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 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 History Chapter 1 From The Beginning Of Time Quiz 2 (59 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Flimsy shelters with roofs of wood and grasses were built for short-term, seasonal visits, at which famous site located on the coast of southern France? A) Chauvet. B) Lascaux. C) Grotte du Lazaret. D) Terra Amata. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Terra Amata. 2. Why did early humans started settling around the rivers A) Animals did not come here so they felt safe. B) It was required for agriculture. C) A lot of stones could be found here. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was required for agriculture. 3. The first human who left remains of her bones; she lived around 3.5 million years ago. A) Homo Erectus. B) Lucy. C) Homo Heidelbergensis. D) Mary Leakey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lucy. 4. This species was the first of hominidae to walk upright. A) Homo Habilis. B) Australopithecus. C) Homo Erectus. D) Homo Sapien. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homo Erectus. 5. Which of the following is NOT a way of obtaining food mentioned in the chapter? A) Hunting. B) Gathering. C) Farming. D) Fishing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Farming. 6. Which species has jaws with reduced outward protrusion? A) Homo erectus. B) Homo habilis. C) Homo. D) Australopithecus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homo. 7. What are primates? A) Apes. B) Monkeys. C) A group of mammals including monkeys apes and human. D) Tree animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A group of mammals including monkeys apes and human. 8. Who were the earliest stone tool makers? A) Australopithecus. B) Homo habilis. C) Homo sapiens. D) Homo erectus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Australopithecus. 9. Hominoids have ..... A) Heavier jaw. B) Lighter jaw. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heavier jaw. 10. The first species of the genus Homo to have possessed a small no. of speech sounds is A) Homo-Sapiens. B) Homo-Erectus. C) Homo-Heidelbergensis. D) Homo-Habilis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homo-Habilis. 11. What is the primary focus of the chapter? A) Modern Technology. B) Evolution and Communication. C) Space Exploration. D) Ancient Civilizations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evolution and Communication. 12. Where has the earliest Hominid Fossil been found A) Western Europe. B) East Africa. C) North Asia. D) West Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) East Africa. 13. What is carbon dating used for? A) Dating things. B) Find out the era and age artefacts belong to. C) Checking how old something is. D) How much carbon does something have?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Find out the era and age artefacts belong to. 14. How were hominids different from hominoids? A) Hominoids had finer motor control. B) Hominids had bigger brains. C) Hominids had heavier jaws. D) Hominids were quadrupeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hominids had bigger brains. 15. What were the fossils found in the Neander valley called A) Homo neanders. B) Homo heidelbergensis. C) Homo neanderthalensis. D) Homo heidelbergerastus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homo neanderthalensis. 16. Main function of precision grip? A) Softer grip. B) Nicer hold. C) Helped in holding materials with a greater percision. D) Easy to cut. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Helped in holding materials with a greater percision. 17. What was the use of cave paintings? A) To teach the coming generations about hunting and other aspects of life. B) To visualise their goals and in a way strategise how to capture animals. C) Option 1 and Option 2. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Option 1 and Option 2. 18. The study of history using artefacts and other remains: A) Ethnography. B) Anthropology. C) Domestication. D) Archaeology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Archaeology. 19. What is the main point of difference between Hominids and Homonoids? A) Homonids have a smaller brain. B) Homonoids have a smaller brain. C) Homonids have longer hands. D) Homonoids have longer hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homonoids have a smaller brain. 20. Which of the following is NOT a distinctive characterstic of Hominids A) Large brain size. B) Upright posture. C) Specialisation of hand. D) Quadrupedal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quadrupedal. 21. An increase in brain size is associated with: A) Dietary habits. B) Height of the person. C) Physical activity. D) Intelligence and a better memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intelligence and a better memory. 22. Homo sapiens mean A) Modern man. B) Stand erect. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Modern man. 23. On which argument is the regional continuity model based? A) The regional differences in the features of modern humans. B) The genetic and anatomical homogeneity of modern humans. C) Similarities between the pre-existing Homo species. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The regional differences in the features of modern humans. 24. When did primates originate in Africa? A) 30 million years ago. B) 20 million years ago. C) 35 million years ago. D) 36 million years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 36 million years ago. 25. Homo' is a Latin word which means ..... A) Man'. B) Animal'. C) Woman'. D) Handy Man'. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man'. 26. When did man start hunting? A) 400, 000 years ago. B) 35, 000 years ago. C) 2 million years ago. D) 500, 000 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 500, 000 years ago. 27. What forms of art and literature are mentioned in the chapter? A) Sculptures and pottery. B) Cave paintings, carvings, and symbols. C) Music and dance. D) Written texts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cave paintings, carvings, and symbols. 28. Are a subgroup of a larger group of mammals. They include monkeys, apes and humans A) Primates. B) Hominoids. C) Homos. D) Hominids. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primates. 29. What could not have been an important use of fire by man? A) It provided warmth and light inside caves. B) It was used to harden wood. C) It was used for carving onto walls. D) It was used to scare away animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was used for carving onto walls. 30. At which 2 places have pieces of baked clay and burnt bone along with stone tools, dated between 1.4 and 1 mya, been found? A) Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and Neandertal, Germany. B) Laas Gaal, Somalia and Kakadu, Australia. C) Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain. D) Chesowanja, Kenya and Swartkrans, South Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chesowanja, Kenya and Swartkrans, South Africa. 31. Which of the earliest humans was the first to make stone tools? A) Homo Erectus. B) Homo Heidelbergensis. C) Homo Habilis. D) Australopithecus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Australopithecus. 32. Maria, the daughter of Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, a local landowner and amateur archaeologist, discovered which famous cave site in November 1879? A) Altamira, Spain. B) Lascaux, France. C) Laas Gaal, Somalia. D) Bhimbetka, India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Altamira, Spain. 33. Discovery of the neolithic age A) Domestication of animals. B) Agriculture. C) Discovery of smelting and the creation of bronze tools has given the name Bronze Age. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 34. Tool making was done by A) Men. B) Women. C) Both men and women. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both men and women. 35. The skull found in the Neander valley was first examined by: A) Carl Fuhlrott. B) Hermann Schaaffhausen. C) Charles Darwin. D) Margaret Mead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carl Fuhlrott. 36. Which one of the following caves did NOT have prehistoric paintings in them? A) Altamira, Spain. B) Lascaux, France. C) Chauvet, France. D) Cuevas del Drach, Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cuevas del Drach, Spain. 37. In which country is the Neander valley located? A) France. B) Spain. C) Germany. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Germany. 38. The earliest evidence of making stone tool comes from which country? A) Greece. B) Mesopotamia. C) Kenya. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kenya. 39. Hundreds of paintings of animals were discovered in the following places A) Lascaux. B) Gran Canaria. C) Chauvet. D) Both 1 and 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both 1 and 3. 40. What is the 'tool-maker' known as in latin? A) Hominids. B) Homo erectus. C) Homo sapiens. D) Homo habilis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homo habilis. 41. Where were clear evidence of hunting tools found? A) Boxgrove. B) Lazaret Caves. C) Chesowanja. D) Swartkrans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boxgrove. 42. Australopithecus means A) Northern ape. B) Ape. C) Eastern ape. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 43. These species emerged 5.6 million years ago A) Australopithecus. B) Homos. C) Hominids. D) Hominoids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hominids. 44. Period characterised by the use of copper in tools and weapons A) Mesolithic Age. B) Chalcolithic Age. C) Palaeolithic Age. D) Neolithic Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chalcolithic Age. 45. What are the objects such as tools, paintings, sculpture, engravings made by human beings in the old age called? A) Artefacts. B) Memento. C) Fossils. D) Antique. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Artefacts. 46. What is one of the main features of primates? A) Lack of body hair. B) Short gestation periods. C) Mammary gland. D) Inability to maintain body temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mammary gland. 47. Who discovered the cave paintings at Altamira? A) Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola (and his daughter Maria). B) Gianni Versace. C) Sonny de La Vega and Nina Rosairo. D) Mary and Louis Leaky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola (and his daughter Maria). 48. What is the meaning of the Latin word Austral A) Southern. B) Ape. C) Western. D) Northern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Southern. 49. With what other thing was language developed along? A) Wheels. B) Use of fire. C) Art. D) Tools. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Art. 50. What do the presence of '' Hearths '' indicate A) Controlled use of fire. B) Cave paintings. C) Tool making. D) Hunting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Controlled use of fire. 51. What role did language play in early human communication? A) It was used for hunting. B) It helped plan, cooperate, and share ideas. C) It was primarily for artistic expression. D) It was used for trading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It helped plan, cooperate, and share ideas. 52. In which country is Altamira located A) France. B) Germany. C) Italy. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spain. 53. Hominids belong to a family known as ..... which includesall forms of human beings. A) Homos. B) Homonoids. C) Hominidae. D) Australopithecus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hominidae. 54. What were the places of residents of early humans A) Caves. B) Open-air sites. C) Forests. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 55. Who discovered the first human skull and skeletal fragments of evolutionary humans? A) Workmen carrying limestone. B) Carl Fuhlrott. C) Hermann Schaaffhausen. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Workmen carrying limestone. 56. Which of the following is true about hominids? A) Forelimbs not flexible. B) Bipedals. C) No upright posture. D) Quadrupeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bipedals. 57. Genus is the branch of the: A) Hominids. B) Hominoids. C) Australopithecus. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hominids. 58. Which is not a feature of Australopithecus A) They lived in caves permanently. B) They had bigger teeth. C) They spent most of their time on trees. D) They had heavier jaws. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They lived in caves permanently. 59. The Replacement Model of Evolution suggest that A) The Homo-Sapiens evolved in different regions. B) The Homo-Sapiens emerged out of Africa and became dispersed. C) The Early humans were substituted or replaced by a new species of Hominids. D) The world was faced by a continental drift which led to the drift of various communities. 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