UGC Net History Online Mock Test 5

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UGC NET History Online Mock Test 5 held in India: 25 multiple-question answers from the history topic of the UGC NET Exam are given below.

UGC Net History Online Mock Test 5

Mock Test5
Question TypeMCQ
MediumOnline
SubjectHistory
ExamUGC Net
Question25
Marks1

First Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test 5

1. The three most common features of all Indus Valley sites are:

  • (a) Use of baked bricks and pottery, elaborate drainage systems, and occurrence of marsh or jungle animals.
  • (b) Climate, flora, fauna and artificial irrigation
  • (c) Desert, rivers and zoological features
  • (d) Buildings, town planning and burial system

Ans. (a) Use of baked bricks and pottery, elaborate drainage systems, and occurrence of marsh or jungle animals.

2. Which of the following finds helps us most to understand the religious and social life of the Indus valley Age?

  • (a) Burial grounds
  • (b) Terracotta figures and seals
  • (c) Furniture and pottery
  • (d) Remains of houses and other buildings

Ans. (b) Terracotta figures and seals

3. At which of the following places has a brick dockyard connected to the Gulf of Cambay by a channel been discovered ?

  • (a) Lothal
  • (b) Suktagendor
  • (c) Amri
  • (d) Chanhudaro

Ans. (a) Lothal

4. The largest number of Harappan sites in post-independence India have been discovered in:

  • (a) Gujarat
  • (b) Rajasthan
  • (c) Punjab and Harayana
  • (d) N.W. Uttar Pradesh

Ans. (a) Gujarat

5. One of the Harappan deities not represented in later Hindu religion is:

  • (a) Pashupati Shiva
  • (b) Seven mothers (Sapta matrikas)
  • (c) Compound creatures
  • (d) Unicorn

Ans. (d) Unicorn

Second Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test 5

6. One of the most plausible reasons, which made the Harappans move away from their urban settlement was:

  • (a) Foreign invasion
  • (b) Hydrological changes
  • (c) Ecological changes
  • (d) Demographic changes

Ans. (b) Hydrological changes

7. The term ‘Late Harappan’, which is gaining currency now, does not stand for:

  • (a) Declining phase of the culture
  • (b) Use of iron by the Harappans
  • (c) The post-urban phase of the culture
  • (d) Regional variations in the culture

Ans. (b) Use of iron by the Harappans

8. In which of the following respects did the various Harappan sites demonstrate a marked uniformity?

  • (a) Agricultural practices
  • (b) Crafts
  • (c) Town planning
  • (d) Seals

Ans. (c) Town planning

9. Traces of which of the following have not been found in the Indus civilization?

  • (a) Mustard
  • (b) Barley
  • (c) Sugarcane
  • (d) Sesamum

Ans. (c) Sugarcane

10. Almost all Harappan towns had large granaries because:

  • (a) Taxes were paid in kind, and therefore, granaries acted as a sort of public treasuries
  • (b) Surplus produce of the countryside was stored in the towns
  • (c) Foodgrains were stored for the purpose of trade
  • (d) All the above

Ans. (d) All the above

Third Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test 5

11. Which of the following was not one of the tools and implements used by the Indus Valley people?

  • (a) Needles and razors
  • (b) Sickles and ploughs
  • (c) Forks and spoons
  • (d) Grinding stones from flouring wheat, pestles and querns

Ans. (c) Forks and spoons

12. The Harappan towns and cities were divided into large blocks.

  • (a) Square
  • (b) Rectangular
  • (c) Circular
  • (d) Semi-circular

Ans. (b) Rectangular

13. Harappan weapons were made of:

  • (a) Stone
  • (b) Copper
  • (c) Bronze
  • (d) All the above

Ans. (d) All the above

14. Which of the following was not the likely purpose of the Great Bath in the citadel at Mohenjo Daro?

  • (a) Community bathing
  • (b) Swimming exercises and water sports
  • (c) Some elaborate rituals of vital importance, including a corporate social
  • (d) Storage of water to be used during drought or emergency

Ans. (d) Storage of water to be used during drought or emergency

Fourth Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test 5

15. The common household utensils of the Harappan people were made of:

  • (a) Stone
  • (b) Faience
  • (c) Well-baked, painted pottery
  • (d) Copper

Ans. (c) Well-baked, painted pottery

16. The doors, windows and ventilators of the houses in the Harappan towns did not open towards the roads but towards the backlanes in order to save the houses from:

  • (a) Pollution
  • (b) Noise of the main road
  • (c) Both a and b above
  • (d) Thieves and robbers

Ans. (c) Both a and b above

17. From which of the following sites excavated recently, three stages of Harappan occupations (pre-Harappan, Harappan, and post-Harappan) have been noticed?

  • (a) Rojdi
  • (b) Desalpur
  • (c) Surkotada
  • (d) All the above

Ans. (d) All the above

18. Children’s toys and playthings found during excavations do not include:

  • (a) Carts and chariots
  • (b) Animals with revolving or moving heads
  • (c) Marbles
  • (d) Chess boards

Ans. (d) Chess boards

19. The cereal not known to have been grown by the Harappan people was:

  • (a) Barley
  • (b) Pulses
  • (c) Rice
  • (d) Wheat

Ans. (b) Pulses

20. The deification/worship of which of the following was not part of the religion of the Indus Valley people?

  • (a) Mother Goddess
  • (b) Forces of nature
  • (c) Trees and their spirits
  • (d) Certain animal chimeras and their anthropic figures

Ans. (b) Forces of nature

Fifth Part: UGC Net History Online Mock Test 5

21. Which of the following features of modern Hinduism is not derived from the Harappan cults?

  • (a) Shakti worship
  • (b) Worship of Shiva as Pashupati
  • (c) Worship of Shiva-linga in the form of conical and cylindrical stones
  • (d) Dedication of temples to a particular deity

Ans. (d) Dedication of temples to a particular deity

22. Rows of distinctive fire altars with the provision of ritual bathing have been found at:

  • (a) Mohenjodaro
  • (b) Harappa
  • (c) Kalibangan
  • (d) Lothal

Ans. (c) Kalibangan

23. Harappan people had a common burial system, which is proved by:

  • (a) The earth burials with the head of the dead normally lay towards the north
  • (b) The burial of commonly used items with the dead
  • (c) Both a and b above
  • (d) The burial of the dead body in the sitting posture.

Ans. (c) Both a and b above

24. The site that played the role of Harappan trading station was:

  • (a) Harappa
  • (b) Kalibangan
  • (c) Lothal
  • (d) Surkotada

Ans. (c) Lothal

25. Which of the following was not a feature of the religious life of the Indus civilization?

  • (a) Pipal and Acacia trees were regarded as celestial plants
  • (b) The tree of life figures with great frequency on the seals
  • (c) The Indus deities, like the Vedic deities, were predominantly male
  • (d) The people had faith in amulets and charms, which shows that they were afraid of demons

Ans. (c) The Indus deities, like the Vedic deities, were predominantly male

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