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 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 6 History Chapter 1 What, Where, How And When Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Inscriptions are writtings on A) Palm leaf. B) Stone, metal. C) Birch bark. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stone, metal. 2. Years after the birth of Jesus Christ are counted A) Upward. B) Downward. C) Backward. D) Forward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forward. 3. By knowing about the past, we can know about: A) The houses people lived in. B) The clothes worn by people of those times. C) The food that they ate. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. The Latin word "manu" means ..... A) Leaf. B) Bark of a tree. C) Hand. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hand. 5. 1] Tributary of the river Ganga (a) AD2] Manuscript (b) Son3] Anno Domini (c) Hand-written A) 1]-(c) 2]-(a) 3]-(b). B) 1]-(a) 2]-(b) 3]-(c). C) 1]-(b) 2 ]-(c) 3]-(a). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1]-(b) 2 ]-(c) 3]-(a). 6. Which were the first crops to be grown? A) Rice and Millets. B) Wheat and Barley. C) Maize and Wheat. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wheat and Barley. 7. They study the remains of buildings made of stone and brick, paintings and sculpture. A) Archaeologists. B) Historians. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archaeologists. 8. What do gatherer eat A) Forest produce. B) Fruits and roots. C) None of these. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forest produce. 9. ALONG THE BANKS OF ..... RIVER, PEOPLE HAVE LIVED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. A) TAPI. B) NARMADA. C) KAVERI. D) KRISHNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NARMADA. 10. Objects excavated by archaeologists are made of- A) Stones and bones. B) Baked clay. C) Metal. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. About 2500 years ago, cities developed on the banks of the ..... river and its tributaries. A) Indus. B) Ganga. C) Yamuna. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ganga. 12. Wheat and Barley grew 12, 000 years ago A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. Which river's bank did the people live along in the ancient time? A) Ganga. B) Narmada. C) Honeycomb. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narmada. 14. GARO HILLS s are located towards the ..... of India. A) North west. B) North east. C) South west. D) South east. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North east. 15. Where did the people live? A) Banks of Narmada River. B) Banks of Ganga River. C) Banks of Indus River. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banks of Narmada River. 16. IRANIANS CALLED INDIA A) BHARAT. B) BEND. C) SINDHU. D) ALL OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BEND. 17. In the past, lives of herders or farmers were different from those of Kings and Queens. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 18. The Iranians and the Greeks called India Bharat A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 19. People living in Andaman Island get their own food by ..... A) Agriculture. B) Export-import. C) Fishing, hunting, collecting forest products. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fishing, hunting, collecting forest products. 20. All dates before the birth of Christ are counted backwards and are usually referred as BC A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. AD stands for two Latin words A) Before Present. B) After Christ. C) Year of. D) Before Christ. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Year of. 22. About how many years ago did women and men start growing crops? A) 5000 yrs. B) 1000 yrs. C) 8000 yrs. D) 2000 yrs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8000 yrs. 23. Ordinary people did not keep records of what they did. So how do we come to know about their lives. A) By studying records. B) By studying dates. C) By studying imperishable substances. D) By studying objects used by them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By studying objects used by them. 24. Early man began to rear animals like ..... and ..... A) Sheep and goat. B) Lion and tiger. C) Elephant and leopard. D) Cat and dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sheep and goat. 25. Where did women and men first began to cultivate crops such as wheat and barley? A) In Garo hills. B) In Sulaiman and Kirthar hills. C) In magadha. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In Sulaiman and Kirthar hills. 26. The difficulties of writing on hard surfaces were- A) Procuring hard surface. B) Difficult to inscribe. C) Both a and b. D) Easily destroyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 27. Magadha was located in the ..... of the Ganga. A) South. B) North. C) West. D) East. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South. 28. From the below options which were the common languages used in manuscripts A) Tamil. B) Sanskrit. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sanskrit. 29. The abbreviation 'AD' stands for A) After Domini. B) Year of. C) Anti domains. D) After Domini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Year of. 30. How much years ago did the women and men first began to grow bareky and wheat ..... ? A) 8500. B) 5000. C) 87000. D) 25000. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) None of these. 31. FILL IN THE BLANKSThe place where ..... was first grown are to the north of the Vindhyas A) Barley. B) Rice. C) Wheat. D) Maize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rice. 32. The name India was given by the Iranians and the ..... A) China. B) Persia. C) Greeks. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greeks. 33. WHICH LANGUAGE WAS USED BY ORDINARY PEOPLE IN THE PAST? A) TAMIL. B) SANSKRIT. C) PRAKRIT. D) HINDI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PRAKRIT. 34. Inscriptions are written on hard surfaces. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. What do we call writings on hard surfaces like stone or metal? A) Inscriptions. B) Languages. C) Manuscripts. D) Cartouche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inscriptions. 36. Jesus was the founder of: A) Muslims. B) Christianity. C) Hinduism. D) Jews. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christianity. 37. Which country is Kandahar located? A) India. B) Nepal. C) Pakistan. D) Afghanistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Afghanistan. 38. Jesus was founder of A) Muslims. B) Hinduism. C) Jews. D) Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christianity. 39. In the language of History, what is something that gives us information called? A) A source. B) An informer. C) A budget. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A source. 40. Physical remains like ..... and jewellery help archaeologists to know about the past. A) Books. B) Pots. C) Bones. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 41. The beginning of agriculture A) 8000 years ago. B) 4700 years ago. C) 2500 years ago. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8000 years ago. 42. WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF CHRITIANITY A) ST.XAVIER. B) JEJUS CHRIST. C) Year of. D) ST. PETER. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) JEJUS CHRIST. 43. The Latin words Anno Domini means A) After the year of the Lord. B) In the year of the Lord. C) Before the year of the Lord. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the year of the Lord. 44. Usually manuscripts were written on palm leaves and specially prepared bark of ..... trees A) Neem. B) Birch. C) Ficus religiosa. D) Oak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Birch. 45. The two languages used in inscription A) Greek. B) Aramics. C) All the above. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All the above. 46. What can we know about the past? A) About Priests. B) About Hunters. C) About Craftsmen. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 47. Manuscript can be defined as A) Books written only by men. B) Books written by hand. C) Books written only by women. D) Books written only by kings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Books written by hand. 48. Cities in the Ganga valley, a big kingdom in Magadha is developed in the year A) 8000 years ago. B) 2500 years ago. C) 2700 years ago. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2500 years ago. 49. Earliest cities developed around 4700 years ago in which area: A) Indus region. B) South India. C) Ganga region. D) Narmada region. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ganga region. 50. People travelled from one part to another because A) They were bored. B) They wanted to earn money. C) They wanted escape from natural disasters like floods. D) They were not happy at one place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They wanted escape from natural disasters like floods. 51. The written sources which help us to know about the past. A) Excavations. B) Manuscripts. C) Monasteries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manuscripts. 52. The topics dealt with by manuscripts were- A) Religious beliefs and practices. B) Lives of kings, epics, poems and plays. C) Medicines and science. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 53. The term Bharat came into origin from ..... A) Rigvedic people who used this name who lived in north west. B) Mohanjodaro people who gave the name for their people. C) Harrapan people who game the name fo their people. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 54. Kandahar is the present day A) Pakistan. B) Afghanistan. C) Karnataka. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Afghanistan. 55. The animals which they di not rear reared A) Sheep. B) Goat. C) Cattle. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 56. Who gave the name 'India'? A) Iranians. B) Greeks. C) Iranians and Greeks. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iranians and Greeks. 57. The word India comes from ..... A) River Indus. B) Found in ancient manuscripts. C) Found in Rigveda. D) Given to us by foreign people coming to trade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) River Indus. 58. In what ways was the ancient coin different from the ones we use A) Made of stones. B) Made of baked clay. C) Made of bones. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 59. What is the meaning of AD. A) After Dawn. B) Year of. C) After Death. D) All of these. 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