Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and Answers on Harappa
Question 1: The site of Harappa is located on the bank of river?
a) Saraswati.
b) Indus.
c) Beas.
d) Ravi.
Answer : (d)
Question 2: Which one among the following cities was known for water management?
a) Lothal.
b) Mohenjodaro.
c) Harappa
d) Dholavira
Answer : (d)
Question 3: At which of the following sites the first evidence of cultivation of cotton has been found?
a) Mohenjodaro.
b) Kili-Gul-Mohammed.
c) Mehgarh.
d) Nal.
Answer : (d)
Question 4: From which one of the following regions the earliest evidence of the rice cultivation has come?
a) Balan Valley.
b) Central Ganga Valley.
c) Gomal Valley.
d) Bolan Valley.
Answer : (a)
Question 5: Which one of the following sites is the largest mesolithic site in india?
a) Bagor.
b) Tilwara
c) Valasana.
d) Akhaj.
Answer : (a)
Question 6: “Sohan culture” is another name of
a) Paleolithic culture.
b) Mesolithic culture.
c) Neolithiic culture.
d) Chalcolithic culture.
Answer : (a)
Question 7: Which one of the following Mesolithic sites provides evidence of a battle?
a) Bagor.
b) Sarai Nahar Rai.
c) Langhanaj.
d) Mahadaha.
Answer : (b)
Question 8 : Which one of the following Mesolithic sites has the distinction of being the first site to be discovered in the arid zone?
a) Langhanaj.
b) Bagor.
c) Sidhpur.
d) Barasimla.
Answer : (a)
Question 9 : Which animal figures most in the cave painting of Mesolithic age?
a) Buffalo.
b) Deer.
c) Tiger.
d) Chinkara.
Answer : (b)
Question 10 : Which one of the following cultures is influenced by Harappan culture?
a) Malva culture.
b) Jorwe culture.
c) Kayatha culture.
d) Megalithic culture.
Answer : (c)
Question 11 : Which is one of the most extensively excavated Chalcolithic age rural sites in the continent?
a) Daimabad.
b) Navdatoli.
c) Kayatha.
d) Nindowari.
Answer : (b)
Question 12 : Which one of the following was not cultivated in the Harappan civilization?
a) Mustard.
b) Barley.
c) Sugarcane.
d) Sesamum.
Answer : (c)
Question 13 : Harappan weapons were made of
a) Stone.
b) Copper.
c) Bronze.
d) All of these.
Answer : (d)
Question 14: Which of the following sites excavated recently shows all the three stages of Harappan occupation (pre-Harappan, Harappan and post-Harappan)?
a) Rojdi.
b) Surkotda.
c) Desalpur.
d) All of these.
Answer : (d)
Question 15 : One of the Harappan deities not represented in later Hindu religion is
a) Pashupati Shiva.
b) Saptamarikas.
c) Compound creatures.
d) Unicorn.
Answer : (d)
Question 16 : Rows of distinctive fire alters with the provision of ritual bathing have been found at
a) Mohenjodaro.
b) Harappa.
c) Kalibangan.
d) Lothal.
Answer : (c)
Question 17 : Which animal is engraved on most of the Harappan seal?
a) Unicorn.
b) Elephant.
c) Bison.
d) Tiger.
Answer : (a)
Question 18 : The most important item of import in the Harappan civilization were
a) Metals and precious stones.
b) Food grains.
c) Textiles.
d) Pottery.
Answer : (a)
Question 19 : The Harappan site is located near the Iranian border is
a) Surkotda.
b) Suktagendor.
c) Kotla Nihang Khan.
d) Alamgirpur.
Answer : (b)
Question 20: Which of the following is not a contemporary of Indus or Harappan civilization?
a) Eygpt.
b) Mesopotamia.
c) Sumer.
d) Greek.
Answer : (d)
Question 21: Which of the following is not a feature of Lothal?
a) A dockyard.
b) Rectangular and circular fire alters for animal sacrifice.
c) Depiction of a ship on a seal.
d) Evidence of the use of the plough.
Answer : (d)
Question 22: Which of the following is not a religious belief of the Harappan people?
a) Belief in evil spirits and life hereafter.
b) Cults and fire and fertility.
c) Adoration of trees and animals.
d) Erection of large prayer houses.
Answer : (d)
Question 23 : At which of the following sites a pre-Harappan settlement has not been found?
a) Dholavira.
b) Kot Diji.
c) Kalibangan.
d) Harappa.
Answer : (a)
Question 24 : The largest Harappan site discovered in Gujrat is
a) Dholavira.
b) Khandia.
c) Kuntasi.
d) Manda.
Answer : (a)
Question 25 : Harappan agricultural economy was mainly based on
a) Crop rotation.
b) Rain-fed cultivation.
c) Wheat and associated winter crops.
d) Dry farming.
Answer : (c)
Question 26 : Who among the followings has been called as the father of Indian pre-history ?
a) Colonel Meadows Taylor.
b) Robert Bruce Foote.
c) Alexandra Cunningham.
d) Sir John Marshall.
Answer : (b)
Question 27 : Who among the followings was not assessment with excavation of Harappa and Mohenjodaro?
a) RD Banerjee.
b) KN Dikshit.
c) MS Vats.
d) VA Smith.
Answer : (b)
Question 28 : A Harappan site being surrounded by flood barriers in order to protect it with the aid of UNESCO fund is
a) Mohenjodara.
b) Dholavira.
c) Lothal.
d) Rakhigarhi.
Answer : (a)
Question 29: At which of the following Harappan sites has been found a vase depicting the folk tale the “Thirsty Crow”?
a) Surkotda.
b) Lothal
c) Dholavira.
d) Banawali.
Answer : (b)
Question 30. The first metal most widely used by the Indus Valley people was
a) Copper.
b) Bronze.
c) Gold and silver.
d) Tin.
Answer : (a)
Question 31 : Terracotta-seated figure of women making dough has not been found at which of the following Harappan sites?
a) Harappa.
b) Surkotda.
c) Mohenjodara.
d) Chanhudaro.
Answer : (b)
Question 32 : Which of the following is not a port town in Harappa Civilization?
a) Surkotda.
b) Rangpur
c) Rojdi.
d) Allahdino.
Answer : (c)
Question 33 : Which of these settlements witnessed the first introduction of iron before the end of second millennium BC?
a) Nausharo.
b) Pirak.
c) Ataranjikheda.
d) Derawer.
Answer : (b)
Question 34 : The Harappans had developed script and knew writing which is proved by
a) complex system of governance and town planning
b) remarkable uniformity of weights and measures
c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
d) their developed science and technology
Answer : (c)
Question 35 : In which of the following respects is there considerable variations in the Harappan civilization?
a) Town planning.
b) Brick sizes.
c) weights and measures
d) Size of dwellings.
Answer : (d)
Question 36 : The worship of fire in Harappan civilization is proved by the discovery of five altars at
a) Surkotda and Rangpur
b) Rangpur and Alamgirpur.
c) Lothal and Kalibangan.
d) Chanhudaro, Kayatha, Prabhas and Daimabad
Answer : (c)
Question 37 : Which of the following statements regarding Kalibangan is not true?
a) The lower town was fortified
b) Drying of the river Ghaggar caused its decline
c) The only sites from where traces of ploughing the fields have been found
d) Pre-Harappan fire alters have been discovered.
Answer : (d)
Question 38 : At Kalibangan a ploughed field showing furrows in two directions cutting each other at right angles shows that
a) it was meant for single crop pattern
b) it was mainly for planting trees
c) it was a method of cropping two different plants on the same field
d) it was meant for crop rotation
Answer : (c)
Question 39 : Megaliths
a) are a certain group of Paleolithic caves.
b) is the technical term for pre-historic rock-cut caves
c) are pre-historic burial monuments
d) are Monoliths belonging to the Neolithic period.
Answer: (d)
Question 40: At which of the following Neolithic sites, the evidence of the unique practice of burying the dogs with their masters in the caves has been found?
a) Burzahom
b) Piklihal
c) Gufkral
d) Chirand
.
Answer : (a)
Question 41. Which one of the following statements is not true about the Chalcolithic culture of India?
a) They were primarily communities in the riverine areas.
b) They most used stone and copper objects and occasionally low-grade bronze.
c) A large number of them appeared after the end of the bronze Harappan culture .
d) They were restricted to the Ganga-Yamuna doab and foothills of the Himalayas. .
Answer : (d)
Question 42 : Three most common features of all Indus Valley sites were
a) Climate, flora-fauna and artificial irrigation.
b) Desert, rivers and zoological features.
c) Use of baked bricks and pottery, elaborate drainage system and occurrence of marsh or jungle animals.
d) Buildings, town and burial system.
Answer : (c)
Question 43 : The deitification of which of the following was not a part of the religion of the Indus Valley people?
a) Mother goddess.
b) Forces of nature.
c) Trees and their spirits.
d) Certain animal chimeras and their anthropic figures.
Answer : (b)
Question 44 : Which one among the following is not the characteristic feature of Harappan settlement?
a) Doorway and windows generally faced the side lanes and rarely opened onto the main streets.
b) Houses generally had separate bathing areas and toilets.
c) The citadel was walled but the lower town was not walled.
d) Drain and water chutes from the second story were often built inside the wall.
Answer : (d)
Question 45 : Which one of the following statements regarding Harappan Civilization is correct?
a) The standard Harappan seals were made of clay.
b) The inhabitants had neither knowledge of copper or bronze.
c) The Harappan Civilization was rural based.
d) The inhabitants Harappan grew and used cottons.
Answer : (d)
Question 46 : Copper, used most widely by the Harappans was obtained from
a) Baluchistan.
b) Mesopotamia.
c) Khetri mines.
d) Both “a” and “b”.
Answer : (c)
Question 47 : Which of following characteristics distinguished the Harappan Civilization from other contemporary civilization of the world?
a) Religious beliefs and social life.
b) Development of science and technology.
c) Town planning, drainage and sanitation.
d) Uniform weights, measures, and commercial contacts.
Answer : (c)
Question 48 : The Harappana city which had three divisions named as citadel, middle town and lower town with elaborate gate complex on its fortifications was
a) Kalibangan.
b) Banabali.
c) Dholavira.
d) Kuntasi.
Answer : (c)
Question 49 : Four outposts of the Harappan Civilization were
a) Manda in the north, Daimabad in the south, Hulas and Alamgirpur in the east and Suktagendor in the west.
b) Manda in the north, Alamgirpur in the east, Shotughai in the west and Daimabad in the south.
c) Manda in the east, Daimabad in the south, Hulas in the north and Surkotda in the west.
d) Alamgirpur in the north, Kayatha in south, Manda in the east and Kuntasi in the west.
Answer : (a)
Question 50. Which one of the following statements regarding Dholavira is/ are correct?
a) It lies in the Kutch area of Gujrat.
b) The city was fortified.
c) It shows all the three phases of Harappan culture.
d) All of these.
Answer : (d)