuen Tsang) who visited India recorded the general conditions and culture of India at that time. In this context, which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. The roads and river-routes were completely immune from robbery.
2. As regards punishment for offences, ordeals by fire, water and poison were the instruments for determining the innocence or guilt of a person.
3. The tradesmen had to pay duties at ferries and barrier stations.
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Q124) Consider the following statements on agricultural aspect of the Harappan culture and mark the incorrect one: Show Answer

Q125) Consider the following statements about Fa-Hien:
1. He came to India through sea route and went through land route.
2. He did not write about any king in India.
3. He wrote about untouchability in India.
4. He visited Pataliputra and praised the beauty of the city.
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