Q. Dadheri is a late Harappan site of

(a) Jammu

(b) Punjab

(c) Haryana

(d) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: (b) Punjab

Q. For the Harappan Cultural sites and its position, which one of the following is not correctly matched?

(a) Alamgirpur – Uttar Pradesh

(b) Banawali – Haryana

(c) Daimabad – Maharashtra

(d) Rakhigarhi – Rajasthan

Answer: (d) Rakhigarhi – Rajasthan

Q. Which of the following is not correctly matched?

(a) Alamgirpur – Uttar Pradesh

(b) Lothal – Gujarat

(c) Kalibangan – Haryana

(d) Ropar – Punjab

Answer: (c) Kalibangan – Haryana

Q. What is the correct North-South sequence of the following civilisations?

(a) Maya-Aztec-Muisca-Inca

(b) Maya-Muisca-Inca-Aztec

(c) Axtec-Muisca-Maya-Inca

(d) Aztec-Maya-Muisca-Inca

Answer: (d) Aztec-Maya-Muisca-Inca

Q. Rangpur, where the contemporary of Harappan civilisation found, is in

(a) Punjab

(b) Eastern Uttar Pradesh

(c) Saurashtra

(d) Rajasthan

Answer: (c) Saurashtra

Q. Which of the following Civilisations flourished on the bank of River Nile?

(a) Roman Civilisation

(b) Indus Valley Civilisation

(c) Greak Civilisation

(d) Egyptian Civilisation

Answer: (d) Egyptian Civilisation

Q. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

(a) Harappa – Daya Ram Sahni

(b) Lothal – SR Rao

(c) Surkotada – JP Joshi

(d) Dholavira – BK Thapar

Answer: (d) Dholavira – BK Thapar

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

Answer: (c) archaeological excavations

Q. The site of Harappa is located on the bank of river

(a) Saraswati

(b) Indus

(c) Beas

(d) Ravi

Answer: (d) Ravi

Q. The discovery of Harappan Civilisation was in …….

(a) 1942

(b) 1921

(c) 1901

(d) 1935

Answer: (b) 1921

Q. Two Indians who were associated with discovery of Indus Valley Civilisation, are

(a) Rakhaldas Banerjee and Dayaram Sahni

(b) John Marshall and Ishwari Prasad

(c) Ashirwadi Lal Srivastava and Rangnath Rao

(d) Madhosarup Vats and VB Rao

Answer: (a) Rakhaldas Banerjee and Dayaram Sahni

Q. Which of the following is related to Harappa civilisation?

(a) Sumerian Civilisation

(b) Indus Valley Civilisation

(c) Vedic Civilisation

(d) Mesopotamian Civilisation

Answer: (b) Indus Valley Civilisation

Q. Indus Civilisation existed in …..

(a) Pre-historical age

(b) Early historical age

(c) Historical age

(d) Later Historical age

Answer: (c) Historical age

Q. In the Mesopotamian records, which one of the following terms was used for the Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) Dilmum

(b) Meluha

(c) Magan

(d) Failaka

Answer: (b) Meluha

Q. Which of the following statements about the Indus Civilisation 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.

Answer: (d) People knew about iron.

Q. Shortugai is located in which country?

(a) Bharat

(b) Pakistan

(c) Tibet

(d) Afghanistan

Answer: (d) Afghanistan

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

Answer: (c) Sindh Province in Pakistan

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 Civilisation?

(a) Harappa

(b) Kalibangan

(c) Lothal

(d) Mohenjodaro

Answer: (d) Mohenjodaro

Q. A Harappan site being surrounded by flood barriers in order to protect it with the aid of UNESCO funds is

(a) Mohenjodaro

(b) Dholavira

(c) Lothal

(d) Rakhigarhi

Answer: (a) Mohenjodaro

Q. Which of the following is a Harappan site located in Rajasthan?

(a) Mohenjo-Daro

(b) Suktagen Dor

(c) Kalibangan

(d) Lothal

Answer: (c) Kalibangan

Q. A ploughed field was discovered at

(a) Mohenjodaro

(b) Kalibangan

(c) Harappa

(d) Lothal

Answer: (b) Kalibangan

Q. A horned deity engraved on a terracotta cake has been recovered from

(a) Banawali

(b) Kalibangan

(c) Lothal

(d) Surkotada

Answer: (b) Kalibangan

Q. Which one among the following Indus cities was known for water management?

(a) Lothal

(b) Mohenjodaro

(c) Harappa

(d) Dholavira

Answer: (d) Dholavira

Q. Which Harappan city is divided into three parts?

(a) Lothal

(b) Kalibangan

(c) Dholavira

(d) Sukotada

Answer: (c) Dholavira

Q. Dholavira is located in the state of

(a) Gujarat

(b) Haryana

(c) Punjab

(d) Rajasthan

Answer: (a) Gujarat

Q. A highly advanced water management system of Harappan times has been unearthed at

(a) Alamgirpur

(b) Dholavira

(c) Kalibangan

(d) Lothal

Answer: (b) Dholavira

Q. From where the evidence of rock-cut architecture were found, with reference to Harappa civilisation?

 (a) Kalibangan

(b) Dholavira

(c) Kot Diji

(d) Amri

Answer: (b) Dholavira

Q. In which of the following site remnant of three townships have been revealed?

 (a) Mohenjodaro

(b) Sanghol

(c) Kalibangan

(d) Dholavira

Answer: (d) Dholavira

Q. Which city of Indus Valley Civilisation was divided into three parts?

(a) Lothal

(b) Kalibangan

(d) Dholavira

 (d) Suskotda

Answer: (d) Dholavira

Q. From where the copper chariot of Harappan times was found?

(a) Kunal

(b) Rakhigarhi

(c) Daimabad

(d) Banawali

Answer: (c) Daimabad

Q. Which among the following Harappan sites is not located in Gujarat?

(a) Surkotada

(b) Lothal

(c) Dholavira

(d) Banawali

Answer: (d) Banawali

Q. Which among the following Harappan site terracotta of ‘plough’ was found?

(a) Dholavira

(b) Banawali

(c) Kalibangan

(d) Lothal

Answer: (b) Banawali

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

Answer: (d) Banawali

Q. Which among the following place is not related to Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) Kalibangan

(b) Ropad

(c) Patliputra

(d) Lothal

Answer: (c) Patliputra

Q. The copper chariot of Indus Valley civilisation was found in which of the following place?

(a) Kunal

(b) Rakhigarhi

(c) Diamabad

(d) Banawali

Answer: (c) Diamabad

Q. Which among the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(a) Alamgipur – Uttar Pradesh

(b) Banawali – Haryana

(c) Daimabad – Maharashtra

(d) Rakhigarhi – Rajasthan

Answer: (d) Rakhigarhi – Rajasthan

Q. The Harappan city represented by the archaeological site of Lothal was situated on the river

(a) Narmada

(b) Mahi

(c) Bhogava

(d) Bhima

Answer: (c) Bhogava

Q. An ivory scale in Harappan context was found at

(a) Kalibangan

(b) Lothal

(c) Dholavira

(d) Banawali

Answer: (b) Lothal

Q. The largest Harappan site of India is

(a) Harappan

(b) Kalibangan

(c) Rakhigarhi

(d) Mohenjodaro

Answer: (c) Rakhigarhi

Q. Which of the following is a Harappan port?

(a) Alexandria

(b) Lothal

(c) Mahasthangarh

(d) Nagapattinam

Answer: (b) Lothal

Q. Which site of Indus Valley Civilisation is located in India?

(a) Harappa

(b) Mohenjodaro

(c) Lothal

(d) None of these

Answer: (c) Lothal

Q. Lothal is located in

(a) Gujarat

(b) Punjab

(c) Rajasthan

(d) Sindh

Answer: (a) Gujarat

Q. Surkotada was discovered by

(a) Yagude Sharma

(b) Rangnath Rao

(c) JP Joshi

(d) RS Bisht

Answer: (c) JP Joshi

Q. Surkotda is an archaeological site located in

(a) Gujarat

(b) Rajasthan

(c) Haryana

(d) Uttar Pradesh

Answer: (a) Gujarat

Q. Indus Valley Civilisation was non-Aryan because

(a) it was an Urban Civilisation.

(b) it has its own script.

(c) it has an agricultural economy.

(d) it extended up to the Narmada valley.

Answer: (a) it was an Urban Civilisation.

Q. What is the most significant feature of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) Burnt brick buildings

(b) First true arches

(c) Buildings of worship

(d) Art and architecture

Answer: (a) Burnt brick buildings

Q. From which one of the following factory sites were limestone and chert blades mass produced and sent to various Harappan settlement in Sindh?

(a) Sukkur and Rohri Hills

(b) Khetri in Rajasthan

(c) Chagai Hills

(d) Hills of Baluchistan

Answer: (a) Sukkur and Rohri Hills

Q. How was the street of cities of Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) Broad and straight

(b) Narrow and zig-zag

(c) Slippery

(d) Narrow and dirty

Answer: (a) Broad and straight

Q. Which among the following is not related to Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) Constructions of streets

(b) Constructions of pillars

(c) Constructions of wells

(d) Constructions of bows

Answer: (b) Constructions of pillars

Q. The ‘Great Bath’ was found at the archaeological site of

(a) Ropar

(b) Harappa

(c) Mohenjodaro

(d) Kalibangan

Answer: (c) Mohenjodaro

Q. Where was the Granary of the Indus Valley Civilisation located?

(a) Lothal

(b) Kaliba ngan

(c) Rakhigarhi

(d) None of these

Answer: (a) Lothal

Q. In which direction was the gate of Assembly Hall?

(a) North

(b) South

(c) East

(d) West

Answer: (a) North

Q. Which among the following pairs is not correct?

(a) Labour Residence – Harappa

(b) Granary – Mohenjodaro

(c) Assembly Hall – Kalibangan

(d) Copper axe – Ropad

Answer: (c) Assembly Hall – Kalibangan

Q. Remains of which animal have not been discovered in the Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) Lion

(b) Horse

(c) Cow

(d) Elephant

Answer: (a) Lion

Q. Which one of the following animals is not depicted on the Harappan seal?]

(a) Bull

(b) Elephant

(c) Horse

(d) Sheep

Answer: (c) Horse

Q. One of the following sites from where the famous Bull-seal of Indus Valley Civilisation was found

(a) Harappa

(b) Chanhudaro

(c) Lothal

(d) Mohenjodaro

Answer: (a) Harappa

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

Answer: (a) Cow

Q. Human Society is unique because it depends mainly on

(a) culture

(b) economy

(c) religion

(d) science

Answer: (a) culture

Q. What was the main business of IVC’s people?

(a) Business

(b) Animal Husbandry

(c) Hunting

(d) Agriculture

Answer: (d) Agriculture

Q. Which among the following is a port city of Harappa?

(a) Sikdariya

(b) Lothal

(c) Maharathanagash

(d) Nagpattneus

Answer: (b) Lothal

Q. Harappan people were first in which production?

(a) Coins

(b) Cotton

(c) Copper tools

(d) Wheat

Answer: (b) Cotton

Q. Which among the following has not been found from Harappan places?

(a) Copper

(b) Gold

(c) Silver

(d) Iron

Answer: (d) Iron

Q. The first metal used by man was

(a) Gold

(b) Silver

(c) Copper

(d) Iron

Answer: (c) Copper

Q. For clothing, cotton cultivation was first introduced in

(a) Egypt

(b) Mesopotamia

(c) Central America

(d) India

Answer: (d) India

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

Answer: (a) Harappan culture

Q. The main source of knowledge about the inhabitants of Indus Valley Civilisations is the discovery of

(a) seals

(b) utensils, jewellery, weapons and tools

(c) temple

(d) scripts

Answer: (b) utensils, jewellery, weapons and tools

Q. The Indus Valley people traded with the

(a) Chinese

(b) Mesopotamians

(c) Parthians

(d) Romans

Answer: (b) Mesopotamians

Q. The people of Indus valley believed in

(a) Spirit and Brahma

(b) Ritual

(c) Sacrificial system

(d) Mother Goddess

Answer: (d) Mother Goddess

Q. The Indus valley people worshipped

(a) Shiva

(b) Indra and Varun

(c) Brahma

(d) Vishnu

Answer: (a) Shiva

Q. Worship of Devi Mata was related to

(a) Indus Valley Civilisation

(b) Egyptian Civilisation

(c) Roman Civilisation

(d) Post Vedic Culture

Answer: (a) Indus Valley Civilisation

Q. Which one of the following was not known to the Harappans?

(a) Construction of Wells

(b) Construction of Pillars

(c) Construction of Drains

(d) Construction of Arches

Answer: (b) Construction of Pillars

Q. The important reason to keep Indus-Valley civilisation before Aryan Civilisation is

(a) Script

(b) Town Planning

(c) Copper

(d) Potteries

Answer: d

Q. Which colour was commonly used in the Harappan Pottery?

(a) Red

(b) Blue-grey

(c) Yellow

(d) Blue

Answer: (a) Red

Q. Which of the following throw light on Harappan culture?

(a) Inscription

(b) Archaeological excavations

(c) Handwriting seals on the utensils

(d) Religious books

Answer: (b) Archaeological excavations

Q. The first ancient Civilisation to develop the art of writing in a proper system was

(a) Indus

(b) Egypt

(c) Sumerian

(d) China

Answer: (c) Sumerian

Q. Which of the following is not responsible for the decline of Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) Ecological changes

(b) Earthquake

(c) Water Conversion

(d) Aryan Invades

Answer: (c) Water Conversion

Q. As per IIT Kharagpur study, continuous low rainfall for how many years was the cause of fall of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

(a) 600 years

(b) 700 years

(c) 800 years

(d) 900 years

Answer: (d) 900 years

Q. Recently, from excavations of Harappan site Sanauli what was found? [UP Lower sub

(a) Human burials

(b) Animal burials

(c) Residential building

(d) Protecting wall

Answer: (a) Human burials

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

Answer: (a) A Cunningham

Q. Who was the director of the archaeological excavation that led to the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjodaro?

(a) Lord Machaulay

(b) Sir John Marshall

(c) Clive

(d) Colonel Tad

Answer: (b) Sir John Marshall

Q. Who among the following was not associated with the excavation of Harappa and Mohenjodaro?

(a) RD Banerjee

(b) KN Dikshit

(c) MS Vats

(d) VA Smith

Answer: (d) VA Smith

Q. The excavation at Chanhudaro was directed by

(a) JH Mackay

(b) Sir John Marshall

(c) REM Wheeler

(d) Sir Aurel Stein

Answer: (a) JH Mackay

Q. Out of the following remains excavated in Indus Valley, which one indicates the commercial and economic development?

(a) Pottery

(b) Seals

(c) Boats

(d) Houses

Answer: (b) Seals

Q. The archaeological finds from Alamgirpur in Meerut district reflected the

(a) Harappa Culture

(b) Vedic Culture

(c) Mauryan Culture

(d) Gupta Period Culture

Answer: (a) Harappa Culture

Q. Who among the following archaeologists was the first to identify similarities between a pre-Harappan culture and the mature Harappan culture?

(a) Amalananda Ghosh

(b) Rakhaldas Banerji

(c) Daya Ram Sahni

(d) Sir John Marshall

Answer: (a) Amalananda Ghosh

Q. The beginning of idol worship is to be considered in

(a) Pre-Aryan

(b) Vedic Period

(c) Mauryan Period

(d) Kushan Period

Answer: (a) Pre-Aryan

Q. Which site of Indus Valley is now in Pakistan?

(a) Kalibangan

(b) Harappa

(c) Lothal

(d) Alamgirpur

Answer: (b) Harappa

Q. Which one of the following is not a Harappan site?

(a) Chanhudaro

(b) Kot Diji

(c) Sohgaura

(d) Desalpur

Answer: (c) Sohgaura

Q. Which of the following is not an Indus Valley Civilisation site?

(a) Kalibangan

(b) Ropar

(c) Patliputra

(d) Lothal

Answer: (c) Patliputra

Q. The largest site of Harappan in India is

(a) Alamgirpur

(b) Kalibangan

(c) Lothal

(d) Rakhigarhi

Answer: (d) Rakhigarhi