Sources

Q. Rasheeda sat reading the newspaper. Suddenly her eyes fell on a small headline: "One Hundred Years Ago." How, she wondered, could anyone know that had happened so many years ago?

Q. The poet Amir Khusrau used the term ______.

1. Hind
2. Hindustan
3. India
4. Indian subcontinent

Q. Large groups of villages were called _____.

1. Mahajanapadas
2. Nagaram
3. Purarashtra
4. Mahagramin

Q. The preferred language of the chronicler Minhaj-i-Siraj was _________.

1. Hindi
2. Sanskrit
3. Arabic
4. Persian

Q. A technological advancement achieved during the medieval period was .

1. persian wheels
2. pulleys
3. chariots

Q. Which among the following are the sources used to study history?

1. Coins
2. Manuscripts
3. Architecture
4. Rumours passed on over generations.

Q. The number and variety of textual sources available for the period between 700 CE and 1750 CE ____________.

1. is more when compared to the period before it
2. is less when compared to the period before it
3. is same as the period before it
4. is negligible

Q. Which of the following places could the earliest villages have come up?

1. Snowy regions
2. Rivers
3. Fields
4. Deserts
5. Forests
6. Mountains
7. Plains
8. Lakes

Q. Scribes were the people _____________.

1. who made copies of others' works
2. who wrote their own works
3. who loved writing as a pastime
4. who helped illiterate people to write their own books

Q.

Rajtarangini, book on the history of Kashmir, was written in the 12th century by

1. Al Beruni

2. Kalhana

3. Banabatha

4. None of these

Q. Select the important archeological sites from the time of the janapadas.

1. Patna
2. Calicut
3. Ayodhya
4. Kochi

Q. Which of the following books were written during the time of the janapadas?

1. Ramayana
2. Upanishads
3. Mahabharat
4. Dharmasutras

Q. _______ is the science that tries to understand past events.

1. Geography
2. Environment Science
3. Social Science
4. History

Q. How does our present knowledge about mahajanapadas come from?

1. Archeological excavations
2. Holy scriptures
3. Historical books
4. The internet

Q. Upanishads, Dharmasutra, Digha Nikaya and Majjhima Nikaya are examples of _______.

1. coins
2. literary sources
3. archaeological sources
4. artifacts

Q. Who composed books about the Indian subcontinent during the period of Mahajanapadas?

1. Brahmins
2. Jaina monks
3. Buddhists
4. Christians

Q. Which of the following books were written during the time of the janapadas?

1. Ramayana
2. Upanishads
3. Mahabharat
4. Dharmasutras

Q. Delhi, Antranjikhera and Kausambi were important _____ sites from the time of the janapadas.

1. trading
2. cultural
3. archeological
4. grazing

Q. Who composed books about the Indian subcontinent during the period of Mahajanapadas?

1. Brahmins
2. Jaina monks
3. Buddhists
4. Christians

Q. Choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the italicized bold part of the sentence:
On scrutiny the police officer found out that the documents provided by the landlord were totally fabricated.

1. historical
2. genuine
3. forged
4. prepared
5. constructed

Q. Choose the word(s) which can correctly replace the word(s) printed in italic bold in the sentence without changing the meaning of it.
The poetic art of Keats reached consummation at the end of his poetic career.

1. failure
2. completion
3. frivolity
4. deterioration

Q. Choose the examples of archaeological sites in the Gangetic valley that tell us more about the mahajanapadas.

1. Delhi
2. Nagpur
3. Atranjikhera
4. Kausambi
5. Asuras
6. Patna
7. Bharatas
8. Ayodhya

Q. How does our present knowledge about mahajanapadas come from?

1. Archeological excavations
2. Holy scriptures
3. Historical books
4. The internet

Q. The two types of sources that tell us more about the mahajanapadas are archaeological and literary sources.

1. False
2. True

Q. Delhi, Antranjikhera and Kausambi were important _____ sites from the time of the janapadas.

1. trading
2. archeological
3. cultural
4. grazing