This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 6 > History > In The Earliest Cities > Class 6 History Chapter 4 In The Earliest Cities – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 6 History Chapter 4 In The Earliest Cities Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the two rivers are studied in Rigveda? A) Ganga and Yamuna. B) Beas and Sutlej. C) Saraswati & Brahmaputra. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beas and Sutlej. 2. HARAPPAN CITY WAS A A) VERY BUSY STATE. B) VERY BUSY CITY. C) COUNTRY. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) VERY BUSY CITY. 3. Harappan cities were divided into ..... and ..... parts. A) Assembly Hall and Lothal. B) Citadel and Lower Town. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Citadel and Lower Town. 4. Where is the great bath situated? A) Dunghill. B) Lothal. C) Tamil Nadu. D) Mohenjodaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mohenjodaro. 5. Some men and ..... may have been specialists. A) Merchants. B) Rulers. C) Children. D) Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women. 6. Harappa was found by engineers how many years ago? A) 120. B) 100. C) 150. D) 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 150. 7. Faience is ..... material A) Natural. B) Artificial. C) None of the above. D) Sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artificial. 8. ..... is a material that is artificially produced. It was usedto make bottles, bangles, earrings and tiny vessels. A) Feience. B) Faience. C) Fans. D) Fence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faience. 9. The man with a beard was found in ..... A) Harappa. B) Lothal. C) Mohenjodaro. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mohenjodaro. 10. Sanskrit is part of a family of languages which is known as A) Indo-European. B) IndoChina. C) Indo-Russian. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indo-European. 11. How many years back did Harappan cities develop? A) 100. B) 10, 000. C) 2000. D) 4700. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4700. 12. The city of ..... was located on Khadir Beyt in the Rann of Kutch A) Harappa. B) Dholavira. C) Lothal. D) Mohenjodaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dholavira. 13. The part of the west was smaller but higher are describe as A) Uppar part. B) Lower Town. C) Citadel. D) Lowerdel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Citadel. 14. A feature of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa ancient cities was A) Citadel. B) Running water and sewage. C) Brick homes. D) All of the choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the choices. 15. Harappan civilization flourished along the banks of river Indus about ..... years ago. A) 1300. B) 2500. C) 4700. D) 4900. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4700. 16. What was citadel? A) The western part which was smaller but higher. B) Great Bath tank. C) Assembly hall. D) Drainage system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The western part which was smaller but higher. 17. ..... and ..... were available around settlements A) Dress, shoes. B) Water, pastures. C) Plants, toys. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water, pastures. 18. Usually in the Harappan cities, the part to the west was smaller but higher and was known as ..... A) Lower town. B) Citadel. C) Countryside. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Citadel. 19. ..... and ..... were used to make tools, weapons, ornaments and vessels. A) Copper and bronze. B) Plastic. C) Wood. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Copper and bronze. 20. The Harappans got gold from the present day A) Afghanistan. B) Oman. C) Rajasthan. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Karnataka. 21. What was the use of Spindle whorls? A) Children played with it. B) Spinning thread. C) As a musical instrument. D) To cultivate land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinning thread. 22. What are the names that is not of the cities related with the earliest civilization of the Indian subcontinent A) Rakigarhi. B) Dholavira. C) Harappa. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pakistan. 23. Mohenjodaro, Lothal and Harappa Hauve? A) Elaborate store house. B) The Great Bath. C) Terracotta toys. D) Fire altars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elaborate store house. 24. Features of a house of Harappan cities. A) Irregular layout, stone construction, basic drainage systems. B) Multi-storeyed, wooden construction, underground drainage systems. C) Thatched roof, mud construction, no drainage systems. D) Standard layout, brick construction, advanced drainage systems, one or two storey with a seperate bathing area, and had wells to supply water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Standard layout, brick construction, advanced drainage systems, one or two storey with a seperate bathing area, and had wells to supply water. 25. Which one of the following was not cultivated in the Harappan civilization? A) Sugarcane. B) Sesamum. C) Mustard. D) Barley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sugarcane. 26. The emergence of other cites in who many years ago? A) 5000. B) 2500. C) 7000. D) 3900. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2500. 27. Kalibangan and Lothal Had A) FIRE ALTARS. B) A SPECIAL TANK. C) PALACE. D) NONE OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FIRE ALTARS. 28. Substances that are either found naturally or produced by farmers or herders ..... A) Stone blades. B) Raw materials. C) Finished products. D) Earthenware. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raw materials. 29. What was the purpose of seals? A) A. Seals have been used to stamp bags. B) B. Perform some sacrifices. C) Both a and b. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Seals have been used to stamp bags. 30. Sahitya just got her visa to visit Pakistan. Upon reaching the archaeological site of the Indus Valley Civilization, she found that the cities there were divided into two parts. The part to the west was smaller but higher, and the part to the east was larger but lower. What is the higher part of the city known as? A) The Great Bath. B) Gigadel. C) Citadel. D) Bitadel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Citadel. 31. People who knew how to write A) Rulers. B) Scribes. C) Craftperson. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scribes. 32. Great Bath has been discovered in A) Citadel. B) Harappa. C) Mohenjodaro. D) Lothal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mohenjodaro. 33. New cities emerged about ..... years later. A) 1400. B) 3900. C) 3000. D) 2500. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1400. 34. ..... , ..... AND ..... CITIES HAD STORE HOUSES. A) LOTHALKALIBANGANHARAPPA. B) Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Lothal. C) Caliphanon hippot. D) MOHANJODAROLOTHALDHOLAVIRA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Lothal. 35. Around 3900 years ago, people stopped living in many of the cities. Some scholars suggest that this happened due to the following reasons: A) Rivers dried up. B) Deforestation. C) Floods. D) All the listed reasons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the listed reasons. 36. Who supplied food to craft persons, scribes and rulers in the cities? A) Local citizens. B) Farmers and herders. C) Post men. D) Craft persons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Farmers and herders. 37. Why were Harappa and Mohenjodaro special? A) They were planned cities. B) They were not special. C) They had The Great Bath. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were planned cities. 38. ..... is an artificially produced material. A) Earthenware. B) Cotton. C) Gum. D) Tin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earthenware. 39. Some cities like Mohenjodaro, Harappa and ..... had elaborate store houses. A) Fire altars. B) Streets. C) Lothal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lothal. 40. How did harappans irrigated their fields and grow plants A) Rain falls. B) Stored water. C) Rivers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stored water. 41. When more and more people move from villages to townsand cities it is called ..... A) Civilisation. B) Urbanisation. C) None of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urbanisation. 42. PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO WRITE WERE CALLED ..... A) CRAFTSPERSON. B) RULERS. C) SCRIBES. D) SPECIALISTS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SCRIBES. 43. HOW HARRAPAN CIVILIZATION ENDED A) FLOODS. B) NOT MENTIONED PROPALY. C) RIVER DRIED UP. D) DEFORESTIONS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NOT MENTIONED PROPALY. 44. Who discovered Harappa A) Mr Mehta. B) Rakhaldas Banerjee. C) Dayaram Sahni. D) Alexander the great. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dayaram Sahni. 45. ..... was the most impressive and unique feature of the earliest cities of India. A) STONE TOOLS. B) SEALS. C) COVERED DRAINS. D) ORNAMENTS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) COVERED DRAINS. 46. Remains of which grains have been found in the Harappan cities? A) Apples. B) Chicken. C) Quinoa. D) Wheat, Barley etc. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wheat, Barley etc. 47. When and where was cotton first grown? A) Mehrgarh in about 7000 years ago. B) Hallur in about 5000 years ago. C) Gujarat in about 2000 years ago. D) Rajasthan in about 2500 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mehrgarh in about 7000 years ago. 48. ..... was probably grown at ..... from about ..... years ago. A) Cotton, Mehrorrh, 70000. B) Silk, Mehrgarh, 8000. C) Cotton, Mehrorrh, 7000. D) Gathered, Lothal, 7000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cotton, Mehrorrh, 7000. 49. Great Bath was built in ..... A) Harappa. B) Lothal. C) Dholavira. D) Mohenjodaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mohenjodaro. 50. ..... was the first city to discovered. A) Harappans. B) Rajasthan. C) Delhi. D) Mumbai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harappans. 51. Why is it called as Harappan Civilization? A) It is named after the ruler of Harappa. B) It is named after the river Harappa. C) It is named after the city of Harappa as it was the first city to be excavated. D) It is named after the religion practiced in Harappa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is named after the city of Harappa as it was the first city to be excavated. 52. People who planned the constructions of special buildings were probably ..... A) The Rulers. B) The masions. C) The builders. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Rulers. 53. Which of the following is NOT a city of the Harappan Civilization? A) It's also a variant. B) Dholavira. C) Gandhinagar. D) Lothal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gandhinagar. 54. Great Bath have been found on which site? A) Will have to have. B) Rakhi Garhi. C) Harappa. D) Mohenjodaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mohenjodaro. 55. Harappan brought gold from which of the following place? A) Gujarat. B) Rajasthan. C) Iran. D) Karnataka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Karnataka. 56. Which of the following metals was/ were used by the people of Harappa? A) Copper. B) Silver. C) Bronze. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 57. The main occupation of the IVC people was ..... A) Banking. B) Teaching. C) Agricultutre. D) Weaving. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agricultutre. 58. When did the Indus Valley Civilization ended? A) 3900 years ago. B) 2500 years ago. C) 4700 years ago. D) 8000 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3900 years ago. 59. The materials Harappans used to make houses or monuments. A) Wood and straw. B) Clay and grass. C) Burnt or Baked bricks and Reeds. D) Metal and glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burnt or Baked bricks and Reeds. 60. The Harappan Citiies were divided into ..... parts. A) 5. B) 3. C) 2. D) None of the above. 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