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India

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a subcontinent?

a)

A continent (ex. North America)

b)

A different word for river (ex. Indus River)

c)

A large part of a continent (ex. Central America

d)

A type of mountain (ex. The Himilayas)

2.

What are the names of the rivers that are in India

a)

Indus and Ganges

b)

Indus and Mississippi

c)

Yangtze and Ganges

d)

Nile and Mississippi

3.

What are monsoons?

(a)  

4.

What is one thing that the Indus Valley Civilization invented?

a)

A type of food

b)

Citys with a circle pattern

c)

A sewer system

d)

The Silk Road

5.

What NOT did they invent?

a)

Tolits

b)

A grid-shaped pattern in the citys

c)

Computers

d)

Math

6.

What ancient civilization was biggest

a)

Egypt

b)

Mesopotamia

c)

India

7.

What do we not know about the civilization?

a)

The inventions they made

b)

There language

c)

How they disipeared

d)

Who took them out

8.

What is the caste system?

a)

A thing that helps a broken bone

b)

A type of cattle that they raised

c)

A sacred writing

d)

A system you were placed in at birth in ancient India.

9.

What is a varna?

a)

Something that you can earn by doing good things

b)

One of the classes in the caste system

10.

What river is east?

a)

Indus

b)

Ganges

11.

What river is West?

a)

Indus

b)

Ganges

12.

What did Gandhi do?

a)

He ate a lot of food

b)

He went on hunger stricks

c)

He let India gain its independence from Great Britten

13.

What is the most popular religen in India

a)

Christianity

b)

Islam

c)

Hinduism

d)

Buddism

14.

About when did Hinduism begin?

a)

500 BC

b)

500 BCE

c)

500 A.D.

d)

500 C.E.

15.

What is the name of the Hindu god?

a)

Yaway

b)

Jesus

c)

Brahman

d)

NO GOD

16.

Which of the numbers on the map represent the location of India in the Eastern Hemisphere?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

17.

A worldwide religion that has many gods and teaches that people have another life on earth after they die.

a)

Hinduism

b)

Meditation

c)

Siddhartha Gautama

d)

Subcontinent

18.

Which number on the map represents the location of the Hindu-Kush Mountains?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

e)

5

19.

Which choice describes a disadvantage of Summer Monsoons in India?

a)

Provides water for agriculture

b)

Causes severe flooding of cities

c)

Supplies water for drinking

d)

Supplies water for bathing

20.

Which of these are part of the Four Noble Truths. (Pick 2)

a)

Suffering is a part of life. Everyone suffers.

b)

Karma determines what kind of life you will have.

c)

Suffering is caused by people thinking things will make them happy. . .

d)

Life is tough! Deal with it!

e)

Do unto others as you would like them to do to you.

21.

People with no permanent home are called

a)

nomads

b)

Aryan

c)

mopeds

d)

the untouchables

22.

Where is the Indus River Valley located?

a)

East Asia

b)

South Asia

c)

Middle of Asia

d)

North Asia

23.
Which major religion teaches conformity (following) a caste system?
a)
Taoism
b)
Hinduism
c)
Christianity
d)
Buddhism
24.

What two modern countries border the Indus River Valley?

a)

Egypt and Ethiopia

b)

Persia and China

c)

Pakistan and India

d)

Ethiopia and China

25.

What is a caste?

a)

reincarnation

b)

a rigid social structure

c)

something you wear on a broken bone

d)

the teaching of Buddha

26.

What is Mohenjo-Daro?

a)

ancient Persian spiritual leader

b)

ancient Aryan game

c)

ancient Indian warrior

d)

an Indus River Valley ancient city

27.

How did Ashoka communicate with his people?

a)

speeches

b)

Indus Valley River road system

c)

oracle bones

d)

carved the news on columns