Top 250+ Solved Early India- State to Empire MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The excavations at …………… was first started in 1922 by Sir JohnMarshall with R.D. Banerji.
a. kalibangan
b. lothal
c. mohenjodaro
d. banwali
Q. Kalibangan in …………… along the dried up bed of the river Ghaggeris another important Harappan city.
a. rajasthan
b. u.p
c. delhi
d. bomby
Q. Kalibangan site was excavated by …………… in the 1960’s which havethe evidences of pre-Harappan and Harappan habitations.
a. b.k.thapar
b. mortimer wheeler
c. dayaram sahni
d. s.r. rao
Q. Lothal in ………….. is another important city excavated.
a. gujarat
b. rajasthan
c. delhi
d. haryana
Q. ………….. was in charge of the excavations of the Harappan sites inGujarat.
a. s.r.rao
b. mortimer wheeler
c. dayaram sahni
d. r. banerji
Q. The Harappans conducted trade both within the northern and westernarea of the sub continent and with Persian Gulf and …………….. regions.
a. chinese
b. rajasthan
c. sumeria
d. mesopotamian
Q. The Indus people had a fairly advanced type of religion. Their chiefdeity was the Mother Goddess ………….
a. sakti
b. vayu
c. agni
d. varunan
Q. There was a male god with three faces in Yogic pose surrounded byfour animals depicted on the ………….. seals. It is identified as the pre-historic Siva or Pasupati.
a. harappan
b. rajasthan
c. punjab
d. kerala
Q. The Indus people were highly interested in arts and crafts. The bronzefigure of the dancing girl found at …………… was an excellent piece of art.
a. lothal
b. mohenjodaro
c. rupar
d. banwali
Q. The Indus people had developed the art of writing and even developed
a. brahmi
b. pictographic
c. sanskrit
d. malayalam
Q. ……………. in his book Ancient India says,” The Harappan script is notalphabetical but mainly pictographic”.
a. ram sharan sharma
b. dr. a.d. pusalkar
c. mortimer wheeler
d. r. banerji
Q. ………………in ‘The History and Culture of Indian People’, Vol. 1remarks, “The large number of signs precludes the possibility of the script being alphabetic.It was mainly phonetic, most of signs standing for open or close syllables and the remainder functioning as determinates or ideograms”.
a. dr. d. pusalkar
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. ………………. in his research work ‘Decipherment of the Indus Script’ says that the Indus people used the phonetic script in the beginningwhich slowly and slowly in the late Harappan period assumed the alphabetic pattern.
a. dr. s.r. rao
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. sir john marshall