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6th Grade

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Today India is divided between what countries?

a)

Pakistan, Bangladesh

b)

Kish, Parma

c)

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh

2.

What are the 4 regions?

a)

Himalaya region in the north and northeast, the river plains of the Indus and Ganges, the rocky Deccan plateau and southern coastal plain of Tamil Nadu

b)

Himalaya region in the south and southeast, the river plains of the Indus and Ganges, the rocky Deccan plateau and northern coastal plain of Tamil Nadu

3.

What are 2 of India's rivers?

a)

Indus and Ganges

b)

Indus and Nile

c)

Tigers and Ganges

4.

What is one of the first four civilizations of mankind extending from 2600-1900bc?

a)

Indus Valley civilization

b)

Ganges Valley Civilization

5.

Arayan means what?

a)

Noble people

b)

Merchant class

c)

the untouchables'

6.

The ruined cities of Harappa and Mohenjo Daro were built by?

a)

Dravidians

b)

Maurya

c)

Mughal

7.

Where does the language in the northern region derive from?

a)

Indo-european Sanskirt

b)

Indo-european Mughal

c)

Indo-european Hindu

8.

Where does the language in the south derive from?

a)

Dravidian

b)

Hinduism

9.

What Empire unified most of the Indian Subcontinent?

a)

Mauryan  Empire

b)

Aryan Empire

10.

What are the Vedas?

a)

Poem of the Aryan religion

b)

Laws the priests learn by heart

c)

Both

11.

What is the Bhagavad Gita?

a)

A long poem about the lessons the hero Arjuna learned from the god Krishna

b)

A long poem about the lessons the hero Arjuna learned from the god Ganish

12.

What were the 3 caste systems?

a)

The Brahmin, Kshatriyas, and vaishyas

b)

The Aryans, the brahmin and the vaishyas

c)

The Mughals, Kshatriyas and the Brahmins

13.

What is the word for the caste system?

a)

Varna

b)

Barna

c)

Karma

14.

What does varna mean?

a)

color

b)

type

c)

answer

15.

Buddhism developed in the 6th century BC when what happened?

a)

The Indian prince Siddharta guatuma ( Buddha) decided the cure for sorrow and suffering was purifying desire through right thinking and conduct.

b)

The Indian prince Siddharta Gupta ( Buddha) decided the cure for sorrow and suffering was purifying desire through right thinking and conduct.

c)

The Indian prince Siddharta Gurma ( Buddha) decided the cure for sorrow and suffering was purifying desire through right thinking and conduct.

16.

The Jainism taught what?

a)

That the soul is present in all living things, even insects and all things are subject to reincarnation

b)

That the body is present in all living things, even insects and all things are subject to reincarnation

c)

That the min is present in all living things, even insects and all things are subject to reincarnation

17.

Gupta Dynasty is known as what?

a)

The Indian ag Bronze

b)

The Indian Silver age

c)

The Indian Golden age

18.

In the 1600s, the Portuguese explore brought Catholic missionaries including who?

a)

St Francis Xavier

b)

St Francis Aissi

c)

St Francis Cabrini

19.

Who help India gain independence in 1948?

a)

Mohandas Gandhi

b)

Mother Theresa

20.

Who would carry the Christian Faith to India in the 1st century ad?

a)

St Thomas the Apostle

b)

St Thomas Aquanius

c)

St Thomas of More