1. Consider the following statements:
1. Middle Palaeolithic culture was quite widespread
phenomenon between 6,00,000 and 60,000 B.C.
2. Some of the most important sites of Middle Palaeolithic
period are Bhimbetka, Nevasa, Pushkar, Rohiri hills
of upper Sind, and Samnapur on Narmada.
Which of the above statement(s) is /are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 Both (d) None
2. Which of the following are the important sites of Lower
Palaeolithic cultures in India?
1. Pahalgam in Kashmir, Belan valley in Allahabad
district (Uttar Pradesh)
2. Bhimbetka and Adamgarh in Hoshangabad district,
(Madhya Pradesh)
3. 16 Rand Singi Talav in Nagaur district (Rajasthan)
4. Nevasa in Ahmadnagar district (Maharashtra)
Select the answer from the codes given below
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
3. The Palaeolithic Age in India is divided into three phases,
based on tool technology. Which of the following phases
is/are correctly matched with its tools?
(a) Lower Palaeolithic – handaxe and cleaver industries
(b) Middle Palaeolithic – tools made on flakes
(c) Upper Palaeolithic – tools made on flakes and blades
(d) All of the above
4. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the Upper Palaeolithic Culture?
1. The middle Palaeolithic culture slowly evolved into
the Upper Palaeolithic culture.
2. Upper Palaeolithicage can be dated between 1,50,000
B.C. and 40,000 B.C.
3. The upper Palaeolithic tools have been found in
Rajasthan, parts of the Ganga and Belan valleys,
Central and Western India, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh
and Karnatak.
4. One of the most remarkable discoveries of the Upper
Palaeolithic period is that of rubble built, roughly
circular platform of about 85 cm in diameter.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
5. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the microlithic tools of Mesolithic Culture?
1. They were characterized by parallel-sided blades
taken out from prepared cores of such fine material
as chert, chalcedony, crystal, jasper, carnelian, agate,
etc.
2. These tools were generally 10 to 50 cm. long.
3. They include smaller version of upper Palaeolithic
types such as points, scrapers, burins, awls, etc.
4. Some new tool-types were lunates, trapezes, triangles,
arrowheads of various shapes and sizes.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
6. Which of the following were important sites of Mesolithic
culture?
1. Kotdiji in Rajasthan
2. Langhnaj in Gujarat
3. Sarai Nahar Rai, Chopani Mando, Mahdaha and
Damdama in Uttar Pradesh
4. Bhimbetka and Adamgarh in Madhya Pradesh.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
7. Which of the following are important rock-painting sites
of Prehistoric Rock Art?
1. Murhana Pahar in Uttar Pradesh
2. Bhimbetka, Adamgarh, Lakha Juar in Madhya
Pradesh
3. Kupagallu in Karnataka
4. Chargul in north-west Pakistan.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
8. In the Indian context, the Neolithic agriculture based
regions can roughly be divided into many regions. Which
of the following may be called such region?
1. The Indus system and its western Borderland
2. Ganga valley
3. Western India and the northern Deccan and
4. The southern Deccan.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
9. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the Neolithic Age?
1. The ceramic occupation (c. 7000 B.C.) at Kile Ghul
Mohammad during the early food-producing era
shows a basic subsistence economy of the Indus
valley and beginning of trade and crafts.
2. From the bone remains, it is clear that humped variety
of cattle also came to be domesticated.
3. The beads found with burial remains show that people
used beads made of lapis lazuli, carnelian, banded
agate and white marine shell.
4. A single copper bead has also been found. The
occurrence of shell bangles and pendants made of
mother of- pearl indicates long-distance trade.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
10. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct with
regard to the Neolithic Age
1. Three radiocarbon dates from Koldihwa provide the
earliest evidence for the domesticated variety of rice
going back to about c. 6500 B.C. which make it the
oldest evidence of rice in any part of the world.
2. The bone remains from Koldihwa and Mahgara show
that cattle, sheep and goat were domesticated in the
region.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 Both (d) None
11. Which of the following important Chalcolithic cultures in
India are not matched to its period?
(a) Ahar culture : 2800 – 1500 B.C
(b) Kayatha culture : 2450 – 1700 B.C.
(c) Jorwe culture : 2300 – 2000 B.C.
(d) Malwa culture: 1900 – 1400 B.C.
12. The most distinguishing feature of the Cha1colithic
cultures is their distinct painted pottery. Related to this
which of the following statement is not correct?
(a) The Kayatha culture is characterized by a sturdy
red-slipped ware painted with designs in chocolate
colour.
(b) The Malwa ware is painted black-on-red but has a
matt surface treated with a wash.
(c) The Ahar people made a distinctive black-and-red
ware decorated with white designs.
(d) The Prabhas wares have a glossy surface due to which
they are also called Lustrous Red Ware.
13. The pottery forms used during the Cha1colithic cultures
were:
1. dishes-on-stand 2. spouted vases
3. stemmed cups 4. pedestalled bowls
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
14. Consider the following statements:
1. Most of the Chalcolithic cultures flourished in semiarid
regions
2. The Jorwe settlements were comparatively larger in
number than other Chalcolithic settlements
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 Both (d) None
15. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the houses of Chalcolithic cultures?
1. People built rectangular and circular houses of mud
wattle-and-daub.
2. The circular houses were mostly in isolation.
3. These houses and huts had roofs of straw supported
on bamboo and wooden rafters.
4. Floors were made of rammed clay
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
16. Consider the following statements regarding cultivation of
Chalcolithic people:
1. They raised cattle as well as cultivated both kharif
and rabi crops in rotation
2. Wheat and barley were grown in the area of Inamgaon
and Ahar
3. They also cultivated jowar and bajra and so also kulth,
ragi, green peas, lentil and green and black grams.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
17. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the religion the Chalcolithic cultures?
1. The worship of mother goddess and the bull was in
vogue
2. The bull cult seems to have been predominant in
Malwa during the Ahar period
3. A large number of these both naturalistic as well as
stylised lingas have been found from most of the
sites.
4. The Mother Goddess is depicted on a huge storage jar
of Inamgaon
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
18. Which of the following are characteristics of the Neolithic
culture?
1. beginning of agricultural activities
2. domestication of animals
3. grinding and polishing of stone tools having sharper
edges
4. use of pottery
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
19. The rock paintings were an important and distinct feature
of the Mesolithic people though their beginning may
be traced to the upper Palaeolithic period. Which of the
following are the characteristics of these paintings?
1. These paintings are made on the walls of rock
shelters
2. Maximum of them have been found at Bhimbetka in
Madhya Pradesh
3. They throw light on the social and economic life on
Mesolithic people.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
20. Paleolithic or Old Stone Age sites are widely found in
various parts of the Indian subcontinent. Which of the
following statements are correct in this regard?
1. Food was obtained by hunting animals and gathering
edible plants and tubers.
2. People used stone tools, hand-sized and flaked-off
large pebbles for hunting animals.
3. Stone implements are made of a hard rock known as
quartzite.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3
1. Middle Palaeolithic culture was quite widespread
phenomenon between 6,00,000 and 60,000 B.C.
2. Some of the most important sites of Middle Palaeolithic
period are Bhimbetka, Nevasa, Pushkar, Rohiri hills
of upper Sind, and Samnapur on Narmada.
Which of the above statement(s) is /are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 Both (d) None
2. Which of the following are the important sites of Lower
Palaeolithic cultures in India?
1. Pahalgam in Kashmir, Belan valley in Allahabad
district (Uttar Pradesh)
2. Bhimbetka and Adamgarh in Hoshangabad district,
(Madhya Pradesh)
3. 16 Rand Singi Talav in Nagaur district (Rajasthan)
4. Nevasa in Ahmadnagar district (Maharashtra)
Select the answer from the codes given below
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
3. The Palaeolithic Age in India is divided into three phases,
based on tool technology. Which of the following phases
is/are correctly matched with its tools?
(a) Lower Palaeolithic – handaxe and cleaver industries
(b) Middle Palaeolithic – tools made on flakes
(c) Upper Palaeolithic – tools made on flakes and blades
(d) All of the above
4. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the Upper Palaeolithic Culture?
1. The middle Palaeolithic culture slowly evolved into
the Upper Palaeolithic culture.
2. Upper Palaeolithicage can be dated between 1,50,000
B.C. and 40,000 B.C.
3. The upper Palaeolithic tools have been found in
Rajasthan, parts of the Ganga and Belan valleys,
Central and Western India, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh
and Karnatak.
4. One of the most remarkable discoveries of the Upper
Palaeolithic period is that of rubble built, roughly
circular platform of about 85 cm in diameter.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
5. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the microlithic tools of Mesolithic Culture?
1. They were characterized by parallel-sided blades
taken out from prepared cores of such fine material
as chert, chalcedony, crystal, jasper, carnelian, agate,
etc.
2. These tools were generally 10 to 50 cm. long.
3. They include smaller version of upper Palaeolithic
types such as points, scrapers, burins, awls, etc.
4. Some new tool-types were lunates, trapezes, triangles,
arrowheads of various shapes and sizes.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
6. Which of the following were important sites of Mesolithic
culture?
1. Kotdiji in Rajasthan
2. Langhnaj in Gujarat
3. Sarai Nahar Rai, Chopani Mando, Mahdaha and
Damdama in Uttar Pradesh
4. Bhimbetka and Adamgarh in Madhya Pradesh.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
7. Which of the following are important rock-painting sites
of Prehistoric Rock Art?
1. Murhana Pahar in Uttar Pradesh
2. Bhimbetka, Adamgarh, Lakha Juar in Madhya
Pradesh
3. Kupagallu in Karnataka
4. Chargul in north-west Pakistan.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
8. In the Indian context, the Neolithic agriculture based
regions can roughly be divided into many regions. Which
of the following may be called such region?
1. The Indus system and its western Borderland
2. Ganga valley
3. Western India and the northern Deccan and
4. The southern Deccan.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
9. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the Neolithic Age?
1. The ceramic occupation (c. 7000 B.C.) at Kile Ghul
Mohammad during the early food-producing era
shows a basic subsistence economy of the Indus
valley and beginning of trade and crafts.
2. From the bone remains, it is clear that humped variety
of cattle also came to be domesticated.
3. The beads found with burial remains show that people
used beads made of lapis lazuli, carnelian, banded
agate and white marine shell.
4. A single copper bead has also been found. The
occurrence of shell bangles and pendants made of
mother of- pearl indicates long-distance trade.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
10. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct with
regard to the Neolithic Age
1. Three radiocarbon dates from Koldihwa provide the
earliest evidence for the domesticated variety of rice
going back to about c. 6500 B.C. which make it the
oldest evidence of rice in any part of the world.
2. The bone remains from Koldihwa and Mahgara show
that cattle, sheep and goat were domesticated in the
region.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 Both (d) None
11. Which of the following important Chalcolithic cultures in
India are not matched to its period?
(a) Ahar culture : 2800 – 1500 B.C
(b) Kayatha culture : 2450 – 1700 B.C.
(c) Jorwe culture : 2300 – 2000 B.C.
(d) Malwa culture: 1900 – 1400 B.C.
12. The most distinguishing feature of the Cha1colithic
cultures is their distinct painted pottery. Related to this
which of the following statement is not correct?
(a) The Kayatha culture is characterized by a sturdy
red-slipped ware painted with designs in chocolate
colour.
(b) The Malwa ware is painted black-on-red but has a
matt surface treated with a wash.
(c) The Ahar people made a distinctive black-and-red
ware decorated with white designs.
(d) The Prabhas wares have a glossy surface due to which
they are also called Lustrous Red Ware.
13. The pottery forms used during the Cha1colithic cultures
were:
1. dishes-on-stand 2. spouted vases
3. stemmed cups 4. pedestalled bowls
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
14. Consider the following statements:
1. Most of the Chalcolithic cultures flourished in semiarid
regions
2. The Jorwe settlements were comparatively larger in
number than other Chalcolithic settlements
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 2 Both (d) None
15. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the houses of Chalcolithic cultures?
1. People built rectangular and circular houses of mud
wattle-and-daub.
2. The circular houses were mostly in isolation.
3. These houses and huts had roofs of straw supported
on bamboo and wooden rafters.
4. Floors were made of rammed clay
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
16. Consider the following statements regarding cultivation of
Chalcolithic people:
1. They raised cattle as well as cultivated both kharif
and rabi crops in rotation
2. Wheat and barley were grown in the area of Inamgaon
and Ahar
3. They also cultivated jowar and bajra and so also kulth,
ragi, green peas, lentil and green and black grams.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
17. Which of the following statements are correct with regard
to the religion the Chalcolithic cultures?
1. The worship of mother goddess and the bull was in
vogue
2. The bull cult seems to have been predominant in
Malwa during the Ahar period
3. A large number of these both naturalistic as well as
stylised lingas have been found from most of the
sites.
4. The Mother Goddess is depicted on a huge storage jar
of Inamgaon
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
18. Which of the following are characteristics of the Neolithic
culture?
1. beginning of agricultural activities
2. domestication of animals
3. grinding and polishing of stone tools having sharper
edges
4. use of pottery
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
19. The rock paintings were an important and distinct feature
of the Mesolithic people though their beginning may
be traced to the upper Palaeolithic period. Which of the
following are the characteristics of these paintings?
1. These paintings are made on the walls of rock
shelters
2. Maximum of them have been found at Bhimbetka in
Madhya Pradesh
3. They throw light on the social and economic life on
Mesolithic people.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
20. Paleolithic or Old Stone Age sites are widely found in
various parts of the Indian subcontinent. Which of the
following statements are correct in this regard?
1. Food was obtained by hunting animals and gathering
edible plants and tubers.
2. People used stone tools, hand-sized and flaked-off
large pebbles for hunting animals.
3. Stone implements are made of a hard rock known as
quartzite.
Select the answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3
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