This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > History > Class 11 History Chapter 1 From The Beginning Of Time – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 History Chapter 1 From The Beginning Of Time Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are species? A) A group of similar organisms. B) A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. C) Similar type of animals. D) Group of people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. 2. What are the possible reasons for the gradual extinction of the early forms of Australopithecus A) Onset of ice Age. B) Reduction in temperature. C) Expansion of grasslands at the expense of forests. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. Fossils of Homo habilis have been discovered at A) Turkana. B) Ethiopia. C) Germany. D) Kenya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ethiopia. 4. Fossils found in the ..... were called Homo neanderthalensis. A) Barun Valley. B) Hunza Valley. C) Neander Valley. D) Lidder Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neander Valley. 5. Primates did not include A) Apes. B) Human. C) Donkey. D) Moneky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Donkey. 6. Which of the following is a form of communication mentioned in the document? A) Music. B) Language. C) Dance. D) Sign Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language. 7. Compared with Australopithecus, Homo have A) Larger teeth and brain with a smaller jaw. B) Larger brain and jaw with less protrusion and smaller teeth. C) More protrusion of the lower jaw with larger brains and jaw. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Larger brain and jaw with less protrusion and smaller teeth. 8. What does the Latin word homo mean? A) Man. B) Animal. C) Specie. D) Ape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man. 9. During this period early humans started farming and domesticating animals A) Neolithic period. B) Paleolithic period. C) Mesolithic period. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neolithic period. 10. Where was the earliest evidence for the making and use of stone tools found? A) Sites in Tasmania and Senegal. B) Sites in Libya and Somalia. C) Sites in Ethiopia and Kenya. D) Sites in Namibia and South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sites in Ethiopia and Kenya. 11. One compromise of bipedalism A) Compromise of balance. B) Compromise of eating. C) Compromise of thinking. D) Compromise of evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compromise of balance. 12. Language is supposed to have developed as early as A) 2 million years ago. B) 3 million years ago. C) 40, 000 years ago. D) 1 million year ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2 million years ago. 13. The first mode of communication was A) Syllables. B) Humming. C) Gestures. D) Body language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gestures. 14. What is a discipline that studies human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology? A) Ethnography. B) Anthropology. C) Paleontologist. D) Historian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anthropology. 15. It is a small group of hunters and gatherers who live in the vicinity of Lake Eyasi A) Aka. B) !Kung San. C) Aeta. D) Hadza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hadza. 16. Which of the following was not a way of obtaining food for early human A) Cooking. B) Hunting. C) Gathering. D) Fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cooking. 17. A time of written records A) History. B) Archaic. C) Protohistory. D) Prehistory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) History. 18. In which country is Chauvet located? A) Germany. B) France. C) Spain. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) France. 19. Which species is associated with the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania? A) Homo sapiens. B) Australopithecus. C) Homo erectus. D) Homo habilis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homo habilis. 20. The discipline which studies about human culture and society, evolutionary aspects of human biology of the past is A) Ethnography. B) Sociology. C) Biological Anthropology. D) Anthropology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anthropology. 21. Altamira is located in A) Spain. B) France. C) Ethiopia. D) Kenya. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spain. 22. What is a feature of hominoids? A) Tail presence. B) Flexible arms and shoulders. C) Inability to climb. D) Lack of mammary glands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flexible arms and shoulders. 23. The name Australopithecus comes from a Latin word, 'austral', meaning ..... and a Greek word, 'pithekos', meaning ..... A) Northern and primate. B) Southern and hominid. C) Southern and ape. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Southern and ape. 24. The Multi Regional Hypothesis justifies that A) Neanderthals evolved into Asians. B) The Java man in Indonesia evolved into the Australian Aboriginals. C) The Java man in Indonesia evolved into Indonesians and south East Asians. D) The Homoerectus were the ancestors of Latin America. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Java man in Indonesia evolved into the Australian Aboriginals. 25. Which of the following is not correct about Homo A) The word homo is taken from latin. B) It means human. C) It includes apes also. D) It includes both male and female. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It includes apes also. 26. Fossils of homo heidelbergensis were discovered in A) Hungary. B) France. C) Austria. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 27. How were tools made up of copper better than those made out of stones A) They were easily available. B) They were malleable. C) They were heavier. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were malleable. 28. Name of the anthropologist who wrote about The Hazda is A) Eric Wolf. B) Margaret Mead. C) Clifford Geertz. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 29. What is the last species mentioned in the human evolution sequence? A) Homo habilis. B) Australopithecus. C) Homo sapiens. D) Homo erectus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homo sapiens. 30. What does the word pithekos mean A) Northern. B) Southern. C) Western. D) Ape. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ape. 31. They were quadrupeds A) Hominoids. B) Hominids. C) Homos. D) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hominoids. 32. What were Homo Heidelbergensis named after? A) A city called Heidelberg where their fossils were first found. B) An archaeologist named Heidelberg, who first discovered them. C) The German word for "large brains". D) The valley in which their fossils were first found. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A city called Heidelberg where their fossils were first found. 33. What was a tool used by early man? A) Bow and Arrow. B) Catapults. C) Knives. D) Boomerangs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bow and Arrow. 34. Where are Altamira caves A) Spain. B) France. C) South america. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spain. 35. The earliest evidence for making and use of stone tools comes from A) Ethiopia. B) Tanzania. C) Kenya. D) Both a and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both a and c. 36. Which one of the following is not a technique used by early man to make weapons? A) Pressure Flaking. B) Chisel sharpening. C) Punch blade technique. D) Stone on stone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chisel sharpening. 37. What led to the development of farming and pastoralism? A) Bipedalism. B) Epilogue. C) Foraging. D) Regional continuity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epilogue. 38. When did spoken language emerge? A) 7 mya. B) 5 mya. C) 2 mya. D) 3 mya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 mya. 39. What is the significance of the mind map layout? A) It shows the timeline of technological advancements. B) It outlines the evolution and communication from the beginning of time. C) It details the history of ancient civilizations. D) It describes the future of human evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It outlines the evolution and communication from the beginning of time. 40. Which method was used to collect plant foods such as seeds, berries, nuts and fruits? A) Hunting. B) Gathering. C) Fishing. D) Scavenging. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gathering. 41. Factors that led to the shifting of early humans from forests to areas that had an abundance of wild grasses and animals. A) Climatic change. B) Population pressure. C) A greater reliance on and knowledge of a few species of plants. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 42. According to the Regional Continuity model of human evolution, modern humans in China evolved from ..... ? A) Neanderthal man. B) Homo Habilis. C) Homo Erectus. D) Homo floresiensis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homo Erectus. 43. Which of these features of communication were developed first? A) Speech. B) Writing. C) Verbal communication. D) Vocal non-verbal communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vocal non-verbal communication. 44. When did bipedal locomotion develop amongst hominids? A) Around 2.5 mya. B) 6 mya. C) 1.8 mya. D) 3.6 mya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3.6 mya. 45. 24 mya ago human like creature appear on the earth known as ..... A) Primates. B) Apes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primates. 46. The earliest evidence for the deliberate planned hunting and butchery of large Mammals comes from which site A) Heidelberg, Germany. B) Terra Amata, Southern France. C) Omo in Ethiopia. D) Schoningen.Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schoningen.Germany. 47. The first phenomenon or breakthrough in human evolutionary history A) Bipedalism. B) Invention of the wheel. C) Discovery of Fire. D) Quadrupedalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bipedalism. 48. Which famous book written by Charles Darwin was published on 24 November, 1859, and marked a landmark in the study of evolution? A) On Natural Selection. B) The Voyage of the Beagle. C) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. D) On the Origin of Species. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the Origin of Species. 49. What is the estimated time period for Australopithecus' existence? A) 2.5 mya. B) 8 lakh years ago. C) 5.6 mya. D) 1.8 mya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5.6 mya. 50. Another term for Old Stone Age A) Paleolithic age. B) Neolithic age. C) Bronze age. D) Mesolithic age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paleolithic age. 51. Where do the earliest evidence of Hominoids come from A) Laetoli and Hadar. B) Spain. C) France. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laetoli and Hadar. 52. During the ice age which species of the early men went extinct A) Homo Sapien. B) Australopithecus. C) Primates. D) Homo Erectus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Australopithecus. 53. Earliest fossil found in Europe was A) Homo Heidelbergensis. B) Homo Neanderthals. C) Option 1 and option 2. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Option 1 and option 2. 54. When did the evidence of the first Hominids first arrive A) 5.6 MYA. B) 2.7 MYA. C) 2 MYA. D) 3.6 MYA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5.6 MYA. 55. How did the Hominids Scavenge A) The deliberate and planned Butchery if Large Mammals. B) Collection of plant foods like seeds, fruits etc. C) The Mass Killing of an animal. D) Meat and marrow was taken from the carcasses of animals that had died naturally. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meat and marrow was taken from the carcasses of animals that had died naturally. 56. What is a feature of primates related to reproduction? A) Short gestation periods. B) Long gestation periods. C) Lack of mammary glands. D) Inability to maintain body temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long gestation periods. 57. Hominids belonged to the family of ..... A) Hominidae. B) Hominoid. C) Homo sapiens. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hominidae. 58. Which of the following is NOT a feature of primates? A) Ability to maintain constant body temperature. B) Different types of teeth. C) Lack of body hair. D) Long gestation periods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lack of body hair. 59. What is the handy man called? A) Homo sapien. B) Homo erectus. C) Homo habilis. D) Neanderthal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homo habilis. 60. How did fire help the early humans A) Hunting animals. B) Scaring away animals. C) To not provide warmth. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scaring away animals. 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