History Alive! Chapter 14 Quiz

Where was Mohenjodaro located?

• the Deccan Plateau

• the Himalayan Mountains

• the Indus River Valley

• the Eastern Ghats

A fortress built to protect a city is called a/an ______.

• granary

• cathedral

• chapel

• citadel

What was one feature of Mohenjodaro that was different from other settlements built at the same time?

• it had a sewer system

• it had roads

• it had walls

• it had private homes

What does the word Mohenjodaro mean?

• place of many baths

• place or hill of the dead

• place of learning

• place of an ancient civilization

What was the most dramatic feature of Mohenjodaro?

• the granary

• the Great Bath

• small stone seals

• none of the above

A place to store grain is called a ______.

• food shelter

• storage bin

• granary

• grain mill

About how many years did the Indus-Sarasvati civilization flourish?

• 500 years

• 600 years

• 700 years

• 800 years

Which of the following years was Mohenjodaro an active settlement?

• 2550 B.C.E., while the Great Pyramid was being built in Egypt

• 1000 B.C.E., while Kind David was ruling over Israel

• 600 B.C.E., while the Neo-Babylonian Empire ruled Mesopotamia

• 8000 B.C.E., while people were discovering how to farm

Which of the following facts shows that Mohenjodaro was a carefully planned city?

• nine streets divided the city into blocks

• archaeologists found a granary

• large number of small stone seals were found in the city

• the Great Bath was made of waterproof bricks

The discovery of a scale, stone weights, and a marked rod suggests that the people of Mohenjodaro ______

• traded with people from far away

• had uniform ways to measure

• used modern tools in their granary

• started a new system of measurement