India's Caste System

Which Hindu caste includes priests?

• Vaishya

• Kshatriya

• Brahmin

Which Hindu caste includes warriors and rulers?

• Kshatriya

• Dalit/outcaste

• Brahmin

Which Hindu caste includes merchants, craftsmen, and land-owning farmers?

• Shudra

• Vaishya

• Kshatriya

Which Hindu caste includes untouchables who do jobs that no one else wants to do?

• Brahmin

• Dalit/outcaste

• Shudra

True or False: You can change your caste during your lifetime.

• True

• False

How was a person's caste determined?

• color of their skin

• at birth by the caste of their parents

• education

• where they lived

What kinds of things did the caste system determine for a person? Choose all correct answers.

• who they could spend time with

• who they were allowed to marry

• what kind of job they would have

• where they could live

a rigid social class system in Hinduism based on the concept of reincarnation

• caste system
• peninsula
• achievement
• Daoism

the sum of a person's actions in this and previous lives

• karma
• polytheism
• Confucianism
• unify

the belief in one god

• monotheism
• caste system
• Daoism
• polytheism