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Indus Valley Civilization - 1

Description: Free practice test Indus Valley Civilization history questions and answers generally asked in upsc civil services exams and other competitive exams
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The population of the largest city of the Harappans i.e. Mohenjodaro was between:

  1. 15000-17000

  2. 25000-30000

  3. 35000-41000

  4. above 70000


Correct Option: C

The word Kalibangan means:

  1. Black bangles

  2. Mound of the Dead

  3. Black ash of the fire-altars

  4. Worshippers of the fire-cult


Correct Option: A

Circular fire altars were discovered from:

  1. Kalibangan

  2. Lothal

  3. Banawali

  4. Chanhudaro


Correct Option: B

All 3 phases of the Harappan culture have been found at

  1. Dholavira

  2. Rakhigarhi

  3. Mohenjodaro

  4. Both (1) and (2)


Correct Option: D

Ornamental bricks were found to be employed for the purpose of flooring in a house of :

  1. Nausharo

  2. Daimabad

  3. Kalibangan

  4. Rehman Dheri


Correct Option: C

The seal of Pasupati Siva has been excavated from which Indus site?

  1. Mohenjodaro

  2. Harappa

  3. Lothal

  4. Banawali


Correct Option: A

Which Harappan site is located on the Hakra river system?

  1. Rakhigarhi

  2. Dholavira

  3. Ganeriwala

  4. Rangpur


Correct Option: C

A touchstone bearing gold streaks is a significant find of:

  1. Banawali

  2. Kalibangan

  3. Surkotada

  4. Sutkagendor


Correct Option: A

Evidences indicating human invasions in the form of human skeletons huddled together are found in :

  1. Mohenjodaro

  2. Kalibangan

  3. Harappa

  4. Dholavira


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following sites have yielded a large rain-water collection and storage system?

  1. Rakhigarhi

  2. Chanhudaro

  3. Lothal

  4. Dholavira


Correct Option: A

The terracotta model of a plough was unearthed from:

  1. Banawali

  2. Kalibangan

  3. Mohenjodaro

  4. Dholavira


Correct Option: A

Boustrophedon writing on pot-sherds has been discovered from which site?

  1. Alamgirpur

  2. Lothal

  3. Rangpur

  4. Kalibangan


Correct Option: D

Which Indian scholar has published an impressive computer concordance for the decipherment of the Indus Script?

  1. I.Mahadevan

  2. S.R.Rao

  3. A.N.Ghosh

  4. Wazir Chand Saroae


Correct Option: A

The maximum sites that have been excavated till now belong to which phase?

  1. Pre-Harappan phase

  2. Mature-Harappan phase

  3. Late-Harappan phase

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

Bead-Making factories of the Indus Civilization are located in

  1. Lothal, Mohenjodaro

  2. Harappa, Chanhudaro

  3. Lothal, Chanhudaro

  4. Kalibangan, Mohenjodaro


Correct Option: C

The Indus script decipherment remains problematic due to which reason?

  1. Contradictory nature of the cultural finds

  2. Shortness of available specimens

  3. Different opinions of the historians worldwide

  4. Non-concordance with the other ancestral languages


Correct Option: B

The Great-Bath and the Great Granary are located in :

  1. Mohenjodaro

  2. Kalibangan

  3. Harappa

  4. Lothal


Correct Option: A

The famous parable 'Clever fox' has been found to be illustrated on a pot excavated from:

  1. Kalibangan

  2. Banawali

  3. Dholavira

  4. Lothal


Correct Option: D

Where are the granaries arranged in two rows of six?

  1. Mohenjodaro

  2. Kalibangan

  3. Harappa

  4. Rangpur


Correct Option: C

Which of the following sites was an industrial town during the Harappan period?

  1. Manda

  2. Chanhudaro

  3. Dholavira

  4. Harappa


Correct Option: B

Which was the first Harappan site to be exacavated after India became independent?

  1. Daimabad

  2. Rojdi

  3. Ropar

  4. Desalpur


Correct Option: C

The bearded man is an important find of which Indus site?

  1. Harappa

  2. Chanhudaro

  3. Kalibangan

  4. Mohenjodaro


Correct Option: D

5-fold sequence of cultures - Harappan, PGW, NBPW, Kushana, Gupta and Medieval have been excavated at

  1. Kot-Diji

  2. Alamgirpur

  3. Sutkagendor

  4. Ropar


Correct Option: D

The Harappan script is basically :

  1. Boustrophedon (the writing of alternate lines in opposite directions, one line from left to right and the next from right to left.)

  2. Pictographic

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is incorrect?

  1. A piece of woven cotton cloth has been recovered at Kalibangan and textile impressions have been found on several objects.

  2. Bead-making was an important occupation.

  3. The standard Harappan seal was a square or oblong usually made of Steatite.

  4. Although the earliest specimen of the Harappan script was noticed in 1853,the complete script was discovered by 1923.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

A piece of woven cotton cloth has been recovered at Mohenjodaro(not at Kalibangan)

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