THE PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD
Consider the following statements:
A. Neolithic settlements in the Indian subcontinent are not older than 6000 BC
B. The people of neolithic age used tools of polished stone
C. The people of Neolithic age knew how to fish
D. Neolithic people cultivated wheat and barley
E. They domesticated cattle, sheep, and goats.
Of these.
(a) only B. C and D are true
(b) A, B. C and D are true
(c) A. C. D and E are true
(d) All are true.
- Match List I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
| List I | List II |
| I. Early Palaeolithic | A. microliths |
| II.Middle Palaeolithic | B. scraper and flakes |
| III. Upper Palaeolithic | C. hand axes and cleavers |
| IV. Mesolithic | D. blades and burins |
Codes:
| I | II | III | IV | |
| (a) | C | D | A | B |
| (b) | C | B | D | A |
| (c) | C | D | B | A |
| (d) | A | B | D | C |
- Neolithic sites of Giak and Kiari are in
(a) Nagaland (b) Almora
(c) Orissa (d) Ladakh.
- Nomad man started settling in
(a) Paleolithic age
(b) Mesolithic age
(c) Neolithic age
(d) None of these.
- At which of the following places have excavations in recent years brought to light new evidence of Neolithic sites in India?
(a) Hamren in Assam
(b) Daimabad in Ahmednagar
(c) Hulas in Saharanpur
(d) Sringaverapur in UP.
- Match List I with List-II and select the answer from the codes given below:
| List I (Chalcolithic
Type) |
List-II (Cultures sites) |
| I. Banas culture
II. Gandhant culture III. Malwa culture IV. Savalda culture |
A. Ghuligai
B. Inumgaon C. Gilund D. Navdatoli |
Codes:
| I | II | III | IV | |
| (a) | A | B | C | D |
| (b) | C | A | B | D |
| (c) | A | C | D | B |
| (d) | C | A | D | B |
- Direction (Q7-II):-Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) find other, labeled as Reason (R). In (lie context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?
(a) Roth (A) and (R) are individually true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(b) Both (A) and (R) are individually true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but (R) is false
(d) A is false, but (R) is true.
Assertion (A): In South India, agriculture was the principal occupation of the Megalithic people.
Reason (R): They introduced tank irrigation.
- Assertion (A): In June 1941, the Communist Party of India declared its support to the war efforts of Great Britain.
Reason (R): Great Britain supported Russia against the German invasion.
- Assertion (A): The enactment of the Age of Consent Bill was opposed by Lokmanya Tilak.
Reason (R): Lokmanya Tilak believed that society, instead of the government should take steps for eradicating social malpractices.
- Assertion (A): Mahatma Gandhi observed fast at Poona in 1932.
Reason (R): Mahatma Gandhi was opposed to the provision of separate electorate rights for Harijans in the Communal Award.
- Assertion (A): C. Dull authored the book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule’.
Reason (R): He wanted to expose India’s growing poverty.
- Which of the billowing race resembled men, but were racially different front ‘Homo Sapiens’?
(a) Sinanthropus
(b) Pithecanthropus
(c) Neanderthal
(d) Hominid
- In which of the following regions did Amri culture flourish?
(a) The Bengal region
(b) Punjab
(c) Afghanistan
(d) Sind
- What is the correct chronological order of the occurrence of the following periods?
(i) Chalcolithic Age
(ii) Stone Age
(iii) Iron Age
(iv) Bronze Age
Codes:
| (a) | (iii) | (ii) | (i) | (iv) |
| (b) | (ii) | (i) | (iv) | (iii) |
| (c) | (iv) | (i) | (iii) | (ii) |
| (d) | (iv) | (ii) | (i) | (iii) |
- What does the ‘Ash Mounds’ from Deccan symbolize?
(a) These were sites where people were cremated
(b) These sites were remnants of the settlements of Neolithic cattle keepers
(c) These were sites of Kilns where they baked utensils
(d) These were sites where Vedic sacrifices were performed.
- Which of the following materials was used to make most of the tools belonging to the Early Stone age in India?
(a) agate (b) carnelian
(c) quartzile (d) steatite
Direction (Q17-20): There are two statements, one labeled as ‘Assertion (A)‘ and the other as ‘Reason (R).’ You have to examine these two statements carefully and decide if the Assertion (A)and the Reason (R)are individually true and if so, whether the Reason is a correct explanation of the Assertion. Select the answer to these items using the codes given below:
(a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but (R) is false
(d) A is false, but (R) is true.
- Assertion (A): Megalithic people in South India practiced agriculture as the principal occupation.
Reason (R): They started tank irrigation
- Assertion (A): Man-made development at a very slow pace during the stone age.
Reason (R): Man was primarily dependent on hit and trial method of learning.
- Assertion (A): Ancient India’s first urbanization declined by the end of the third millennium BC.
Reason (R): The period witnessed drastic changes in climatic conditions.
- Assertion (A): Ancient India’s second urbanization took place in the Gangetic plains in the latter half of the first millennium BC.
Reason (R): Favourable climatic conditions facilitated this development.
Answer:
| 1. | (d) | 2. | (c) | 3. | (c) | 4. | (c) | 5. | (a) | 6. | (d) | 7. | (a) |
| 8. | (c) | 9. | (b) | 10. | (a) | 11. | (a) | 12. | (c) | 13. | (c) | 14. | (b) |
| 15. | (b) | 16. | (c) | 17. | (d) | 18. | (a) | 19. | (b) | 20. | (b) |