Harappan Civilization: Objective Quiz.2022
1. Who is considered the father of history?
(A) Chaldia
(B) Eratosthenes
(C) Herodotus
(D) Heketius
Answer: Option C
2. What is the written description of the events of human life called?
(A) Geography
(B) History
(C) Economics
(D) Sociology
Answer: Option B
3. The period in which there is no written description of human events is called what?
(A) Paleolithic period
(B) Prehistoric times
(C) Neolithic period
(D) none of the above
Answer: Option B
4. In which era was fire invented?
(A) Mesolithic age
(B) in the proto-historic age
(C) Neolithic Age
(D) in the Palaeolithic age
Answer: Option D
5. What was the main basis of human’s livelihood in the Palaeolithic age?
(A) to hunt
(B) Agriculture
(C) Animal Husbandry
(D) plundering
Answer: Option A
6. In which era the wheel was invented?
(A) Palaeolithic Age
(B) Neolithic age
(C) in the proto-historic age
(D) Mesolithic age
Answer: Option B
7. Which country was not occupied by the Harappan culture?
(A) Iran
(B) India
(C) Pakistan
(D) Afghanistan
Answer: Option A
8. What is considered the period of Indus civilization-
(A) 1750 BC to 1500 BC
(B) 1500 BC to 1150 BC
(C) 2750 BC to 2500 BC
(D) 2500 BC to 1750 BC
Answer: Option D
9. Where were the remains of a horse first found in the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Surkotada
(B) Harappa
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Banmali
Answer: Option A
10. What was the main occupation of the people of Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Agriculture
(B) Wages
(C) Business
(D) plundering
Answer: Option C
11. Harappan civilization was the civilization of which era?
(A) Copper Age
(B) Iron Age
(C) Bronze Age
(D) Neolithic Age
Answer: Option C
12. What were the houses made of in the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) burnt bricks
(B) stone
(C) with raw bricks
(D) wooden
Answer: Option A
13. In which crop did the Harappans lead?
(A) tide
B) Wheat
(C) Cotton
(D) Rice
Answer: Option C
14. Who first discovered the Harappan civilization?
(A) Dayaram Sahni
(B) Rakhaldas Banerjee
(C) Ranganatha Rao(
D) Ravindra Singh Visht
Answer: Option A
15. Which was the main port of Indus Civilization?
(A) Ropar
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Mohenjodaro
(D) Lothal [Gujarat]
Answer: Option D
16. In which state is the site of the Indus Valley Civilization ‘Kalibanga’?
(A) Haryana
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Gujarat
(D) Punjab
Answer: Option B
17. In which year was the Harappan civilization discovered?
(A) 1919 AD
(B) 1923 AD
(C) 1921 AD
(D) 1926 AD
Answer: Option C
18. What was the social system of the Harappan people?
(A) Patriarchal
(B) Fair Egalitarian
(C) Varna system karma based
(D) none of the above
Answer: Option B
19. Oasis of which site of Indus Civilization is called?
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Harappa
(C) Lothal
(D) Kalibangan
Answer: Option A
20. Where was the evidence of plowing the field in the Harappan civilization found?
(A) Lothal
(B) Dholavira
(C) Chenab
(D) Kalibanga
Answer: Option D
21. From which place was the decoration of the bricks of the Sandhav civilization received?
(A) Harappa
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Lothal
(D) Banmali
Answer: Option B
22. Where was a large bathroom found in the Indus Civilization?
(A) Chaddo
(B) Harappa
(C) Mohenjodaro
(D) Lothal
Answer: Option C
23. Which deity’s picture was inscribed on the currency of Indus Civilization?
(A) Aghashiva
(B) Brahma
(C) Vishnu
(D) Indra
Answer: Option A
24. By what other name is Mohenjodaro known?
(A) Mound of the Dead
(B) prosperous empire
(C) traders’ stronghold
(D) City of Gods
Answer: Option A
25. Which animal was scattered the most on the seals obtained from the excavation of Indhav sites?
(A) Elephant
(B) Bull
(C) Lion
(D) dog
Answer: Option B
26. Which place of Indus civilization is located in India?
(A) Harappa
(B) Mohenjodaro
(C) Chanhudaro
(D) Lothal
Answer: Option D
27. Which was the first oldest city discovered in India?
(A) Kalibangan
(B) Mohenjodaro
(C) Lothal
(D) Harappa
Answer: Option D [ 1921 ]
28. Where was the evidence of silver availability found in India?
(A) Banmali culture
(B) Harappan culture
(C) in the culture of Lothal
(D) none of the above
Answer: Option B
29. On which river was Manda situated?
(A) on the Ravi river
(B) on the Ghaggar river
(C) Chenab river
(D) Rangoi River
Answer: Option C
30. On which river was Ropar, the main site of Harappan civilization located?
(A) Sutlej River
(B) Ravi River
(C) Indus River
(D) Godavari River
Answer: Option A
31. A good water management in Harappa is known from which place?
(A) Dholavira
(B) Larkana
(C) Sindh
(D) Punjab
Answer: Option A
32. Which color was used by the people of Indus civilization on pottery?
(A) wheatish color
(B) Black color
(C) brown color
(D) red color
Answer: Option D
33. In which era was the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Copper Age
(B) Iron Age
(C) in the proto-historic age
(D) Paleolithic Age
Answer: Option C
34. The names of which Indian people are associated with the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization, who are they?
(A) R.D. Banerjee
(B) Majumdar
(C) Dayaram Sahni
(D) All of the above
Answer: Option D
35. What was the main crop of the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Rice and Wheat
(B) Rice
(C) Barley and Wheat
(D) Maize
Answer: Option C
36. Where is Rangpur, a contemporary Harappan civilization?
(A) Saurashtra
(B) Sindh
(C) Punjab
(D) Montgomery
Answer: Option A
37. Who got Harappa and Mohenjodaro excavated?
(A) Sir John Marshall
(B) Sir John Conroy
(C) Sir John Narborough
(D) Sir John Thursby
Answer: Option A
38. In which god did the people of Indus civilization believe the most?
(A) Atman and Brahman
(B) in maternal power
(C) in the Yagya system
(D) in rituals
Answer: Option B
39. Where is the site of Indus Valley Civilization ‘Kalibanga’ located?
(A) Punjab
(B) Haryana
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Gujarat
Answer: Option C
40. What were the pieces made of in the Harappan civilization?
(A) clay soil
(B) Onyx and Chert
(C) clay and copper
(D) Selkhadi
Answer: Option D
41. From which place a bronze statue of a woman in a dancing posture was found?
(A) Lothal
(B) Mohenjodaro
(C) Kalibangan
(D) Harappa
Answer: Option B
42. Where is Mohenjodaro located at present?
(A) Islamabad [Pakistan]
(B) Sindh [Pakistan]
(C) Rajasthan [India]
(D) Kabul [Afghanistan]
Answer: Option B
43. Which metal was first used by the Harappans?
(A) Iron
(B) copper
(C) Gold
(D) of bronze
Answer: Option B
44. In which state after independence the sites of Harappan era were discovered the most in India?
(A) Gujarat
(B) Haryana
(C) Rajasthan
(D) Punjab
Answer: Option A
45. With which metal were the Harappans not familiar?
(A) copper
(B) bronze
(C) iron
(D) gold
Answer: Option C
46. Harappan civilization was the civilization of which era?
(A) Bronze Age
(B) Neolithic Age
(C) Palaeolithic Age
(D) Iron Age
Answer: Option A
47. In which state Kalibangan is the main city of Harappa?
(A) Haryana
(B) Rajasthan
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Punjab
Answer: Option B
48. In which sport were the Harappans interested?
(A) Kabaddi
(B) Chess
(C) race of vines
(D) Chaugan (Polo)
Answer: Option B
49. Which city of Harappa was called ‘Bagh of Sindh’?
(A) Kalibanga
(B) Lothal
(C) Mohenjodaro
(D) Rakhigarhi
Answer: Option C
50. What is the literal meaning of Mohenjodaro?
(A) Mound of the Dead
(B) prosperous city
(C) Veero’s Fort
(D) very big city
Answer: Option A
51. What was the method adopted by the Harappans for the arrangement of houses and cities?
(A) Unani system
(B) Persian method
(C) grid system
(D) Dravidian system
Answer: Option C
52. How many cities were there in the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9
Answer: Option A
53. How many capitals were there in Indus Valley?
(A) 3
(B) 2
(C) 4
(D) 5
Answer: Option B
54. The inhabitants of Harappan civilization were?
(A) Tribal
(B) nomadic
(C) Rural
(D) Urban
Answer: Option D
55. Which one of the following materials was mainly used in the manufacture of coins of the Harappan period?
(A) Terracotta
(B) Copper
(C) gold
(D) Silver
Answer: Option A
56. The discovery of scales has proved that the people of the Indus Valley were familiar with measurement and weight, where did this discovery happen?
(A) Lothal
(B) Kalibangan
(C) Harappa
(D) Chunhudro
Answer: Option A
57. What is the width of the roads found in Mohenjodaro?
(A) 12.4 m
(B) 9.8 m
(C) 3.6 m
(D) 10.5 m
Answer: Option D
58. Rakhigarhi is in which state of India?
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Gujarat
(C) Haryana
(D) Rajasthan
Answer: Option C
59. Which is the largest site of Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Larkana
(C) Harappa
(D) Lothal
Answer: Option A
60. Which is the smallest site of the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Mohenjodaro
(B) Allahdino
(C) Lothal
(D) Harappa
Answer: Option B
61. Who were the sacred animals in the Harappan/Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Horse
(B) Cow
(C) Humpbacked bull and horned animal
(D) Elephant
Answer: Option C
Harappan Civilization: Objective Quiz-2022 -Ancient History
62. On which river was the city of Manda situated?
(A) Chenab
(B) Jhelum
(C) on the diameter
(D) on the Sutlej
Answer: Option A
63. With which color did the people of Indus civilization paint the pottery?
(A) ocher color
(B) Black color
(C) red color
(D) brown
Answer: Option C
64. What does Kalibanga mean?
(A) Black Empire
(B) Black colored bangles
(C) Black Cow
(D) Black colored houses
Answer: Option B
65. The streets of the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization were?
(A) broad and straight
(B) slippery
(C) tight and crooked
(D) tight and untidy
Answer: Option A
66. The ruins of Harappa are found on the banks of which river?
(A) Jhelum
(B) Ravi
(C) Sutlej
(D) Indus
Answer: Option B
67. Which is the largest building in Mohenjodaro?
(A) multi storeyed house
(B) huge bathroom
(C) Pillar Hall
(D) granaries
Answer: Option D
68. What is the script of Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Tamil
(B) Arabic
(C) Brahmi
(D) not known
Answer: Option D
69. Worship of Mother Goddess was related to?
(A) With Indus Valley Civilization
(B) with Aryan civilization
(C) with the later Vedic civilization
(D) with the Mediterranean civilization
Answer: Option A
70. An important creation of the people of the Indus Valley is the idol of which of the following?
(A) Narasimha
(B) Dancing idol
(C) Lord Buddha
(D) Nataraja
Answer: Option B
71. At a place called Lothal, which of the following civilizations had a shipwreck?
(A) Mesopotamia
(B) Egypt
(C) Indus Valley
(D) Unani
Answer: Option C
72. Which is the tallest building in Mohenjodaro?
(A) Great Bath
(B) Assembly Hall
(C) rectangular building
(D) Great Granary
Answer: Option D
73. The strength of the Indus economy was?
(A) Business(
B) pottery
C) Agriculture
(D) Carpentry
Answer: Option C
74. Whom did the people of Indus Valley Civilization worship?
(A) Vishnu
(B) Brahma
(C) Pashupati
(D) Indra
Answer: Option C
75. Harappa mound was first mentioned by whom?
(A) Charles Masson
(B) William Brunton
(C) John Brunton
(D) Dayaram Shahani
Answer: Option A
76. When did the excavation work of Mohenjodaro take place?
(A) 1922
(B) 1921
(C) 1920
(D) 1923
Answer: Option A
77. Which civilization is credited with growing cotton for the first time?
(A) Mesopotamia
(B) Indus
(C) Egypt
(D) Persian
Answer: Option B
78. Where were the scales found in the Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Harappa
(B) Lothal
(C) Mohenjodaro
(D) Larkana
Answer: Option B
79. What was the main food of the people of Indus Valley Civilization?
(A) Rice and Barley
(B) Wheat and Barley
(C) Rice and Wheat
(D) Rice
Answer: Option B
80. What is the total area of Harappan Civilization?
(A) 13 lakh sq. km. m
(B) 23 lakh sq. km. m
(C) 14 lakh sq. km. m
(D) 17 lakh sq. km. m
Answer: Option A