This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 6 > History > What Books And Burials Tell Us > Class 6 History Chapter 5 What Books And Burials Tell Us – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 6 History Chapter 5 What Books And Burials Tell Us Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The head of the adults was laid in which direction up being buried? A) South. B) East. C) North. D) West. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North. 2. Some wealth was used for the performance of Yajnas A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. ) TRUE OR FALSE:Those who performed rituals were called Brahmins. A) MAYBE. B) TRUE. C) FALSE. D) I DONT KNOW. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 4. How many years ago Rigveda was composed?? A) 4500 years ago. B) 3500 years ago. C) 2500 years ago. D) 3550 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3500 years ago. 5. ) THE HYMNS WERE COMPOSED BY THE ..... A) WOMEN. B) GOD. C) WARRIORS. D) SAGES. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SAGES. 6. When the dead body was buried with gold beads it means that the dead man was Fill in the blank with suitable word chosen from the following: A) Poor man. B) Rich man. C) Chief. D) Follower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rich man. 7. How many Vedas are there? A) 4. B) 7. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 8. Name the god of fire. A) Indra. B) Vishnu. C) Agni. D) Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agni. 9. Which of these was not a category of people in the society? A) Shudra. B) Dasa. C) Brahmin. D) Raja. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shudra. 10. What was the name of the pots that were buried with the dead? A) Black and White ware. B) Pink and Red ware. C) Blue and Green ware. D) Black and Red ware. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black and Red ware. 11. Which family of languages does tamil belong to A) Indo-european. B) Indian. C) Tibet-Burman. D) Dravidian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dravidian. 12. Who were the opponents of aryas A) Tribal people. B) Dusk. C) Rajas. D) Brahmins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dusk. 13. Inamgaon is located near which river? A) Chenab. B) Hors. C) Honeycomb. D) Ravi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hors. 14. Q3) RIGVEDA IS COMPOSED ..... YEARS AGO A) 2700. B) 3600. C) 3500. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3500. 15. Vishvamitra is comparing the rivers with what? A) Horses. B) Chariots. C) Sisters. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 16. What is the meaning of Sukta? A) Well-met. B) Well-said. C) Well-being. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well-said. 17. ) When did the Indo-Aryans settle in India? A) Around 3000 BC. B) Around 1500 BC. C) Around 2500 BC. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Around 1500 BC. 18. Battles were fought for land, water, and to capture people. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Which of the following is the oldest Veda? A) Atharvaveda. B) Yajurveda. C) Rigveda. D) Samaveda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rigveda. 20. Which 2 rivers did viswamitra converse with A) Beas and sutlej. B) Ganga and yamuna. C) Brahmaputra & Cauvery. D) Indus and son. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beas and sutlej. 21. In which languages is the Rigveda written? A) Vedic hindi. B) Vedic Sanskrit. C) Vedic tamil. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vedic Sanskrit. 22. What are megaliths? A) A large pre-historic stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument. B) It is used to describe people or the community as a whole. It is still used in Hindi and other languages. C) A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem river or a lake. D) An expression for the sunlight as it filters through the trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A large pre-historic stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument. 23. Name the two rivers with whome Vishvamitra spoke. A) Indus and Sutlej. B) Chenab and Ravi. C) Beas and Sutlej. D) Krishna and Godavari. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beas and Sutlej. 24. The tribes which migrated to India in search of fresh pastures for their cattle. A) Supernus. B) Aryans. C) Indo-Aryans. D) Aryavarity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indo-Aryans. 25. Sometimes, the people who composed the hymns described themselves as Aryas. Who were the opponents of Arya? A) Dasas. B) Rajas. C) Brahman. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dasas. 26. Languages of north-east are from ..... Family A) Austro-Asiatic family. B) Tibeto-Burman family. C) Dravidian family. D) Indo-European. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tibeto-Burman family. 27. Inamgaon is a site on the river A) Krishna. B) Ganga. C) Yamuna. D) Hors. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hors. 28. The Rigveda is the oldest Veda, it was composed about ..... years ago A) 3300 years ago. B) 3500 years ago. C) 5300 years ago. D) 1500 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3500 years ago. 29. Q5) TELUGU, TAMIL, KANNADA AND MALAYALAM BELONGTO THE ..... FAMILY A) Tibet Burman. B) DRAVIDIAN. C) AUSTRO-ASIATIC. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DRAVIDIAN. 30. Which is the specially mentioned plant? A) Soma. B) Pitcher. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soma. 31. According to the Charaka, how many bones are there in a human body? A) 200. B) 450. C) 360. D) 340. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 360. 32. Indra is the god of ..... A) Warrior. B) A plant used for making medicines. C) Fire. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warrior. 33. State true or false.A HYMN IS A RELIGIOUS SONG TO THE PRAISE OF GOD. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. Who is the 'god of fire' according to Rigveda? A) Agni. B) Indra. C) Soma. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agni. 35. The Rigveda includes more than a thousand hymns, called ..... A) Sukta or "well-said". B) Sukta or "ill-said". C) Both are correct. D) Both are wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sukta or "well-said". 36. The Rigveda was written for the first time by hand about 3500 years ago. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 37. The hyms in the rigveda are known as ..... A) Quotes. B) Sigh. C) Well said. D) Hyms of the Rigveda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sigh. 38. Who is the warrior god A) Ganesha. B) Agni. C) Krishna. D) Indra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indra. 39. People who composed hymns describe themselves as ..... A) Priests. B) Rishis. C) Aryas. D) Rajas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aryas. 40. How many types of Vedas are there? A) 7. B) 6. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 41. Prayers in Rigveda mostly where for Sons A) Don't know. B) False. C) True. D) Maybe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) True. 42. On which place the burial is found in at inamgaon A) It is a site on the river of ghod a tributary of Bhima. B) At the river son a tributary of Ganga. C) Where the people live. D) Near Ganga river. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is a site on the river of ghod a tributary of Bhima. 43. Who were Dasa and Dasi? A) They are the people who work for their owners. B) They are the people who doesn't work. C) People which are untouchable. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are the people who work for their owners. 44. Q4) i)GOD OF FIRE ..... , ii)A WARRIOR GOD ..... , iii)A PLANT FROM WHICH A SPECIAL DRINK WAS PREPARED ..... FILL THE THREE BLANKS ACCORDINGLY A) Shiva, Indra, Neem. B) AGNI, INDRA, SOMA. C) INDRA, RISHI, SOMA. D) NONE OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AGNI, INDRA, SOMA. 45. Who is the god of fire A) Indra. B) Agni. C) Soma. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agni. 46. What the aryas call their opponents as A) Dasa and tie. B) Enemy. C) Poison and go. D) Deva:. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dasa and tie. 47. Q8) RIGVEDA WAS COMPOSED IN THE ..... REGION A) SOUTH-EAST. B) SOUTH-WEST. C) NORTH-WEST. D) NORTH-EAST. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NORTH-WEST. 48. Which of the following is not a Veda? A) Contract. B) Saraswati. C) Yajurveda. D) Rigveda. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saraswati. 49. When was the Rigveda written? A) About 1500 years ago. B) About 1000 years ago. C) About 3500 years ago. D) About 500 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) About 3500 years ago. 50. The Rigveda contains prayers for cattle, children, and horses. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 51. In ..... , a skeleton was buried with 33 gold beads, 2 stone beads, and one conch shell whereas other skeleton only had a pot A) Inamaon. B) Brahmagiri. C) Kurukshetra. D) None of theabove. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brahmagiri. 52. Most prayers in the Rigveda are for cattle, children and horses A) Cattle, children and elephant. B) Tiger, children and horses. C) Cattle, children and horses. D) Cattle, old men and horses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cattle, children and horses. 53. The word vaishya comes from A) Sigh. B) Vish. C) Rigveda. D) Visha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vish. 54. Where is birch bark found? In. A) Maharashtra. B) Delhi. C) Kashmir. D) Pune. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kashmir. 55. There were many prayers for? A) Cattle. B) Children. C) Horses. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 56. ..... is the assembly of selected people of the tribe A) Sabha. B) Sudha. C) Samiti. D) Somveda. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sabha. 57. ) How many hymns does the Rig Veda have? A) 1012. B) 1734. C) 1039. D) 1099. E) 1028. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 1028. 58. Village in Karnataka where people only speak "SANSKRIT" A) Confusion. B) Inamaon. C) Mat. D) Rakigarhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mat. 59. Hymns in the Rigveda were written in the praise of: A) Agni-the god of fireSoma-a plant which had special propertiesVarun-the god of water. B) Agni-the god of airIndra-a warrior godVarun-the god of sky. C) Agni-the god of fireIndra-a warrior godSoma-a plant which had special properties. D) Agni-the god of waterIndra-a warrior godVarun-the god of fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agni-the god of fireIndra-a warrior godSoma-a plant which had special properties. 60. ) ..... MEANS WELL SAID A) SHAKTI. B) Sigh. C) SAMPOORNA. D) Sachi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sigh. 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