This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 6 > History > Social Science > Class 6 History Chapter 1 What, Where, How And When – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 6 History Chapter 1 What, Where, How And When Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was the sanskrit name of Indus A) Sindhu. B) Ravi. C) Gomti. D) Hindos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sindhu. 2. What is the meaning of the term "Indus' in Sanskrit? A) Horse. B) Hindu. C) Himalaya. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hindu. 3. ..... was not used in the old books. A) Prakrit. B) Hindi. C) Tamil. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hindi. 4. People travelled from one place to another ..... A) In search of livelihood. B) To escape from natural disasters. C) To offer religious instruction. D) All the three. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the three. 5. AD stands for 'Anno Domini' meaning before the Common Era. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. Inscriptions were written on the palm leaf A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 7. The science of studying the remains of the past is called ..... A) SCIENTOLOGY. B) PSYCHOLOGY. C) ZOOLOGY. D) ARCHAOLOGY. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ARCHAOLOGY. 8. In the year of Means ..... A) Religious literature. B) Written records. C) In the year of the Lord. D) Before the birth of Jesus Christ. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the year of the Lord. 9. Rosetta is town on the north coast of ..... A) Italy. B) India. C) Portugal. D) Egypt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Egypt. 10. Some of the areas where women and men first began to grow crops such as wheat and barley about ..... years ago. A) 6000. B) 8000. C) 5000. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8000. 11. People who study about the written past are called what? A) Archeaologists. B) Semiologists. C) Historians. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Historians. 12. Which crop was first grown to the North of theVindhyas? A) Rubber. B) Sugarcane. C) Rice. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rice. 13. Rice was first grown to the ..... of the Vindhyas. A) North. B) East. C) South. D) West. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North. 14. Garo hills is located in which part of India? A) North-west. B) North-east. C) South. D) West. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North-east. 15. Which river did the Iranians and the Greeks call Hindos? A) Narmada. B) Krishna. C) Indus. D) Ganga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indus. 16. WHERE IS THE TOWN 'ROSETTA' LOCATED A) EAST MEXICO. B) NORTH COAST OF EGYPT. C) NORTH AMERICA. D) SOUTH COAST OF GREECE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NORTH COAST OF EGYPT. 17. FILL IN THE BLANKS ..... are smaller rivers that flow into a larger river A) Lake. B) None of these. C) Tributaries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tributaries. 18. WHO ARE HISTORIANS? A) PEOPLE WHO STUDY ABOUT PASTS. B) PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING HISTORY BOOKS. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PEOPLE WHO STUDY ABOUT PASTS. 19. Dates in history are expressed in two terms: A) BC and AD. B) AD and AC. C) BC and BD. D) DC and AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BC and AD. 20. How can we find about our past? A) Reading books of history. B) Sources. C) Study of fossils. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 21. From where do we get the evidence of rice production for the first time in India? A) Sulaiman. B) Kirthar. C) Windyas hills. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Windyas hills. 22. Some of the earliest people who lived along the banks of Narmada river where- ..... A) Priests. B) Rulers. C) Skilled gatherers. D) Farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skilled gatherers. 23. Which is a tributary of the Ganga river? A) Indus. B) Narmada. C) Son. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Son. 24. What are the natural disasters A) Flood. B) Drought. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 25. Manuscript means ..... A) Hand written. B) Engraved writings. C) Hard surface. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hand written. 26. From where does the word India come? A) From Narmda. B) From Rigveda. C) From the Indus. D) From Son. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From the Indus. 27. Along which river bank, people lived for several hundred thousand years A) Ravi. B) Beas. C) Indus. D) Narmada. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narmada. 28. Writings on hard surfaces such as stone or metal A) Inscriptions. B) Manuscripts. C) Excavations. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inscriptions. 29. Where are the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills located? A) Northeast. B) Northwest. C) Southwest. D) South. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Northwest. 30. She/he studies the past by referring to information found in manuscripts, inscriptions or sites. She / he is A) An archaeologist. B) A historian. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A historian. 31. Skilled gatherers were A) They lived in the cities. B) They came from North East. C) People who gathered their food. D) They lived in south India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People who gathered their food. 32. What are historians who study old things and buildings known as? A) Professors. B) Archaeologists. C) Geologists. D) Architects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archaeologists. 33. BC is taken from the year A) 1. B) 0. C) 2. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0. 34. Books that were written long ago are called ..... A) Old books. B) Manuscripts. C) Inscriptions. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manuscripts. 35. Which two civilizations came to India 2500 years ago? A) Romans and Iranians. B) Greeks and Arabs. C) Roman's and Arabs. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 36. The letters CE stand for ..... A) Cannon was. B) Common Era. C) Current Era. D) Connect Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Common Era. 37. What does archeologist find A) Meat. B) Egg. C) Fish. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 38. Manuscripts were written in ..... language. A) Sanskrit. B) Prakrit. C) Tamil. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 39. The books that were written long ago are called A) Book:. B) Inscriptions. C) Manuscripts. D) Granths. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manuscripts. 40. Manuscripts were written on specially prepared bark of a tree known as birch which grows in the ..... A) Vindhyas. B) Western Ghats. C) Himalayas. D) Eastern Ghats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Himalayas. 41. Which tree, used for writing manuscripts, is found in the Himalayas? A) Palm Tree. B) Birch Tree. C) Coconut Tree. D) Fir Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birch Tree. 42. Why is it important to study history? Because: A) We can learn about other cultures. B) We can know what happened in the past. C) We can learn from past mistakes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 43. Around how many years ago was crops like wheat and barley first grown? A) 8000 yrs. B) 4500 yrs. C) 3700 yrs. D) 1000 yrs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8000 yrs. 44. Where is Kandahar situated A) New Zealand. B) London. C) All the above. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 45. WHAT IS INDUS CALLED IN SANSKRIT? A) SINDHU. B) INDUS. C) INDIA. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SINDHU. 46. Archaeologists are the ones who study A) Objects and materials of past. B) Wars of the past. C) Treaties of the past. D) People of the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objects and materials of past. 47. ..... ARE USUALLY WRITTEN ON PALM LEAVES OR THE BARK OF THE BIRCH TREES. A) SCRIPTS. B) BOOKS. C) MANUSCRIPTS. D) INSCRIPTIONS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) MANUSCRIPTS. 48. When did agriculture start? A) 5500 years ago. B) 4700 years ago. C) 8000 years ago. D) 2500 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8000 years ago. 49. WHAT DOES ANNO DOMINI MEAN A) BEFORE THE BIRTH OF JEJUS CHRIST. B) BEFORE COMMON ERA. C) IN THE YEAR OF LORD. D) AFTER DEATH. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) IN THE YEAR OF LORD. 50. BC and AD stand for A) Before Christ and After Death. B) Bactrian christ and Anno Domini. C) Before Christ and Anno Domini. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before Christ and Anno Domini. 51. One can figure out the specific year of any historical event on the basis of birth of A) Shri Ram. B) Mohammad Saheb. C) Jesus Christ. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jesus Christ. 52. The word Manuscript originated from the ..... word manu meaning hand. A) ROMAN. B) PERSIAN. C) LATIN. D) GREEK. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LATIN. 53. WHAT IS SKILLED GATHERERS? A) PEOPLE WHO GATHER WATER. B) PEOPLE WHO GATHERED FOOD. C) PEOPLE WHO HUNT. D) PEOPLE WHO WASTE FOOD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PEOPLE WHO GATHERED FOOD. 54. Where does the ancient kingdom of Magadha lie? A) Bihar. B) Gujarat. C) Rajasthan. D) Jammu and Kashmir. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bihar. 55. The scholars who study the past A) Archaeologists. B) Historians. C) Preachers. D) Detectives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Historians. 56. Name the emperor whose inscription has been found from Kandahar. A) Akbar. B) Bharat. C) Ashoka. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ashoka. 57. List the number of languages inscribed on the stone of Rosetta. A) 3. B) 4. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 58. Name the two tributaries of the Indus. A) Narmada and but. B) Of male and gusheth. C) Ravi and Jhelum. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ravi and Jhelum. 59. The word India comes from the Indus, called ..... in Sanskrit. A) Sindhu. B) Indica. C) Bharat. D) Indira. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sindhu. 60. The similarity between manuscripts and inscriptions is A) They are both written sources of History. B) They are both engraved sources of History. C) They are both archaeological sources of History. D) They are both perishable sources of History. 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